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TV: Fringe update before I (hopefully) get to watch more
I've had Fringe DVDs (seasons one and two) now for two weeks. They're still in their boxes. *sigh* So here's a quick wrap-up of what I watched before I actually got the DVDs.
Peter really does say 'livia. Note to self: stop resenting shortened names in fic that exist in canon.
2.05 "Dream Logic" Heh, this one vaguely reminds me of Torchwood: Children of Earth. ('cause of the whole humans as drugs thingy) Anyway, not-really-evil-but-yes-evil doctor guy has put a chip in his patients' brains to help with sleep patterns. Jekyll Doctor is helpful, Hyde doctor just wants his next dose of the people's brains on dreams.
Peter used to get terrible nightmares when he was young; his dad taught him how to not remember his dreams. Interesting.
Walter kidnaps an FBI agent to experiment on, because Peter had made him promise not to experiment on students. THIS IS WHY WALTER BISHOP STILL SCARES ME. Granted, he didn't actually cut open the guy's brain, but still.
Olivia gives herself a message while coping with Charlie's death: You're gonna be fine. *sniffles*
Peter wakes up from a nightmare in which Walter looks like he's inside the mirror. There was a Challenger 11 poster on the wall of his bedroom when he was little. (Our universe didn't have an 11th Challenger mission, due to the shuttle accident during mission 10.)
2.06 "Earthling" A case in which people are reduced to ash by a phantomy thingy that's living inside an unconscious Russian cosmonaut. Okay! Broyles had a family that he lost because he was too work-oriented. Unsurprising, considering the whole Fringe unit.
The beginning with the guy waiting to surprise his wife in their house, and the electrical shortages? Creepy.
2.07 "Of Human Action" Gah, this episode could easily give me nightmares. Teenage boy appears to have been kidnapped, only he's the one with the mind-controlling abilities. And Peter gets snatched by the kid, and my reaction was NO, DON'T HURT THE PRETTY FACE! Heh. (Jackson does an impressive job acting like his actions are being controlled and he's trying to resist.)
Walter, the FBI is not going to give you a gun. (Oh, please, FBI, do not give this man a gun! Eeep!) But I do agree with Walter about one thing: crepes! Peter was abducted, crepes are the obvious feel-better solution.
Oh dear, Nina confirms via message to William Bell that the kid was one of many in a long-term mind-control experiment. Massive Dynamic: ambiguously evil and everywhere.
2.08 "August" You know, in spite of feeling ridiculously fannish and fascinated by this show, I still have fairly low expectations. Good thing, eh? Observer dude (one of many observer dudes!) loves human girl, saves her from death by airplane crash by kidnapping her. And... this is really silly.
Side note: every time I hear Observer, I think of a Buffy the Vampire Slayer spoof I saw. Watchers were called Observers. (And Buffy was Brandy the Vampire Staker, and Angel was Zeus, and secretly evil, of course... It was fun! Plus we got to throw popcorn!)
Observer dude gets to die for love! Howstalkery sweet!
Olivia had to bail on her niece to cover the case, so we close with her and Ella riding roller coasters, and it is utterly adorable.
2.09 "Snakehead" Peter is alanguage-Sue polyglot! Yay! So far the list includes Farsi and Cantonese. Look, a creepy monster thingy that crawls out of your stomach! This interprets to "Peek between your fingers!" for me.
Walter wants to grow up. I get that. I'm not sure hanging out in Chinatown without knowing the languages is the best way to do that, however.
Poor Astrid gets beaten up, poor Peter gets kidnapped again. It wasn't a good day for the Bishops' House of Horrors crew. But everyone is okay and nobody I actually cared about had any tentacle-things crawl out of them, so yay!
2.10 "Grey Matters" Once upon a time William Bell took some pieces of Walter Bishop's brain! And then he or someone else stuck those pieces inside some other people's brains, and they went crazy! Good times. Always reassuring to know that William Bell was just as unethical as Walter, back in the day.
There's the standoff of great plot-holiness with Olivia and the mercury dude. Olivia opts to save Walter and lose the technology that mercury dude may have grabbed from the brain bits. (Mercury dude = one of those shape-shifters, like the one that killed Charlie. Only this one came from a frozen head!)
Notes from the AU: apparently the Bishops' home there had some kind of blight--the lawn died, the trees had died.
2.11 "Unearthed" I... may have missed this episode? I'm looking at an online summary and it is completely unfamiliar. Guess I'll go back and watch it.
2.12 "Johari Window" Does the title make anyone else think of Angel? Anyway, there's a werewolf-boy! Only not really, he's just a kid with a deformed face, living in a town full of people with the same problem, but nobody knows it 'cause of the magic radio tower thingy.
Aaaaaand that's it for now. There's a lot of ground to cover for the remaining half-season, based on some spoilers I know. I'm now in spoiler-avoidance mode; I've removed on LJ from my reading list and I may remove another, or an LJ comm or two, until I get caught up. I already know too many things!
