# New episode of Fringe tonight - 1/21/2011 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 22, 2011, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-episode-of-fringe-tonight-1-21-2011/568526 "2011-01-22T01:21:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2011, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-episode-of-fringe-tonight-1-21-2011/568526/1 "2011-01-22T01:21:41Z")
**Fringe** is back, on a new night. A Friday night slot may not be a good sign, but I really hope it won’t be a death sentence for the show. This season has been really great–the best science fiction currently on television, by far. (I know, I know–that’s not saying much these days!) I wonder if the “war” between the two worlds will be resolved this season. I hope they don’t try to drag it out forever, like The X-Files did with its overarching “mythology” story. So far, they’ve been good at balancing out the parallel world plotline along with freak-of-the-week stories. I hope they continue to deal with the fallout of the Olivia/Fauxlivia switcheroo. Things should still be awkward between Peter and Olivia, and she’s still got to be dealing with some sort of identity crisis. Looking forward to having Walter back on my TV! ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2011, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-episode-of-fringe-tonight-1-21-2011/568526/2 "2011-01-22T01:35:32Z")
Don’t know when I’ll get to watch it, because tonight the hubby’s out and tomorrow evening we have plans, but it will be waiting on the TiVo for us and I’m looking forward to it. I agree that it’s the best sci fi currently running and I love Walter. I want Olivia to get over her problems and be with Peter ☹ I want them to be together. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2011, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-episode-of-fringe-tonight-1-21-2011/568526/3 "2011-01-22T02:16:55Z")
“I got these glasses from Dr. Jacoby in Washington State.” 🙂 [Twin Peaks!!](http://dinca.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/tp-jacoby2jpg.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2011, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-episode-of-fringe-tonight-1-21-2011/568526/4 "2011-01-22T02:40:20Z")
Wow, this is an excellent episode. Shame they have been moved to Fridays. Fringe is at its best ever. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2011, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-episode-of-fringe-tonight-1-21-2011/568526/5 "2011-01-22T05:00:22Z")
I liked it a lot, too. It’s always cool to learn a little more about The Observer, and he was pretty bad-ass in the opening sequence. Catching bullets is a nice trick–I wonder how he’s able to do that. Freezing time? Christopher Lloyd was good in a fairly low-key role. I’m glad they didn’t have him playing some wacky Doc Brown-type character. I liked how they used the gift book to bring up the Peter/Olivia issue. Things are still touchy between them, but there was some some progression, some healing. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2011, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-episode-of-fringe-tonight-1-21-2011/568526/6 "2011-01-22T05:48:31Z")
I am watching it right now, and it’s very good. I almost missed it due to the Friday time slot; I am also afraid that it’s going to die in this Friday tv wasteland. Poor Walter. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2011, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-episode-of-fringe-tonight-1-21-2011/568526/7 "2011-01-22T10:47:37Z")
I’m actually thinking that wrapping things up this season, or possibly one more, might be a good thing. Season 1 - Meet the characters. Season 2 - Here’s the main story-line, parallel universes. Season 3 (12 episodes) - Here’s what the other universe and its inhabitants are like. Second half of season 3 or all of season 4 - Here’s how the Observers and everything else all tie in together and here is how everything gets resolved. Something that bugged me, if the Observers can travel through time, why didn’t they do that to fix the problem of the one Observer keeping Walternate from seeing his successful cure for Peter in 1985. I know, because then there wouldn’t be a show. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2011, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-episode-of-fringe-tonight-1-21-2011/568526/8 "2011-01-22T11:52:07Z")
Christopher Lloyd was great in this episode. I hope we get to see him again. Anyone else think they we’re winking at us by having his son visit from the year 1985? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2011, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-episode-of-fringe-tonight-1-21-2011/568526/9 "2011-01-22T12:17:51Z")
Also, relevant link: Violet Sedan Chair’s faux vinyl record [“Seven Suns”](http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/01/fringe-violet-sedan-chair/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher) have been seeded and found. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2011, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-episode-of-fringe-tonight-1-21-2011/568526/10 "2011-01-22T13:39:54Z")
Am I the only one that got the Twin Peaks reference? ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2011, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-episode-of-fringe-tonight-1-21-2011/568526/11 "2011-01-22T13:48:52Z")
I didn’t get it, never watched Twin Peaks. But it’s great to pick up on that stuff from you guys. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2011, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-episode-of-fringe-tonight-1-21-2011/568526/12 "2011-01-22T13:49:37Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > I didn’t get it, never watched Twin Peaks. But it’s great to pick up on that stuff from you guys. Yeah, Dr. Jacoby was a psychologist in the show who wore those glasses to read people’s auras. He was, in some ways, a precursor to Walter. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2011, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-episode-of-fringe-tonight-1-21-2011/568526/13 "2011-01-22T16:12:25Z")
Niiice. Although, it doesn’t seem like Walter to believe in such things as “auras”. Unless he has some fringy science theory surrounding it. Otherwise that gag came off as incredibly crack-potish. I would like a pair though. Especially useful for anaglyphic 3D viewing and for drivin’ the ladies wild! ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2011, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-episode-of-fringe-tonight-1-21-2011/568526/14 "2011-01-23T01:24:52Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > Christopher Lloyd was great in this episode. I hope we get to see him again. > > Anyone else think they we’re winking at us by having his son visit from the year 1985? 😉 Heavy! Those glasses looked like a high quality version of the old timey 3D glasses. ---
**Author:** ![BlackKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2011, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-episode-of-fringe-tonight-1-21-2011/568526/15 "2011-01-23T04:37:42Z")
I got a kick out of the title of the episode. Here we have a sci-fi show on FOX which just had its timeslot moved and has people worried it will be canceled before it can finish its story. Episode title: “The Firefly” ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2011, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-episode-of-fringe-tonight-1-21-2011/568526/16 "2011-01-23T07:09:07Z")
Great episode. Lloyd basically played Reverand Jim, 30 years later. Incidentally - is the thread title a typo or a pun? ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2011, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-episode-of-fringe-tonight-1-21-2011/568526/17 "2011-01-23T07:14:43Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Incidentally - is the thread title a typo or a pun? Ha! :smack: Alas, it was just a typo. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2011, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-episode-of-fringe-tonight-1-21-2011/568526/18 "2011-01-23T07:45:15Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Great episode. Lloyd basically played Reverand Jim, 30 years later. All clean and sober. And not as funny. 😃 > [@](#): > > Incidentally - is the thread title a typo or a pun? I never noticed that. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2011, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-episode-of-fringe-tonight-1-21-2011/568526/19 "2011-01-23T13:56:48Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Great episode. Lloyd basically played Reverand Jim, 30 years later. > > Incidentally - is the thread title a typo or a pun? > [@Tangent](#): > > Ha! :smack: Alas, it was just a typo. Changed “epidose” to “episode” not because I’d read the thread, but because it was going to irritate me every time I saw it. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2011, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-episode-of-fringe-tonight-1-21-2011/568526/20 "2011-01-23T18:08:30Z")
awww. I really preferred epidose. Given Walter’s use of drugs, I thought it was perfect. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-episode-of-fringe-tonight-1-21-2011/568526.md?page=2)