Fringe Discussion: (Season Five)

[Lost&Found]

Tonights episode is called " What Lies Below"

Peter and Olivia are exposed to a virus.

[Dharmaman]

Is Fringe a repeat tonight?

[thefirstbardo]

- Walter’s horrifying Magellan lecture to the kids.

- Detective Castle looks ******* retarded. Do guys really style their hair like that anymore?

- “Take me to your centrifuge.”

- I want to work for a super-secret FBI outfit that deals with fringe science. So bad.

- Man, if I looked out my office window and saw an acre of CDC tents and mobile BSL-4 labs, I’d start foraging for weapons to defend against the imminent zombie apocalypse.

- Aw sheeeit, Peter’s infected.

- This whole “virus wants to get outside the building to infect other organisms” actually sounds logical to me, a lot less far-fetched (as Broyles put it) than most of the other stuff Fringe division deals with. Viruses are close to being living organisms (it’s pretty heavily debated whether to classify them as “alive” or not) and as such, they may as well have a “purpose”, at least for the sake of science fiction storytelling.

- I’ve always loved the “ancient death buried deep in the Earth” idea. Lots of quality sci-fi has come from that.

- Peter’s a tricky little bastard; swabbing his tongue, flipping the swab for the test. What’s his angle? Other than not wanting to die, that is.

- Not quite sure how the CDC can classify a brand new virus outbreak as Level 6 when it’s only infected a handful of people in a contained space. Level 6 is reserved for pandemics, and there’s a significant geographical spread required for that classification, based on actual symptoms, not computer-simulator projections. I know it’s just a TV show, but that irks me. They spend so much time making the impossible seem plausible, and then they miss something like that in order to justify the insane measure of having the Army kill the infected individuals.

- Shouldn’t they have sent someone to find Peter and make sure he doesn’t jump out a window like the receptionist did?

- This is starting to feel like an episode of House. I love House, but still…

- Please tell me they’re not going to use horseradish to destroy a globe-killing virus.

- Wow. They really are going to use horseradish to save the day. I just don’t know what to say to that.

- Why are the infected trying to break the glass in the lobby? Why not just do what the receptionist did (echoing my point above).

- “Fentanyl: Liquid Opioid” Sounds delightful. That ****’s pretty strong, it’s LD50 is pretty low, they should be careful pumping that straight into the building.

- Olivia’s slide-to-home reach for the gun stunt.

- As always, more Astrid is a good thing.

- “Some things are meant to be left alone, agent Farnsworth.”

[Lost&Found]

Tonights all new episode is called "The Bishop Revival"






A wedding becomes a testing-field for a weaponized chemical agent that causes some wedding guests to suffocate from the inside out. As the Fringe division investigates, Walter uncovers a disturbing connection between the lethal experiment and the Bishop family. With the threat of more attacks mounting, Olivia, Peter and Walter race the clock in order to prevent more deaths.

[rollergirlblue]

dangit! did i miss one somehow? i don't remember the virus epi

[thefirstbardo]

Jan 28, 2010 14:51:14 GMT -5 rollergirlblue said:

dangit! did i miss one somehow? i don't remember the virus epi

Yep, it was on last week. You can probably catch it on the Fringe website.

[FullFrontalBuddha]

I enjoyed the episode, but I agree with your earlier comment about Walter being involved somehow in everything that they encounter, it's a little contrived. Unless there's an underlying reasoning, like his previous experiments are being systematically released to try to get at knowledge he has that's been locked away or something like that.

And in one of the commercial breaks, there was clearly a Greek "phi" Φ character (which is used to represent the golden ratio, among other things) on the back of the frog, which I don't remember seeing previously (not the frog, the character on its back). Can anyone confirm whether it was there in earlier episodes?
I know the sea horse was in last week's episode, and I think they said something about the images being clues of sorts.

[thefirstbardo]

-Finally, the seahorse from the Fringe promos. It was Walter's father's signature. Interesting.

-Also from the promos/clues: the apple with the fetuses inside. The apple was on the back of a chair in Walter's lab. I'll see if I can find a screencap.

-Things I want to know about:

- ZFT and Walter
- Parallel Earth
- Parallel Peter/Original PEter
- Olivia's "powers"
- Invasion/War with Parallel Earth
- Massive Dynamic/William Bell
- The Pattern


-Again, Walter is involved. Surprise.

-That book guy conveniently had the info Peter needed. Sigh.

-Peter's grandfather was a Nazi scientist. Somehow that doesn't surprise me.

-Olivia doesn't even protest in the slightest when Peter picks the lock to the guy's apartment.

-Shouldn't they all be wearing hazmat suits during this raid? or at least gas masks? Especially in the basement lab?

-Nobody notices the beaker of boiling, steaming liquid on the stove? *come on*...

-I'm starting to get frustrated with the amount of problem-of-the-week vs. mythos episodes we're getting. I understand they want to keep from writing a heavily serialized show, but they have a bad habit of bringing up new, interesting developments and them just dropping them for six or seven episodes. They've got to be careful if they don't want to end up like The X-files.

-They already mentioned that the Nazi was over a hundred years old, the ending didn't really have any power to it since they had already let the audience know.

-Buddha, the frog has had the Phi on it's back the entire time, or at least since late in season one (when I remember first noticing the Phi).

[FullFrontalBuddha]

Thanks, I guess I just didn't really pay attention to it before. Or at least, I didn't look for something unusual about the frog. Does the six-fingered hand mean that we're going to have a guest appearance from Inigo Montoya?

They kind of blew off the hundred year-old Nazi bit; Walter mentioned it in passing while he was already annoyed, but didn't follow up on the idea, which was at the very least, the explanation for why he knew the formula for the toxin.

I also wondered why Peter didn't choke in the underground lab. Was it more because it was a special "Walter brew" targeted specifically to him, so even though Peter shares DNA, it's sufficiently different that he was unaffected or is it because he's alternate Peter and his DNA is a mirror-version or something? I like that idea better, but it wasn't addressed either way.

[Lost&Found]

Tonights episode is called "Jacksonville".
Next weeks is "Peter".

















A lone man survives a tremor that shakes a Manhattan office building to its core, leading the Fringe division to think that he is from "the other side". Walter concludes that the earthquake was caused by something he and William Bell discovered years before and race to Jacksonville, the site of the pair's previous experiments in order to avert another disaster, forcing Olivia to face her mysterious and traumatic past.