Thoughts on Fringe
Hate to say it, but I'm ambivalent about the direction the show went in the last half of the season. I don't really dislike the Peter/Olivia pairing, but I was never that crazy about the execution of it. I don't know. Maybe I'm too picky. But I guess I feel like Fringe is capable of more subtlety and complexity in how it portrays relationships.
During the finale, part of me was wondering if Olivia's "death" would ultimately be her reverting back to amber!verse Olivia. I would have been surprised if they actually went that route since we already knew they have a daughter, but now I sort of want fic where Olivia does lose her memories of Peter after losing the Cortexiphan, but she and Peter get to know each other and fall in love again that way. I almost think that could have been more interesting than what did happen.
I think I'm mainly disappointed at the implication that the alternate universe is closed off forever. Honestly, I wouldn't mind if the last season was entirely about them. It's funny -- I didn't actually like the alternate universe when it first showed up. I didn't like Red Lincoln even though everyone else seemed to. But damn, did I come to love that universe and the characters in it. I was way more sad at Red Lincoln's death than I would have expected. I almost had myself convinced that he'd faked it somehow, though I could also see pretty clearly that they were setting it up so that Blue Lincoln would sort of take his place, so I wasn't surprised that that was the direction it took.
The good thing: amazingly, the Blue Lincoln/Red Olivia fic I'm writing hasn't been jossed!
I think I could do without more of the plot of the Observers taking over the world, though. While I guess we had to learn more about them eventually, I liked them better when they were more mysterious.
Bah. I feel like I've complained a lot, and I didn't mean to. I do love Fringe, to the point that my love for the world and the characters exceeds my frustration at some of the writing. Kind of like how I felt about Torchwood.
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