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Fringe: The Final Season |OT| - I Think I Shall Miss Them
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Admittedly, I am still mighty cloudy on what happened between Brave New World and the observer invasion and then between that invasion and their ambering. But for now, I'm along for the ride.
This is breezing along and keeping the action coming. So great.
Etta/Olivia reunion :'D
This is breezing along and keeping the action coming. So great.
Etta/Olivia reunion :'D
Oh, randomly: this is what the book guy was watching:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0644442/plotsummary
She was lost during the Observer invasion.
She was lost during the Observer invasion.
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How are they gonna get out of the building is the question. Gonna have to go balls out once they get Walter back.
I see, I thought maybe she died during the invasion and Peter was stuck on the idea of having to get her back so was hell bent on going through different universes to see her.
PhoncipleBone
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One of these things happened:
1) The show's budget actually increased this year.
2) The budget didn't, but they used money from a later episode on this one.
3) They finally figured out how to effectively use the lower budget.
1) The show's budget actually increased this year.
2) The budget didn't, but they used money from a later episode on this one.
3) They finally figured out how to effectively use the lower budget.
Peter just HAS to dual wield.
In that he was working with Etta and the resistance, yeah.
im tired >_>
Afro...do you have any music?
lol it's ok
lazybones18
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Should have picked up that shoe
Definitely number trois. They are being more effective in how they shoot things. Giving the impression of the scope being larger than it is. Well done!
Man, this has got to be the most briskly paced episode of the show ever. In S4, they would have spent like 2 episodes just getting Walter out :lol
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AMAZINGGGG scene right there with Walter. Lovely.
lazybones18
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That wouldn't surprise me
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canada didn't see the promo. WHEN IT'S UPPED SOMEONE BETTER POST IT.
So hyped though.
I'm in Canada and saw the promo.
I thought it was a hopeful ending rather than a somber one. The flower sprouting through concrete, music having the very effect on Walter he told the Observer it did, and a subtle smile.
I thought it was a hopeful ending rather than a somber one. The flower sprouting through concrete, music having the very effect on Walter he told the Observer it did, and a subtle smile.
I'm in Canada and I saw the promo and it was amazing!
Weird you didn't get it.
Do you watch it on Fox or a different channel?
Matrix
LeBron loves his girlfriend. There is no other woman in the world hed rather have. The problem is, Dwyanes not a woman.
Loved that last scene with Walter.
Fantastic episode. Great way to start the finale season. Also love that we get Etta most likely in every episode
dat promo so good
Fantastic episode. Great way to start the finale season. Also love that we get Etta most likely in every episode
dat promo so good
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you must be west coast
They don't show shit here. They don't show promos for anything for shows on Fox.
I live in Ontario btw.
Rafa=FedKilla
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Does the previously on at the beginning get you upped to speed if enough if you missed the last half of the season?
Instead of a normal next episode preview it was a whole season overview. Etta going Jack Bauer on somebody getting info and Peter going undercover in the Gestapo.
And Walter made an LSD joke...
I am further east than you, in the Maritimes, lol.
Nope. I WATCHED the whole season and even I was fuzzy on some details. For someone who didn't see the second half? LULZ. For starters, there's this brand new character......
Actually if you saw the future episode from last season, you're good to go.
Right, I saw it as both. I mean, Walter losing his mind again and failing everyone and using up the resistance's current most probable gambit is damn depressing. But they'll push on.
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My mind will blow if they could keep up this pace the whole season without ever slowing down. Also can't wait till that final scene is on youtube. It was great.
It wasn't that bad. The last time I caught an episode was worse because there were two of everyone. It seems a bit more straight-forward now, if anything. In any case, I wasn't expecting to understand everything, mostly just wanted to see what the characters were up to at this point.
I loved the episode.
To be certain, there is an element of fuzziness to the happenings between the events in S4 and S5. But having cut the cord with S4 (with the exception of Letters of Transit) and looking at S5 as its own entity moving forward, I am really pleased with the direction the show is heading in. Love having the team dynamic back in such a strong way, love the new element Etta brings to the team, and I can't wait to see how it all resolves. The pacing in this one was great and all the classic character moments and interaction that we all love about Fringe were all in there. Hoping this is the start to a strong final season!
