I think Shaw is more tolerated. After all, she's just a "bitch with a gun," and bitches are OK.

I think Shaw is more tolerated. After all, she's just a "bitch with a gun," and bitches are OK.

I think Shaw is more tolerated. After all, she's just a "bitch with a gun," and bitches are OK.

I think Shaw is more tolerated. After all, she's just a "bitch with a gun," and bitches are OK.

I think Shaw is more tolerated. After all, she's just a "bitch with a gun," and bitches are OK.

I think Shaw is more tolerated. After all, she's just a "bitch with a gun," and bitches are OK.

I think Shaw is more tolerated. After all, she's just a "bitch with a gun," and bitches are OK.

I think Shaw is more tolerated. After all, she's just a "bitch with a gun," and bitches are OK.

I think Shaw is more tolerated. After all, she's just a "bitch with a gun," and bitches are OK.

I think Shaw is more tolerated. After all, she's just a "bitch with a gun," and bitches are OK.

I think Shaw is more tolerated. After all, she's just a "bitch with a gun," and bitches are OK.

The reason why Root is a love-her-or-hate-her character is because she's virtually the only female character on TV who is more interested in transcendence than in romance (with men or women), pleasing men, competing with other women, marriage, babies, or career.

Just pointing out that Alison Schapker, one of Fringe's top writers, penned this episode.

I live in Upstate New York and have traveled extensively in it. Culturally, it is indeed all of those things.

Sadly, this is the same thing that afflicted Season 5 of Fringe - terrible, inconsistent worldbuilding (ie Observer-controlled 2036). Of course, Fringe could pass that stumbling block with flying colors because of the brilliant cast and characters we already cared deeply about.

It's a great, groundbreaking sci-fi show if you stopped watching sci-fi shows in the late Seventies.

That "development" moment for Maldonado pretty much sealed my disappointment with this show (as in, I won't be tuning in any more unless I'm sitting around waiting for Sleepy Hollow to start). And while the Ken Doll moment was funny, it got pushed a tad too far in the car scene with Dorian showing his bits. This…

Except I was watching the choking scene and genuinely scared that some kids might try it at home…

That part of New York State is pretty much New England in all but name, though.

OK, well how about this: Fringe's jokes in early Season 1 were funnier. The weird stuff was weirder. The dialogue (at least Walter's) was better. Also, there was actual tension between the characters, and a hint of some sort of mythology.