Fringe Observiews 5.13 An Enemy Of Fate

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2.17 White Tulip
WALTER: "I, too, attempted the unimaginable, and I succeeded. I crossed into another universe, and took a son that wasn't mine. And since then, not a day has passed without me feeling the burden of that act. You don't know how things will be changed by your actions, but they will. It's not our place to adjust the universe.  And you will never be able to look at her again without knowing that, just like every time I look at my son. I have traveled through madness to figure this out."

3.22 The Day We Died
WALTER: "Truly, if I could go back in time and change things, I would. I would give anything to be able to go back and make different choices."

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Fringe Observiews 5.12 Liberty

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4.22 Brave New World Part 2
WALTER: "Due to the intense energy utilization, Cortexiphan levels in the body should be almost negligible. Meaning that she won't be able to run around setting things on fire or doing superhuman things. The treatments did leave a biological signature, so I suppose some abilities could one day emerge."

Oh yeah!

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Fringe Observiews 5.11 The Boy Must Live

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5.01 Transilience Thought Unifier Model-11

CAPTAIN WINDMARK: "Ah, you're trying to think of music. You miss music."
WALTER: "There's not a lot of it here."
CAPTAIN WINDMARK: "We tolerate it. But it's merely tones, rhythms, and harmonic vibrations I don't understand."
WALTER: "Mostly it amazes me. Music helps you shift perspective, to see things differently if you need to."
CAPTAIN WINDMARK: "See things? Like hope?"
WALTER: "Yeah. Very much like that."
CAPTAIN WINDMARK: "But there is no hope... for you."

For one, Captain Windmark, I think you are underestimating the Bishops and two, this scene entails a theme that was present in the current episode. 

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Fringe Observiews 5.10 Anomaly XB-6783746

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2.17 White Tulip 
ALISTAIR PECK: "Those people aren't dead, Miss. Not permanently."
OLIVIA: "Of course they're dead."
ALISTAIR PECK: "But they soon won't be. Although, others soon will be, I'm afraid."

... Or I have to believe that no one (with a few exceptions) is really dead on Fringe. I'll explain in a bit.

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Fringe Observiews 5.09 Black Blotter

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We can play the "finding the Observer game" this week. Have you found him? Here he is...

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Fringe Observiews 5.08 The Human Kind

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4.14 The End Of All Things

DAVID JONES: "Your love for this man must be something quite profound."

It is. And just how profound? We will find out!

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Fringe Observiews 5.07 Five-Twenty-Ten

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3.03 The Plateau

SECRETARY BISHOP: "Over time, she will reach a plateau, and her new identity will become fixed."

My consolation with this statement is that it didn't work. Olivia knew who she was, partly because of Peter's projection in her mind. Will there be help for Peter as...

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Fringe Observiews 5.06 Through The Looking Glass And What Walter Found There

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3.11 Reciprocity

WALTER: "... Every relationship is reciprocal, Peter. When you touch something, it touches you. You're changing, son. When you touched the machine, it changed you. It weaponized you."

That was true for Peter's connection with the machine and it is true now. Except this time no one on the team knows yet what Peter did and what the consequences will be.

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Fringe Observiews 5.05 An Origin Story

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1.10 Safe

WALTER: "Think back 20 years - imagine yourself then, imagining yourself now - 20 years into the future. In your wildest imagination, could you ever think you'd be here?"

I don't think they could have imagined then where they would be now. 

4.21 Brave New World Part 1

WILLIAM BELL: "Since the last move... about twenty years. In this game, the skill one must have above all else is patience. The board changes, but very slowly. The art of chess -- the art -- is knowing when a piece is most valuable, and then, in that very moment, being willing to sacrifice it. For in the vacuum created by the loss of what is most precious, opportunity abounds, influence is maximized, and desire becomes destiny. For example, on this board, the most valuable piece is the Bishop. Therefore, for the game to be won..."

DAVID JONES: "...the Bishop must be sacrificed."

This piece of dialog is right in more than one ways. 

- Since the last move... about twenty years

The team was in amber for about 20 years and nothing had been done. I'm talking about the original Fringe team and I'm not dismissing Etta's efforts and successes at all. 

-For in the vacuum created by the loss of what is most precious

Etta is gone

- desire becomes destiny

now the fight is really on.

- the most valuable piece is the Bishop

That was Etta because of her connections to the Resistance. It is Peter because of his determination and actions taken in this episode. It is Olivia because she wants the same as Peter. It is Walter because he has the plan. 

- the Bishop must be sacrificed

Etta already sacrificed herself. But I'm afraid there will be more out of the Bishop family (Peter, Walter or Olivia) who could meet that same demise. 

But I'm getting episodes ahead of myself...

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Fringe Observiews 5.04 The Bullet That Saved The World

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I loved this episode just as much I did the others so far but my "little visual obserview heart" was doing cart wheels because of all the cool things packed into this one. 

