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| Wednesday, January 27, 2010 11:48 AM |
| On the Viewer - Fringe (Season 2, Episode 12 - "What Lies Below") |
 by Fëanor |
Just so you know, SPOILER ALERT!
You can't trust dead people to just stay still on Fringe! They're always waking back up or spitting blood or something.
Oh sweet lord! Walter is lecturing kids about history at a science museum! Somebody stop him!
He tells them they might find a monster under their beds that will eat them, and then he gets banned from the museum. Awesome.
Detective: "I've never seen anything like this."
Peter: "Lucky you."
As I suspected, whatever exploding dead guy had is contagious. They have to quarantine Olivia and Peter inside the building.
I have the feeling the CDC guy is going to turn out to be a dick, because that's the way these things usually go. But maybe not - he allows himself to be persuaded to give Walter what he needs.
Olivia plays a hunch about who exploding dead guy was here to see, and it turns out she's dead on. She's got good instincts!
The virus wants to get outside, so it forces the infected receptionist to jump out a window. Crazy! Still, I'm having a hard time believing that the rest of the team is having a hard time believing this. I mean, c'mon, Walter's come to you with a lot weirder ideas than the concept that a virus might be making people do things in order to replicate itself.
It's an ancient virus recovered from deep in the Earth.
Hey, they're watching Forbidden Planet! Cool.
I knew CDC guy was going to do something terrible eventually. Now he's planning a "level 6 eradication," which doesn't sound good at all.
Why are they wasting all this time determining who's infected and who's not? Shouldn't they be working on a cure or something?
The virus made Peter hide the fact that he was infected, so he could get outside and it could spread itself.
I like that CDC guy isn't being a dick just to be a dick. His argument makes sense. This is a highly contagious virus and at the moment they have no idea how to stop it.
Wow. Astrid is content to stay inside the building with Walter and keep helping him to come up with a cure, even knowing that she's likely to die there with him. It's great to see how these characters have bonded with each other over time.
Walter: "I can't let Peter die again." Whoops! Giving yourself away there, Walter!
The cure is horseradish! I suppose it had to be good for something. A bit silly how he figured that out, but... okay.
Not for anything, but why haven't any of the other infected people tried to jump out a window, like the receptionist did? Apparently they're not locked in the lobby, because Peter left that room easily enough.
I don't like the virus having access to Peter's brilliant mind. He's likely to come up with some way out of there. It doesn't help that he's also a pretty bad-ass fighter.
Why was it necessary for Olivia to go inside to turn the air conditioning on again? Couldn't Astrid have done that, since she was already inside?
Astrid asks Walter about the "can't let Peter die again" comment, but he's not telling. Still, the seed has been planted now! Astrid's not going to forget that.
This episode has a few logic issues, and the science surrounding the virus seems a bit shaky. But the science in Fringe has never been the strong point; the strong point is the characters, and they're all developing well again here. Plus, the scene at the science museum during the opening credits was priceless. |
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