FRINGE: "Because it's cool!"

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Tortolia: Dec 29, 2005; Hindustan Electronics Employee of the Month, July 2008; Grimey Drawer

alg posted:

the new teaser is weird as heck.

TEASER SPOILERS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szpS7vrNMqo&hd=1

I dig the still of goggled Walter with the licorice.

Neat teaser. Fits with the promo material of Olivia, Peter and Walter as underground revolutionary figures.

# ? Oct 11, 2012 04:06

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AwkwardKnob: Dec 29, 2004; A good pun is like a good steak: A rare medium well done

Walter... builds a Power Fist from Fallout?!

# ? Oct 11, 2012 04:10

mrking: May 27, 2006; There's No Limit To What We Can't Accomplish

I hope we get another LSD episode during this run.

edit: or a musical chronic episode where walter describes life before the observers to children

# ? Oct 11, 2012 04:17

utonium: Dec 17, 2002

This season's episode 19 is gonna have to be in claymation and 3D to outdo the previous ones.

# ? Oct 11, 2012 04:53

ClydeUmney: May 13, 2004; One can hardly ignore the Taoist implications of "Fuck it, Dude. Let's go bowling."

utonium posted:

This season's episode 19 is gonna have to be in claymation and 3D to outdo the previous ones.

But there won't be 19 episodes. :smith:

# ? Oct 11, 2012 05:01

X-O: Apr 28, 2002; Long Live The King!

With only 13 episodes to wrap I doubt they'll go too off track of the main story.

# ? Oct 11, 2012 05:57

Astroman: Apr 8, 2001

alg posted:

The Moody Blues - Nights in White Satin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9muzyOd4Lh8

I loved how it ever so faintly played when they started up the video as well.

# ? Oct 11, 2012 08:35

richardfun: Aug 10, 2008; Twenty years? It's no wonder I'm so hungry. Do you have anything to eat?

John Wilkes Booth posted:

Thanks! I think my dad used to listen to this when I was younger.

Haha, I remember this song from when I was little as well.

# ? Oct 11, 2012 10:24

utonium: Dec 17, 2002

ClydeUmney posted:

But there won't be 19 episodes.

Oh dammit. I genuinely forgot. :smith:

# ? Oct 11, 2012 16:53

Shooting Blanks: Jun 6, 2007; Real bullets mess up how cool this thing looks.

-Blade

Deadpool posted:

With only 13 episodes to wrap I doubt they'll go too off track of the main story.

I actually kind of miss the MOTW episodes of Fringe - part of what got me into this series in the first place was that I never felt like I missed much if I missed an episode during the early seasons, at least not so much that I couldn't catch up.

# ? Oct 12, 2012 14:20

scary ghost dog: Aug 5, 2007

Shooting Blanks posted:

I actually kind of miss the MOTW episodes of Fringe - part of what got me into this series in the first place was that I never felt like I missed much if I missed an episode during the early seasons, at least not so much that I couldn't catch up.

I think in the future, we're going to look back and think, "Those were the only good episodes. Why did they stop doing them?" Just like the X-Files.

# ? Oct 12, 2012 18:04

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

I think that all depends on how the main narrative finishes. Yes, there have been some good MOTW episodes, but last season they were pretty lacking. I didn't care much for them rehashing Season 1 MOTWs with only slight changes.

# ? Oct 12, 2012 18:16

Friendly Factory: Apr 19, 2007; I can't stand the wailing of women

scary ghost dog posted:

I think in the future, we're going to look back and think, "Those were the only good episodes. Why did they stop doing them?" Just like the X-Files.

Gonna go with a "What is the wrong thing to say?" on that one, Alex

# ? Oct 12, 2012 18:55

bobkatt013: Oct 8, 2006; Youâre telling me Peter Parker is ...... Spider-man!?

Friendly Factory posted:

Gonna go with a "What is the wrong thing to say?" on that one, Alex

Ya I mean most of the MOTW episodes have a connection with the main plot unlike the X-files MOTW episodes which while there were not important to the overall story.

# ? Oct 12, 2012 19:00

Loving Life Partner: Apr 17, 2003

Was I the only one with eyes in the back of their head when the video tape (which is kind of a dumb premise anyway) reveals that there are 8 MORE VIDEO TAPES TO FIND!

It's just so... flimsy. Are they all trapped in amber? Whose to say beta max tapes would last X years. Why not put the plan on the one drat tape because what are the odds of it falling into the wrong hands? So dumb! ARGH

# ? Oct 12, 2012 19:33

screech on the beach: Mar 9, 2004

Loving Life Partner posted:

Was I the only one with eyes in the back of their head when the video tape (which is kind of a dumb premise anyway) reveals that there are 8 MORE VIDEO TAPES TO FIND!

It's just so... flimsy. Are they all trapped in amber? Whose to say beta max tapes would last X years. Why not put the plan on the one drat tape because what are the odds of it falling into the wrong hands? So dumb! ARGH

I like the idea because It's like the plot of an RPG. "Go forth with your merry band of adventurers and find the 8 secret tapes!" But I am a huge nerd.

