Especially love how you outline the different versions we get of the kidnapping...intriguing...I'm rewatching Fringe right now so alot of this is fresh in my mind. I got my roommate into it earlier this year and now it's the summer we're finally picking up the pace and just finished 3x08.
I agree that Peter would've been the most logical person to take Michael into the future...but like you said Peter already made that sacrifice in resetting time. Plus, I also LOVE (as much as it breaks my heart) for Walter to be the one to do it...Walter is a man haunted by his own mistakes throughout the show, and -- as he told Peter at the beginning of S3 -- he would never be strong enough to make a different decision in kidnapping Peter (so you're right -- Blue Peter is always stolen)...so the only way he could make up for the decision he could never change would be to save the world he had originally broken...to keep our world safe from the Observers.
Also this: "To quote Elizabeth, in the episode that first introduced the concept of the White Tulip to the audience, at its centre Fringe is about: a scientist who used his heart and his imagination to shape the world he wanted, at it's core, Fringe favours feeling over logic and always has."
Yes, that is Fringe. Just watched Entrada and was struck again by one of my favorite scenes when Olivia begs Alt!Broyles to help her and she says "this all started 25 years ago when a man came to save a boy and I came back to save that same boy." Gah, I love Fringe.
Especially love how you outline the different versions we get of the kidnapping...intriguing...I'm rewatching Fringe right now so alot of this is fresh in my mind. I got my roommate into it earlier this year and now it's the summer we're finally picking up the pace and just finished 3x08.
I agree that Peter would've been the most logical person to take Michael into the future...but like you said Peter already made that sacrifice in resetting time. Plus, I also LOVE (as much as it breaks my heart) for Walter to be the one to do it...Walter is a man haunted by his own mistakes throughout the show, and -- as he told Peter at the beginning of S3 -- he would never be strong enough to make a different decision in kidnapping Peter (so you're right -- Blue Peter is always stolen)...so the only way he could make up for the decision he could never change would be to save the world he had originally broken...to keep our world safe from the Observers.
Also this: "To quote Elizabeth, in the episode that first introduced the concept of the White Tulip to the audience, at its centre Fringe is about: a scientist who used his heart and his imagination to shape the world he wanted, at it's core, Fringe favours feeling over logic and always has."
Yes, that is Fringe. Just watched Entrada and was struck again by one of my favorite scenes when Olivia begs Alt!Broyles to help her and she says "this all started 25 years ago when a man came to save a boy and I came back to save that same boy." Gah, I love Fringe.
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