Alternate Astrid uses her super-Aspergers powers to find out where, in all probability, the professor is. Olivia uses the photograph of McClennan's father to track down a secondary and correct location at an abandoned farm. The professor finds and confronts his alternate self just as he's about to drill into his new victim's skull. He tries to convince his panicked alternate that there's another way, a method of suppressing his dark instincts with self-control.
He describes the night that his abusive father found his stash of slaughtered animals when he was a boy. While Professor McClennan ran and found his salvation in Marjorie, the killer didn't, and continued his life of abuse.
The professor tries to convince the killer that he can help, but instead of accepting, the killer knocks him out and hooks him up to the machine. The killer activates his machine. As the professor slowly recounts his happy times with Marjorie, the killer experiences the same memories, physically drawing them out of his alternate's brain and into himself. In a few moments he experiences years of life-changing kindness and understanding. After some wrong turns, the Fringe team finds the killer McClennan dazed, processing the memories he's stolen from himself.
He feels instant remorse for the first time in life, and concludes that these memories are the only thing that separates the two of them - and now, he suddenly feels an intense empathy and sorrow for his many, many victims. The killer can't handle the grief and shoots himself while Olivia watches. The primary Fringe team takes Professor McClennan back to their universe to recover. The damage to his brain is not fatal, but he can't remember the last few weeks - or his experiences with Marjorie.
Olivia and Broyles are worried that without those positive memories, he'll become just like his alternate self and begin killing people. While McClennan can't remember Marjorie, he feels her influence on her life. In the same way that the addition of Marjorie to the killer's psyche can't overcome his lifetime of taking and giving pain, the subtraction of Marjorie from the professor can't undo the good that she put into his life.
Broyles observes that there are people who leave an indelible mark on a person's experience, whose influence cannot be erased. As he sleeps in his lonely apartment in the Harvard lab, he continues to hear Peter's disembodied voice. A voice that he can't identify, that he doesn't remember The stress drives his fragile mind further into darkness. The episode is a return to form for Fringe , and frankly, a much mor engaging forty minutes than the season premiere.
The observations on human nature, that people are not just the sum of their parts or even their experiences, are definitely some of the more subtle and heartfelt moments that the show has had for some time - and while there isn't much to continue the universe-hopping arc or explain Peter's disappearance and the full scope of what it's done , there's just enough to keep me excited for next week. This website saves cookies to your browser in order to improve your online experience and show you personalized content.
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The Observers. Astrid Farnsworth. Peter Bishop. Olivia Dunham. Walter Bishop. Fringe 7 0. Olivia Dunham 4 0. Astrid Farnsworth 4 0. Likes 4. Then when the 'later discovered bad-guy' boyfriend is killed in a chase scene, nobody thinks to use the mind-meld procedure to find out who his superiors are? Even I was telling the TV: Hey, use the mind-meld! Of course the evil 'smoking man' character got the body and ordered use of the procedure at the anti-climactic end.
Well, I'll wait and see if anything smart and original comes out of this series, but I have doubts. Okay, so I made a bad pun - but, come on! The opening scene to this series was definitely a memorable one. It built up tension very successfully. The lightning storm may have been a little dramatic, but it certainly made for great atmosphere and excellent moody lighting. It played on fears of knowing there is absolutely nothing you can do to escape something truly horrific in this case, being exposed a contagion that makes your skin melt off.
It was ghastly, creepy and damn effective, I thought. It certainly captured your attention. The shot of the plane, from a distance, floating quietly through the storm clouds contrasted nicely with the horror and screaming going on inside the plain.
Then, as if things weren't unsettling enough, we hear nicely eerie music begin to play which leads us into the the excellent opening credits. The Fringe theme sums up this show perfectly. I've seen some comments about her being "too serious" and such, but that's utter rubbish. What were you expecting? Torv is believable in this role, showing Olivia's strength and confidence, which makes her not just some simple pushover.
This is a character who could've easily been very one-dimensional, but Anna Torv brings depth and credibility to the show. The way she stands up to her boss, for example, had me cheering given what an ass he was. She's not a "wannabe tough chick" at all, but someone who you can buy as an FBI agent. She plays both strong an vulnerable to a tee. Since I mentioned her boss in passing, Broyles Lance Reddick , I should probably explain what I didn't like about him.
First and foremost After the way he talks down to her in particular, the way he calls her "liaison" , I couldn't blame her for the attitude she gave him I'm surprised she didn't sock him in his Skeletor-like face. She takes what he dishes out and gives as good as she gets. His attitude towards her was completely uncalled for especially considering what Broyles' friend did.
He shouldn't have been resenting Olivia for putting away someone who assaulted three women. John Noble another Aussie actor - best recognised from the Lord of the Rings plays Doctor Walter Bishop, the "mad scientist" of the show whose previous work is the reason for all the strange goings on that are occurring. After spending 17 years in a mental institution, he can be forgiven for acting a bit odd. Noble manages to ground the character and keep him from descending into a parody. He spouts technobabble a lot, but somehow makes it sound halfway believable.
