What an odd coincidence that Raising Hope and Parks and Rec have episodes about bachelor(ette) parties in the same week. Ultimately I liked Parks' episode better, but this was not bad at all.

I'd have to watch it again, but I'm pretty sure they just cut out most of the story Olivia told them to spare us from hearing about things we already knew.

They resolved the Mr X plot at the end of season 4, though subtly. I'll refer you to this comment I made earlier to explain.

I think the season 4 finale would have been better had we not seen "Letters of Transit" until after. I get that they needed to do it then to convince Fox to renew them for season 5, but it really made that finale anti-climatic. If I could go back and prevent myself from watching 4x19 until after 4x22, I would. But…

You might want to check out September's Notebook when it comes out in March. It's supposed to have been compiled with the producers and be 100% super-canon (I just made that term up). It might help clear up some things that weren't fully explained in the series. I know it's a Day 1 buy for me.

S1: B+
S2: A-
S3: A+ (I know AV Club doesn't give A+'s, but deal with it - Season 3 was that good.)
S4: A-
S5: A

Nope. I loved it too. I'll never forget Olivia turning around and saying, "That's because the decoder key is back in my office, at Massive Dynamic. [pause] Hello, Peter." I had this big goofy, shocked grin of my face.

I think @avclub-b9a25e422ba96f7572089a00b838c3f8:disqus summed up most of what I was going to say. As for why Osmium bullets work in a healed universe, I'll let my good friend Walter Bishop answer that one: "Because it's cool."

Well, it was if you were paying really close attention.

I felt the same way. It wasn't that they were negative. It was because it felt like reading the same thing over and over again. Finally I realized it wasn't going to change and just stopped.

Way ahead of you, my friend - I'm a PhD student in computer science. I already have lots of friends like Ben Wyatt, I just meant that he and I would get along just fine in real life.

Way ahead of you, my friend - I'm a PhD student in computer science. I already have lots of friends like Ben Wyatt, I just meant that he and I would get along just fine in real life.

3 actually. They're prequel books from before the pilot. There's one about Walter when he and Bell were doing the Cortexiphan trials, one about Olivia when she was younger (set in the 90s, I think), and one about Peter and his shadowy past.

Agent Jessup was only there at the beginning of season 2 to help the Fringe team during Olivia's absence. That was it. There was no mystery. She didn't disappear, she just went back to her desk job.

That's actually a very good point. I forgot about that.

They explained this in the season 3 finale. In the possible future where Peter had destroyed the other universe and our universe had started to decay, Walter (and probably Peter, Astrid and others), traveled back in time through one of the wormholes that had formed (I think it was the one in Central Park) to hide the…

I felt pretty much the same way. I thought the sideways world was going somewhere. Like they were gonna jump consciousness (ala Desmond) at the end or something. I kept hoping for something to pay off until the very end when it was revealed that the sideways universe was just limbo or whatever. Let me be clear: I know…

I loved the Chuck finale. It was sad, but hopeful. And I also bawled like a baby.

I preferred the part at the end when Peter mouths "I love you, dad."

Walter: "It's a beautiful name."
Astrid: "What is?"
Walter: "Astrid."