Seeking Ferret

Oh this is a really cool idea. I feel like there's a lot here about New York and resilience, or, maybe even more so, as a symbol of resilience, how and why New York was the symbolic place the show used to center the universes and mark the differences and the constants (or the differences we used to think were constants). Especially since, like you say above, Fringe really isn't a huggy show, so the hugs and other connections really struck me. Like how New York makes you make connections with strangers in extreme situations. Or the stories and myths we tell about New York doing that. Not that these characters are strangers obviously, but they're stoic and professional and not typically affectionate. But the myth of New York makes them hug! The last section was kind of gut-punchy in an interesting way, when you started with the memorial and then put the towers back, and I'm still kind of mulling that over, and what that stood for on the show.