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| Thursday, September 17, 2009 10:06 PM |
| (Last updated on Thursday, September 17, 2009 10:14 PM) | | On the Viewer - Fringe (Season 2, Episode 1 - "A New Day in the Old Town") |
 by Fëanor |
My thoughts on this episode follow, in my usual liveblogging style. Beware spoilers!
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Fringe does not disappoint. Weird, disgusting, and disturbing right off the bat. Also, X-Files was on the TV! Nice.
Walter: "I want to see her face when she eats my pudding."
Peter: "That's disturbing."
The agent-in-charge, Amy Jessup, is asking some completely understandable but awkward questions about Peter's role at the FBI.
Holy crap. I gasped out loud when Olivia came flying out of that windshield. What a fantastic opening!
Olivia's brain-dead! I'm not worried, though. Walter can fix this. Uh... maybe? Wait... and Fringe division is dead, too? WTF?
Oh, somebody gave the new agent the keys to the kingdom. She's checking out all the crazy Fringe files. She won't sleep well tonight!
And Olivia wakes up speaking another language and screaming! Yee hah!
Olivia: "Our lives may depend on it."
Peter: "Whose lives?"
Olivia: "All our lives."
Pete - not a good idea to mess with the security guys at the FBI office. But at least you made a new friend in Amy Jessup.
Jessup [of Walter]: "Is he crazy?"
Peter: "Oh yeah."
I love that Peter just angrily interrupted Jessup quoting that terribly overquoted line from Hamlet ("There are more things in heaven and earth...").
Walter: "They said I can ride in the back with the body! Can I?"
Peter: "Yes. Stay out of the medication, though!"
God, I love Walter.
Ah. Our secret society of bad guys activated another sleeper agent... so they could get to a typewriter and type a list? Ah, this is the list that was teased on the web. Oh, this is awesome, he's using the typewriter to chat with someone... somewhere else. After he's done typing, it types a response by itself. This is why I keep watching this show - cool ideas like this. Well, that and Walter.
(An aside: I wasn't interested in Robert Zemeckis' 3D-animated, motion-captured Christmas Carol starring Jim Carrey, but I have to admit the ad they just played for it wasn't terrible.)
Ah, Agent Jessup's met the cow. Heh.
Charlie's here! Yay! I love Charlie.
Charlie, is the scary and disturbing story you're telling Olivia supposed to cheer her up? Ah, no. He's just trying to help her deal with her trauma by bringing it out in the open. Pretty touching sequence.
Walter, please don't eat the Twizzler you just got blood on. Argh! Walter!
Walter has to tell Peter to focus? That's a switch.
Video of an old experiment helps explain the three holes in the guy's mouth. It doesn't make a lot of sense, but I like it anyway.
Did the Senator at Broyles' hearing just mention the X-Files? He said something about an X designation. And hey, Broyles is a colonel! Cool.
The hearing didn't go well. Maybe Broyles shouldn't have taken the really aggressive, negative stance he did. Eww, Nina kissed him! Ugh! But anyway, as far as the hearing and Fringe is concerned, can't Nina just buy the Senators? Isn't her company richer than God?
Finally they realize that maybe Olivia is in danger. Duh!
No, Olivia! Don't tell the creepy nurse anything!
Woah, that's some nurse! Heh. Seriously, she has superhuman powers.
Peter: "You okay?"
Olivia: "Go get that bitch."
Nice!
What Olivia said when she woke up was, "Be a better man than your father." It's what Peter's mother said to him every night before he fell asleep. Wow! Aww, Olivia and Pete are getting all lovey.
Pete makes a nasty deal to keep Fringe going by offering the government the shape-shifting tech. He's tired of just reacting, of just showing up to pick up the pieces and clean things up. He wants Fringe to be proactive. Cool.
Oh, my goodness. It's a surprise birthday party, and even the cow is wearing a party hat.
Argh! My worst fears realized. Charlie is dead and has been replaced by the shapeshifter. Gah!
Well that was a horrifying and depressing way to end the episode, but man am I glad that Fringe is back! This was another weird and wonderful episode. |
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