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rose_griffes) wrote2011-12-29 09:48 am
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more of season three of Fringe
I'm feeling a strange compulsion to document what I've watched of Fringe so far. *shrugs*
3.08 "Entrada" has Our Olivia and the other Olivia and jumping back and forth! Hurrah! Except that we lost the other Broyles, boo. This is what happens when you're well-adjusted and happy, people. You get killed! (Possibly not the lesson I should take away from this, heh.)
Gah, this time when Olivia was strapped into a flippy operation bed, they actually turned on a power saw thingy. THEY ARE TRYING TO FREAK ME OUT AND IT'S WORKING! (This show... I do a lot of peeking through my fingers. Or I reduce the window on my computer so it's tiny.)
Ooh, other Olivia used her shapeshifter helper in a clever way. Peter sussed it out when the shapeshifter couldn't name her daughter. Nice try, not-my-Olivia!
3.09 "Marionette" More peeking through fingers as we begin with a heart transplant victim who loses that 'gift of life'. Later we see the puppet master himself trying to restore the young woman, making her the literal marionette of the episode title... and in spite of the lack of gore, that was definitely more creepy than poor heart transplant dude.
Peter tells Olivia about his relationship with the other Olivia. *cries* All of the scenes addressing this were so good, and made me feel absolutely terrible for both Olivia and Peter.
3.10 "The Firefly," in which young Peter shouldn't have been allowed outside with a Mason jar, apparently. Better a firefly than the flap of a butterfly's wings, I suppose. :) Anyway, I like the aging rock star. Huh, that really was Christopher Lloyd. I thought it was, then I talked myself out of that idea... maybe because he was so understated here. An excellent performance, by the way.
Peter and Olivia talk about books, and it's more shipper angst. Nicely done.
3.11 "Reciprocity" gives The Machine its first real moment to shine. It's really... big. Peter's nose starts to bleed when he gets close to it, and the sensors hooked up to it go crazy. Cue bad Peter next, because The Machine causes changes in him, not just the other way around.
The First People continues to be mysterious and important.
3.12 "Concentrate and Ask Again" demonstrates again that Anna Torv in red lipstick is a force to be reckoned with.
Mind-reading Cortexiphan kid-turned-grownup does a nice job. I'd like to see more of him, although not if it results in his untimely death, like poor Nick Lane.
The blue powder that causes your bones to dissolve provided another moment or two of peeking through fingers.
While I liked Simon the mind reader, I do think some of his amazing help is information that could have been gathered the ordinary way. Ah well.
Oh! Apparently Sam Weiss wrote The First People?! Huh? And Peter's feelings of love are what will save one universe or the other with that Infernal Machine. (Hee, I just love saying phrases like that. Infernal Machine.) So. There's that, which, if I didn't like Peter and didn't like Olivia/Peter, would be ever so annoying. It might be annoying anyway; depends on how it's handled.
3.13 "Immortality" Yay, blimps! Other Olivia welcomes her boyfriend Frank home from disease-stricken Texas. And disease is the theme of the night. BLERGH, bugs crawling out of the bodies they killed as they grew and made their way out. Fringe, you are the grossest show I watch.
I'm still irrationally resenting Lincoln Lee, in case anyone was wondering.
Other Olivia is pregnant with Peter's baby. Wow, I feel like I've jumped into a soap opera. Walternate seems pleased with the turn of events, in a sinister mad scientist way.
3.14 "6B" True Love! And flipping coins! Honestly, not such a strong episode, but not actually bad. Just... mostly filler. Though I did like the emotional resonance of the widow/widower with Peter and Olivia. It's part of what motivates Olivia to move forward in a relationship with Peter.
Walter is horrified to find himself making the choice to use the Amber--he had vilified Walternate for that act.
3.15 "Subject 13" *sigh* An episode that has so many good things going for it, but ultimately the recon is too much for me to like it. Olivia is suddenly almost a pre-teen in appearance when working with Walter in Jacksonville, Florida. Her stepfather abuses her, not just her mother. And young Peter and Olivia make a (forgettable) connection.
Why do the retcons bother me so much? First, I was already on board with Peter and Olivia as a pair. I didn't need more, and the two of them bonding as children didn't really work for me. Young Olivia was played by an excellent child actor, but the age change is incomprehensible--we've already seen video of little Olive huddling in the corner after the fire she created with her mind. So either that happened when she was young and they conveniently forgot that Olivia can make fires when she's scared, or it was this fire and she wasn't ever huddling in the corner afterward.
I don't mind the abusive stepfather part being changed as much, but it's one more irritating retcon in an episode full of them.
The good: those eighties-style opening credits always make me smile. Peter Bishop and his not-mother. All of that storyline, basically--it was well done, and (the new) young Peter broke my heart.
3.16 "Os" Olivia is Walter Bell. *giggles wildly* I feel like I should say that just as Catherine Earnshaw once said, "I am Heathcliff!" Olivia is Walter Bell. Thank goodness for fanvids--I'd managed to forget that Olivia has had a physical reaction to that bell before.
Oh, and there were people who float like helium balloons. And Peter had to jump and tackle one of them to prevent him from floating into space. Heee!
I almost forgot--Walter was hanging out with Hurley. Bwah! (With a bong. Because Walter loves his marijuana.)
So does Olivia get to do her best William Bell impression for the next episode? I'm guessing yes. Excellent. I'm wondering if we'll see the repercussions of Peter's revelation about the shape-shifters and their data disks, or if that will get dropped because of, well, body possession issues.
