I was ready to bail on this show a few weeks ago, and I've been hanging on.   It's fascinating to see how fans latch on to what they like and ignore what obviously deserves criticism.

I'm glad folks here still enjoy it, but I'm sorry to say this show has passed me by.    I thought this was one of the worst episodes they've done.   I can not stand using a disability as a plot point.  It's like fishing for cheap sympathy for me, because no one wants to criticize and be insensitive (see Gump,…

That sums up why I can no longer care about this show. This season is one massive retcon.

I, too, struggle, reading this article - like others by the aforementioend author - too distill the satirical intent from the layered mocking semi-jest. But alas, I return, column after column - mind you as I would have it - for yet another serving of refracted tedium.

I can't reply directly to you folks for some reason…

I would guess the creative team are not influenced by alternate history works.  Most of those works are extremely ambitious like epic series on what if the South won the Civil war.   Fringe is much more subtle about it.  We know the Red world US map is different for example, but those differences are just the backdrop…

The part I thought was dumb was they just glossed over how Mr. BadGuy got the obviously suspicious truck into the government building - that wasn't believable to me.     

Good thing for you the two Olivias have different hair color!

Not to sound like an ass but you really had to be there with the X-Files.

I have to disagree.  The brilliance of the X-Files was playing the theme that people believe what they want to believe, there will always be skeptics and followers, and that perception is reality,  We can't get people today to agree on far more mundane topics like economics or climate science.

The recycling of plots this year is killing me.  I was screaming at my TV "You already did the drawing visions of death story in season one!".

The Observers seem like a red herring to me at times. I'm just not sure they are the omniscient all knowing, outside of time entities everyone seems to accept them as. (see August)

I also thought read that scene as Evil Traitor Broyles going to inject Lincoln #1a with bad stuff, then was inadvertently thwarted by Walternate the Good.

I see your point and thats what I was alluding to. If it becomes a Peter bouncing back and forth between realities to uncover hidden truths the other characters dont know, that gets old and cumbersome real fast.

Re why no agents planted along the road.   There is no indication they knew DRJ could cross over in any place at will, to expect he would do so at the quarry.  Peter and Lincoln needed, or thought they needed, a soft spot like the Theatre in the previous episode.

I'm with you, I cringed at that one.

I'm trying to like this season, but I just can't get past the "timeline" vs "universe" things.  A different timeline IS a different universe.   I can't accept the "these are the same universes with a different timeline" concept; that is an oxymoron and goes against the entire season 1-3 premise..

I always love time travel episodes, and the theme was great, but I feel there was a major botch in the premise. If the machine was turned on in the present in 2011, when it creates the bubble to 2007, shouldn't it be gone from the basement? it didn't exist yet in 2007 so how can Green show it to his wife? Or is…

I had the same reaction as Noel -Even for a nut like me who avoids spoilers like the plague it was obvious from the get go the energy Blob was Peter so no suspense.   I would have thought the Fringe team considered it was someone trying to cross over or a vortex but they didn't go there. The whole Amber Uni thing does…

I think they needed to explain it because that is not the most logical scenario.