The D&D advert makes me think they've given up on the kids and are trying to get everyone who owned a copy back in the early 80's to purchase a new copy for nostalgic reasons.
I think the use of art from the original Fiend Folio clinches that theory. Though if they really wanted to go old-school, there's always the original TV campaign.
Fringe is a show you actually have to watch, as opposed to half-watching while you work on something else and treating it like radio. They've actually laid out what's going on reasonably clearly, but you have to pay close attention to what's going on on the screen, and (ideally, if you have time) go back and watch previous episodes now that they've revealed more info ;-)
Short form, they need Walter alive (which they've made clear multiple times throughout the show), and they need Peter's voluntary cooperation. Broyles I'm not sure about. I dunno if Newton's normally precise aim missed Broyles because of script immunity, or if it was for the same reason Earth 2 Olivia, excellent marksman, couldn't hit Newton or disable his car as he was trying to escape.
I had high hopes in season one that the show would turn into Planetary, so you can imagine how I feel now :-)
I don't think she was -trying- to hit Newton or disable the car. She's secretly working with him, after all, even if she didn't like him - so had every reason to let him slide if she could. He just wasn't fast enough, and she didn't care that much about letting him go. ;)
As for the shapeshifters - sure, they're impressive, but Fringe division knows their extremely obvious weakness, which is 'shoot them in the head'. Once you go into Zombie Protocol, it's not /that/ hard. I also have doubts about how many of them they actually have.
Yeah, that's what I was trying to suggest: Newton may have missed Broyles in the hospital for the same reason Olivia missed Newton later on, suggesting that Broyles is a shapeshifter.
Walter = hostage to get Peter to "cooperate." This brought to you by the Stephen J. Cannell Writing Course. :)
Then there are those "Observers." We haven't heard from them in a while. And does "Walternate" still need our Walter? He already, ah, "picked his brain," so... what else?
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I think the use of art from the original Fiend Folio clinches that theory. Though if they really wanted to go old-school, there's always the original TV campaign.
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So far, Walternate's universe is winning, but only because we can't build mercury-filled shapeshifting cyborg-dudes... yet.
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Short form, they need Walter alive (which they've made clear multiple times throughout the show), and they need Peter's voluntary cooperation. Broyles I'm not sure about. I dunno if Newton's normally precise aim missed Broyles because of script immunity, or if it was for the same reason Earth 2 Olivia, excellent marksman, couldn't hit Newton or disable his car as he was trying to escape.
I had high hopes in season one that the show would turn into Planetary, so you can imagine how I feel now :-)
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As for the shapeshifters - sure, they're impressive, but Fringe division knows their extremely obvious weakness, which is 'shoot them in the head'. Once you go into Zombie Protocol, it's not /that/ hard. I also have doubts about how many of them they actually have.
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Walter = hostage to get Peter to "cooperate." This brought to you by the Stephen J. Cannell Writing Course. :)
Then there are those "Observers." We haven't heard from them in a while. And does "Walternate" still need our Walter? He already, ah, "picked his brain," so... what else?
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