To be certain, there is an element of fuzziness to the happenings between the events in S4 and S5. But having cut the cord with S4 (with the exception of Letters of Transit) and looking at S5 as its own entity moving forward, I am really pleased with the direction the show is heading in. Love having the team dynamic back in such a strong way, love the new element Etta brings to the team, and I can't wait to see how it all resolves. The pacing in this one was great and all the classic character moments and interaction that we all love about Fringe were all in there. Hoping this is the start to a strong final season!
Count me in with the guys who were completely lost with this episode. I have been watching this show since the start, and even saw the finale for last season; but I couldn't make heads of tails of the episode. The most I got around to understanding it was the episode description, which gave it some sense of orientation; but the whole deal with the Observers was still perplexing.
It shows how far out of touch I have been getting with the show across the years.
It shows how far out of touch I have been getting with the show across the years.
-Pyromaniac-
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well they have 12 more episodes to fill, I bet we see bits and pieces that fill in the blanks between S4 and S5. Which is a good way to go about it.
edit:
IT'S UP!! Promo for this season on Fringe:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB5PA883bKg&feature=g-all-a
so.....hype........
Hitfix review
AV Club review
the hitfix one has a decent point:
I agree a lot less with the rest of the hitfix review, which basically says that this entire plotline already feels out of place against the rest of the show because the rest has largely been about personal sci-fi mishaps. It still is to me, as the AV club review puts it: this is mainly Walter's story. The arrogant, brilliant, impossibly sweet scientist whose regrets have manifested as a fried brain. That fried brain's back and now we have that Walter again, and I can't wait to see him in action.
AV Club review
the hitfix one has a decent point:
While I do think some of that exposition comes off a little awkward, I'm not sure if I'm willing to count it against the show. I'd love to have had two more seasons in between this and season 4, but it wasn't meant to be. I'm glad with what we're getting.
I agree a lot less with the rest of the hitfix review, which basically says that this entire plotline already feels out of place against the rest of the show because the rest has largely been about personal sci-fi mishaps. It still is to me, as the AV club review puts it: this is mainly Walter's story. The arrogant, brilliant, impossibly sweet scientist whose regrets have manifested as a fried brain. That fried brain's back and now we have that Walter again, and I can't wait to see him in action.
I can understand doing that with a procedural or a sitcom. Not a serial sci-fi show with as many twists and turns as this one. Not only will you only get some of what's going on plot-wise, but you're depriving yourself of character's emotional development.
Link
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I hope so. They really need to show the gaps between when S4 left off, the observer invasion, and the team being Ambered. I like what I've seen, though.
Judging by the premiere, not only will they come, but they'll get here pretty fast too.
ElRenoRaven
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Can't say I liked the episode. There were bits and pieces I liked but overall it's the first episode of the show I'd say I didn't like. I really hope the rest of the season is better.
So there wasn't a single episode of S4 you didn't like, but you didn't like this one? Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, of course, but I would be inclined to say that this episode alone was better than at least 75% of S4's episodes.
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I'd even say better than 90%.
Matrix
LeBron loves his girlfriend. There is no other woman in the world hed rather have. The problem is, Dwyanes not a woman.
I'd go a little higher than 75% hah
Certainly. One of my biggest issues of S4 (aside from the main one of erasing Peter and then unerasing him for seemingly no real reason but to piss fans off) was that there were far too many episodes where things were stagnant and there was no momentum in the proceedings.
This one had a real pulse.
I agree with it. The whole episode felt like it expects you to have seen episodes that simply don't exist, so it ends up being baffling.
Looking at Wikipedia, and Episode 6 is slotted to be directed by Jon Cassar, who directed almost all of the big action episode of the good years of 24, and written by David Fury, also of 24 S5 fame (and LOST's Walkabout). No title is listed, and obviously no synopsis, but that's one I'll be waiting for.
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