Kids these days
Somehow I noticed a common theme in this week's genre shows but it's all very spoilery.
[Fringe - Letters of Transit]Fringe suddenly skipped to the future where the Observers took over the world (worlds?). On the bright side Nina looked cool in White hair. John Noble was wonderful both as lunatic and as genius in almost Doctor Who way. CGI Leonard Nimoy was almost almost realistic and the had thing was funny.
On the other side the future was almost a parody of Nazi occupied France. And the Observers are so horrible and they kill people and they all are men so they want our prostitutes for themselves. In even more creepy then usual as it has extra level of sleeping with your grandmother. Not to mention killing your ancestors seem like a quick way to extinction so where is their Paradox Machine?
It was pretty obvious why they hired pale, blond Australian that looks just like Anna Torv. I guest who were her parents almost instantly and the switching genders but keeping the name was almost overboard (that belongs to most convenient superpower). Only thing that makes it better was that she and her partner were kind of cool together.
I once again couldn't help but notice that Peter has a role that is usually reserved for female heroes - his destiny is to have a special kid. The fact that he's a guy makes it almost bearable. However, I thought that his kid was to bring about the Observer future. That the whole thing about child of two Universes was so important September almost killed him by screwing up the cure and had to fix his mistake. It's makes less and less sense as we go on.
The whole episode was made form clichés bound together by Walter glue.
[Once Upon a Time - The Return]In other weekend show all about lost parents we learned what happened to the Rumpelstiltskin's son and how that relates to the curse. He was last good thing in Rumpel's life but also the reason he became the monster. So he blamed himself as dark magic consumed his father. All the deaths and paranoia and the fear of everyone around him and he still tried to save his father. He tried to find a way out that didn't involve killing him. A way to another world where there is no magic so magic can has no power over his father. And Rumpel, the coward he always was, chickens out.
This is however where his backstory is more sympathetic then Regina's (and I'm a little pissed at that so I hope the final confrontation about Henry will humanise her again). His reason for creating the curse is to go after his son. He used Regina's need for revenge and manipulated her to kill her own father. So, no I don't think he is a better person, but his quest is not as petty as hating a kid for getting fooled by a skilled manipulator. Still, just like her obsession with revenge, his leads to destroying everything around him. Including his love.
So, as it seems, the Fairyland has plenty of lost sons and no wonder Mr. Gold mistook August W. Booth for his. I think we can now safely assume he is Geppeto's. I also think that this means Rumpelstiltskin's son is Henry's father (you just know it has to be).
PS Nikita disappointed me this week so no more about it.
[Fringe - Letters of Transit]Fringe suddenly skipped to the future where the Observers took over the world (worlds?). On the bright side Nina looked cool in White hair. John Noble was wonderful both as lunatic and as genius in almost Doctor Who way. CGI Leonard Nimoy was almost almost realistic and the had thing was funny.
On the other side the future was almost a parody of Nazi occupied France. And the Observers are so horrible and they kill people and they all are men so they want our prostitutes for themselves. In even more creepy then usual as it has extra level of sleeping with your grandmother. Not to mention killing your ancestors seem like a quick way to extinction so where is their Paradox Machine?
It was pretty obvious why they hired pale, blond Australian that looks just like Anna Torv. I guest who were her parents almost instantly and the switching genders but keeping the name was almost overboard (that belongs to most convenient superpower). Only thing that makes it better was that she and her partner were kind of cool together.
I once again couldn't help but notice that Peter has a role that is usually reserved for female heroes - his destiny is to have a special kid. The fact that he's a guy makes it almost bearable. However, I thought that his kid was to bring about the Observer future. That the whole thing about child of two Universes was so important September almost killed him by screwing up the cure and had to fix his mistake. It's makes less and less sense as we go on.
The whole episode was made form clichés bound together by Walter glue.
[Once Upon a Time - The Return]In other weekend show all about lost parents we learned what happened to the Rumpelstiltskin's son and how that relates to the curse. He was last good thing in Rumpel's life but also the reason he became the monster. So he blamed himself as dark magic consumed his father. All the deaths and paranoia and the fear of everyone around him and he still tried to save his father. He tried to find a way out that didn't involve killing him. A way to another world where there is no magic so magic can has no power over his father. And Rumpel, the coward he always was, chickens out.
This is however where his backstory is more sympathetic then Regina's (and I'm a little pissed at that so I hope the final confrontation about Henry will humanise her again). His reason for creating the curse is to go after his son. He used Regina's need for revenge and manipulated her to kill her own father. So, no I don't think he is a better person, but his quest is not as petty as hating a kid for getting fooled by a skilled manipulator. Still, just like her obsession with revenge, his leads to destroying everything around him. Including his love.
So, as it seems, the Fairyland has plenty of lost sons and no wonder Mr. Gold mistook August W. Booth for his. I think we can now safely assume he is Geppeto's. I also think that this means Rumpelstiltskin's son is Henry's father (you just know it has to be).
PS Nikita disappointed me this week so no more about it.