Fringe Benefits Inc Podcast - 5.09 Review

Our last podcast of 2012!  Have a great XMas Season and Happy New Years!  We will be back in 2013 to finish off the Fringe series.  

Till then!

Frea, Jan, Lou, & Maximus get together after each Fringe episode in this temporarily constructed shared reality known as a podcast to discuss the Fifth & Final Season of Fringe.

Joining us this time is special guest:

Janis Keating - from the FarScape - Scaper Chronicles & Castle - Storming The Castle Podcast

Subbing for Jan this week is Karen Lindsay from the FarScape - Scaper Chronicles & Castle - Storming The Castle Podcast

Downloadable MP3 version

Intro Music: Intro - 'Lunatic Fringe' - Tom Cochrane

Outro Music: 'Don't Fear The Reaper' - Blue Oyster Cult

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Fringe Review: Black Blotter

“Why are those mice shooting at us?”

The Theme of the Season is a question: how far will you go to save the world? And the answer has been: not too far. Last week, Peter chose to remain a member of humankind, sacrificing his time-reading abilities to stay a son, father, and husband. This week, a trip through Walter’s brain revealed that he, too, wants to maintain the best part of himself. He’s afraid that he has gone too far, now as then.

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Fringe 5.09 Review - Black Blotter

Tinkerbell Tripping

Hurdy, Gurdy, Pusher Man Goes A Wandering

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Walter to Carla Warren  - "I wanted to cry for you. But I'm different now."

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Pusher Man Lyrics -

Pete Shelley

I went to my pad

And I crashed on my bed

I kept taking that snuff

Until it blew my head

It was really gunpowder

I a flash in the pan

I a charcoaled cinder

God damn the pusher man

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As a nod to previous seasons where the nineteenth episode were always something outside the lines, even for Fringe, Episode 9 was given that honor in this shortened final season.  Less ambitious this time, no doubt due to a decreased budget, Walter’s discovery of an excellent batch of LSD - Black Blotter -  still made for a compelling, inner mind episode.

Walter And Company Go A Wandering.

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