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Quick comments on last night's Fringe
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASTRID!
I'd be WAY more scared for her if she hadn't been alive and well in the future flashforward a couple of weeks ago. Still, AAAAAAA. I did not see that coming at all! And speaking of not seeing things coming, the reveal on Bell was a total shock. I was happily unspoilered for Nimoy showing up at all, let alone being the Big Bad.
(Which makes Walter cutting off Bell's hand in the future-flashforward a little less creepy and macabre. Well, okay, it's still creepy and macabre, but it's starting to look like thawing him out wouldn't have been a good option anyway.)
Team Walter-Astrid is awesome; I want more! Team Peter-Olivia ... well, I can't get over the creepy Stockholm Syndrome vibe coming from Olivia. I think the Peter/Olivia aspects of this episode might have worked for me a lot better if this had been the penultimate episode of the whole series (which, in fairness, the writers thought it was), and therefore the talk about buying a house and having kids was necessary relationship acceleration to tie it all off in a happy bow for the end of the series. Because otherwise it just felt like WAY too much, too soon.
And while I'm in snark mode:
Is it just me, or does the Fringe division's budget fluctuate weirdly from episode to episode? Sometimes they can muster whole SWAT teams; sometimes their entire staff seems to consist of Peter, Olivia, and a pair of walkie-talkies. Because, seriously, cornering the guy who is trying to DESTROY THE WORLD seems like a situation that would necessitate calling in backup.
And speaking of Team Bad Guy ... we were mocking them all episode for the absolute fail of their plan. "We're going to destroy the world ... starting with BOSTON!" Seriously. What. You have an orbital weapon of mass destruction that can be aimed anywhere ... what about taking out the White House and the Pentagon, thus cutting off the Fringe Division at its source, and then destroying the world at your leisure in the ensuing confusion? For that matter, if I were David Robert Jones, I don't think I'd be controlling my WMD while standing at ground zero and incidentally only a couple of miles from Fringe Division HQ. I think I would choose to be in, oh, Nepal or something. And I would definitely want my first shot to be carefully aimed and carefully timed to preserve the element of surprise, as opposed to giving my enemies an excellent opportunity to take a good long look at my big weapon BEFORE using it on them.
I'd be WAY more scared for her if she hadn't been alive and well in the future flashforward a couple of weeks ago. Still, AAAAAAA. I did not see that coming at all! And speaking of not seeing things coming, the reveal on Bell was a total shock. I was happily unspoilered for Nimoy showing up at all, let alone being the Big Bad.
(Which makes Walter cutting off Bell's hand in the future-flashforward a little less creepy and macabre. Well, okay, it's still creepy and macabre, but it's starting to look like thawing him out wouldn't have been a good option anyway.)
Team Walter-Astrid is awesome; I want more! Team Peter-Olivia ... well, I can't get over the creepy Stockholm Syndrome vibe coming from Olivia. I think the Peter/Olivia aspects of this episode might have worked for me a lot better if this had been the penultimate episode of the whole series (which, in fairness, the writers thought it was), and therefore the talk about buying a house and having kids was necessary relationship acceleration to tie it all off in a happy bow for the end of the series. Because otherwise it just felt like WAY too much, too soon.
And while I'm in snark mode:
Is it just me, or does the Fringe division's budget fluctuate weirdly from episode to episode? Sometimes they can muster whole SWAT teams; sometimes their entire staff seems to consist of Peter, Olivia, and a pair of walkie-talkies. Because, seriously, cornering the guy who is trying to DESTROY THE WORLD seems like a situation that would necessitate calling in backup.
And speaking of Team Bad Guy ... we were mocking them all episode for the absolute fail of their plan. "We're going to destroy the world ... starting with BOSTON!" Seriously. What. You have an orbital weapon of mass destruction that can be aimed anywhere ... what about taking out the White House and the Pentagon, thus cutting off the Fringe Division at its source, and then destroying the world at your leisure in the ensuing confusion? For that matter, if I were David Robert Jones, I don't think I'd be controlling my WMD while standing at ground zero and incidentally only a couple of miles from Fringe Division HQ. I think I would choose to be in, oh, Nepal or something. And I would definitely want my first shot to be carefully aimed and carefully timed to preserve the element of surprise, as opposed to giving my enemies an excellent opportunity to take a good long look at my big weapon BEFORE using it on them.