The awesomeness that is Fringe

[yahtzee63]

Despite feeling better physically, overall (and thank goodness), I have been in a funk for the past couple of days. Professional woes = woe. Weight gained = bleah. Appointment cancellations and delays = right and left. Undercovers = cancelled. Headache = intermittent. Also, RAIN.

Thank God for "Fringe"!

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[cassi0pei4]

Everything you just said = OMG YES. My day was definitely not one of my best and then I started watching Fringe and I was giddy. Giddy, I tell you, and I am not someone who generally gets giddy, *ever*. The moment that totally made it for me? Hearing Ella's voice on the other end of the phone. Because I could just feel the emotion of her old life pouring into brainwashed!Olivia. And then when she was yanked back, damn, I *felt* that and it killed me.

Damn, Fringe has been so on this season and I am loving it.

On the Rachel front: maybe they can't get the actress who plays Rachel so they're trying to discreetly explain away her absence? Though that explanation makes me sad because it means less Ella and I love Ella.

[yahtzee63]

This season of "Fringe" has been almost unbelievably brilliant; I mean, I thought they were hitting it out of the park last year, but this year has taken it to a whole new level. I'm not sure when I've seen something so high-concept executed so smoothly.

Until this week, actually, my only quibble might have been with the smoothness -- there's so much naked emotion here waiting to burst free, and with the exception of the fabulous season opener, those emotions have remained beneath the surface, simmering. Which is right and good in a plot sense, but I've been yearning for more -- and now we've got it.

Maybe so re: Rachel, but they could have just had HER take a job in Chicago without the weird plot conundrum with the husband she was having custody battles with just a half-season ago. (Or maybe DreamyPeter is getting most of the facts right, but a few things from her fake memories are bleeding in too? That confusion could be significant, later, if that is a deliberate choice on their part. But I suspect not.)

Ella! ELLA!

[cassi0pei4]

re: simmering - I totally agree. I've been wanting more but torn between loving the anticipation and just wanting it all right now. This week was sort of the best of both worlds: Olivia's emotion but not her resolution. And dreamy!Peter is just done so smoothly. Like we could forget that he exists when Olivia is solving a case and then, bam, he right there. It's just so good.

re:Rachel, I hadn't seriously thought about it, but that's a really good point. Maybe dreamy!Peter's mistakes are on purpose, but it feels a bit more like a dropped ball, which considering how many balls are flying at the moment, is kind of understandable.

[cassi0pei4]

Okay, was just reading about Undercovers getting cancelled, and found this.

Fringe CANNOT be canceled. If I say this enough it will become true.

[cupcakery]

I liked the inversion of Olivia's clothing - all in white this time, as opposed to the dark clothing from the original tank episodes.

The Ashmore twins bit threw me for a moment because in the very beginning, I was trying to figure out if it was Ice-boy or Ice-twin. And then it turned out to be both.

[yahtzee63]

It took me FOREVER to recognize Ice-lad. I'm totally embarrassed by this fact.

I wish the tank had been a lie-flat tank to complete the symmetry with Olivia, but OTOH, then she wouldn't have appeared upright in the souvenir store, I think.

[cupcakery]

I recognized Ice-twin early on because of seeing The Thaw in the last few months, and recognized the scowly face of intense concentration. It's also the Secret Canadian Recognition Power, like back in the pilot when Peter Outerbridge appeared for three seconds and I went: HI DAVID SANDSTRÖM.

And the original tank was for memory retrieval, which probably required a bit more of a relaxation feel than this sensory deprivation tank. This one was a lot more sterile, while the original one seems almost more organic in feel, with its being cobbled together from twenty-year-old parts and machines.

[alphabet26]

Amazing Vampire Diaries and then a brilliant Fringe. I could not have asked for a better Thursday TV experience.

[yahtzee63]

I'm really looking forward to catching up on TVD tomorrow evening. :D It, too, has been awesome this whole year.

[kirbyfest]

::pets you::

We really should get together at some point. Shoot me an email.

[yahtzee63]

I was just thinking this! Yesterday I was having a big case of "I miss Jill." Will email.

snowglobes

[mermaid88]

i have the snowglobes nina smashed as my desktop :) but yes, very cool ep.

Re: snowglobes

[yahtzee63]

I forgot about Nina and the snowglobes! OMG, that is so brilliant!

Re: snowglobes

[mermaid88]

i tried to post it as an image here but it wont work so its my userpic for this post.