Our Fringe Rewatch continues with our partner site, Seriable.com. Here are just some of my strictly new thoughts and perspectives on our Peter-less predicament upon looking back at The Same Old Story.
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Fringe 1.02 The Same Old Story
Fringe Episode – 1.02 The Same Old Story
This section contains: news, photos, videos, spoilers, reviews and clues for “The Same Old Story”.
After rediscovering the Pilot, we head once more unto the breach! Our aim is to make new discoveries and forge fresh connections as we tackle “The Same Old Story” – or, as I am now calling it: “Love Blinds”.
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Synopsis “Our unlikely trio’s strange partnership begins as they investigate the mysterious death of a woman who conceives, carries to full-term and births a baby in the span of hours, and her baby who ages 80 years in a matter of minutes.
As the bizarre and seemingly unexplainable occurrences are explored, quirky Dr. Bishop runs extensive testing in the lab; his reluctant son Peter endures his new role as his father’s keeper; and Olivia turns to Massive Dynamic Chief Operating Officer Nina Sharp for assistance.
General Thoughts: If the pilot episode was about Olivia and her team passing “tests”, this episode was about making connections and putting the pieces together – “like a puzzle”. The title of the episode serves to illustrate the collision between Olivia’s past and present. Her world may have been turned upside down, but the same old stories are playing out – only now she is better equipped to solve them.
This episode retains the prize for being the most X-Filesque of all Fringe episodes. This disconnected me from the story somewhat, as did the score. I also felt that some of the scenes were a bit ‘clunky’.
Below I outline my New Observations and Perspectives, Unresolved Mysteries, Closed Mysteries and provide my Final Thoughts based on my rewatch of this episode.
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Here’s how New Zealanders are advertising Fringe. It’s not the best trailer in the world, but it does make me slightly nostalgic for Fringe. Funnily enough, what I remember most about episode 2 was that nurse who had a healthy set of lungs on her. My ears are STILL ringing!
Elsewhere, New Zealand’s Otago Daily Times has an interview with Anna Torv where she addresses the early misconception of her character, Olivia Dunham. It’s no secret that Olivia was perceived by many to be “withdrawn” in the early stages of last season. But Torv defends Olivia by saying that the character was just misunderstood:
“In the first scenes of the first episode of the show, she’s this bubbly young thing who’s madly in love with this man. All of a sudden he’s attacked and she goes on this mission to find out what’s wrong. She gets him better and then realises . . . it was for nothing. She starts the series there. She’s a shadow of her former self . . .She has become extremely isolated and extremely shut off from the rest of the world.”
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The episodic format of Fringe is rather frustrating as it means that we can’t always expect to have events from the previous episodes referenced in the current episode. In recent episodes we’ve witnessed potentially important events, which have so far failed to be acknowledged or referenced in the episodes that follow.
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Fringe producers Alex Kurtzman, Jeff Pinkner and Roberto Orci tease us with “7 insights” into Fringe and show us a glimpse of what’s coming up in the next episode.
It’s a fantastic watch but contains possible hints that some readers might consider spoilery, so continue at your own discretion.
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Yet more positive Fringe news – this time on the DVR front:
For the week of September 15-21, Fox’s House had the largest audience via DVR viewing with 4.064 million viewers via DVRs, one of the largest DVR audiences we have measured to date. In fact, Fox had the top 5 biggest DVR audiences including Fringe, Bones and Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles and Prison Break.
Rank Programs Network Persons Live+7 (000s) Persons Live (000s) Time-shifted Audience (000s) % increase from Live to Live+7 1 HOUSE FOX 16,821 12,757 4,064 31.9% 2 FRINGE FOX 14,866 12,073 2,793 23.1%
Thanks: TvByTheNumbers.com
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It was staring us in the face for weeks! The viral poster with Olivia Dunham’s upside down head-shot contains the word “Observed”, hidden along one of the strands in her hair (see the red box, you should be just able to make it out):
See the image below for a closer look (from another shot) - the word “observed” is highlighted by the red box.
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Meet Feebo, Notchy and Pie! They are the lovable Fringemunk clones who have teamed up with the talented David Wu (better known as “The Marked Mouse” on the Fringe fansites) to recap each new episode of FOX’s hit TV series Fringe with a song!
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Who was your favourite Fringie for episode 2 – ‘Same Old Story’? Feel free to make your vote count below!:
Episode 2 - Fringie of the week?
- Peter (33%, 9 Votes)
- Walter (30%, 8 Votes)
- Olivia (11%, 3 Votes)
- Nina Sharp (11%, 3 Votes)
- The Nurse with the great set of lungs (7%, 2 Votes)
- Astrid (4%, 1 Votes)
- Loraine Daisy (4%, 1 Votes)
- Christopher Penrose (0%, 0 Votes)
- Claus Penrose (0%, 0 Votes)
- Phillip Broyles (0%, 0 Votes)
- Charlie (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 27
Loading ...Walter Bishop already holds one victory – will episode 2 grant him a repeat, or will another Fringie keep him company at the top?
*P.S. The polls should now be fixed and you’ll hopefully be able to cast your vote no problem. If this is not the cast please let us know via the comments or email, and we’ll look into it. Chars!
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