a happy ending for all
Fringe 3.22, 'The Day We Died'
So you know how in Final Crisis Superman builds the Miracle Machine and wishes for a happy ending? I cannot believe Fringe just pulled the same thing. And mostly made it work.
I loved the episode, and doomsday!verse, especially Fringe agent Astrid, grown-up!Ella (who naturally follows her aunt's footsteps and calls her 'boss' ♥), superheroine!Olivia and a Walter who was tried and sentenced for his crimes against the universe. I loved it despite the Peter-centrism, because I think for once they got what works when it comes to Peter - it's not Peter Bishop, Man of Action, or Peter Bishop, Casanova Extraordinaire; Peter works best with Walter, and that's why I didn't mind the Peter-heavy episode for once, although that doesn't mean I'm not going to complain about it.
But coming back to the Superman analogy - the machine gave Peter a glimpse of a future, a future where he had chosen to destroy the Redverse and doomed their own in the process, and Walter's ~time paradox magic gives him another opportunity to fix it. So this time he takes a cue out of Ella's book (and how magnificent is that? they took a little throwaway thing from 'Brown Betty' and made a plot point out of it. you can rewrite a story to give it a happy ending, because otherwise it's not a good story at all, as little Ella would say) and wishes for a bridge that brings both his fathers and his Olivias together. A satisfactory outcome of his heavily-overplayed Special Destiny, at least. The next part is more confusing, because does he also wish himself out of history and memory, or is it just a side-effect of a mortal playing with time, a result of his hubris? I suppose time will tell.
I was less than happy with the relative lack of Olivia in the episode, because as much as I enjoyed Peter Bishop and his Special Destiny, that's not the show I signed up for. And... the show promises pay-off in the next season, what with the two Olivias on the same side and the glimpse of an Olivia who can control her powers, but it's still irritating, especially given the promise of the first half of the season. If this were the series finale, I would be mightily offended. But it isn't, so I'm just going to rewatch the episodes I love and wait with bated breath for what happens next. BRING ON SEASON FOUR, I SAY.
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So you know how in Final Crisis Superman builds the Miracle Machine and wishes for a happy ending? I cannot believe Fringe just pulled the same thing. And mostly made it work.
I loved the episode, and doomsday!verse, especially Fringe agent Astrid, grown-up!Ella (who naturally follows her aunt's footsteps and calls her 'boss' ♥), superheroine!Olivia and a Walter who was tried and sentenced for his crimes against the universe. I loved it despite the Peter-centrism, because I think for once they got what works when it comes to Peter - it's not Peter Bishop, Man of Action, or Peter Bishop, Casanova Extraordinaire; Peter works best with Walter, and that's why I didn't mind the Peter-heavy episode for once, although that doesn't mean I'm not going to complain about it.
But coming back to the Superman analogy - the machine gave Peter a glimpse of a future, a future where he had chosen to destroy the Redverse and doomed their own in the process, and Walter's ~time paradox magic gives him another opportunity to fix it. So this time he takes a cue out of Ella's book (and how magnificent is that? they took a little throwaway thing from 'Brown Betty' and made a plot point out of it. you can rewrite a story to give it a happy ending, because otherwise it's not a good story at all, as little Ella would say) and wishes for a bridge that brings both his fathers and his Olivias together. A satisfactory outcome of his heavily-overplayed Special Destiny, at least. The next part is more confusing, because does he also wish himself out of history and memory, or is it just a side-effect of a mortal playing with time, a result of his hubris? I suppose time will tell.
I was less than happy with the relative lack of Olivia in the episode, because as much as I enjoyed Peter Bishop and his Special Destiny, that's not the show I signed up for. And... the show promises pay-off in the next season, what with the two Olivias on the same side and the glimpse of an Olivia who can control her powers, but it's still irritating, especially given the promise of the first half of the season. If this were the series finale, I would be mightily offended. But it isn't, so I'm just going to rewatch the episodes I love and wait with bated breath for what happens next. BRING ON SEASON FOUR, I SAY.
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