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| Sunday, February 7, 2010 03:37 PM |
| On the Viewer - Fringe (Season 2, Episode 14 - "Jacksonville") |
 by Fëanor |
As usual, spoilers are plentiful, so beware!
So in the other universe, coffee is rare and precious? Man, that place sucks!
Yet another awesome and horrifying opening. Dude wakes up with extra arms and legs!
Peter: "Walter, wake up. We've just won an all-expenses-paid trip to New York City."
Walter: "Fantastic! I've never won anything before!"
Aww, Walter is so cute.
A whole building leaped into our world from the other side, fusing with the building that was already here. Everybody inside also fused together. Dude even has an extra head! Excellent.
Astrid's looking through the stuff that was in the building, and finds something strange.
Astrid: "Richard Nixon on a silver dollar."
Walter: "That's disturbing."
Oh great. To balance things out, a building from our side will jump over in the next day or so. Only Olivia will be able to identify which building it will be, thanks to her magic powers. But in order to activate them, Walter has to experiment on her back in Jacksonville, at the daycare center/lab where her powers were first switched on. Luckily, William Bell bought the center and closed it down, so everything has been preserved. Creepy.
Walter reveals Bell always used the same combination on locks: 5 - 20 - 10. He doesn't remember the significance. I have the bad feeling that's a date when something important (and probably terrifying) will happen: May 20th, 2010.
Just thought of something: if something else has to pop through the other way whenever anything travels between worlds, then what happened when Walter took Peter from the other universe? Did a person vanish from this universe? Who? Also, oh crap. When Olivia's ability gets activated, she's going to realize that Peter is from the other side.
A room full of large objects covered in white cloths is always creepy. In this case, the stuff under the cloths is also creepy.
Olivia points out that even though she has an excellent memory, she can't remember anything about this place in Jacksonville. Probably not a good sign...
Olivia's going to have another drug-induced vision! Always a good time. In it, she will face an obstacle, personal to her, that will put her at the right emotional level to activate her abilities.
Walter wasn't sure which arm the IV drip of the cortexiphan should go in. He settled on the left arm. She says something goofy and he laughs. Walter: "The drugs are working fast. perhaps it was the right arm."
Peter: "What?!"
Walter: "She'll be fine, Peter."
During the procedure, Olivia starts getting agitated. Walter asks for something from his bag - pretzels. He's hungry. Heh.
Olivia's found a little girl in the forest in her dream. I'm betting it's her own younger self.
Yep. Looks like the emotion Olivia's using is anger - anger at Walter, for what he did to her as a child. Unfortunately, it didn't work. She doesn't see anything. Because she's angry, and not afraid. It's fear they need, but she's figured out how to control her fear. Interesting. So now we need to scare the crap out of Olivia! This isn't going to go well. Especially considering the last time they did it, she set fire to a room with her mind!!
C'mon, if anybody can scare Olivia, Walter and Nina should be able to do it!
Hey, the young Massive Dynamic scientist who came on to Olivia way back when is back! And he made a Raiders of the Lost Ark reference. Nice!
Peter realizes the building that's going to vanish must have the same mass as the one that came through. Now they have a plan, but it still means crunching an enormous amount of data in a very limited amount of time. Time that's just run out! At this point it might make more sense to just let the building vanish, along with all the people in it, than evacuate the 100 or so that they've narrowed it down to and cause a panic.
Broyles: "There are times when the only choices you have left are bad ones."
Peter and Olivia almost have a tender moment - but then she realizes that she's scared, and she can use that to find the right building.
It worked! But why hasn't she seen the truth about Peter yet?
Awesome. The hotel got sucked away into nothing.
Olivia [to the bellhop]: "I guess it's safe to say that you've got the rest of the night off work."
Ha ha! The official explanation is that it was an unscheduled, controlled demolition. Hilarious.
Aww, Walter and Astrid are going to play Monopoly while Peter and Olivia go out for drinks. So cute! Walter did a little happy dance when he heard his son was going out with Olivia.
What I was waiting for finally happened: Olivia could see the truth about Peter.
Walter: "Olivia, please don't tell him."
Man, that's going to be an awkward date!
Wow! Fantastic ending, and a great episode. Very tense and exciting, loaded with really awesome mad science ideas, and a big step forward for our overarching storyline. |
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