Yeah, not just you; my network has been fairly unanimous with the DO NOT WANT. Sigh.
Letting blue Olivia's memories take over with the real possibility they'll overwrite hers comes across as a kind of suicide. If they'd established this timeline's Olivia as emotionally wounded/miserable/utterly isolated/recklessly suicidal, then I could accept it a little easier, but she's been shown as balanced, with friendships. Giving up you entire self for love? The idea makes me shudder.
Yes. Exactly. I think there are plenty of ways this could have been done that would have been more interesting and less skeevy -- and other ways it could have been done that would've played up the creepy, skeevy, intellectual-horror elements of Olivia making that choice. But the episode framed it so explicitly as Olivia choosing Peter over her entire life in the Amberverse, and that being a good thing, and ... just, no. NO.
I'm not really invested in Fringe as a fan, or rather, it's more what my friend xparrot would call a Type A fandom, where you're in it to enjoy the canon ride, not to seek out fic, vids and whatnot. So I don't really feel betrayed as a fan, more just annoyed and disappointed with the writing. Par for the course with Abrams shows, I guess.
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Letting blue Olivia's memories take over with the real possibility they'll overwrite hers comes across as a kind of suicide. If they'd established this timeline's Olivia as emotionally wounded/miserable/utterly isolated/recklessly suicidal, then I could accept it a little easier, but she's been shown as balanced, with friendships. Giving up you entire self for love? The idea makes me shudder.
Yes. Exactly. I think there are plenty of ways this could have been done that would have been more interesting and less skeevy -- and other ways it could have been done that would've played up the creepy, skeevy, intellectual-horror elements of Olivia making that choice. But the episode framed it so explicitly as Olivia choosing Peter over her entire life in the Amberverse, and that being a good thing, and ... just, no. NO.
I'm not really invested in Fringe as a fan, or rather, it's more what my friend