We learn more about Peter. Not much, but enough to see he has some kind of odd, dangerous storyline. The question is how much of it intersects with Walter's and Olivia's - and we're still not sure how much Olivia's and Walter's coincide.
Meanwhile, Walter showed himself, again, to be a decent, more than decent, human being. He tells Olivia no one loves playing with drugs, on himself and other people, more than he - but he needs more time, to work out a safer method for her unsort the fused memories she now has of John and her. Unusually and bracingly sane for a mad scientist.
Memories made real were the cutting edge of tonight's story, which started out with razor-winged butterflies and ended with a knife to the throat, all served up in the brain in some way by Massive Dynamics.
I have a soft spot for butterflies - my family likes, them, too - and when the kids were young we'd plant milkweed to attract the monarchs. We even raised a few, and eventually they flew off to Mexico or who knows where. It was nice. My novel, The Silk Code, also had a butterfly connection.I'm not sure, exactly, what this has to do with tonight's Fringe.... Wait, I know, it has to do with memories.
More next week.
See also Fringe Begins ... Fringe 2 and 3: The Anthology Tightrope ... 4: The Eternal Bald Observer ... 7: A Bullet Can Scramble a Dead Brain's Transmission ... 8. Heroic Walter and Apple Through Steel ... 10. Shattered Pieces Come Together Through Space and Time
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I loved the leap from the real (experiments with psycho-somatic burning) to the utterly fantastic (self-slicing from the inside). At first I thought the opening was some kind of metaphorical "death by a thousand cuts". It does feel like it's starting to come together, but it's oddly unclear how. I'd not thought of the possibility of connection between Walter and Olivia that predates the show timeframe...hmmm...will it be as mundane as fathering, or might she have been spawned in some research somehow? Do we know anything about her family of origin? Aside from one of them hanging with his ex, who were the two people talking about Peter at the end? Were the folks with the apple from last time, in this episode at all?
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Good questions. Only answer I have is that I'm pretty sure that there was no one from the magic apple on this week's show.
The beginnings struck me as a "death by a thousand cuts" too - the beginning are actually all great little set pieces in themselves (like the beginnings on Six Feet Under).
Some great moments in this episode, but I found the Peter plot to be rather disappointing. I think it was mostly because it was so isolated from everything else in the episode. We got some glimpse of Peter's past life, though nothing new, really, except for actually meeting the old girlfriend. We already knew that shady characters would be happy to punish Peter for past actions, and we didn't learn anything about who they are, or what he's done. Actually, this was already made sufficiently clear in an earlier episode, when Peter catches someone taking pictures of him in a pancake house and roughs him up. The latest episode didn't move us forward from that point, which is too bad.
The problem with veering away from the main mystery to deal with Peter's story in isolation is that it somehow diminished Peter. He was barely involved in the "butterfly plot", which made it seem as if he were driving around town, goofing off, while the other team members were working on something important. Up until now, they've been able to weave the characters' backstories into the main story of each episode, and that works much better. The trouble with introducing separate subplots is that they are, by their nature, "SUB" - less important than what's going on elsewhere. It's much better when they're tightly incorporated into the main story, because then they all share the same urgency.
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