FRINGIE OF THE WEEK: 4.19 Letters Of Transit

by Roco on April 24, 2012 · 88 comments

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Fringie of the Week gives you the chance to vote for your favorite character performance from 4.19 — “Letters Of Transit”.

Broylnate came top of “The Consultant” poll with 39% of your votes. Altlivia came second with 25%. While Walter came third with 24%.

Here are the current season 4 standings:

  1. Peter — 31pts
  2. Olivia – 27pts
  3. Walter — 17pts
  4. Altlivia – 5pts
  5. September — 4pts
  6. Eliznate, Altstrid, Nina & Broylnate – 3pts
  7. Walternate, David Robert Jones, Lincoln, Astrid, John McClennan & Aaron – 2pts
  8. Lincolnate & Emily Mallum — 1pt

But who gets your vote for..

FOTW: 4.19 "Letters Of Transit"

  • Etta (41%, 204 Votes)
  • Walter (24%, 123 Votes)
  • Simon (23%, 117 Votes)
  • Peter (7%, 33 Votes)
  • Captain Windmark (3%, 14 Votes)
  • Nina (1%, 7 Votes)
  • Broyles (1%, 4 Votes)
  • William Bell (0%, 1 Votes)
  • Rick (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Astrid (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 503

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Voting closes Friday, April 27 @9/8c

{ 88 comments… read them below or add one }

Surun Tunne April 24, 2012 at 3:02 pm

I would really like to vote for etta but I just have to give it to walter…

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Rick Terry April 24, 2012 at 3:15 pm

Me too 2 of 4 who are the other two of us who felt the same?

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Mike April 25, 2012 at 3:28 am

Walter for me too.

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mandrean April 25, 2012 at 5:04 am

Loved Walter (as always), but Simon sacrificed himself into an eternity of Amber!

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JM April 25, 2012 at 5:20 am

lol, I think whether he is ambered for “eternity” depends upon how well HIC’s new show does before a possible season 5 of fringe begins, because i reckon they could make him a regular if his new show gets cancelled

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shidey17 April 25, 2012 at 4:41 pm

I’m really torn on this. I love HIC, and I liked the Simon character, but I hope they don’t try to add more characters. I want the big 3 back working together on cases or DRJ or whatever and no more of this silly soap-opera stuff.

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TW April 25, 2012 at 8:42 pm

Hands down … Walter. The dimensions of the character John Noble showed in this episode was acting par excellence.

Windmark’s character was also “perfect” in his execution of the role, in my opinion.

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shidey17 April 24, 2012 at 3:10 pm

I’m so torn.

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shidey17 April 24, 2012 at 3:53 pm

Can’t choose between Etta, Simon, or Walter.

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willg April 24, 2012 at 4:00 pm

You can’t go wrong with either…however Etta looks so much like ourliv and she was quite good in the episode. NOt trying to sway your vote or anything. ;)

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corazondeazul April 24, 2012 at 10:52 pm

Lol Etta looks nothing like Olivia aside from having green eyes and blond hair

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willg April 24, 2012 at 11:22 pm

Well their both gorgeous. That has to count for something. :)

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Red Balloon April 24, 2012 at 11:47 pm

They are both beautiful and yes they fit super well as mother and daughter, but what’s amazing is that their acting and characters are a delight to see, even in the worst situation when the strong, confident, stubborn agent is nowhere near where she needs to be. We need more of these women with strong life experiences that can make you feel connected to a story. Etta did it in one episode, and Olivia has done it in abundance without a doubt.

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Cortexiphan Kid April 25, 2012 at 10:41 am

@corazondeazul

Anna Torv and Georgina Haig are both from Australia.

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Robert Ariadne April 25, 2012 at 1:57 pm

So is John Noble. Australia rocks!

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megan April 24, 2012 at 3:14 pm

I chose Simon…followed closely by Etta and Walter!

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Darth Kate April 24, 2012 at 3:15 pm

Oh look. People voted for peter even though he didn’t do a god d*mn thing. What a shocker.

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JM April 24, 2012 at 3:36 pm

I voted for Simon! :p

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willg April 24, 2012 at 3:43 pm

I am with you on this one. Peter…seriously?

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LastManInSpace April 24, 2012 at 7:33 pm

So ridiculous….

This is where I get flamed: Despite the fact that when I got the chance to meet Joshua Jackson he was sweet and funny and charming, I’ve always felt he was the weakest link on the show (aside from Linc, and despite this I like them both).

I’ve never understood the people who go on about what a great actor he is. His one move seems to be glowering into the middle distance.