Joshua Jackson, meanwhile, does an admirable job playing Walter's son, Peter although he's unable to make calling Olivia "sweetheart" sound anything other than forced. These three are the characters at the heart of the show and, thankfully, they're all likable. Kirk Acevedo, as Agent Charlie Francis is also likable, and he's at his best when interacting with Olivia.
He manages to bring out a side of her that none of the other characters seem to. Mark Valley serves his purpose as John Scott Olivia's squeeze. Just in this episode alone we have see-through skin, robotic arms and sharing dream states with a person in a coma as well as apparently communicating with a dead person.
It's what makes the show enjoyable. This first episode which benefited from a longer runtime than typical episodes on TV, as it allowed the first episode to take its time introducing the characters and premise, while not feeling rushed like a lot of 'Pilot' episodes do was a great start to the series. It was well-directed nicely shot scenery, with all that snow , the effects were impressive and I actually like the 3D-type lettering that tells us where we are.
I think it's great how they're worked into the scenery and you keep expecting someone to run into these giant floating letters and go, "What the hell?! I should also mention Gene the cow. Gene is great also. It seems J. I suspected this to be like a TV movie because of its overlong runningtime, but director Alex Graves managed to make this look like a longsome introduction to the characters and I thought that was good. I also really enjoy the whole look of the show, that is to say cinematography, score, editing or the way they show the locations of the particular scenes.
This and the mystery style of the show are enough to keep me watching it, at least for the 1st season. We'll see if it gets better or worse both is possible. I also enjoyed the beginning of this pilot very much and I had great interest in where the story would go. But after watching the whole thing, I think this show or at least the pilot is overrated.
There were really a lot of goofs in the storyline and J. Abrams has never proved better that he adores to fill something that would otherwise be quite good with stereotypes. I mean, the love story? It seemed fake as hell and was totally unnecessary to the storyline. Furthermore, I really wanted to believe the supernatural parts of this, but it was just impossible regarding the illogicality and stupidity of some scenes.
Despite all my criticism, I've got to give this pilot its due for entertaining me for the whole running time - I actually think it passed quickly.
The mix of action, crime, sci-fi, mystery and drama yes, it really are that much genres in one worked rather good, but overall it just doesn't fulfil its premise. The writers focused on the false stuff because even with this long run-time, I still didn't really get to know the villains and the way they've done it.
Usually I wouldn't rate an episode to which I've got that much to criticize about that good, but I like the style of the show very much and I'm just hoping that this was nothing more than a false start. Darwinskid 13 September Abrams" and "The writers of Transformers. I checked out other TV spots via you-tube and it looks intriguing, as did the plot form what I read about. The premise is nothing new, but in this day and age practically everything seems to be done before, I think now it just depends on it's execution.
In my personal opinion, and final verdict, I thought this was pretty well handled. Our series begins on a plane where some odd disease of some sort of substance infects the entire human population on it.
The plane is auto piloted so it has a safe landing, but not a soul is alive. The following day the investigations takes John and Olivia to a location where they find some odd Frankenstein-like experiments and they also spot a man outside possibly connected to all this and begin to chase after him, the man presses a button and the entire area goes up in flames.
Olivia isn't hurt that much, and John still lives, but become infected with the same substance found on the plane, it can't be cured and he will die. Olivia is now determined to find a cure as she puts her back into searching more into the plane, the disease, etc. She comes down to finding out that one of the creators of the substance, and other projects, top secret projects Dr.
Walter Bishop; John Noble is still alive and is in a mental institution. To help her find it and know more about the doctor, she and her team find his son, Peter Bishop Joshua Jackson , in Iraq.
Peter has doesn't have much love loss for his father, but helps out when Olivia says she'll show the FBI his file. They go to the mental home and pick up the doc. Bishop is an odd fellow, but is not a complete whack job, he is still the genius he once was.
But even so, he needs a lab more comfortable to him, a real niche. Bishop wants to do a mental experiment where Olivia can interact to John, this will help them find their leading man and give more hope to solve the mystery of the plane and the cure for John's disease.
The experiment is successful and now they have a lead, can they find him in time to save John? Or perhaps John is already saved? This episode, being the pilot, gives an introducing to the characters, all of which are both enjoyable, and interesting. Olivia is strong, Peter is both funny and serious, and Dr. Bishop is the odd but smart scientist who has an understanding with some people. This episode had a good balance with it's dramatic element, tensions, seriousness, and even comedy. It never felt mixed to me.
The comedy is kind of witty and not cheesy , sort of random at times but still balanced , but funny. Keep in mind, humor is sometimes a device to help make the story more accessible to audiences, and let's be honest you need a wide audience for television to help the ratings, Orci, Abrams, and Kurtzman are following their pattern like their previous projects.
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