3.08 "Entrada" has Our Olivia and the other Olivia and jumping back and forth! Hurrah! Except that we lost the other Broyles, boo. This is what happens when you're well-adjusted and happy, people. You get killed! (Possibly not the lesson I should take away from this, heh.)
Gah, this time when Olivia was strapped into a flippy operation bed, they actually turned on a power saw thingy. THEY ARE TRYING TO FREAK ME OUT AND IT'S WORKING! (This show... I do a lot of peeking through my fingers. Or I reduce the window on my computer so it's tiny.)
Ooh, other Olivia used her shapeshifter helper in a clever way. Peter sussed it out when the shapeshifter couldn't name her daughter. Nice try, not-my-Olivia!
3.09 "Marionette" More peeking through fingers as we begin with a heart transplant victim who loses that 'gift of life'. Later we see the puppet master himself trying to restore the young woman, making her the literal marionette of the episode title... and in spite of the lack of gore, that was definitely more creepy than poor heart transplant dude.
Peter tells Olivia about his relationship with the other Olivia. *cries* All of the scenes addressing this were so good, and made me feel absolutely terrible for both Olivia and Peter.
3.10 "The Firefly," in which young Peter shouldn't have been allowed outside with a Mason jar, apparently. Better a firefly than the flap of a butterfly's wings, I suppose. :) Anyway, I like the aging rock star. Huh, that really was Christopher Lloyd. I thought it was, then I talked myself out of that idea... maybe because he was so understated here. An excellent performance, by the way.
Peter and Olivia talk about books, and it's more shipper angst. Nicely done.
3.11 "Reciprocity" gives The Machine its first real moment to shine. It's really... big. Peter's nose starts to bleed when he gets close to it, and the sensors hooked up to it go crazy. Cue bad Peter next, because The Machine causes changes in him, not just the other way around.
The First People continues to be mysterious and important.
3.12 "Concentrate and Ask Again" demonstrates again that Anna Torv in red lipstick is a force to be reckoned with.
Mind-reading Cortexiphan kid-turned-grownup does a nice job. I'd like to see more of him, although not if it results in his untimely death, like poor Nick Lane.
The blue powder that causes your bones to dissolve provided another moment or two of peeking through fingers.
While I liked Simon the mind reader, I do think some of his amazing help is information that could have been gathered the ordinary way. Ah well.
Oh! Apparently Sam Weiss wrote The First People?! Huh? And Peter's feelings of love are what will save one universe or the other with that Infernal Machine. (Hee, I just love saying phrases like that. Infernal Machine.) So. There's that, which, if I didn't like Peter and didn't like Olivia/Peter, would be ever so annoying. It might be annoying anyway; depends on how it's handled.
3.13 "Immortality" Yay, blimps! Other Olivia welcomes her boyfriend Frank home from disease-stricken Texas. And disease is the theme of the night. BLERGH, bugs crawling out of the bodies they killed as they grew and made their way out. Fringe, you are the grossest show I watch.
I'm still irrationally resenting Lincoln Lee, in case anyone was wondering.
Other Olivia is pregnant with Peter's baby. Wow, I feel like I've jumped into a soap opera. Walternate seems pleased with the turn of events, in a sinister mad scientist way.
3.14 "6B" True Love! And flipping coins! Honestly, not such a strong episode, but not actually bad. Just... mostly filler. Though I did like the emotional resonance of the widow/widower with Peter and Olivia. It's part of what motivates Olivia to move forward in a relationship with Peter.
Walter is horrified to find himself making the choice to use the Amber--he had vilified Walternate for that act.
3.15 "Subject 13" *sigh* An episode that has so many good things going for it, but ultimately the recon is too much for me to like it. Olivia is suddenly almost a pre-teen in appearance when working with Walter in Jacksonville, Florida. Her stepfather abuses her, not just her mother. And young Peter and Olivia make a (forgettable) connection.
Why do the retcons bother me so much? First, I was already on board with Peter and Olivia as a pair. I didn't need more, and the two of them bonding as children didn't really work for me. Young Olivia was played by an excellent child actor, but the age change is incomprehensible--we've already seen video of little Olive huddling in the corner after the fire she created with her mind. So either that happened when she was young and they conveniently forgot that Olivia can make fires when she's scared, or it was this fire and she wasn't ever huddling in the corner afterward.
I don't mind the abusive stepfather part being changed as much, but it's one more irritating retcon in an episode full of them.
The good: those eighties-style opening credits always make me smile. Peter Bishop and his not-mother. All of that storyline, basically--it was well done, and (the new) young Peter broke my heart.
3.16 "Os" Olivia is Walter Bell. *giggles wildly* I feel like I should say that just as Catherine Earnshaw once said, "I am Heathcliff!" Olivia is Walter Bell. Thank goodness for fanvids--I'd managed to forget that Olivia has had a physical reaction to that bell before.
Oh, and there were people who float like helium balloons. And Peter had to jump and tackle one of them to prevent him from floating into space. Heee!
I almost forgot--Walter was hanging out with Hurley. Bwah! (With a bong. Because Walter loves his marijuana.)
So does Olivia get to do her best William Bell impression for the next episode? I'm guessing yes. Excellent. I'm wondering if we'll see the repercussions of Peter's revelation about the shape-shifters and their data disks, or if that will get dropped because of, well, body possession issues.
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(What has been strange for me was that I tried to re-watch the pilot the other day, and it seems like a totally different show from the end of s3).
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