Oh yeah, what’s all that about the clean air? The last episode involved shutting down some kid of air de-purifier or something. I don’t remember that being mentioned before.
If their previous observation visits were really just scouting for optimum take over time, why did they target major events and catastrophes? Eh, I’m thinking too much.
Some interesting between Etta going all Jack bauer and Olivia disaproving. Until the end couldn’t figure out if the loyalist had a son or not.
So is the rest of the season going to be hunt the tapes?
Brian
This last episode was starting to remind me of Lost with watching the old tapes of Walter that had parts deteriorated. I was kind of expecting to see Dr Candle with an Orientation for hatch 7.
I don’t know what it is…but for some reason, something doesn’t sit right with me for Etta. I can’t really put my finger on it yet, but I don’t yet trust the character. I guess that will subside when they show what actually happened when she was separated from Olivia and Peter.
I don’t think Olivia trusts her.
Considering we lost someone on Fringe last night! 
The worst part was I felt kind of “meh” about it. I think this final season is losing me. By virtue of having a shortened season, they’re having to move pretty fast, and I don’t think I like it.
Too bad, the first few seasons rocked!
I am sad for the remaining characters, though. This is gonna suck for them.
What did you all think?
Well, I guess now we know she was good. Dead now, but good.
I liked the way they handled the whole death scene. Walter was especially good, even with only a few cuts to show his emotion.
I’m pumped up about the final episodes now. They’ve done a good job establishing motivation for our heroes. It kind of reminds me of Bill Adama seeing the picture of the little girl near the end of BSG and realizing they have to fight for her. The whole world is under threat, but it is now very personal for our Fringe folks.
I also loved the warehouse of previous Fringe incident, especially the porcupine guy.
Was the mouth closing up a previous-Fringe thingy? It seemed familiar.
From the episode “Ability”
So, in the video they watched, Walter said “You must accept the reversibility of all phenomenon.” How much you want to bet that the plan involves resetting the timeline back to when Etta was a little girl, before the Observers showed up?
^Yep, that was my thought as well, and I’d be okay with that even though I normally don’t like “reset buttons” in science fiction.
I think it’s lame storytelling to have the bad guy mortally wound Etta, go away so her parents can find her and have the emotional death scene, then they leave in time for the bad guy to come back.
I thought the death was very sad, but I agree that having the Observer leave just long enough for them to have the emotional death scene was poor. The distance they needed to cover in the time shown, to get out of the range of the bomb, also seemed muddled.
As soon as she died I thought; there has to be some kind of time travel/alternate universe way to bring her back in the last episode. I’ll bet the answer is in that basement storage room.
I’m hoping. I mean, even if they win, who wants to live in that miserable fucking world they’ll have left over?
I was struck again, when hearing Walter say on one of the tapes, “Only you can save the world.” that this has to be a shout out to viewers who also love adventure games.
Merged duplicate threads.
Seems appropriate given the show…
The bullet is the paradox - somehow future Olivia transports it back to the house as part of the plan so etta can find the bullet that Olivia left so that there could be all this emotion which helps turn the tide.
Err, that bullet was the one that Walter shot her with at the end of last season.
Do we know it was taht bullet? do we? do we?
(honestly entirely forgot about that episode, but seriously, this show needs to end so we can remember its glory days)
Fringe is fun with interesting albeit incredibly inconsistent characters but I think it’s getting too off the rails. It’s a bad idea to do crazy things if you haven’t any consistent underpinning plot-wise (which Fringe never has: the massive way that they use pretend science is really funny, but completely inconsistent from one episode to another).
I’m still trying to get over in season 4 where near the beginning, Bell from that time line had closed down a comparatively modest bio experiment saying that some things humans weren’t meant to attempt and should be left to God, and by the end was going to re create the entire universe along what he considered improved lines.
Fringe’s finale will be January 18.
No discussion of yesterday’s episode? I liked it, though I’m not sure what to make of Peter getting implanted with Observer tech.