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(tv) Fringe: quantum cat is looking askance at Walter Bishop
TV post. If you're rewaching SCC, here's the 1X04 rewatch post. (Hah, stupid LJ didn't let me know about the comments there. Looks like I have some replies to make.)
More Fringe. Spoilers through episode 17 of season one, in particular 14-17. I think I have mental whiplash over the huge variation in quality in these four episodes (as experienced by me). Episode 14, "Ability" brings back creepy escaped-from-prison British guy (Mister Jones), who seems to have quite the Olivia obsession. Oh, and Walter apparently wrote a whole manifesto about the problematic existence of alternate universes. But he doesn't remember doing so.
It was cool! Possibly Olivia turned off lights with her mind! Possibly not! Peter looked pretty! And Walter didn't annoy me excessively! Mister Jones may now be Batman, who knows!
Episode 15, "Inner Child" didn't inspire lots of exclamation marks. More of a shrug. Mysterious pale kid, possibly psychic. Gruesome crime. Ick. I'm glad this is so far the only CSI-style crime the show has used. (By CSI-style, I mean the fetishized female victims. This sounds rather pathetic, but it's true: the way it was filmed and portrayed was less fetishized than I've learned to expect from network TV. So... yay? *sadface*)
It wasn't bad, but a bit of a letdown after 14. Also, though I like the idea that Broyles has a heart, I was still surprised that he helped spirit away the kid at the end. It seemed very unlike him. Hm.
Episode 16, "Unleashed." I'm not sure what specific moment triggered it, but I was feeling quite ragey about Walter's actions by the end. And wow, they've completely made Peter the father in that relationship, haven't they? Aw, Peter.
Also, there was so much handwaving at the science that my body now aches. (Not literally, obviously.) The completely implausible hybrid monster that impregnates victims via... porcupine quill? Really?
Getting a bit closer to what bothered me about Walter: he's busy feeling guilty for the hybrid monster that he did not, in fact, create. Why is he feeling guilty? Because he could have created something like it. What irks is the apparent lack of guilt for what he actually did. A woman died in his lab. This was an accident, yes, but in general Walter's sense of morality is just appalling. Most of the time I can ignore that, but not all of the time.
I may be pretending this episode doesn't exist.
Episode 17, "Bad Dreams" goes back into Olivia's backstory. Young "Olive" had a childhood pal in those drug studies. And here we are again: Walter participated in those trials on children. *sigh* Grrr, Walter!
It was an interesting episode, though not a favorite. Felt like it might have been trying to appeal to the fanbase by including Olivia-as-Nick kissing the stripper. At least I had less handwaving to do to believe in the idea of emotional infection than to believe in the hybrid monster from the last episode.
Okay, this week I need to rewatch BSG's "The Plan" one more time (and take notes) so I can send that disk back to Netflix and be ready to start on season two of Fringe as soon as I'm done watching season one on the WB's website.
Hm. I need a Fringe icon. Either Olivia Dunham or one of those cool black-and-white organic thingy pics they do at commercial breaks.
More Fringe. Spoilers through episode 17 of season one, in particular 14-17. I think I have mental whiplash over the huge variation in quality in these four episodes (as experienced by me). Episode 14, "Ability" brings back creepy escaped-from-prison British guy (Mister Jones), who seems to have quite the Olivia obsession. Oh, and Walter apparently wrote a whole manifesto about the problematic existence of alternate universes. But he doesn't remember doing so.
It was cool! Possibly Olivia turned off lights with her mind! Possibly not! Peter looked pretty! And Walter didn't annoy me excessively! Mister Jones may now be Batman, who knows!
Episode 15, "Inner Child" didn't inspire lots of exclamation marks. More of a shrug. Mysterious pale kid, possibly psychic. Gruesome crime. Ick. I'm glad this is so far the only CSI-style crime the show has used. (By CSI-style, I mean the fetishized female victims. This sounds rather pathetic, but it's true: the way it was filmed and portrayed was less fetishized than I've learned to expect from network TV. So... yay? *sadface*)
It wasn't bad, but a bit of a letdown after 14. Also, though I like the idea that Broyles has a heart, I was still surprised that he helped spirit away the kid at the end. It seemed very unlike him. Hm.
Episode 16, "Unleashed." I'm not sure what specific moment triggered it, but I was feeling quite ragey about Walter's actions by the end. And wow, they've completely made Peter the father in that relationship, haven't they? Aw, Peter.
Also, there was so much handwaving at the science that my body now aches. (Not literally, obviously.) The completely implausible hybrid monster that impregnates victims via... porcupine quill? Really?
Getting a bit closer to what bothered me about Walter: he's busy feeling guilty for the hybrid monster that he did not, in fact, create. Why is he feeling guilty? Because he could have created something like it. What irks is the apparent lack of guilt for what he actually did. A woman died in his lab. This was an accident, yes, but in general Walter's sense of morality is just appalling. Most of the time I can ignore that, but not all of the time.
I may be pretending this episode doesn't exist.
Episode 17, "Bad Dreams" goes back into Olivia's backstory. Young "Olive" had a childhood pal in those drug studies. And here we are again: Walter participated in those trials on children. *sigh* Grrr, Walter!
It was an interesting episode, though not a favorite. Felt like it might have been trying to appeal to the fanbase by including Olivia-as-Nick kissing the stripper. At least I had less handwaving to do to believe in the idea of emotional infection than to believe in the hybrid monster from the last episode.
Okay, this week I need to rewatch BSG's "The Plan" one more time (and take notes) so I can send that disk back to Netflix and be ready to start on season two of Fringe as soon as I'm done watching season one on the WB's website.
Hm. I need a Fringe icon. Either Olivia Dunham or one of those cool black-and-white organic thingy pics they do at commercial breaks.