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Fringe Observiews 5.03 The Recordist

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4.05 Novation

WALTER: "I saw him, Nina... the man. I saw my boy in that man's eyes. The way he looked that night in the ice... floating away from me. God help me, I... saw the eyes of my boy in a man's face. That filled me with... indescribable joy. But I don't deserve joy. For anyone else, this would be received as a miracle -- to get a glimpse of their dead son. Why should I be rewarded for what I've done?"
NINA: "Because maybe you've suffered enough. No, I can't explain it, Walter. I don't know why he's here. I don't know where he came from, but maybe you've just been given a second chance."

Walter is not the only one who received a second chance. 

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Fringe Observiews 5.02 In Absentia

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4.12 Welcome To Westfield

OLIVIA: “What's she like? The other Olivia. I'm just curious.”
PETER: “I don't know, she's, uh -- she's driven. She's very, very stubborn. She doesn't like to lose. But she sees the best in people, even when they don't see it themselves.”

And just to eliminate any confusion of which Olivia I’m talking about I’ll quote Nina from
4.16 Nothing As It Seems.

NINA: “I suppose every version of you is stubborn.”

And this came to mind as well from 2.19 Brown Betty.

FICTIONAL PETER: “So what made you wanna be a detective?”
FICTIONAL OLIVIA: “I don't know. Uh, I, uh... I guess that I just always knew what it was I was meant to do.”
FICTIONAL PETER: “And what's that?”
FICTIONAL OLIVIA: “To care for people.”

Yep, that’s Olivia and Etta recognized all of that too… at least at the end.

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Fringe Observiews 5.01 Transilience Thought Unifier Model-11

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Finally, Fringe is back - with a vengeance. In my mind that was the best season premiere of all of them and just by this one episode the entire main cast deserves recognition. But I'm getting ahead of myself.
Let's observe.

3.06 6955 kHz

FAUXLIVIA: "If you knew that only... one of our worlds could survive and if it was up to you, and you alone, to defend your side... You'd have no choice, right? I mean, you would have to do what you had to do... no matter the cost to protect... our world."
PETER: "There's always hope, right?"

There is Peter, there is!

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Fringe Observiews 4.22 Brave New World Part 2

Welcome to the Observiews for Season 4 of Fringe. I call them Observiews because they are more visual observations than deep thinking reviews, if that makes sense.

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All observations are mine and therefore could be totally off the wall and/or wrong. I have not read or looked at any recaps or reviews. I could also have missed a few things, oh well.

2.19 Brown Betty

FICTIONAL WALTER: “[the glass heart] Put simply, it's a power source. But it's capable of many wondrous things.”
ELLA: “So Peter took his special heart, and with all his might, he split it in two. And the heart was so magical that it still worked. And together, they made goodness, and lived happily ever after. The End.”

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Fringe Observiews 4.21 Brave New World Part 1

Welcome to the Observiews for Season 4 of Fringe. I call them Observiews because they are more visual observations than deep thinking reviews, if that makes sense.

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All observations are mine and therefore could be totally off the wall and/or wrong. I have not read or looked at any recaps or reviews. I could also have missed a few things, oh well…

1.01 The Pilot

…! 

Hm, who could that be?

Attention all citizens. This is a Fringe Alert!

Have you seen this man? Or someone that looks similar to him?
Description: bald, no eyebrows, sometimes wears a fedora and carries a briefcase. Appears out of nowhere and shows up only for a few seconds.

Please report immediately!

Sorry, no reward!

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Fringe Observiews 4.20 Worlds Apart

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1.17 Bad Dreams
NICK LANE: “Olive... you'll wish you had... you'll wish you'd kill me.”

Hm. Would that have changed anything?

2.22 Over There Part 2
SECRETARY BISHOP: “I told you there would be invaders coming over from the other side, but I didn't tell you they would be us… They're our doubles, alternate version of ourselves, but don't be deceived, Olivia. They're monsters in our skin. They'll do anything, say anything to gain our trust, but they can't be trusted.”

Do you still think that now?

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Fringe Observiews 4.19 Letters Of Transit

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4.14 The End Of All Things

THE OBSERVER: “We are you-- we're human... many generations after your lifetime. We are one of countless possible futures for humanity. Our technology has uniquely afforded us the ability to travel within and outside of time so that we may observe our beginnings.”
PETER: “But you've done a lot more than observe.”

You can say that again, Peter. 

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Fringe Observiews 4.18 The Consultant

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1.18 Midnight

NICHOLAS BOONE: “How far would you go for someone you love?”

Let’s find out, shall we?

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Fringe Observiews 4.17 Everything In Its Right Place

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All observations are mine and therefore could be totally off the wall and/or wrong. I have not read or looked at any recaps or reviews. I could also have missed a few things, oh well…

This is a plaque I have in my Fringe case and it is what I thought of and looked at when Alt-Lincoln said (4.17 Everything In Its Right Place):
“Maybe it's free will. I don't buy that we're all just defined by our circumstances. Maybe I just made a choice to become the man I wanted to be.”

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Fringe Observiews 4.16 Nothing As It Seems

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All observations are mine and therefore could be totally off the wall and/or wrong. I have not read or looked at any recaps or reviews. I could also have missed a few things, oh well…

4.13 A Better Human Being

OWEN FRANK: “The hubris of trying to improve upon god?”

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