Can we admit that, pound for pound, Fringe just has a BETTER CAST than Lost did?  That goes a LONG way toward "earning the sap."

The Pattern is over and done with.  The Pattern was just a term to describe all the fringe events that were happening.  Once it was figured out what was causing the fringe events — Walter's trip between universes to take Peter — that was the end of that mystery.  The Pattern is not a thing any more.  It's been…

The thing about the Observers is — unlike your typical omnipotent time-traveling beings — they actually have an agenda, which is simply to successfully colonize the past and escape their own shitty reality (the year 2609).  So, Windmark's obsession with the team could conceivably place their agenda in temporal…

Not sure why both Michael and Peter can't be important.  Not mutually exclusive.

Why is it a "retcon"?  We were NEVER explicitly told that Peter was "the boy." 

Small correction:  September didn't create his own son… he just happened to "father" him, as his genetic seed donor.  Apparently all Observers have to do genetic daddy duty, not that they care.  However, September's progeny turned out to be a "dud" (ie Anomaly 62374627385647 or whatever, aka Michael) and was slated…

OK, you've just inspired me to pitch a TV show about a black scientist who creates a race of superevolved bald Broyles-type dudes who take over the world.  Which would be righteous.

Would it have been?  I mean, John Noble and Joshua Jackson had more chemistry in that one scene than Joshua Jackson and Anna Torv have had in the past five seasons.

Yeah, it would have been totally cool if every episode (at least the ones with the tapes) had music on them that Walter had to listen to and figure out.  Wish they were all cassette tapes instead of videotapes.

which was one of the worst kept secrets in Vancouver… that Seth Gabel wasn't just back in town to film Arrow.  :-)

Didn't Peter have this weird moment in Season 3 (after he fell out of the machine) where he believed he WAS Walternate's son and lived Over There?  That totally would have been Peter's life, if September hadn't interrupted Walternate.  Peter would have been cured, and lived his life Over There.

Actually the most brilliant part of the scene was the very end when Walter remembered that Peter hates crapping in public toilets.  Because that's exactly how Walter would fuck up the mo'.

"For all its changes in direction over five seasons, it’s always felt fundamentally like the same show."

I can't recall exactly what I was expecting from Season 5 (over the summer)… in some ways, this season has surpassed my expectations, in other ways it has been disappointing (mainly with the slipshod way the dystopian future has been presented.  Dystopia is very hard to do on TV, but Fringe isn't even trying to make…

I can't recall exactly what I was expecting from Season 5 (over the summer)… in some ways, this season has surpassed my expectations, in other ways it has been disappointing (mainly with the slipshod way the dystopian future has been presented.  Dystopia is very hard to do on TV, but Fringe isn't even trying to make…

Why would Wyman bite the hand that fed him?  The fan groups who led the charge to save the show are all led by women. 

Why would Wyman bite the hand that fed him?  The fan groups who led the charge to save the show are all led by women. 

This is the third episode in a row with a flashback montage, which is kind of iffy… but the last two montages, at least, have been creatively executed and make sense in the narrative (one was Walter's LSD trip, the other was memories being implanted into Walter). 

This is the third episode in a row with a flashback montage, which is kind of iffy… but the last two montages, at least, have been creatively executed and make sense in the narrative (one was Walter's LSD trip, the other was memories being implanted into Walter). 

I think the grade for this episode was fair.  Maybe I'd put it at an A-.  But the first half of the episode wasn't very strong.