I totally called it! Of course, he’s losing all his morality too. I doubt any viewers are surprised that this is the way the implant is affecting him.
At this point, I’m pretty ceartain that **Fenris **is dead on with is theory above. Peter will become the first observer, possibly even Windmore (do they age?). I believe the preview for next week showed Windmore saying that everything that has happened so far was according to his plan. The observers did come from the future, right? So, shouldn’t they know everything that’s going to happen, anyway? Eh, overthinking it.
The show has been somewhat contradictory on that matter. On the one hand, the nice Observer said that Peter and Olivia’s child was important to the future. OTOH, she’s dead now, the other Observers tried to keep Peter from existing, and in any case, the original timeline had Walternate saving Peter and keeping him in his own universe before the nice Observer distracted him.
My prediction remains that they will create some sort of time barrier that will prevent the Observers from traveling back in time at all, and reset the timeline entirely, saving Etta, and I suppose even making young Peter stay alive in the alternate universe, perhaps meeting our Olivia later in life to have Etta.
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So, he’s the emperor now?
I still see the ending like this:
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Walter sacrifices himself, partly to stop himself from becoming the evil Walter he does not want to be.
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Time is reversed and Peter and Olivia get child-Etta back, probably not aware of Walter’s sacrifice…maybe forgetting him altogether.
It’d be depressing enough and…maybe make sense?
Walter dying in the finale makes a lot of sense to me no matter what. I’m not sure it’ll happen, but I will not be surprised at all. He feels responsible and this season has had a lot of moments where he talks about his sadness and guilt.
I keep wishing that somehow they’ll take that damn implant out of Peter’s head. I can’t stand who he’s becoming.
Did Nina actually remove the pieces of Walter’s brain, or was he simply begging her to?
Uh, I think she didn’t. It certainly ruins my ending theory if he got them removed.
Am I right? He still has full intelligence, with a side of evil…right?
I can’t imagine they had time for brain surgery, even off camera. I think merely her answer of whether she was willing to do it was what was left ambiguous.
Buuuuut, with “The Man Who Sold the World” playing, I wonder if she didn’t convinced him that it was worth it to become his old self.
She’s dead, but it was her death that drove Peter to implant himself with observer tech. Without her and her eventual death, Peter might have stayed on the high road.
Maybe Walter will have to do something worse than sacrifice himself. Maybe he will have to kill his own son.
If Peter is becoming the “first” Observer, and if Walter is still planning on stopping the Observers, something will have to give. This is especially poignant because Walter’s love of his son is what started the whole ball of wax going in the first place. He threatened the existence of two universes for the sake of having a son; in penance he will have to let go of that son.
That would suck on a story level. I hope that doesn’t occur.
Why do you think that would suck?
Well, the Terry Gilliam sequence was certainly interesting.
Brian
For me the most effective scene occurred in the first act. Walter comes into the lab and sees a frozen representation of himself passing thru the portal. He then sits down and starts watching what appears to be one of the old VHS tapes, except it’s showing the rest of the team working on something. Then it’s revealed that the team is really behind him working on something. THAT was trippy. It’s been a long time since I did acid, but that sequence put me in the mind of someone who was.
I can’t remember the last time that John Noble’s Australian accent had snuck out quite as audibly as it did during one point in this episode. He’s usually so good at keeping it under wraps that I rarely even think about his nationality.