Firstly, I love this ep and the way it addresses the humanity (or lack of) in shapeshifters. An excellent example of the way the show deals with nuance in characters. I also hate it for the end with the guy being shot by Newton. He wanted to be good and now his son has no father (sure yes he killed his real dad but they were happy!).

Then there’s the part I extra, extra hate where the entire ep is a play on not recognizing a fake that leads to Fauxlivia sleeping with Peter to seal the deal. Part of me wishes Olivia could see the scene where Peter doubts her and points out all the ways she’s different, plus how Fauxlivia’s words conned him. Probably wouldn’t make a difference, though. I do also love that we see Fauxlivia’s internal conflict and how she’s pushed into the dark side of her con by taking that next step. Makes me wonder about how alt timeline Fauxlivia walked away feeling since she didn’t need to do that. This timeline one breaks up with Frank because she’s in love with Peter and preggo with his kid, but so does the alt timeline one. Maybe conning our side changed her fundamentally whether Peter existed or not.

But total side bar. The exchange between her and Newton in the jail cell always cracks me up. Even though I hate him for essentially bullying her to sleep with Peter, I love when she says “maybe I’ll befriend a vacuum.” But even more, I always crack up that he essentially offs himself with a mechanical listerine strip 😂

There’s no point in this other than it’s stuck in my head and it felt unfair for me to be alone in this position so I hope it gets stuck in yours as well😂

I remember the trick Mr. Jones of planting trackers on a crowd of people to disguise his whereabouts was used before or after in what film or tv show?

So, been on my…uh…4th(?) rewatch this year (not ever) because not much else has been sticking for me and DAMMIT season 3 ep one is about to start. I hate watching Fauxlivia doing all the bad shit. Give me our Olivia back and fast forward to her and Peter okay again. I’ll start to like Fauxlivia later but rn she makes me so mad!! (I don’t skip episodes of things so I won’t but I’m still gonna grumble about it)

What do you remember the 1st airplane scene being?

IMDB Summary: Walter examines a number of dead bodies that had the spinal fluid removed. Olivia and Charlie go after the scientist who created the person behind the murders.

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I found out the other day that ITVX (UK) has all 5 season to watch for free.

I am so happy and using this weekend to binge watch everything.🤗

p.s. I remember having lots of questions, so will be asking them on here.

first post in this sub, if this kinda stuff isnt really allowed, please tell me :)

I love this show so much. 😭

Can anybody suggest shows to watch after this?

After this show, I learned to love anything about detectives and I disliked it before. I love Walter so much. He feels like a dad to me. I learned being what in a family feels like. How being together matter the most. Astrid's kindness inspires me. I got more fascinated with scientific terms like astral projection, lucid dreaming and many worlds theory. I've grown to love these actors.

This was how my year went. I watched:

1. Lost
2. Fringe

What should be my 3rd watch?

Thank you so much!!

This episode had some funny moments. Here is my favorite. Can you guess who was talking and what's the context?

"I would need some sodium bicarbonate. And a house in the country, a place to be alone with my thoughts. Some Mahler for the late nights. And time. A lot of time."

What was your favorite?

Just finished the series, and the thing troubles me is no one will know about the sacrifice that walter did for his son and the whole world. This is one of the most sad yet closure ending, I've never seen... This series is in top #1 in my list of best series..

Hey Guys! I was wondering where u re-watch the series, I tried Netflix, Apple TV, YouTube to try re-watch Fringe but no luck…online reading said something about Max HBO but it’s not available for my country (Australia) although, I am now moving to Europe.

Help?

Thanks!

After rewashing for the 3rd time some thing still confuse me a little. So I I wrote down my understanding of the time lines( tho may be hard to read).

In order to correct the timeliness, September chose to not save alternate Peter after Walter crossed over with him in order to cure him.

Which led to both Peter's to die from each world.

But, could instead the machine had been use to stop Walter from crossing over. Stop September from distracting alternate. Which would save both worlds, and allow one Peter to exist still. Would in turn stop the problems in each world from happening. And allow Peter still exist.

It seems Peter is more closer to his daughter than Olivia.

I get that Olivia is a strong character and that she doesn't show any vulnerability around people.

But.... come on. This is her daughter dying.

I'm wondering why she hadn't panicked or burst into tears holding her but Peter did it.

Also Etta dying was so random it was so unexpected 😭

I’m at a point of transition in my life and this show has been a great comfort to me, especially Walter’s character. I’m a person who always had interest in stem, but for one reason or another, couldn’t keep up with school and currently work as a bartender.

This show helped reignite my passion and interest in stem and isn’t the main reason but is a contributing factor for me going back to school to become an engineer.

Obviously, it’s science fiction, but it makes me think and dream of the possibilities.

I was wondering if anyone else has had a similar experience ? Or finds some inspiration similar to this from the show.

Plot holes with Olivia.

So the timeline is different because of the Peter erase but we learn he's actually with the right team. Olivia becomes the old Olivia from the older timelines and allows it to happen

But what I don't get is how that just dies out. I'm almost at the end and Walter says it's William Bell behind this and how belly died in a car crash.

Olivia seems to have no memory of her time with bell from seasons ago, just as she didn't have memory of helping Nick lane before in the previous time line.

I'm just confused or thinking I'm right in that they're inconsistent with writing Olivia's transformation into who she was before Peter disappeared.

IMDB Summary: FBI agent Dunham believes that she is killing random people in her dreams.

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I’m sure this has been brought up many, many times but I’m doing a rewatch of Mindhunter and I can’t believe how many Fringe alumni are popping up:

Anna Torv (Olivia Dunham) as Wendy Carr

Tobias Segal (Eugene Bryant) as Dwight

Michael Cerveris (September) as Director Gunn

It’s so lovely to see, that’s all.

Why is Olivia so awkwardly happy the entire time? She is experiencing two sets of memories at the same time, went from seeing Peter as a stranger to a lover, has no idea how this happened, and seems indifferent to the obvious cognitive dissonance anyone in her position would feel. Was anyone else annoyed by this? And no one thought to suggest the events at Westfield may have caused it?

I would like to show someone in my family this series by watching an episode together over Christmas. But I am unsure of which episode to show them.

Intuitively I would have started with S1E01, but with every rewatch it only gets clearer to me just how different the characters are scripted since it’s the pilot (E.g. Broyles‘ sexism, Olivia‘s slight insecurities etc.).

Which episode would you recommend? I think it might be best if a new watcher doesn’t need too much background info from previous episodes to be able to follow (which would in turn be a pro-argument for S1E01).

Hi just doing a rewatch and I know I skipped a few episodes to concentrate on my favourites. The whole Olivia/Fauxlivia thing , how is it a thing, if Peter is not in the timeline , there was no reason for Olivia to cross over and then be captured or am I missing something.

Also a nitpick but Deus ex Machina is comes from Latin and literally translates to "God out of a machine. Manus dei is latin and translates to the Hand of God,

We all agree that Astrid Is the best character in this show????

She's so sweet and kind

I love how she treats Walter.

SPOILER AND QUESTION...

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okay, so we all know that oliva has powers. Like I stated, I'm only on Season 3, episode 10, so I don't know if they did it yet.

I love scfi fantasy/ fantasy tv shows with a female lead. So this show was perfect for me

My question is : Why aren't they showing more of Olivia powers??

They bring it up ALL the time, but yet we see a glimpse into it.

Usually, when you're watching a show and the main character discovers, they have some type of power or powers. They start using them and being able to control them and all that good jazz.

Why haven't Olivia? its to the point you forget she has powers until they mention it.