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The entire existence of this show has been somewhat redeemed by this existence of this comment thread.

And in the "previously on Fringe" we got to hear the word "vagenda" again, which is always good.

Excellent point!  That such a parallel wasn't hammered home is part of why this is my favorite show!

Apologies if already posted, but I found our MOTW to be quite X-Files-y — and his habit of collecting trinkets reminded me of Eugene Tooms (the liver boy) — could Eugene Bryant also be a shout out to another werido murdering collector?  FWIW, this Eugene was far more sympathetic.

I have a feeling we'll be spending a lot of time back with the red universe after the absurdly-long fall hiatus.

He was just wonderful in this role; while I just 3 seconds ago criticized this episode for being a little too close to White Tulip, on the plus side, I thought he was just as strong as Peter Weller was in that episode.

True dat — for me, one aspect keeping this from being a solid A was that it was just so close in some aspects of topic and tone to White Tulip.

No doubt others have pointed this out, but having only one more episode of Fringe to get us through the rest of the year is utterly appalling.

Soulmates is great — I stand corrected on that point.  But, I still think Leslie's madness was more petty as opposed to motivated by her usual desire to make the world a better place.

Apologies if this comment is repetitive of a point already made — I just don't got time to read 200 comments.

I felt less like I was pounded over the head by the metaphor, and more like it was pounded into my head via mallet and an icepick-shaped medical device.

I think it's just more riffing on the theme of "alternative" Olivias, the whole more than one of everything thing…

Yeah, but in the episode, the Observers are discussing how they must never know that the "boy became a man" or somesuch, so it seems that it's the Peter they all knew who never existed — the kid was there, but no observer dove into the water to save him this time around.

Actually the KKK was very active in Washington state in the 1920's and its presence continues. Some of the Minutemen associates involved in the murder of a father and daughter from Mexico were from western Washington, as is the suspect in an attempted bombing at an MLK day parade in Oregon, if I recall correctly.

Hmm, that might explain the patch on the uniform of the Fringe division guy who retrieves Peter — a black logo on a yellow background. A very perfunctory web search didn't turn up anything, but if I recall correctly E2 Fringe has that as their symbol, no?

Oh, I think you're right — it's an insert with more detail of some area. Although why there should be a map of Brooklyn at the WTC is another question.

Speaking of maps — a relevant comment
When Peter was in the the future, when he's looking at the new freedom towers, there's an illuminated map behind him. Where is it?

Walter's maps
When Walter and Astrid were physically overlaying the maps of the electrical storms, seismic events, etc., all I could think was "Too bad with all their fancy equipment, no one thought to get GIS software." I guess they blew the lab budget on their Sprint phones.