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| Wednesday, December 2, 2009 11:00 AM |
| On the Viewer - Fringe (Season 2, Episode 8 - "August") |
 by Fëanor |
Ah, we're turning the focus back on Uatu the Observer this episode. This particular Observer is doing some pretty unexpected things! He left his journal behind, he has a teddy bear in his briefcase, and he just kidnapped a woman and shot a guy with a ray gun. WTF?
Walter's favorite ice cream place shut down, and now he's trying to recreate their strawberry milkshake recipe. Awesome.
Observers have appeared throughout time! They show up to observe special moments in time (just like the Watchers, natch). But then why have they been popping up so often lately? What's about to happen?
Okay, this is getting interesting. The rogue Observer is named August. By abducting the woman, he's kept her from being on a plane, which has created an irregularity that the other Observers must repair. To do this, they contact a totally normal-looking dude named Donald and he loads up a gun and prints off the girl's picture on a dot matrix printer. She was meant to die, so now he has to kill her to set things right. He's a timeline fixer, a freelance assassin for the Observers! But why did the Observer save this girl in the first place? Walter tells the Observer, if he can't convince his colleagues that she's important and worth saving, he'll have to prove that she is. He'll have to make her important.
At first I found the Observer's feelings for the girl to be a little creepy, but by the end of the episode they've made the relationship really moving.
Observer 1: "She was crying, but she was brave. She crossed my mind. Somehow, she never left it. I think it's what they call feelings. I think I love her. Will she be safe now?"
Observer 2: "Yes. You made her important. She is responsible for the death of one of us."
In the final scene, Olivia gets to have a day at the amusement park with her niece, a planned outing that was interrupted by the case. And they even go on a roller coaster, which Olivia said she was afraid of. It's a very sweet moment. The Observers watch her, and one says, "Look how happy she is. It's ashame things are about to get so hard for her." Dun dun dun!
I'm not really sure why, but this episode got me right in the heart. The concept could have turned out incredibly cheesy, but they handled it very well. Bravo! |
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