*runs away and hides*

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Darth Kate April 24, 2012 at 8:34 pm

I agree. He seems like a nice guy but literally everything he’s ever been in (besides Fringe when it was still good) is pretty much crap.

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corazondeazul April 24, 2012 at 10:51 pm

How is that his fault? If you’re not Ryan Gosling, you don’t get to pick and choose what projects you do as an actor – you have to take what you can get. If you read between the lines you can tell that he loves having the chance to work on a good show for once and that’s why he’s a fan of Fringe. And he is a good actor. Obviously there is a huge chasm between him and say, John Noble, so don’t assume that his fans are automatically so blinded by fangirl hysteria that they can’t tell that. Yes, a few people still voted for him, presumably to piss you off.

These comments were amusing at first, now they’re tiring. Stop being so bitter and get over yourself.

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Greg April 25, 2012 at 12:17 am

Josh Jackson is a good actor if given good material, not his fault if the writers have never given him that much to do on Fringe.

I don’t see much difference with fangirls voting for JJ, and people like me who vote for Captain Windmark, simply because he has a cool name. We vote because we can, the correct winner usually wins each week anyway.

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JM April 25, 2012 at 12:54 am

The only the other thing i have seen him in apart from fringe was a film called “one week” which was actually really good lol. I can see where all of you are coming from but I would also argue an average actor can look amazing with amazing lines and would say Anna Torv has sometimes been seriously, seriously overrated over the course of the show, dont get me wrong shes a good actress but i dont think shes AS good as some people say.

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Red Balloon April 25, 2012 at 1:16 am

JM, even if you don’t like Anna’s acting, which you’ve stated several times; Olivia and Walter are much better characters than Peter, only this season they’ve really done the awkward thing to do, which is give the weak link some slack, but then they’ve managed to almost ruined 2 of their awesome character because of that. And now we have average everything…and that’s not what Fringe is.

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JM April 25, 2012 at 1:24 am

I dont, not like her acting, I just dont think its the best thing ever. I do agree however that Olivia and Walter were once very good characters, Olivia has suffered badly from the reboot as amberolivia was awful and boring, and i agree the character has been pretty much ruined by the P/O romance. Walter turned into a petulant child in the reboot aswell, so on that we agree as well, I blame the producers for that.

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Lincless April 25, 2012 at 6:59 am

Oh, please don’t remind me of Walter from the beginning of the Season! Terrible!
Even John Noble couldn’t cope with that “material”.

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Lincless April 25, 2012 at 7:01 am

That’s why I like Broyles and Nina perhaprs the most right now. They are the least “demaged”.

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Betty April 25, 2012 at 9:34 am

Joshua Jackson won an ACTRA Award, (Canada’s version of the Oscars) for his performance in “One Week.”

He was humble and adorable, to say the least, in his acceptance speech.

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Red Balloon April 25, 2012 at 1:06 am

good actor + good material + good character isn’t too encouraging, but yet he’s on top and above Olivia, Walter, Nina, Broyles, DRJ

replace the word good for awesome and that’s the one(s) who ought to be on top, so for me your last statement is contradictory. “the correct winner usually wins each week anyway”

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Robert Ariadne April 25, 2012 at 9:39 am

Plus, John has the edge in past roles too: John was Denethor in Lord Of The Rings; Josh was on Dawson’s Creek.

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Darth Kate April 25, 2012 at 11:43 am

I never said it was his fault and I never criticized him specifically. Reading comprehension. It does wonders.

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FlashWriter April 25, 2012 at 4:54 pm

Totally agree. Work is work and it’s where you find it. That’s the attitude of all the actors who I admire. They’ve all said something similar. Josh is a very, very good actor and I can’t picture Fringe without him.

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JM April 25, 2012 at 12:57 am

@Kate
I think I can remember him saying that in an interview for fringe lol (that pretty much everything he has been in has been crap)

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Robert Ariadne April 25, 2012 at 9:35 am

Wow. You got to meet him? How did that happen?

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JM April 25, 2012 at 10:24 am

@Robert Ariadne
If that was in reply to me lol, i either saw it on youtube or read it. I cant remember which.

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LastManInSpace April 25, 2012 at 10:54 am

@Robert Ariadne

Season 1 Episode 6: The Cure was filmed in front of my apartment in Brooklyn, NY. The apartment itself can be seen in the overhead shot of the diner and surrounding buildings.

The chairs that the cast members (John, Anna, Josh & Lance) sat in between takes were off to the side of the diner, 3 feet from my front door.

