I love that story! I think it's this fandom's Must Read fic. (this is where I admit that I stalked your recs on het_reccers to get an idea of what kind of stories you liked... and then got completely distracted by the recs themselves. lol)
Bishop-Matic Apocalypse 5000
Ha! Somewhere on the machine, there's a label sticker that says just that. I think they implied that Walternate had a set of schematics that he left for Peter to look at in Over There pt.2, but I'm not sure if those were Watlernate's notes, or if it were something he'd discovered. Don't know if the writers were purposefully vague, or if they hadn't nailed down everything about the machine until they had decided exactly what it did.
One thing I find interesting in (and love about) Fringe's pov narrative style is that the characters are almost never omniscient, and because of that, they're often wrong and fallible, even when we, the audience know better. It gives the writers a lot of wiggle room to suggest things and then change direction, even when it leaves me wanting to yell "No, go back there! We're not done exploring yet!".
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Bishop-Matic Apocalypse 5000
Ha! Somewhere on the machine, there's a label sticker that says just that. I think they implied that Walternate had a set of schematics that he left for Peter to look at in Over There pt.2, but I'm not sure if those were Watlernate's notes, or if it were something he'd discovered. Don't know if the writers were purposefully vague, or if they hadn't nailed down everything about the machine until they had decided exactly what it did.
One thing I find interesting in (and love about) Fringe's pov narrative style is that the characters are almost never omniscient, and because of that, they're often wrong and fallible, even when we, the audience know better. It gives the writers a lot of wiggle room to suggest things and then change direction, even when it leaves me wanting to yell "No, go back there! We're not done exploring yet!".