As for other TV: SCC 1.08 recap post.
We've started posting fics at bsg_remix. I need to look over notes from my beta-reader and poke at mine some more. Right now it's too... [redacted].
Peter really does say 'livia. Note to self: stop resenting shortened names in fic that exist in canon.
2.05 "Dream Logic" Heh, this one vaguely reminds me of Torchwood: Children of Earth. ('cause of the whole humans as drugs thingy) Anyway, not-really-evil-but-yes-evil doctor guy has put a chip in his patients' brains to help with sleep patterns. Jekyll Doctor is helpful, Hyde doctor just wants his next dose of the people's brains on dreams.
Peter used to get terrible nightmares when he was young; his dad taught him how to not remember his dreams. Interesting.
Walter kidnaps an FBI agent to experiment on, because Peter had made him promise not to experiment on students. THIS IS WHY WALTER BISHOP STILL SCARES ME. Granted, he didn't actually cut open the guy's brain, but still.
Olivia gives herself a message while coping with Charlie's death: You're gonna be fine. *sniffles*
Peter wakes up from a nightmare in which Walter looks like he's inside the mirror. There was a Challenger 11 poster on the wall of his bedroom when he was little. (Our universe didn't have an 11th Challenger mission, due to the shuttle accident during mission 10.)
2.06 "Earthling" A case in which people are reduced to ash by a phantomy thingy that's living inside an unconscious Russian cosmonaut. Okay! Broyles had a family that he lost because he was too work-oriented. Unsurprising, considering the whole Fringe unit.
The beginning with the guy waiting to surprise his wife in their house, and the electrical shortages? Creepy.
2.07 "Of Human Action" Gah, this episode could easily give me nightmares. Teenage boy appears to have been kidnapped, only he's the one with the mind-controlling abilities. And Peter gets snatched by the kid, and my reaction was NO, DON'T HURT THE PRETTY FACE! Heh. (Jackson does an impressive job acting like his actions are being controlled and he's trying to resist.)
Walter, the FBI is not going to give you a gun. (Oh, please, FBI, do not give this man a gun! Eeep!) But I do agree with Walter about one thing: crepes! Peter was abducted, crepes are the obvious feel-better solution.
Oh dear, Nina confirms via message to William Bell that the kid was one of many in a long-term mind-control experiment. Massive Dynamic: ambiguously evil and everywhere.
2.08 "August" You know, in spite of feeling ridiculously fannish and fascinated by this show, I still have fairly low expectations. Good thing, eh? Observer dude (one of many observer dudes!) loves human girl, saves her from death by airplane crash by kidnapping her. And... this is really silly.
Side note: every time I hear Observer, I think of a Buffy the Vampire Slayer spoof I saw. Watchers were called Observers. (And Buffy was Brandy the Vampire Staker, and Angel was Zeus, and secretly evil, of course... It was fun! Plus we got to throw popcorn!)
Observer dude gets to die for love! How
Olivia had to bail on her niece to cover the case, so we close with her and Ella riding roller coasters, and it is utterly adorable.
2.09 "Snakehead" Peter is a
Walter wants to grow up. I get that. I'm not sure hanging out in Chinatown without knowing the languages is the best way to do that, however.
Poor Astrid gets beaten up, poor Peter gets kidnapped again. It wasn't a good day for the Bishops' House of Horrors crew. But everyone is okay and nobody I actually cared about had any tentacle-things crawl out of them, so yay!
2.10 "Grey Matters" Once upon a time William Bell took some pieces of Walter Bishop's brain! And then he or someone else stuck those pieces inside some other people's brains, and they went crazy! Good times. Always reassuring to know that William Bell was just as unethical as Walter, back in the day.
There's the standoff of great plot-holiness with Olivia and the mercury dude. Olivia opts to save Walter and lose the technology that mercury dude may have grabbed from the brain bits. (Mercury dude = one of those shape-shifters, like the one that killed Charlie. Only this one came from a frozen head!)
Notes from the AU: apparently the Bishops' home there had some kind of blight--the lawn died, the trees had died.
2.11 "Unearthed" I... may have missed this episode? I'm looking at an online summary and it is completely unfamiliar. Guess I'll go back and watch it.
2.12 "Johari Window" Does the title make anyone else think of Angel? Anyway, there's a werewolf-boy! Only not really, he's just a kid with a deformed face, living in a town full of people with the same problem, but nobody knows it 'cause of the magic radio tower thingy.
Aaaaaand that's it for now. There's a lot of ground to cover for the remaining half-season, based on some spoilers I know. I'm now in spoiler-avoidance mode; I've removed on LJ from my reading list and I may remove another, or an LJ comm or two, until I get caught up. I already know too many things!
As for other TV: SCC 1.08 recap post.
We've started posting fics at bsg_remix. I need to look over notes from my beta-reader and poke at mine some more. Right now it's too... [redacted].