FRINGE - Fans Ask: Impersonation

Ari Margolis tweeted this latest installment of the famous "Fans Ask" video series, earlier today.
Thanks, Ari!

Fringe FBI Podcast Season 4 Episode 10

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

'Forced Perspective'

 AKA
 

Nina The Ice Queen

Agenda:

1) Intros

2) Episode Easter Eggs  

3) Quick Thoughts 

4) RoundTable 

5) Ep Rating - out of 10 Genes

 

Intro Music: 'Lunatic Fringe' - Tom Cochrane

Exit Music: 'Cold As Ice' - Foreigner - in honor of Nina

Leave us feedback here or on Twitter:

Frea - @Frea_O

Jan - @happydayz3

Lou - @olddarth

Maximus - @mxpw999

Jan's Fringe Recaps can be found at NiceGirlsTV

FBI Inc Podcast graphics designed by Frea_O

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via iTunes - Alternate Reality Version.

Fringe Binge 2012

The Fringe Binge in December was such a success, it has returned in 2012.
Except this time, instead of watching 65 episodes, the total number of binge episodes will decide on which episodes Fringe fans vote for. See below and save the dates!


VOTE for the Fringe episodes you want to see during the FRINGE BINGE MINI MARATHON!


That’s right, by popular demand, FRINGE BINGE will return from Friday, March 2 through Sunday, March 4 - a worldwide simultaneous home rewatch of YOUR favorite episodes!

We had so much fun over the holidays watching all episodes of FRINGE, that we can’t wait to do it again! We’ve tentatively scheduled the next marathon event for the first spring hiatus weekend after February sweeps. This time, we’ll be re-watching viewer’s choice of episodes from Season 1, 2, 3 and 4.

The whole idea is to just have a simultaneous worldwide FRINGE-a-thon where we’re more or less watching the same episodes in the same order at the exact same moment across all time zones. During the marathon, we’ll also live tweet and check in on GetGlue too!

The Mini Marathon will start at 9 p.m. Eastern on Friday, March 2 and continue throughout the weekend nonstop until early Sunday evening. (As before, international schedules will be made available.)

What Fringe episodes do you want to re-watch? VOTE NOW!

FRINGE: Astrid-centric

Jasika Nicole, John Noble, Anna Torv, and Joshua Jackson discuss the upcoming Astrid-centric Fringe episode "Making Angles", which airs Friday, February 3rd at 9/8c on FOX. #WatchItLIVE

Fringe Observiews 4.10 Forced Perspective

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

Screen caps from this episode are taken from fringefiles.com and DVD. Dialog is from fringepedia.net/transcripts.

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…

3.17 Stowaway

BELL: “Hmm. Peter, your father wouldn't want to hear me say this, but even if he does find out more about this machine, it doesn't necessarily mean he'll be able to prevent the events depicted in that picture. I mean, that just could simply be your fate.”
PETER: “Thankfully, I don't believe in fate. Whatever Walternate's plans are for me, I promise you, I'm not getting in that machine.”
BELL: “Son, it is not always that simple. I've lived a long time, Peter. So believe me when I tell you that sometimes when one walks away from his fate, it leads one directly to fate's doorstep.”

I wonder...

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La Machine Infernale, The Three Stigmata Of Walter Bishop, Or: Out Of The Gnostic Frying Pan And Into The Fire

Know all things to be like this:
As a magician makes illusions of horses, oxen, carts, and other things, nothing is as it appears.
– The Buddha

Not everything is as it seems.
– Secretary Bishop


Another dream.

Once again, Peter seems to have placed himself in the best of all possible worlds, a world even better and more emotionally fulfilling than the one he remembers. Like the first vision, it begins as a heavenly idyll but ultimately collapses, the first time because of Peter and this time because of a machine. Anyone seeing a pattern?

