I think this season and the finale in particular had the same pacing issues that we've seen before from the series (S1 and S4 particularly). They could've done a lot less with the Observers and a lot more with the Team and still have gotten through the same story.
Also, I have a LOT of issues with the way they explained The Plan and what Walter was to do with Michael vs what actually had to have happened to get us back to the picnic scene. The Plan was to stop the Observers from being created - this means no 12, no September, no Walter crossing over, no picnic (w/o a lot of magical hand waving). To get the picnic Walter had to work with the scientists long enough to set up some sort of system whereby September would still come back and cause everything we've seen in the series w/o leading to Observers who invade. Its two very different things. The reason it bothers me is that they were so explicit about stopping the Observers from existing.
Issues out of the way I think everyone did a fabulous job and John Noble deserves so many awards because he acted the hell out of his goodbye scenes and he made me cry. I was very happy to see the Other Side and there was def. flailing at that whole sequence. And I'm glad they ended it on a positive note that hasn't put me off the series for good.
Yeah, I've been trying not to think too hard about the plot this season because I don't think it holds up to scrutiny very well. It's possible when I go back and rewatch eventually some of it will make more sense, but it really seemed like they were hand-waving a lot of stuff.
I mean, if the Observers don't exist, then September doesn't distract Walternate from discovering the cure, so Walter never crosses over and Peter stays on the other side and never meets Olivia. Right? That's no good.
Overall, I wasn't super thrilled by the way this season played out. Walter concocting some outlandishly complicated plan that involves a locating a bunch of hidden objects and then losing his memory so he can't remember the plan anymore just felt way too repetitive. That's basically what seasons one and three were, right? Since technically those events never actually happened except in Peter and Olivia's memories maybe the writers were trying to say something about how people are fated to repeat the same actions or something, but as a viewer it just felt tiresome.
But, whatever. I'm willing to go along with some hand-waving and tedium if it gets me to the excellent interpersonal drama, because that's really why I watch the show. And honestly, human September kind of made up for everything I didn't love about the story this season.
I kind of feel that Fringe hasn't been overly successful plot-wise since the end of S3. But they've consistently nailed the emotional and character notes for which I'll forgive a lot.
I agree. Despite the plot holes: If there were no observers, then no Michael....., the finale gave us a satisfying ending that I'm not going to "logic out".
My problem is that I've watched too much Doctor Who so I have serious opinions on time travel stories so my immediate reaction was to "logic out" as I was watching. But in the end it doesn't annoy me enough to keep me from enjoying the series as a whole as some other finales have done.
Also, I have a LOT of issues with the way they explained The Plan and what Walter was to do with Michael vs what actually had to have happened to get us back to the picnic scene. The Plan was to stop the Observers from being created - this means no 12, no September, no Walter crossing over, no picnic (w/o a lot of magical hand waving). To get the picnic Walter had to work with the scientists long enough to set up some sort of system whereby September would still come back and cause everything we've seen in the series w/o leading to Observers who invade. Its two very different things. The reason it bothers me is that they were so explicit about stopping the Observers from existing.
Issues out of the way I think everyone did a fabulous job and John Noble deserves so many awards because he acted the hell out of his goodbye scenes and he made me cry. I was very happy to see the Other Side and there was def. flailing at that whole sequence. And I'm glad they ended it on a positive note that hasn't put me off the series for good.
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I mean, if the Observers don't exist, then September doesn't distract Walternate from discovering the cure, so Walter never crosses over and Peter stays on the other side and never meets Olivia. Right? That's no good.
Overall, I wasn't super thrilled by the way this season played out. Walter concocting some outlandishly complicated plan that involves a locating a bunch of hidden objects and then losing his memory so he can't remember the plan anymore just felt way too repetitive. That's basically what seasons one and three were, right? Since technically those events never actually happened except in Peter and Olivia's memories maybe the writers were trying to say something about how people are fated to repeat the same actions or something, but as a viewer it just felt tiresome.
But, whatever. I'm willing to go along with some hand-waving and tedium if it gets me to the excellent interpersonal drama, because that's really why I watch the show. And honestly, human September kind of made up for everything I didn't love about the story this season.
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