re: *OFFICIAL* Fringe M/TV Board rewatch thread (current episodes discussion p. 60)

Okay, my thoughts on the three episodes for this week.

Do Shapeshifters Dream of Electric Sheep?

I really really like TJN as a villain. Much more than DRJ (though I liked him too) and even Walternate.

Cold blooded how he just smoked that senator in the face. And he's a straight up crack shot the way he keeps missing Broyles's face by mere inches around that corner.

Also completely love how his plan was just to pull out a gun and roll the body out the front door of the hospital. No big deal. :lolL:

Astrid tells Walter he never gets her name right, but that's not true...he just gets it wrong too. he calls her Astrid here and there, and Agent Farnsworth a lot. Back the frick off, Aspirin.

Those scenes with the senator and his wife when she was trying to talk to his body were fairly intense, and really sad.

Why wouldn't that shapeshifter kill Walter? I know he incapacitated him with the head wound, but it makes almost no sense that he wouldn't kill Walter just for a) being in his way, and b) being one of the main people they're fighting against.

Fauxlivia...when in doubt, seduce the guy with sex. Solid plan. I really like how you can keep seeing the little inconsistencies with the Livs both being switched in different universes. Good job by Anna Torv making that believable too.

I completely forgot that TJN offs himself, and this early on. So much for loving him as a villain. frick.

Amber 31422

Seems like almost sort of a filler episode. But still good though.

To catholic's point earlier, I do like the episodes in the alternate universe a lot. And I think one reason is because the real Olivia is over there and I sort of connect to that. But even on top of that, it's still a cool place.

Is it me or is Alt Broyles (Brauxyles?) always chewing gum? Like in every single scene it seems like.

I vividly remember when Liv was crossing back and going into that gift shop. Cool to see that again.

Why they think that convincing Liv that she is Fauxlivia is baffling to me. No wy that should work, especially when they then turn around and tell her that regular Liv can cross over and now they magically think Fauxliv can too.

I forgot about Liv's enhanced hearing (like when she hears the bomb and Charlie and Lincoln don't). That's a throwback to a season two episode where that dude had his human being-devouring son in the basement.

I am no scientist, but I feel like that dude's destabilizer machine thing shouldn't literally put a hole in the wall to the bank...shouldn't it just destabilize it so he can move through it? Oh well, fringe science and all that, I guess.

Cool ending when Liv crosses over and makes the call to Ella. Only thing that caught me though was that she told Walternate and Brandon that it didn't work. But they were monitorin the machines and had to know it worked based on the same brain activity from the first time. IMO she should've just lied and said that she went to the same gift shop or something like that.

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This is gonna sound weird, but I don't like Fauxlivia in blonde hair, and I don't like Olivia in red hair. I know they're both Anna Torv, but it's unsettling for me for some reason.

Cool episode, and numbers stations are actually a thing that nobody really knows what the frick they are for. So that's pretty cool.

The First People...that's the Observers, right? Don't we find that out later on? I seem to remember that for some reason.

So these pieces of the device in the regular timeline will need to get back to the altverse at some point? I'm a little confused on that. I know Fauxlivia is moving on to phase two or whatever, but don't remember exactly what comes next (which is good and makes the rewatch more fun IMO).

shite's about to go down with Liv in the altverse, and IIRC, we get a lot more Bubbles in the coming episodes.