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| Thursday, October 15, 2009 10:07 PM |
| On the Viewer - Fringe (Season 2, Episode 5 - "Dream Logic") |
 by Fëanor |
Can't say I'm a big fan of mystical bowling guru guy. His shtick is getting old fast. And the touching music on the soundtrack is not helping.
But at least I get to see a guy hallucinating and beating people to death to take the bad taste of that scene out of my mouth!
Ah, looks like it's moving-in day for the Bishops. Aww, Astrid brought Walter some nice house-warming gifts.
Guy: "You're gonna think I'm crazy."
Olivia: "Try me."
Yeah, she's heard worse, buddy, believe me!
Wow, his hair turned white all at once! Cool!
Hmm, apparently the entire city of Seattle reminds Walter of the mental institution. Doesn't speak well of Seattle!
What's with Olivia collecting business cards? Is this her bowling guru homework?
Some FBI agent has to fly home with Walter. Poor guy.
Walter: "You can't put the body in feet first! Lunatics!"
Walter: "You can assist us in removing his scalp. Once you get used to the smell it's really quite simple."
Poor dead dude was a sleepwalker. Peter has some experience with sleeping issues: he lived with terrible nightmares as a child, but Walter taught him a mantra to stop them. Hmm. Wonder if that has to do with his trans-dimensional trip...
Looks like these people who are entering waking nightmares and dying of exhaustion have all had microchips inserted into their brains. They're part of a study. The chips shouldn't have done this to them. Has somebody hijacked the chips?
Oh man, I think poor FBI guy is about to become Walter's test subject for a mind-control experiment.
Time for Olivia to tell a touching story about the first time she met poor Charlie. It's not even a very good story. And the soundtrack is really bad this episode. The music is just corny.
The business card thing is indeed part of a new therapy devised by bowling guy. He's making her do word puzzles. Which admittedly makes sense - good brain training.
Olivia answers her phone thinking it's bowling guy again, but actually it's Broyles. Awkward! But really it doesn't make any sense in this day and age that somebody could answer a phone and not know who it is. I mean, c'mon, we all have caller id.
The chips aren't for mind control! They're for stealing dreams. So these people are dying from not dreaming.
Ah, it's the doctor. Yeah, I didn't really trust him. He's addicted to the rush of stealing people's dreams.
But it doesn't make a lot of sense to me that stealing someone's dreams would be such a rush. And it's kind of a lame and disappointing solution to the mystery, really. This is definitely not my favorite episode.
Oh come on, why is it so hard to turn this thing off? Yank the dream-sucking hood off his head and pull the plug!
Multiple personalities? Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde? Lame. Also lame, this line from Peter: "His addiction to dreams became his nightmare. One that he couldn't wake up from." Ugh. That's bad stuff.
Olivia finds in her word jumble the phrase that Charlie said to her when she first met him. Which is kind of neat, but would be cooler if the phrase was something a little more interesting, and if the story of their first meeting had been better.
Pretty disappointing episode. Although the final scene in which Peter has a nightmare which is probably really a memory of being kidnapped and taken into another universe is very creepy and cool. |
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