Once again, work = short, crappy blog entry. I promise, a day will come when I have more free time. Maybe around Fringe, season five.
(We can dream can't we? Not so much about the having free time as about the notion that FOX would be that generous.)
So for now I'll just say that I've really liked the last two episodes, mainly because they played with my expectations. I thought for sure the show was wasting time devoting so much of the last episode's story to alterna-Broyles, only to have him become a crucial part of this week's epiosde. And I figured Walter would come up with some last minute way to rescue Olivia, only to have her pretty much find her way on her own, albeit with the help of Walter/Walternate's sensory-depravation tanks.
(A nice touch, by the way, taking the series back to its roots while showing us just how far it's come.)
Where things go from here, I don't know. Next week's episode is the last one until the end of January, and I'm praying we don't get a standard case of the week episode to tide us over for nearly two months.
But that will be a small setback. Everything the show did with tonight's episode -- and the season that proceeded it -- promises good things in the long run.
Other thoughts:
- I didn't notice a lot of cultural differences between Over There/Over Here, other than the fact that Penn Station in Newark is called "Springsteen Station" on the other side.
- Nice work tonight by Anna Torv and Lance Reddick. There was a time when I'd watch Fringe and say "At least we had John Noble as Walter." Thankfully, I haven't had to write one of those reviews in some time.
- I really hope Fringe can deal with the fallout of Olivia's capture/return and move the story along. That said, I wonder how she'll be around Walter, Broyles, and Brandon (the Massive Dynamic guy who's enthusiastic and friendly Over Here, and clinical and scary over there.
- If Fringe was more popular, "vagenda" would be a huge slang term by Christmas.
Tom Coombe
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