Fringe does raise some interesting issues about personality and identity and what exactly determines them. I do understand Peter, especially given that he remembers how much pain the situation with Faux caused his Olivia (and himself), but I am not sure there is a his!Olivia to return to. This isn't a different universe, it's a different timeline. As September kinda pointed to, attempting to fix it may just cause more changes. Even if he manages to reset his erasing, will memories of the timeline without him then be the ones lurking just below the surface and come back to Olivia? Not sure there is an easy solution - Peter may have to learn to live in this timeline, perhaps with only people close to him having memories of him. Olivia may learn to live with two set of memories. My wee shipper heart just hopes it's a sort of a happy ending for Olivia and Peter both.
Olivia was actually jumping into the other universe as a result of her drug trials when young, so perhaps this ability would have developed and led to her meeting Peter in the other universe.
As for why it was the 'wrong' Olivia, perhaps because Faux was from the same universe as Peter - maybe the baby has to be a child with a parent from each universe for whatever the future holds. Why the Observers thought erasing Peter totally would be the solution, I am not sure, but perhaps they weighed up the different universes and considered one where he didn't exist better than one where a Henry influenced by a very bitter Walternate grew up. *shrugs* I assume we will get more of an explanation for some of this stuff.
I do agree that Peter is in the Universe that he thinks of as his and that the reality that he wants to go home to probably doesn't exist anymore. I do think they're working towards the sort of ending you've proposed - Peter can't reset the timeline and has to learn to live in this one with Olivia' having two sets of memories - and I'm not opposed to it. I just don't think she'll ever actually be his!Olivia as we knew her at the end of S3 if that's where they go with it.
But would there have been Cortexiphan trials if Walternate cured Peter? If I have the mythology straight, the reason Walter and Bell started the trials was to prepare soldiers for the upcoming war foretold in the Book, which related to the Machine. However, the Machine exists because Walter created it and then sent it back in time scattered because of the threat created by the War Between Universes, which was started by Walternate to rescue his stolen son. If Peter isn't stolen... maybe the trials happen anyway and your right because clearly Walter and Bell had low impulse control. ;-)
I like your theory that in order for a Bishop-Dunham child to be a proper linchpin it requires a parent from each Universes. That would certainly make sense in any timeline where the two Universes are linked.
Olivia was actually jumping into the other universe as a result of her drug trials when young, so perhaps this ability would have developed and led to her meeting Peter in the other universe.
As for why it was the 'wrong' Olivia, perhaps because Faux was from the same universe as Peter - maybe the baby has to be a child with a parent from each universe for whatever the future holds. Why the Observers thought erasing Peter totally would be the solution, I am not sure, but perhaps they weighed up the different universes and considered one where he didn't exist better than one where a Henry influenced by a very bitter Walternate grew up. *shrugs* I assume we will get more of an explanation for some of this stuff.
A month is so evil to wait. EVIL.
Reply
But would there have been Cortexiphan trials if Walternate cured Peter? If I have the mythology straight, the reason Walter and Bell started the trials was to prepare soldiers for the upcoming war foretold in the Book, which related to the Machine. However, the Machine exists because Walter created it and then sent it back in time scattered because of the threat created by the War Between Universes, which was started by Walternate to rescue his stolen son. If Peter isn't stolen... maybe the trials happen anyway and your right because clearly Walter and Bell had low impulse control. ;-)
I like your theory that in order for a Bishop-Dunham child to be a proper linchpin it requires a parent from each Universes. That would certainly make sense in any timeline where the two Universes are linked.
Reply
Leave a comment