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

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Nope. Michael was created with Observer DNA. It took the refinement over hundreds of years to get to Michael so I don't see how Michael proves anything other than the project worked. At some point the observer lack of emotion leads to a superior brain at which point emotion could be added back. As I said, I'm a stickler on this. Michael was not a human that had intellect and emotion. He was an OBSERVER with DNA from normal run of the mill emotionless parents. You could not ever get to Michael without first changing humanity into observers.

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Say what? I understand that...I'm not saying that he wasn't created from Obs DNA. I'm saying that he was the anomaly because they were trying to increase brain capacity and all that and were trying to better their race, and he was discarded because he was different and wasn't their goal. However, he ultimately was more than what they were aiming for, AND he was able to do it and still have emotion. But that still wasn't what the Obs had set out to create (which is why he was labeled as an anomaly). That's the whole point...they want to get him to the doc and prove show Michael off and prove to him (and others) that the Obs could be capable of the higher brain functions and still have emotion.

The problem comes in when it's not confirmed that that was the intention of the experiments in the first place.


ETA: I think we're on different pages...I think I see what you're saying...this is from Fringepedia:

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In The Boy Must Live, the other Observers remove his tech implant from his neck and experiment on him. Due to this, he became a human with emotions and hair. He assumed the name of Donald O'Connor after watching the movie Singin' In The Rain with Walter. Donald and Walter worked on a plan to defeat the Observers. They want to bring September's offspring, Michael, to 2167 to show the scientists that they don't have to sacrifice emotions for intelligence. If the plan is successful, the Observers will never exist and therefore not invade the planet.

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But you're saying that it isn't true since he didn't come straight from humans...he came from Observer DNA and therefore one can't exist without the other.

I don't know what to think about that.