They had an overzealous (read: f*cking crazy) P.A. that tried to block me from entering my apartment. I’m pretty sure he realized I was about to wig out and jumped up to diffuse the situation. Apparently I wasn’t the first person she decided to scream at. She was not there on the 2nd and 3rd days of the shoot. After that I saw him in my local coffee shop the next 2 mornings and he was quite chatty and I talked to him about how he liked his new show. (Fringe was still 2 weeks from the series premiere).

It’s kind of funny. He was sweet and interesting, but I only had eyes for Lance Reddick, as he was on Lost briefly as Abbadon and my thought process went something like SINCEYOU’REONTHISSHOWDOESTHATMEANYOU’REDONEWITHLOST?TELLMEWHATYOUKNOW!

Anna and John were sweet as well, though I didn’t get to say much to them other than Hello. And John looked completely miserable the entire time. They were filming scenes in those biohazard suits and it must have been murderously hot under there cause they kept having to reapply makeup and hydrate the poor guy after every take.

It was pretty cool to watch an episode of Fringe being made from my bedroom window even though I had no clue I would become such a fan:)

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Cortexiphan Kid April 25, 2012 at 11:02 am

They filmed the episode in front of your appartment?!
Oh, I wish, I would live in Canada (btw, J.J. Abrams, Slovenia has a few beautiful locations…).

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LastManInSpace April 25, 2012 at 1:05 pm

Season 1 (Oh, the time before budget cuts!) was filmed in New York. The scene filmed in front of my place was in Red Hook, Brooklyn (though in the episode it was labelled as a suburb of Boston lol).

Also, the streetlamps lining my street in the scene don’t exist, they are totally CGI, which was really neat to see when the episode aired:)

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Surun Tunne April 25, 2012 at 11:03 am

WOW, that is so amazing!!

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LastManInSpace April 25, 2012 at 1:15 pm

Yeah, it was pretty awesome to tell people that a Fringe event occured in my local diner, right next to my place:):):)

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Surun Tunne April 25, 2012 at 1:31 pm

sorry to say this but I think I’m gonna use a device to suck this amazing moment out of your head! ;-)

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Surun Tunne April 25, 2012 at 1:32 pm

into mine

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Robert Ariadne April 25, 2012 at 2:00 pm

HOLY. CRAP. You’re so lucky.

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Cortexiphan Kid April 25, 2012 at 7:51 am

I said this would happen in Letters Of Transit rewiew!
I’m a precog!

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Cortexiphan Kid April 26, 2012 at 8:38 am

And I also predict, that in Worlds Apart, Peter will come up fifth or fourth, with at least 6% of votes (or more).

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Surun Tunne April 26, 2012 at 8:43 am

I think if he has one or two more scenes than in “LOT” (which is very likely) he will get at least 16%!

(nothing against peter, he is awesome but voting for him if he has nothing to do, like in “LOT” is just rediculous…)

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Cortexiphan Kid April 26, 2012 at 8:46 am

Yeah, 16 % or more sounds about right.
And my moto should be SVFPEW
(Stop Voting For Peter Every Week)

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Surun Tunne April 26, 2012 at 8:49 am

I absolutely agree!
I mean I do vote for peter but only when I think he really deserves it!

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TW April 25, 2012 at 8:45 pm

Honestly, I don’t get why people are voting for Etta, let alone Peter. But oh well. ^_^

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Betty April 25, 2012 at 9:35 pm

Etta jumped right into the driver’s seat, just like Olivia.
Opportunity is knocking… Now thats a girl you gotta’ love.

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TW April 25, 2012 at 11:55 pm

Yeah that’s true … her pal’s blood splattered on her face, and then after a second of thought, she turned the key in the ignition and made off with the treasure lol …

Okay I’ll give you that …. that’s someone I might get butterflies for over coffee chews ^_^

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Betty April 26, 2012 at 8:05 am

I meant it figuratively, but I like your take on it as well.

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TW April 27, 2012 at 12:59 am

I thought you meant it figuratively … I just wanted to add a few jalapeno peppers to it lol ^_^

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Betty April 24, 2012 at 3:18 pm

Etta, because she was a chip off the old block. Olivia would be so proud.

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willg April 24, 2012 at 3:42 pm

Absolutely. She was awesome…Georgina “Dunham” haig.

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Robert Ariadne April 24, 2012 at 3:49 pm

Walter.

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Scully8 April 24, 2012 at 4:06 pm

I went with Etta . . . she’s the next best thing to Olivia; she did a fantastic job of holding my attention. I also loved both Simon and Walter, but I’ve gotta go with Etta.

Here’s to a season Five — ‘A Brave New World!!!’

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Maris April 24, 2012 at 5:35 pm

You said it all!!! ;)

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lost_stef April 24, 2012 at 5:06 pm

Etta just like her mommy the dumhamnator lives on!!!!

