Fringe 4/6

You know a show that surprises you at its twists and turns? Yes, well, I don't know many of them, but Fringe does not disappoint! I love that I can't predict this show, often not even the next episode, and yet, when I look back, I see how it was woven together. It's just brilliant and clever and endearing.

Ok, I've ended my 40 day Lentian fast from sugar and I'm a little hyper....

Friday's episode of Fringe certainly didn't disappoint me. I was exceptionally pleased with an entire episode from the other side and the double Lincolns were quite fun. I can feel for Lincoln whose entire world has been turned upside down twice now this season, and it was nice to see the more relaxed version of Olivia. Now, I would never say that Olivia doesn't deserve love, and I think that Peter is just right for who she is, but that doesn't make what happened to her or how high strung she is any less tragic. The Olivia on the other side does appear to be a less damaged personality, and it's nice to see. I love that they can potentially satisfy both Olivia's need for Peter and Lincoln's need for Olivia without throwing Peter through an inter-dimensional portal (I hope).

That was, of course, what I feared when the previous episode showed Lincoln mooning over Olivia and showing a subtle resentment toward Peter. Particularly his obvious disappointment and self-loathing after his talk with Peter. As well as  his hurt and shock at Olivia's willingness to forget...him. At that point I thought they were going to turn Lincoln into an accidental enemy and a foil for Peter. You know, Peter is a big tough guy who's morally good, he has a soul mate, he turns worlds inside out to save her. I thought they were going to make Lincoln into the guy who seemed nice but who had a corrupt character at the base of him, a weak man, who when falling in transient love, causes the one he loves to suffer rather than suffer himself, and in doing so destroys everything that was built. I'm really hoping they've avoided that path with this episode!

I was also pleased by the apparent solidifying of a unifying enemy. So now the worlds are no longer at war with each other but with a common enemy.

I also enjoyed the banter between the Lincolns.

The only complaint I have is that they killed off the alternate Lincoln. Aside from it being an awful lot of work for a single actor to play two characters in the same episode I fail to see why they did that, particularly as quickly as they did. Of course, I've been surprised before so I really should withhold judgement.

This does also bring up the question of whether or not FauxLivia believes that people on both sides are the same person. The first episode in the season saw Olivia insisting that they were different people, not FauxLivia (if memory serves) so that's something to consider. And, how will this budding friendship/romance work?

Well, that's about all for me.

Fringe 3/23

So, I was really excited that the observer told Peter Bishop that this was his world, the world he was meant to be in, and confirmed that Olivia is his Olivia. I knew it, hahahaha.

Now that Peter and Olivia are together we have a host of new problems. I'm really happy that the show lets them be happy from time to time and allows the viewer to know that Peter and Olivia are meant to be together. That's something that most other shows (Castle, Bones to name a few) do not have, and they (the other shows) suffer for it. It's ok to have a real couple on a show. It's ok.

Back to the new problems; one, the observer seems to think Olivia is going to die, two, rogue observer (and he was given darker lighting in this last episode, have his purposes become nefarious since he was rejected by his society?), Lincoln is in love with Olivia and trying to move in on her, Nina resisting Olivia's change, Olivia not remembering things she needs to, and Peters perpetual guilt, as well as fringe problems. I think they will make a big deal of Olivia betraying everyone in her loyalty to Peter, also Lincoln will let bad things happen because he's in love. I suspect Olivia will be sent to an alternate universe, or Peter will because, you know, those two can't be happy for too long.

I predict the series will end with them separated and either Peter or Olivia using the observer's ability to travel between dimensions and will set off to find the other and their happy ending.