I guess this is a spoiler for the season 1 finale and season 2 opening or Fringe, so if you don’t want to hear about it, you’ve been warned.
Ok, I got into Fringe late, and have just finished watching all three seasons and was wondering about something.
Bell commented that when he returned Olivia to our universe she was going to have a rough ride, because when she left our universe she was in motion (on an elevator) and that she’d be regaining that momentum or whatever. So she shows up by crashing through a car windshield, like a half hour (or whatever) after the actual accident.
First, how come she didn’t return to an elevator? What caused the car accident before she arrived?
Second, since Bell knew she had a good chance of being injured, why didn’t he give her a crash helmet or something before he returned her? I mean, he gave her an important assignment to find that frozen head before the bad guys. But she ended up not succeeding because she was first in a coma then had amnesia about what Bell told her until it was too late to do anything with the info.
I don’t quiet understand, but I thought that Bell said that in reality he actually took her from her car and not from the elevator, that’s why her car was crashed in this world. Maybe I misunderstood, but the whole thing is confusing.
As for not giving her a helmet, that would raise a lot of questions and he wanted things to appear as normal as possible. Yeah, having her appear out of nowhere raises some questions, but they can be rationalized away, whereas her appearing with a helmet would draw more attention than he would want.
And I don’t know if he knew she would have amnesia. That was probably an unforeseen consequence of how he took her and sent her back.
Ok, that post does help explain what probably happened. I don’t recall the part where Dunham almost hit another car, but something similar happened later in the series when Broyles was driving. He was racing somewhere, talking on the cell phone to Dunham when he had to dodge around a car that cut him off. She asked if he was ok, he replied that he was, and the story continued on with no further reference to the near-miss. I thought it was odd that they had stuck that little incident in there for apparently no reason.
As for Olivia having Amnesia, sure Bell may not have known it would happen, but again, he’s asked her to do something vitally important and know she may be seriously injured and therefor not able to do what he needed her to.
When she was in the coma the doctors were saying she’d never wake up. Of course moments later she sat bolt upright in bed, reciting greek phrases. Did they give any reason for the doctors being wrong? I don’t remember them addressing that.
Oh, and one more question: In one episode, Nina and Broyles kiss. It came from out of nowhere, and as far as I can recall there’s no reference anywhere else in the series to any kind of romantic relationship between the two, What was that all about?
The writers were probably still flushing out the characters.
Maybe the writers were going to have those two be involved romantically but then decided against it.
Did they give any reason for the doctors being wrong? I don’t remember them addressing that.