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Betty April 25, 2012 at 5:07 pm

Something interesting … the meaning of Henrietta is RULER !!!!!!

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willg April 24, 2012 at 5:12 pm

Ten points to anyone who votes for Bell. His stone faced stature in the face of danger was amazing. :)

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James April 25, 2012 at 5:42 am

Especially after pushing Olivia from the amber.

*potentially*

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Cortexiphan Kid April 25, 2012 at 7:59 am

William Bell has currently one vote, I guess that’s you.

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willg April 25, 2012 at 8:12 am

NO actually I did not. I just thought it would be funny if someone did.

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Cortexiphan Kid April 25, 2012 at 8:19 am

Yes, since Leonard Nimoy didn’t even make a guest appearance.

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Robert Ariadne April 25, 2012 at 2:51 pm

Actually, he did. That was really him in the amber.

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willg April 25, 2012 at 8:14 am

I voted for Etta Dunhamnator

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Anita April 24, 2012 at 7:45 pm

This was tough. Simon was amazing made a great sacrifice, Walter was wonderful on both sides of the spectrum and I love Bell just for the fact that he showed up! But Henrietta gets my vote mostly because of Haig’s uncanny ability to channel Torv, so much so that my brother wondered if it actually WAs Olivia in a new body!!

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kathy April 24, 2012 at 9:49 pm

Simon, without a doubt!!

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Ben April 24, 2012 at 10:13 pm

Nina. Still awesome with reduced mobility. I’m glad she’s on our side.

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Red Balloon April 24, 2012 at 10:36 pm

Awesome character, awesome actress!

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James April 25, 2012 at 5:43 am

Be assured, if I do not win Fringie Of The Week, I will put you down.

Who am I?

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Betty April 25, 2012 at 7:29 am

I give up. Who are you ?

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Cortexiphan Kid April 25, 2012 at 7:53 am

Captain Windmark?

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James April 25, 2012 at 8:42 am

Have a drink with me, Cortexiphan Kid.

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Cortexiphan Kid April 25, 2012 at 10:20 am

I guessed, didn’t I?

But sorry, I don’t drink (I would if I could only stand the taste lol).

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Betty April 25, 2012 at 11:31 am

@James … don’t corrupt the Kid. Cheers!

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Cortexiphan Kid April 25, 2012 at 7:54 am

Simon Foster.
Even though Etta and Walter pretty good.

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Cortexiphan Kid April 25, 2012 at 11:12 am

And so were Nina, Broyles and Captain Windmark.

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Robert Ariadne April 25, 2012 at 9:41 am

How on earth does Peter get 30 votes (as of this writing), when HE DIDN’T DO ANYTHING?

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Cortexiphan Kid April 25, 2012 at 10:19 am

Didn’t we have this conversation before? Like above?
Peter ALWAYS gets so many votes, because some people vote for Peter, regardless of the concept. In a EIIRP he said about one sentence, and he came sixth.
This week he even had TWO lines, so naturaly, he comes fourth.

And here’s to you, Peter-voters:

STOP VOTING FOR THE SAME GUY WEEK AFTER WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Betty April 25, 2012 at 11:06 am

Encased in amber … definitely Method Acting. Lol!

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Cortexiphan Kid April 25, 2012 at 10:44 am

I know Peter-voters are the biggest vote-for-the-same-character-every-week group, but I wonder if there are many other groups. I know there are quite a few Olivia-voters, and I bet, there are some Lincoln-voters, but are there Nina-voters or Broyles-voters or Astrid-voters too?

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James April 25, 2012 at 12:45 pm

I usually vote for Nina in episodes where she features heavily.

Thank god the producers have given her something to do this season. Blair has been fabulous as always.

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FlashWriter April 25, 2012 at 4:50 pm

This ep was soooo well done, I had a heckava time, too. I finally went for Walter because he played two distinct characters and made the two instantly recognizable as being different.

Even though the ep was well done, at the end I just stared at the credits and finally uttered “Huh? What does this have to do with anything?” I swear that it looks almost like Anna was having some kind of contract problem and so they had to make up a story without her being in it.

Anyway, it WAS well done and now, can we please just get on with it????

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lost_stef April 26, 2012 at 7:21 pm

EVERYONE BREAKING NEWS FRINGE HAS BEEN RENEWED FOR SEASON 5!!!!!!

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Aesandil April 27, 2012 at 6:49 am

As much as I loved both Walter and Simon, the honor goes to Etta. I didn’t start caring for Olivia nowhere near that quickly.

And don’t be so mean to Peter fans, I’d say he deserves that spot due to his touching reaction at the end of the episode.

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