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Jan. 24th, 2012 12:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seekingferrethttp://cesperanza.dreamwidth.org/503718.html is an interesting response to the latest Fringe episode, which I watched last night. I think I mostly agree with it.
I don't think it hit me until about midway through the episode that there wasn't a monster of the week, unless you count Mr. Jones. And then I looked at the torrent filename, said "Oh, we're at episode 9, coming up on midseason, which is usually when Fringe gives us arc resolution. I get it.*" But I seriously didn't notice that until midway through because the AUs are so interesting, the characters are so DIFFERENT from classic Red and Blue 'verses, that I stopped paying attention to Peter and just got caught up in the tiny differences. I love how Anna Torv does Yellow!Red!Olivia... the differences in the way she smiles, the differences in the way she walks. It's an utterly brilliant performance, but it's being rivaled by Lance Redick's new Yellow!Red!Broyles and Jasika Nicole's Yellow!Blue!Astrid and Yellow!Red!Astrid and holy shit all the Walters ever.
I thought Peter was particularly a dick in the first half of this episode, so desperate to get back to his Olivia and Walter that he was ignoring the suffering of those around him, and it felt like a regression back to his pre-Walter me-me-me days, so I liked that the appearance of Mr. Jones of all people was what snapped him out of that and made him realize that he had responsibilities to the people of the Yellow 'verses too. I liked that that was what made him realize that he could do things to help that nobody else could, and he had to offer that help. I liked that he asked for a gun and Yellow!Red!Olivia hesitated.
And the scene at the end with Walter was great. "I used to live here, you know." Oh, poor Walter, you horrible monster you.
* By the way, this is the best thing about Fringe, still. It's a wacky serial that gives regular, meaningful arc resolution. If not for that, I'd have given up on this show a long, long time ago. Actually, I did. I got eight episodes into first season and gave up. Then I rewatched, got to episode 11, they gave me arc resolution, and they've had me hooked since then. It is such an incredible experience to watch a show where I can trust the writers not to jerk me around without some kind of payoff down the line.
I don't think it hit me until about midway through the episode that there wasn't a monster of the week, unless you count Mr. Jones. And then I looked at the torrent filename, said "Oh, we're at episode 9, coming up on midseason, which is usually when Fringe gives us arc resolution. I get it.*" But I seriously didn't notice that until midway through because the AUs are so interesting, the characters are so DIFFERENT from classic Red and Blue 'verses, that I stopped paying attention to Peter and just got caught up in the tiny differences. I love how Anna Torv does Yellow!Red!Olivia... the differences in the way she smiles, the differences in the way she walks. It's an utterly brilliant performance, but it's being rivaled by Lance Redick's new Yellow!Red!Broyles and Jasika Nicole's Yellow!Blue!Astrid and Yellow!Red!Astrid and holy shit all the Walters ever.
I thought Peter was particularly a dick in the first half of this episode, so desperate to get back to his Olivia and Walter that he was ignoring the suffering of those around him, and it felt like a regression back to his pre-Walter me-me-me days, so I liked that the appearance of Mr. Jones of all people was what snapped him out of that and made him realize that he had responsibilities to the people of the Yellow 'verses too. I liked that that was what made him realize that he could do things to help that nobody else could, and he had to offer that help. I liked that he asked for a gun and Yellow!Red!Olivia hesitated.
And the scene at the end with Walter was great. "I used to live here, you know." Oh, poor Walter, you horrible monster you.
* By the way, this is the best thing about Fringe, still. It's a wacky serial that gives regular, meaningful arc resolution. If not for that, I'd have given up on this show a long, long time ago. Actually, I did. I got eight episodes into first season and gave up. Then I rewatched, got to episode 11, they gave me arc resolution, and they've had me hooked since then. It is such an incredible experience to watch a show where I can trust the writers not to jerk me around without some kind of payoff down the line.