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Well referencing "Over There: Part 1" she needed the other cortexephan patients to open the door between the two universes so they could all pass through. As Bell says to Walter; her ability is to travel between universes but she can only open a small crack not enough to make it herself.
 
This is the best show on TV. I love the alternate universe and I also love that they have left Olivia there for the entire season so far. It's the only show I actually look forward to watching every week and the hour seems to go by in 10 minutes.
 
Two things about this episode:

1) I loved how the bank robber had a similar technology to a Fringe-event bank robbery in "our" universe early in the series. Nice callback.

2) I mentioned this on Twitter, but I can't help but wonder if Olivia took the postcard with her...
 
[quote name='WhipSmartBanky']Two things about this episode:

1) I loved how the bank robber had a similar technology to a Fringe-event bank robbery in "our" universe early in the series. Nice callback.

2) I mentioned this on Twitter, but I can't help but wonder if Olivia took the postcard with her...[/QUOTE]

I agree I like how they connected the cases, though I kept expecting Olivia to make some kind memory laps to the original case.

I would say she probably didn't bring the Postcard back. Just for the reasoning that Walter would likely have noticed it in her hand, thus known she was lying. Since it ended with that scene though I wouldn't rule it out completely that it didn't fall into the tank, to be discovered later.
 
[quote name='WhipSmartBanky']Two things about this episode:

1) I loved how the bank robber had a similar technology to a Fringe-event bank robbery in "our" universe early in the series. Nice callback.

2) I mentioned this on Twitter, but I can't help but wonder if Olivia took the postcard with her...[/QUOTE]

yeah - the wife and I noticed that too. I love when they do stuff like this. We were also thinking for a while that the brothers weren't actually twins but were rather alternates of each other from the other universe.
 
[quote name='javeryh'] We were also thinking for a while that the brothers weren't actually twins but were rather alternates of each other from the other universe.[/QUOTE]

Right away when I saw the guy in amber looked similar to the guy getting him out, I thought maybe it was another cortexiphan kid that crossed over to save himself. Then realized the actor was Bobby Drake from X-men movies and remember that the actor himself had a twin brother and figured they were probably just going to play twins for the episode.
 
[quote name='ImLuhkee']Right away when I saw the guy in amber looked similar to the guy getting him out, I thought maybe it was another cortexiphan kid that crossed over to save himself. Then realized the actor was Bobby Drake from X-men movies and remember that the actor himself had a twin brother and figured they were probably just going to play twins for the episode.[/QUOTE]
Oh, that's who he was? He looked familiar but I couldn't place my finger on it. I kept thinking he resembled Charlie from Lost.
 
[quote name='WhipSmartBanky']Oh, that's who he was? He looked familiar but I couldn't place my finger on it. I kept thinking he resembled Charlie from Lost.[/QUOTE]

My wife thought it looked like Charlie but I told her it wasn't.

I just want to clarify, the alternate universe uses amber to seal up where they are having tears in the fabric of their universe? Or did I completely miss something?
 
[quote name='ImLuhkee']My wife thought it looked like Charlie but I told her it wasn't.

I just want to clarify, the alternate universe uses amber to seal up where they are having tears in the fabric of their universe? Or did I completely miss something?[/QUOTE]
Yep. The amber seals up unstable areas on their side before they can become black holes. In this episode they showed a snippet of a news broadcast before they started using it and the damage the black holes cause. That's why they go around measuring the instability near Fringe activity and have to urgently make the decision whether or not to use the amber. Our universe really f'd theirs in the a.
 
you know I recognized the whole step thru walls aspect but it never occurred to me that it might be a deliberate call back. Now it makes more sense.

wait Shawn Ashmore right? that was him?
 
[quote name='WhipSmartBanky']Yep. The amber seals up unstable areas on their side before they can become black holes. In this episode they showed a snippet of a news broadcast before they started using it and the damage the black holes cause. That's why they go around measuring the instability near Fringe activity and have to urgently make the decision whether or not to use the amber. Our universe really f'd theirs in the a.[/QUOTE]

That's what I was thinking I just wanted to make sure I wasn't off track. If they didn't close up the holes would the building transport into our universe like in an earlier episode or would it just make things disappear?

[quote name='Wolfkin']
wait Shawn Ashmore right? that was him?[/QUOTE]

Yeah, Shawn Ashmore and his brother Aaron were the brothers in the episode.
 
i think without the amber a full on black hole develops.

I think the building cross over was a different event. The Red universe people THOUGHT the building cross over was going to be a black hole but instead of a mini ball of suck it just went away. At least that's what I remember thinking.
 
Reminder, new episode tonight!

S3 E6
Back "over here," the Fringe Division investigates a bizarre phenomenon when 15 people up and down the Eastern Seaboard, all suffer retrograde amnesia from listening to their shortwave radios on the same frequency. Much to Walter's dismay, Peter presses on with piecing together the mass destruction device. Just as alternate Olivia and Peter's chemistry deepens, the anticipation of Olivia's return escalates.
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http://www.fox.com/fringe/recaps/season-3/episode-6/
 
I liked tonights episode, my only concern is that it almost seems like they are wrapping everything up. I hope they have a really good cliffhanger for the end of this season planned.
 
