Yeah, it was definitely one of the stronger ones.

@avclub-83de02c3cfc3634de1279cbc17a8fbae:disqus A lot of people have issues with Olivia (and Peter for that matter) having giant holes in their childhood memories, which I guess I understand. But with all the crazy stuff I'm supposed to accept on this show, along with my lack of expertise on childhood psychology, it's…

No alt text on the photo?!!? I demand my money back.

It seems sometimes when you change the past it creates two different streams/branches (2609 and the main show) and other times it just overwrites the old stuff (the amber timeline, what they're trying to do here). The reason for the difference, as far as I can tell, is BECAUSE OF SCIENCE (magic).

Okay, I'll take a crack at this.

Yeah, this seems to be the answer. The way I'm thinking of it is that's there's separate time streams. First, there's the 2609 one which led to the Observers. Then the Observers went back in time and created a new branch/stream independent of their own, where Fringe takes place. So when they go to 2167 they're not…

September says that Henry was born to the wrong Olivia and this had caused very bad things. He also says that Peter and Olivia are supposed to be together. I've always preferred the explanation that there's no grand reason for this; he'd just become an Olivia/Peter shipper.

It seems that 2036 and 2609 are set points/streams that they can jump to and from pretty much at will. They can travel to any other time and point, but in doing so they would disrupt the stream (alter the probabilities). Which is understandably a nuclear option because they don't know what kind of ripple effects doing…

Part of the problem is that the Pattern wasn't a single thing with a single cause. It was just Broyles's name for all the crazy mad science events going on in the world. Some of which was ZFT, some was independent scientists, and was all made easier/exasperated by Walter breaching and sending the laws of nature out of…

I don't think ZFT ever knew about the Observers? There was a season 2 episode with an insane military guy who thought the Observers were spying on us.

Primer does apparently. Not that I could figure out what the hell was going while I was watching.

In the first two seasons we're explicitly told and shown (through a videotape) that the Olivia's Cortexiphan experimentation started when she was very young, in the early 80s. I can understand why people would think that "Subject 13" (set in 1986 or so) implies that Walter started the trials to return Peter to the…

Walter could use the Cortexiphan kids to cross over and Peter and Olivia could meet that way. Though that would be different versions of them considering they'd have lived different lives. Curious to see where this goes. The reset going backwards idea could be a red herring, and it's a Looper type deal where we stay…

I think what I and others are complaining about is more the tone than the events. Could something like the events of this episode actually happen? I don't know, but they don't feel like something that could happen, and in fiction that's more important. I think a lot of the arguments here are about one side talking…

I just watched "Drug Testing", and yeah, the situations aren't that similar. Dwight puts on the uniform and tries to conduct interrogations, but no one takes him that seriously. Then he calls up corporate, and they send someone to collect the urine samples in accordance with company policy of what to do if drugs are…

In regards to the something crazy happened in season 2-3 and you liked it, so now you can't complain about the implausibility now.

Their drama development the last few years has been terrible. Probably a factor in Fringe hanging around so long. (Hell, Touch is coming back this winter for some reason.)

Somewhere in the bonus features Tarantino talks about how many directors start making more "mature" movies when they get older, so he was like, "fuck that, I can make a movie like that while I'm still young!"

People like crossbows.

Wait, that's what Robert Greenblatt looks like? I had always imaged some sort of older, heavyset, ogre-looking dude.