I must be having a bad day, because I laughed more at that cheesy joke than it deserves.

Ugh, I know.

Yeah, I just want a bagel.

I don't come here often, but even I know Raysism is eloquently and succinctly summing up the attitude of the mostly racist football fans cited above. I'm surprised that isn't obvious to everyone, but I guess the humor is pretty subtle. More a witty indictment than a joke.

"Why a lion and emus? And what is the thing in the foreground with pink bulbs?" I really want to know the answers to those questions.

I had totally forgotten Queen Margrethe was a Tolkien illustrator. Why doesn't Queen Elizabeth do anything like this?

It's not her. The fairy was played by Allie Bertram. She's a professional dancer, is much younger than Walter's wife, and actually doesn't look anything like her. I have screencaps, but I'm too lazy to upload them. I think this is a classic case of looking for a deeper significance in Fringe than was intended. She's…

The "wondrous star" is not a name for Christ, it's the star that led the Magi to the stable in Bethlehem.

There's no way I would "cheer" if a group of politicians were mowed down by a gunman.

Brown Betty Brownies?

I totally misread your original post. I read "Walternate" as "Walter." I take only partial responsibility for the error: the producers should never have messed with my comprehension of space and time. I'm not really sure why Walternate didn't fly so close to the sun. I now feel confused and hungry.

That was pretty awesome, and a creative way to reference Walter's past.

I don't think it was the tune, it was the LSD. I could be wrong. I don't think the Green Fairy was supposed to be recognisable - just a sort of trope associated with altered consciousness, like the Absinthe fairy.

The evil plan consisting in building a new universe at the expense of this one, in which Walter would effectively be a god. The "pocket universe" isn't a universe per sae, but a space between two universes where the laws of physics are suspended.

I think the difference between Walter and Bell is Walter's intrinsic humanity, which is what stopped him the past from doing what Bell attempted. He obviously had enough misgivings to ask Bell to remove parts of his brain. I'm still not sold on that idea. The concept of a scientist being so clever and so powerful that…

Anna Torv's ex-husband? I doubt it.

Yeah.

I reluctantly agree. I think the Python tribute might have been better in a previous season, when there was more time to mess around and be experimental. Frankly I don't even know why they're letting Walter get high when he's so plainly unstable and the fate of the world rests on his shoulders (or so they keep telling…

Don't tell him, he obviously wants to try it.

I think they're assuming that the people that are still watching are die-hard, borderline obsessive fans. That's why they think they can get away with surreal Pythonesque cartoons and acid fairies. But I agree, it's getting a bit obscure and convoluted, and as bob_d observes below, the timeline stuff complicates…