[quote name='ImLuhkee']I liked tonights episode, my only concern is that it almost seems like they are wrapping everything up. I hope they have a really good cliffhanger for the end of this season planned.[/QUOTE]

We'll probably have a cliffhanger at the end of the first half of this season.

Spoiler from next week's preview
Looks like we will see our favorite cab driver in the next episode.
 
[quote name='Over easy']
Spoiler from next week's preview
Looks like we will see our favorite cab driver in the next episode.
[/QUOTE]

I saw that too. I am excited to see what they are going to do with it.
 
After them taking a real thing like Number Stations, I was really hoping that "The First People" by Seamus Wiles was a real book. Sadily looks like it was made up just for the show.
 
[quote name='ImLuhkee']I liked tonights episode, my only concern is that it almost seems like they are wrapping everything up. I hope they have a really good cliffhanger for the end of this season planned.[/QUOTE]

There is a good chance FRINGE is getting canceled, unfortunately. Hopefully they don't leave us hanging if the show doesn't come back...
 
[quote name='WhipSmartBanky']Lame. When they started talking about "The First People" it brought back memories of a book my Uncle had, so I looked it up:

http://www.amazon.com/12th-Planet-Earth-Chronicles-Book/dp/038039362X

Sounds eerily similar.[/QUOTE]
They sound pretty different to me. The books are about a race of aliens that came to Earth and created humans. The first people were a race living on Earth before humans and apparently went extinct.
 
[quote name='ChibiJosh']They sound pretty different to me. The books are about a race of aliens that came to Earth and created humans. The first people were a race living on Earth before humans and apparently went extinct.[/QUOTE]
that's why it's similar and not the same. The idea being both contain the idea that there was a highly intelligent lifeform before mankind that left evidence (intentionally or not) if you look hard at ancient scripts or fossil records
 
[quote name='Wolfkin']that's why it's similar and not the same. The idea being both contain the idea that there was a highly intelligent lifeform before mankind that left evidence (intentionally or not) if you look hard at ancient scripts or fossil records[/QUOTE]
It's not even similar, in my opinion. The book's aliens has a direct connection with humans while in Fringe the first people existed and then humans existed. So far there is nothing really linking the first people and humans other than they both lived on Earth.
 
Marvel did something similar back in the 60's with the Celestials visiting Earth and creating variant strains of humans with the Deviants and Eternals. This general theme has been touched on many times in many different mediums. It works because it's an interesting fictional spin.

Walter--"May I borrow that? I feel a bowel movement coming on."

:rofl: I love you, Walter.
 
Tonight was quite possibly the best episode of the season. Sucks we now have to wait 2 weeks; I watch shows during holidays don't know why the networks don't think I would.
 
I almost wish that one of the alternate cases which resembled one of our cases had the same suspects. I have to say that I almost wish I could skip Thanksgiving and get to Fringe faster. I said Almost!
 
Not so good news: starting 1/28, Fringe is moving to Fridays at 9/8 central. This is due to Fox moving American Idol to Thursdays at 8, pushing Bones to 9. The only potential upside is that this may result in lower expectations since Friday does lower ratings all around.
 
[quote name='neocisco']Not so good news: starting 1/28, Fringe is moving to Fridays at 9/8 central. This is due to Fox moving American Idol to Thursdays at 8, pushing Bones to 9. The only potential upside is that this may result in lower expectations since Friday does lower ratings all around.[/QUOTE]

I am not sure if the ratings really matter. The only show to get out of the Friday slot successfully(on Fox) was The X Files, and sadly I don't think Fringe is going to be able to pull off what that show did.
 
The demographic that watches the show is normally out on Friday nights so this could be Fox's way of killing any future seasons. While I love the story and plot is great they really should have made the older episodes more accessible as with this show its hard to jump in the middle of the season or miss a week and understand whats going on.
 
Then it wouldn't be Fringe. Besides, they had quite a few standalone, non-mythology episodes early in the series. This season has been almost all about mythology because, IMO, I think they see the end in sight. I won't be surprised if it gets renewed for next reason but 2011-12 would almost definitely be the last.
 
Shit. Fox is about to pull an Old Yeller. Every sci-fi show they've moved to Fridays has been shitcanned, the two most recent being TSCC and Dollhouse.
 
For some reason we get an episode of Fringe shown at 11pm on Saturday night on our local fox channel. That's usually the one I watch. Then I record the thursday one but I'm not sure if they're out of order or what.
 
Yeah, they've been re-running Thursday's episodes on Saturday. I thought that was a good sign for the show, but then the Friday move threw me off.
 
[quote name='Friend of Sonic']Well, no shit. Friday nights are dead, if they get Fringe's current ratings they'll be thrilled. But that won't happen. The president of Fox sounds like a doosh[/QUOTE]

Do people really still flip channels around and just watch stuff without planning ahead? I would think that Fringe has a consistent audience - probably skewing in the 18-40 age group who have DVRs - and that audience will find the show no matter when they put it on.
 
[quote name='LinkinPrime']True for the most part, but Fridays tend to be the dead days because that's when people start their weekend and forget about TV.[/QUOTE]

I know and it never makes sense to me. If something you like is on Friday night just record it! I can't remember the last time I ever watched a show the night it aired - I'm always a few days behind!
 
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