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All the talk about the hand makes me think of Torchwood.

It (the glove) was used both by Gwenn and Captian Jack IIRC? I miss Torchwood.
Edited by Sharp1080 - 11/23/12 at 10:43am

Me too. But I was referring to the hand Jack kept in a jar and zealously guarded. Had to watch the good doctor to know why...Its probably not a reference to it, but I like to think Fringe is giving a shout out to a fellow time traveler.

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Originally Posted by lonwolf615

All the talk about the hand makes me think of Torchwood.

It (the glove) was used both by Gwenn and Captian Jack IIRC? I miss Torchwood.
Edited by Sharp1080 - 11/23/12 at 1:43pm

Ohhhhh me too!

For the record, "The Hand" and "The Glove" are two different stories (actually three, IIRC.)

I remember the glove from Torchwood but cannot remember the "hand "episode from Doctor Who? It has been cool to watch the Fringe series on the Science channel.

Actually, there were two gloves. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Torchwood_items#R The hand appeared in several episodes of both Torchwood and Dr. Who. For details, see http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/The_Doctor%27s_hand

New episode tonight.

So, Peter pulls out the tech. Up until he actually did it, I wasn't sure which way he would go. I wonder if he will put it back in or if Olivia will take it for a test spin.

In all futures Olivia must die ;-)

Lots of pulling of the heart string in this epi..Was that black lady Jill Scott?


DJoel
Edited by Djoel - 12/8/12 at 8:49am

I was expecting the mother of the oracle to have been one of the cortexiphan test subjects and one of her abilities had been passed along.

Very good Djoel on spotting her. I was saying to myself, "I've seen her before" and now after you clued me in I remember it was her singing on Chris Botti's Blu-ray live with orchestra and special guests. Beautiful lady and voice.This episode was good, It appeared that Peter was not going to pull it out until he flashed back to his memories.
Edited by Sharp1080 - 12/8/12 at 10:48am

I'm not too familiar with her work maybe the only thing I own is a free music video from iTunes, she been in those Tyler Perry angry chick flicks..Not bad of an actress either.

I also assume Olivia kidnapping would affect the Head Baldy's time line ,but it didn't, the whole kidnapping was a bit odd for me.

DJoel

awesome episode! Is Peter now a mutant? Since the implant had already caused changes in his brain those should remain even after he took it out, right?

Walter said that the effects would be irreversible if the implanted weren't removed soon, so Peter should be able to return to his former self. Good episode!

She starred in the HBO series The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. I keep hoping for a third season.

Liked the first scene when Peter went all Neo . . .

Great episode.

Now....does Olivia insert the tech to finish the mission that Peter started? It'd be kind of fun watching her go Neo on some observers.


Been watch the episodes of Fringe the Sci channel broadcast a couple of weeks ago. Fun watching an observer here and there go through the scene.

I recall a FOX NFL game that aired during the 1st season of FRINGE. September was seen on the sidelines twice, IIRC, during cutaways to commercials. Pretty good promo.

I'm watching these old episodes now. I forgot how great they were. And it just makes this season look even paler by comparison.

I don't know--I watched through the entire previous four seasons as Amazon Instant Video just recently and I'm enjoying this season as much as the rest.

In contrast I think this season makes the sub-par X-Files clones of the first season look as dull and formulaic as I always thought they were.

Every season since the third has managed to reinvent itself in ways that are surprising and inventive for prime time television. This season has been no exception.

Hooray for losing casual viewers and not caring! Otherwise the show would have been pumping out MOTW stories every year.

To me, the early episodes make more sense knowing where the plot line goes in the current season.

I think once they lsot the need to bring in new eyes, and started to focus on the mythology of the show, it got much much better, while the MOTW episodddes were sometimes enjoyable, it often distracted from where the show was going. I have to agree, I am enjoying this show as much as the previous seasons, but this is one show that has been fairly consistant as far as character development, ect goes.....


Totally agree, this current season is a closure to everything we've seen in the past. While I know EVERYTHING wont be answered, the overall arch will be IMO....

This just goes to show that the suits @ FOX really are big FRINGE fans. It is a rare thing in this day & age for a network (FOX in particular) to have so much faith in a weird, low rated serialized SciFi show. Plus WB obviously believes in the show's syndicated future.

A few plot threads have & likely will go by the wayside (Sam Weiss, anyone?)............although wouldn't it be a hoot of Walter's mysterious helper "Donald" was actually Weiss.

I still think we will see September one more time in the next 5 episodes. And while I will avoid actual spoilers here, having seen the titles of the last 2 eps....I wonder if we will get another peek @ the alt verse & that confounded Machine.....

While I did enjoy the S4 ender, I'm glad that was not the series finale. And what I have noticed this season is the lack of Nina Sharp & Broyles. It is not that they could/would have little to do this season. Obviously was cheaper for WB to just keep the core characters (Bishops, Olivia & Astrid) on the payroll & give Reddick & Brown "special appearance by" slots.

This, above all. I love(d) this show, and I'm in the minority, but to me season 5 just feels like a tacked on attempt at reaching that magical syndication number.

I'll cut them some slack if they wrap it all up in a satisfactory way and incorporate the show's mytholgoy somehow. If they have a way to tie in the Redverse, Doomsday Machine and folks like Sam Weiss into this season, I'd love to see it. Waiting/hoping/praying for that.
Edited by hhaller - 12/12/12 at 11:16am

No matter what they do, no matter how creatively they tie it all up, it won't satisfy everyone. But I'm reasonably sure, based on their track record, that it will satisfy me.

Of course, I said that about LOST too.

I don't know how you can begin to consider the season tacked on just to fulfill some arbitrary number when the season isn't over yet.

Without this season the Observer angle would have been left dangling in the wind. Even if it doesn't fill in all the plot holes left open we are still getting a lot more closure (and entertainment) than if the show had ended last year and as I mentioned before it continues the trend of the show reinventing itself every year.

If Fringe had continued directly from the finale of last year and kept telling the same stories in that universe then that would have been more lazy and evidence of being done just to fill numbers in my opinion. The show clearly has not done that. New season, new world, new stories.