Quick bit on tonights Fringe ep
Okay, this isn't my actual review, I'll do that after I watch the episode again this weekend but I had to get this out there because one of my fears has come true. This was a FANTASTIC episode... until the last five minutes. I've actually been quite anxious over this very scenario all week simply because of the title of the episode. We all probably know that Do Shapeshifters Dream of Electric Sheep? eludes to the title of Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - the book Blade Runner is loosely based on. A bit of info about the book: the main character is a bounty hunter tasked with tracking down renegade androids that look like humans. Along the way, he falls in love with this beautiful woman and sleeps with her (he's married - so he cheated). He later finds out that she's not human and is actually one of the androids. Blah, blah, humanity, blah, morality, blah, blah. We get all this with the shapeshifter viewpoint in the episode, I expected and liked that. Unfortunately, because of this I also expected this might be the episode that Peter & Alt!Olivia might, well, you know. Then it was foreshadowed the entire episode and I was totally dreading what was coming yet clinging to the a tiny thread of hope that it wasn't gonna happen.
Que: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
This saddens and frustrates me so much. Did they really have to go there?! How are they gonna fix this? Our poor Olivia. I don't care if Alt!Olivia is beginning to care (if she really even is) - she's manipulative and a liar and I want her to GTFO. And after all the talk about how hard it is for friends/family to realize a shapeshifter had taken whomever's life and Peter commenting on how different she's been acting since their return, how can he seriously not know?? It makes him look like the biggest DUMBO ever. He's supposed to be a genius and an ex-conman who's good at reading people... I thought for sure after their conversation at the table that he actually knows and is playing along for whatever reason - but then he sleeps with her still? I don't know what bothers me more - that he actually doesn't know or that he does and he sleeps with her anyway. It reeks of unnecessary angst to me. Grr.
SIGH. Maybe things aren't exactly as they seem. I'd like to write-out the last five minutes of the episode or at least ignore it and substitute my own canon but I fear it's gonna haunt us for awhile. And GEEEZ, we don't get another ep until Nov 4th. Stupid baseball :/
I'll attempt a proper review this weekend, lots of other goodies in this ep that I want to elaborate on still. Going to Zzz now. Trying not to dream of electric sheep.