# ? Oct 12, 2012 19:40

Legs Benedict: Jul 14, 2002; You can either follow me to our bedroom or bend over that control throne because I haven't been this turned on in FOREVER!

Loving Life Partner posted:

Are they all trapped in amber?

Does this seem that unbelievable to you? In a world where there's enough amber and people trapped in it that people make a living cutting people out of the amber and selling them as furniture?

# ? Oct 12, 2012 20:14

Giant Tourtiere: Aug 4, 2006; TRICHER
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I think the idea is also that they are (were) super paranoid about the Observers being able to determine what the plan is, to the point that Walter scrambled up the knowledge in his own brain so it couldn't get fished out telepathically. Splitting the plan up into chunks so that the whole thing isn't absolutely buggered if the Observers or their flunkies find one tape isn't unreasonable.

The thing I wasn't sure about from last ep is how they're meant to find the 8 tapes. The tape they had didn't seem to say, and if it did just give you all 8 locations the security of the thing more or less collapses.

# ? Oct 12, 2012 20:19

Elephanthead: Sep 11, 2008; Toilet Rascal

They stole this idea from Adventure Time, actually maybe Adventure Time is the sequel to Fringe.

# ? Oct 12, 2012 21:18

Ramadu: Aug 25, 2004; 2015 NFL MVP

I hope tonights episode is better than last weeks. Last week was just sort of boring outside of a couple of high points like the eye. I love me some Fringe and it was kind of sad to be so bored with it.

# ? Oct 12, 2012 22:50

Gonz: Dec 22, 2009; "Jesus, did I say that? Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me?"

The whole series is getting replayed starting from episode 1, per the Science Channel, beginning November 20th.

# ? Oct 12, 2012 22:58

Kwyndig: Sep 23, 2006; Heeeeeey

Of course Walter was getting high.

# ? Oct 13, 2012 02:03

Regy Rusty: Apr 26, 2010

Betamax - the most reliable data storage method. :haw:

# ? Oct 13, 2012 02:02

Kammat: Feb 9, 2008; Odd Person

Hmm, north central PA. They're not visiting me

# ? Oct 13, 2012 02:04

Kwyndig: Sep 23, 2006; Heeeeeey

Man that skin thing is really loving weird.

# ? Oct 13, 2012 02:13

Regy Rusty: Apr 26, 2010

I wanna read those Fringe comics.

# ? Oct 13, 2012 02:15

Kammat: Feb 9, 2008; Odd Person

Comic Walter looks suitably mad scientist. I can almost hear the cackling.

# ? Oct 13, 2012 02:17

alg: Mar 14, 2007; A wolf was no less a wolf because a whim of chance caused him to run with the watch-dogs.

Asterisk is using the makeup shotgun in the future

# ? Oct 13, 2012 02:17

WhoIsBarryBostwick: Sep 17, 2008; You're going to like the way you look...I guarantee it.

Apple pills?

# ? Oct 13, 2012 02:25

Webbeh: Dec 13, 2003; IF THIS IS A 'LOST' THREAD I'M PROBABLY WHINING ABOUT
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Has it been explained why Olivia is acting so cold and distant?

# ? Oct 13, 2012 02:30

Echophonic: Sep 16, 2005; ha;lp; Gun Saliva

I never noticed that the seahorse glyph had a golden spiral on the belly. That's pretty neat.

Webbeh posted:

Has it been explained why Olivia is acting so cold and distant?

I think it's still over the fight they had when he stayed in Boston to look for Etta.

# ? Oct 13, 2012 02:30

Radd McCool: Dec 3, 2005; by Y Kant Ozma Post

WhoIsBarryBostwick posted:

Apple pills?

I like the idea of nutriemt mints, though.

# ? Oct 13, 2012 02:31

Regy Rusty: Apr 26, 2010

Webbeh posted:

Has it been explained why Olivia is acting so cold and distant?

Aside from whatever happened between her and Peter after the invasion, no.

# ? Oct 13, 2012 02:31

Siroc: Oct 10, 2004; Ray, when someone asks you if you're a god, you say "YES"!

This is sortof a MotW episode. A problem of the week, at least. Is he going to heal these people? Or just get them wiped out?

# ? Oct 13, 2012 02:32

muscles like this!: Jan 17, 2005

I wonder though, are these people the beginning of the Observers?

# ? Oct 13, 2012 02:34

Regy Rusty: Apr 26, 2010

muscles like this? posted:

I wonder though, are these people the beginning of the Observers?

What, like they hatch out of bark-skin cocoons, bald and wearing suits?

# ? Oct 13, 2012 02:38

Basebf555: Feb 29, 2008; The greatest sensual pleasure there is is to know the desires of another!; Fun Shoe

muscles like this? posted:

I wonder though, are these people the beginning of the Observers?

If that ends up being the case that means this whole thing is a loop. The Observers caused the Observers by going back in time and creating themselves.

# ? Oct 13, 2012 02:38