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

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Beep beep Ritchie. Where are your comments?

Better comment soon.

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Motherfricker, where are yours? You have barely said anything in the last couple weeks about actual episodes or theories.


Here are mine..


The Recordist

The tree people episode...I knew that one was coming pretty soon.

And of course the "tree people" are hippies ("My son, River.").



"No one wants to come here.." Well, not anymore since you said that.

Why wouldn't Windmark know that this officer is a mole? Clearly Observers reading people is something that happens all of the time, and you'd obviously assume that their own human loyalist employees are ones that they would want to read often to make sure everything is on the up and up.

Liv acting awkward. Shocker.

Walter must be a super badass mad scientist genius to whip up a suit like that in about 30 minutes. That's amazing.

I agree with tree man...it's history you are trying to protect. I'd want the Fringe team and the Resistance out of there too.

This was a brave move by tree man, I guess, but couldn't he have saved everyone a lot of crucial time (since the Obs and their loyalists were on the way) by just telling them he was going down to retrieve the stones? I mean, they even had to travel to the nearest community, which adds in additional danger of being caught or found out. He could've eliminated all of that by just being like "Hey, Peter...I'm gonna go down there. Just tell my boy I love him." Oh well.



The Bullet That Saved the World

I'm not exactly sure how the Observer mind reading thing works, but it seems like you'd be able to just focus your mind on singing a song and that's all they'd be able to recognize. If they tried to read me, I'd just use my go-to "kill time in my head song": Easy E - Boyz-n-the-Hood

Aaaaaaand, now it's stuck in my head and I'm singing it.

And why the frick isn't Etta teaching them all how to block being read immediately? She even says she'll teach them "eventually," but wouldn't it be pretty important right from the get go? I mean, there have already been at least two instances where they have been read or attempted to have been. WTF. Even if it takes a while, you should prolly get started on something that important...you know, immediately. Might be useful.

Windmark owning the Simon game is awesome and hilarious to me.



Again, since nobody has responded to this yet...I assume the Observers no longer see all realities and know all outcomes and all that jazz?

I love Walter's crypt of old Fringe event shite. And I love how porcupine man is still in almost perfect condition after decades sitting in a dusty room.

And then Walter eats the moldy, disgusting, jelly growth thing.



I assume that bullet that Etta has is the one that Walter shot Liv in the head with. It's sort of weird to me that she wears around her neck the bullet that shot her mother in the face.

How exact is the ambering process? Could they simply amber the entrance to the building so that when the Obs and loyalist officers got there they'd be like "Oh, it's amber...nothing to see here." ??

Why send Walter as the driver? Are there not cameras all over the place, especially at a fricking checkpoint?

Peter doublefisting guns again.



How can they keep walking into areas like these guns a-blazing and never even come close to getting caught? Are the loyalists that inept?

That reunion with Broyles was pretty awesome.

How the frick do they appear out of nothing, and can they do that all the time? (I think this is answered in this week's assignment episodes perhaps) Seems a bit weird that they wouldn't use that power/technology more often.

And Windmark knows where they went because he basically sensed it? Where the frick is this pretty much always?

Weird. I don't remember Etta dying this early on. Also strange that Windmark would leave her there without killing her, unless he knew she was gonna die or knew that Peter and Liv would go back for her. But then again, if he knew that then that lends credence that maybe they can still see the future/all realities, which takes me back to my point of how anybody can beat them in the first place.



Still digging S5, though I really (REALLY) hate the "Peter/Liv not together" stuff. Their relationship has been SUCH a huge part of the story for a while now, and all of a sudden S5 starts and it's bam, they aren't together and have been apart (divorced? split up? were they ever married anyway?) for a long time (prior to ambering).

It is getting a bit weird, and I remember that from the first time I watched as it aired. But the weirdness isn't bothering me, and I'm enjoying the ride still (unlike the rest of you who barely even post comments about the episodes ).