Impeccable choices.  There is very little to quibble about here.

Impeccable choices.  There is very little to quibble about here.

Watching Joshua Jackson in this episode made me appreciate all the hard training in painfully earnest lover-talk scenes he must have undergone during 6 years of Dawson's Creek.  There's an art to it.  Props to him.

The wise fans will not clamor for a complete explanation of the Observers.  Nor do I think we will get one, since the showrunners keep holding out crazy hope they're going to get a Season 5 or something.

I agree that this season has had stronger COTW's - "One Night in October" and "And Those We've Left Behind" come to mind.

Of course he does.  He also knows what human ashes taste like, as demonstrated last season in the episode about the dancing dead girl.

I honestly don't think that they're going to tell us "everything" about the Observers, though.  And I hope they don't.  They need to leave them still a bit mysterious. 

I thought the performances this week were really FINE.  From the kid playing Sean, to all our principal characters, especially Joshua Jackson this time.  I don't know how hard one can criticize any show that is just so impeccably presented week after week.  (Also, I was so glad to see that Astrid had her own set of…

"The Pattern" on Fringe WAS resolved - in an episode near the end of Season One, where Olivia laid out the Fringe events and found out they pointed to Reiden Lake.  So that's kind of a lame entry for this roundup.  "The Pattern" was mostly a way of describing Fringe events, which was no longer necessary once it was…