From the category archives:
Welcome to the FB review of the Fringe season 2 episode 14 – “Jacksonville“. In this review I present my honest opinions on both the good and bad aspects of the episode. I also take a look at the answers and unresolved mysteries, before sharing my thoughts on other aspects which may have been overlooked.
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In this article I take a look back at last night’s season 2 premiere of Fringe with 6 things I learned from A New Day In The Old Town. These are my immediate thoughts upon watching the episode:
1. Peter is rocking the “black and gray” clothing
First revealed in “Bad Dreams” as the attire of soldiers in the coming war, the season premiere told me that our Peter is getting his swag on and unknowingly preparing for battle. Proactive Peter – I like it.
2. The hunt is on!
As I speculated in our recent “Fringe Observations” article, Olivia’s “near miss” in the finale was not such a near miss – she travelled to the parallel world prior to the elevator ride. The shapeshifter was lying in wait, an attempt to intercept her meeting with Bell. However Olivia transported to the parallel reality before impact. The shapeshifters are in search of a hidden item, something so important that it would bring one of them to the verge of tears!
This item could turn out to be a “Holy Grail” of sorts, something with religious, possibly multiversal, consequence.
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There’s More Than One Of Everything. No kidding, that was an episode jam-packed with information, mysteries, clues and subtext. I thought I’d take a relatively light-hearted look at what we found out in the finale:
Guess who’s back? It was David Robert Jones who shot Nina so that he could steal the energy cell that William Bell hid inside her bionic arm (I wonder what else she has hidden on her person?). Jones used to work for Massive Dynamic and saw William as a father figure. But he felt unappreciated, he threw a tantrum and got dropped by MD. He is responsible for many of the ‘pattern events’ witnessed throughout season 1. In a bid to take revenge on William for not seeing how “special” he was, Jones vowed to kill him. [A far cry from the altruistic man I thought he was in earlier episodes!]
Only one problem. William’s “not in this world”. Thanks Nina.
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Here’s my review for episode 1.19 “The Road Not Taken”, looking at the good and the bad:
THE GOOD
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Two singles together. When I think about it, it’s a pretty apt description of the theme running through episode 1.18 “Midnight”.
The best moments from the episode featured two of these ‘singles’ together in the Lab – Walter Bishop, a man of science separated from his memories, and Nicholas Boone, a fellow scientist who no-longer recognises the spinal-juice sucking vampiress that used to be his wife. Quite a fall for both men. As is often the case, there’s a kind of symmetry in that both men have been punished for their scientific explorations. Whilst Boone was punished for being a ZFT dissenter, Walter also received punishment for the death of his former lab assistant. One also wonders whether Walter’s punishment was ‘engineered’. As I touched at the end of the previous episode, I think there’s more to Walter’s St. Claire’s incarceration than meets the eye. I suspect that he either intentionally sacrificed 17 years of his life, or someone punished him for not being fully committed to the cause. But that’s speculation for another day.
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Here is my FringeBloggers review for episode 1.18 “Midnight”.
The Good
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The writers really dragged me into this week’s installment of Fringe, right from the get go. The song Nellie the Elephant was sickeningly sweet and gave me a horrible feeling of dread in the pit of my stomach, in a matter of seconds. Especially after seeing the poor little girl in the stroller and the balloons tied to the back.
In the beginning of the episode, Olivia has a mysterious dream, in which she kills a young woman by pushing her in front of a subway car, while she was reaching for a red balloon that had come untied from the little girl’s stroller. She wakes up to see that her dream has come true, and the woman is dead after an apparent “suicide.”
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Here’s my FringeBloggers review for episode 1.17 “Bad Dreams”.
THE GOOD
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