True, I forgot he was in the preview. I am now cautiously optimistic.

@avclub-92a4841c9f86965effbc29fa6eae9f77:disqus I loved Bellivia, so maybe I'm just not picky enough. I haven't not liked a season ending so far, and I think they're mostly on the right track even now to make sure that stays the case.

Unlike you, I really liked last week's episode and I didn't have a problem with the resolution of the arc so much as some parts of the execution. I always like when Sci-Fi throws a little something else in there, and it was mostly consistent with Fringe's m.o. since…well, forever. I explained this better in my comment…

I'm getting a meh-episode vibe about Fringe tonight. Anyone else? Usually I can gauge pretty well from the title/promos for an episode how much I'm going to like it and this one doesn't seem particularly promising. I hope I'm surprised. Everything else coming up this season looks just aces though.

I thought this was one of the best episodes of the season, far better than "Urban Matrimony". I didn't completely love the Jeff/Annie subplot, but the rest was aces. Britta and Subway was one of my favorite plots of the season. It was just so ridiculous in its earnestness.

Diamond soft..

I loved the Emily Thorne name-drop. It should be standard in episodes about needlessly elaborate lies.

You have no idea how excited I was when I got a notification saying "Agent Broyles responded to you"!

Wait, that's not Sean Penn on the right of that picture?

I did surprisingly little this weekend. I watched Homeland's "Crossfire", my first episode in about a week or two, and I liked it well enough. I hope to finish off the season this week.

I don't really know what's going on with the Observers, really, but the writers and cast have said that their part in the story is still growing and becoming more prominent so I expect it should become at least somewhat clearer by the end of the season.

I'm just happy they let the episode end on a high note. It's obvious that something is going to happen to split them up, but I'm glad they didn't shoehorn it in to the ending to make it "shocking" - it would have been way too much. Now we get at least a week of contentment.

"September couldn't have just told him to go to that address when Peter was in his mind?"

Nina's arm is fake anyway.

I have a question about the grading system. I don't know if you ever use number rating systems to rate things, @avclub-6512bd43d9caa6e02c990b0a82652dca:disqus , since AV Club uses letter grades, but out of curiosity, what, roughly, would a B grade for you correspond to? A 7ish?

Also, RE: "I tend to get a little squirmy when TV series start reducing “love” to an abstraction, for the sake of making it into a plot-driver."

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So rather than get too bent out of shape about this, I’ll count my blessings and just be grateful that at no point did Dean and Castiel get busy together in the back of the Impala."

Hmm. I'll be honest, I have a pretty high tolerance for the kind of corniness on display in tonight's Fringe, so I wasn't quite as bothered by it as you were. I'd be tempted to give this episode an A, were it not for:

@avclub-eac75edc18b8546c46893fe4b75ab995:disqus That's the best-case scenario but I'm remaining cautiously pessimistic. Something about this season has felt very "final-seasony" to me, and I've been mentally preparing myself for it to be the last one since before it even premiered. I would be ecstatic if it got…

The writers have been saying that the finale could function as a series finale if it needs to. But that mostly sounds like fan appeasement - they said the same about The Day We Died last year, and once Season 4 was airing they went back on it by saying "Yes, it would have functioned as a series ending - but not a…