Fringe 4.10
Jan. 29th, 2012 02:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ziparumpazooHaven't reviewed in a while and I'm out of practice. Let's try bullet points:
-This episode felt very season 1-ish to me with Olivia being very guarded, but also showing so much empathy and connecting with Emily, feeling those parallels with her, but never letting Emily's case become *her* story.
-Lincoln is definitely filling Blue!Charlie's shoes when he's not the focus of the story. I like that they don't just put him in the closet and bring him out to play, but there's the implication that he's still doing important things, just doing them somewhere we're not looking. That said, not enough Astrid, implied or otherwise.
-Lots of things being said here about destiny and fate and where they can be averted, but I feel they're just being used to build up the tension around September's warning to Olivia. I did not ever believe that anything was going to happen to her during this episode. It could be foundation for the large story arc, but didn't have the impact here it might have.
-It was nice to see Walter and Peter working together just to see Walter's fire again. He's seemed bored lately.
-Nina...where to begin? I'm choosing to believe at this point that she's not entirely evil (nobody truly is on this show), and not ignorantly misdirected, but fulling believing that she's doing what she's doing to Olivia because she believes it's for the ultimate good. Which makes her even scarier that if she were just plain old evil. And oh Olivia, how lonely and broken you must have been to believe in Nina and her excuses and apologies so easily? We're seeing more and more that while some things in her life in this timeline are better, below the surface, many things are the same... just with different faces.
There were a line of Walter's that amused me for purely ficish reasons: Put simply, some future events ripple backwards. Well, not in a way that we're consciously aware of, but it's sort of like vibrations. And perhaps your brain is uniquely sensitive to these vibrations.
And, more of a tiny detail: I can't say you're gonna get his full attention, per se. He's a little wired up today. He's already electrocuted himself three times.
(fic assumptions become canon \o/)
-This episode felt very season 1-ish to me with Olivia being very guarded, but also showing so much empathy and connecting with Emily, feeling those parallels with her, but never letting Emily's case become *her* story.
-Lincoln is definitely filling Blue!Charlie's shoes when he's not the focus of the story. I like that they don't just put him in the closet and bring him out to play, but there's the implication that he's still doing important things, just doing them somewhere we're not looking. That said, not enough Astrid, implied or otherwise.
-Lots of things being said here about destiny and fate and where they can be averted, but I feel they're just being used to build up the tension around September's warning to Olivia. I did not ever believe that anything was going to happen to her during this episode. It could be foundation for the large story arc, but didn't have the impact here it might have.
-It was nice to see Walter and Peter working together just to see Walter's fire again. He's seemed bored lately.
-Nina...where to begin? I'm choosing to believe at this point that she's not entirely evil (nobody truly is on this show), and not ignorantly misdirected, but fulling believing that she's doing what she's doing to Olivia because she believes it's for the ultimate good. Which makes her even scarier that if she were just plain old evil. And oh Olivia, how lonely and broken you must have been to believe in Nina and her excuses and apologies so easily? We're seeing more and more that while some things in her life in this timeline are better, below the surface, many things are the same... just with different faces.
There were a line of Walter's that amused me for purely ficish reasons: Put simply, some future events ripple backwards. Well, not in a way that we're consciously aware of, but it's sort of like vibrations. And perhaps your brain is uniquely sensitive to these vibrations.
And, more of a tiny detail: I can't say you're gonna get his full attention, per se. He's a little wired up today. He's already electrocuted himself three times.
(fic assumptions become canon \o/)
