Even if Walternate is aware of the Cortexiphan trials, I think he can reasonably assume she can't control her abilities, or he couldn't have taken her in the first place.

Excellent point, Safe for Work. Walternate too foolishly expected Peter to consent to self-sacrifice. Did he really think Peter was that stupid? Considering the technological disparity between worlds and Walter's incredible ego, he might have.

The best we can do at this point is tell people how excellent the show is.

I guess I'm on the verve vanguard in the adamance artillery.

That's great, as is the even more over the top scene in Gremlins 2 in which she explains why she doesn't like President's Day.

The plot has come so far, though. I don't think it could go more than another season or two without breaking its narrative momentum.

We saw Olivia's psychic friend die in the same way TV characters always die, by going still and looking vacant. Then, we saw the scorch mark that was the last remnant of him and his girlfriend. Sucks they went out so quickly, though.

I neither agree nor disagree with your pick. It's mind-boggling and a good choice.

The perpetually burning house was fantastic. I think the most powerful scene in the film is the death of Sammy, or when Caden finds his daughter in the peep booth in Germany, and the most brilliant is the last sequence.

"Silencio," definitely. It was between that, "He put his disease in me," and Laura Palmer's death for my list, and I chose the latter. The Winky's scene is perfect, though. And it's always nice seeing Phil bite it.

I hadn't previously considered There Will Be Blood as a Tea Party allegory, but it's all starting to make so much sense now…

Second Noel's Royal Tenenbaums Scene.
Also:
-The end of Cries and Whispers, in which the legacy of the absent God is represented through a miracle that means as much dramatically as it does symbolically.

Olivia could free herself with her powers if she learned to properly harness them. Maybe the AlternaKevin Corrigan will be a guard there or something.

I think we'll have the entire next season to understand Walternate's plan to destroy our universe. After all, his best employee has infiltrated Fringe Division, and he has Olivia in his clutches.

Yes on both counts.

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In the last two episodes, Fringe has confronted many of the most obvious possibilities of its narrative conceit with a rare wit and brio. The show seems content to not transcend its genre, as it did in "White Tulip," but to happily and completely embody it. And that's not a bad thing at…

Unrelated but relevant question: Does Jesse Eisenberg have any mode other than "Naif schooled in the ways of X by dubious authority figure"? I feel like I've watched that kid learn where his penis goes 115 times.

Your vagina is a roadmap of pain.

At the Times Talk event, fans popped them the Widmore and Hawking questions. They pretty much straight-up said we'll get an answer to the Hawking question and that Widmore's motives will be, to some degree, clarified. We weren't supposed to believe what he told Smokey and Ben.

I think it's because his character is so straight-forward. The audience doesn't have to figure him out. And LOST fans seem to love things that need a good figuring out more than anything else. At least Damon threw him a big bone late in the proceedings. *Oblique preview clip spoiler*