There’s one thing that I think is important to keep in mind, though, and that is that it’s not just Peter’s dream. These visions reflect the lives that all three characters aspire to and long for. Consider the fact that two of these people started to similarly visualize the third before they even knew who he was. In other words:

All three characters are dreaming the same dream.

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Fringe Review: “Forced Perspective”

“Do you believe in fate?”

Forced perspective manipulates a viewer’s perception to create a visual illusion. Fringe, however, likely isn’t referring to a tourist’s snapshot of her boyfriend holding up the leaning tower of Pisa. Rather, Fringe is referring to three specific ways of grappling with both the freak-of-the-week plot and the larger thematic issues of Season Four:

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Fringe Episode 4.10 Review - Forced Perspective - Deconstructed

Nina is going to fix Olive.

This episode was definitely low-key, as the focus was shifted to Olivia facing her fate, in the aftermath of the bald man's warning of her impending demise.

What it did was to give her another new layer. She is within character as she tries to hide her pain (migraines) and concerns from all the people who care about her. We have Olivia taking control of her destiny. Despite knowing that the observer experienced the future where she has to die, she may not die at all. She may even save herself. That's why this is science fiction. Besides if William Bell can cheat death once...

Nothing is written in stone.

We don't have to die today.

Emily Mallum has a precognitive ability that allows her to predict death. She uses her natural gift to warn people, even if she had not been able to prevent the inevitable from happening. The closest analogy to the previous season is The Ghost Network. No matter what the science was used to explain how she can see the future, like Roy McComb, she was a receiver for such echoes in time.

Not all of the gadgets and references, from the past, worked for me, even after the second time I watched it. It was just not necessary. The plot hole here was with Albert Duncan. If his anger was directed only at the judge, then having the larger yield explosive was overkill.

Random Thoughts...

Do you recognize the throw pillows in the above image? They once belonged in the alternate universe Dunham apartment.

Nina Sharp was going to cook with her gloves on. I like to see her handle the ingredients like that.

Not only does Phillip Broyles know everything. He tells Nina everything he knows. Are those two still intimate?

A mention of first people was not used in the same context.

A lake house also represented happier times.

Emily's last drawing in the park, had Olivia looking on like an observer. The scene is somewhat different than the previous images as the subjects depicted did not all die.

An observer standing outside Olivia's apartment at a key moment in time. Any guesses what that maybe? I think Nina is going to enhance her.

Massive Dynamic is the likely 'we' Broyles said who was tracking for the strange bald me. Doesn't seem like something the FBI would commit their resources to without just cause. And it wouldn't be just for the last three years, with the numerous sightings.

Peter has already arrived at the conclusion that it will not work for him. Don't have enough facts to even wonder about this.

Fringe Sneak Peek 411 "Making Angels"

Walter continues to deny that Peter is his son.

Fringe Photos: Screenshots From "Forced Perspective"

HD screenshots of Fringe episode "Forced Perspective" are now available at FringeFiles.com.

These screen caps have all been randomly selected, so if there's something that might be missing, you can request a specific Fringe screenshot in these comments.

Promotional photos for "Forced Perspective" are also available at FringeFiles.com.

Fringe Easter Egg: Next Episode Clue 410

Every episode of Fringe contains a hidden "next episode clue" that foreshadows something in the following episode. In the last Fringe episode "Enemy Of My Enemy", the Robert Jones stakeout happens right near the "Mallum Insurance" building.

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Support Fringe: Commercials From "Forced Perspective"

This is a compilation of all the commercials (and glyphs) shown during the Fringe episode "Forced Perspective".

Please take a moment to thank the sponsors of Fringe on their Twitter and/or Facebook pages (and if possible, purchase their products!)

Keep it simple, like this tweet from @Ocean5ouL:

Hey @IntuitInc, I just observed your @TurboTax commercial during #Fringe. Thanks for supporting the show. :)

For other ways to show your support for Fringe, read BirdAndBear's post on overcoming Nielsen invisibility.