1x02: The Same Old Story
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fringe_rewatchToday's episode: 1x02, "The Same Old Story."
Oh, you say the sweetest things.
Only to you, Charlie.
(Dialogue not from above scene)
Writer: J. J. Abrams, Jeff Pinkner, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci
Director: Paul Edwards
Originally aired: September 16, 2008
Synopsis:
A woman conceives, carries to full-term and births a baby in the span of minutes, dying in the process; the baby dies after aging 80 years in three hours. This leads the investigators on a search for a serial killer harvesting brain parts for his own survival and raises questions about biotech cloning of 'cultivated soldiers'. (from Fringepedia)
Hey, everyone, it's the pregnancy horror episode! Good to get this theme out of the way quickly...at least until season 3. (Callbacks: "The Abducted" and "Bloodline"; Penrose's name comes up in "Of Human Action.")
Most Memorable Quote:
BROYLES: Thank you all for convening at this late hour. Forty-three minutes ago, we were alerted to an incident at the Wallace Bromley Medical Center. While the details are still coming in, it appears to be another anomaly whose mysteries and origins remains the sole purpose of this committee. I called you together tonight to introduce you to my new team, who will now be responsible for investigating all these events. Hopefully, they will have more success than our last.
...where is all the fic about the previous team, I ask you.
Links:
Episode transcript
Seriable rewatch, commentary including links to previous rewatches
Polite Dissent, medical/science reviews.
Oh, you say the sweetest things.
Only to you, Charlie.
(Dialogue not from above scene)
Writer: J. J. Abrams, Jeff Pinkner, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci
Director: Paul Edwards
Originally aired: September 16, 2008
Synopsis:
A woman conceives, carries to full-term and births a baby in the span of minutes, dying in the process; the baby dies after aging 80 years in three hours. This leads the investigators on a search for a serial killer harvesting brain parts for his own survival and raises questions about biotech cloning of 'cultivated soldiers'. (from Fringepedia)
Hey, everyone, it's the pregnancy horror episode! Good to get this theme out of the way quickly...at least until season 3. (Callbacks: "The Abducted" and "Bloodline"; Penrose's name comes up in "Of Human Action.")
Most Memorable Quote:
BROYLES: Thank you all for convening at this late hour. Forty-three minutes ago, we were alerted to an incident at the Wallace Bromley Medical Center. While the details are still coming in, it appears to be another anomaly whose mysteries and origins remains the sole purpose of this committee. I called you together tonight to introduce you to my new team, who will now be responsible for investigating all these events. Hopefully, they will have more success than our last.
...where is all the fic about the previous team, I ask you.
Links:
Episode transcript
Seriable rewatch, commentary including links to previous rewatches
Polite Dissent, medical/science reviews.
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Date: 2014-04-04 03:38 pm (UTC)"...as sorry as I was to hear about Doctor Bishop's incarceration, I believe it was the best thing that could ever happen to humanity. No one in power should ever learn what he knows."
The !SKIENCE! in this episode is more ridiculous than usual, in a "lol no" sense.
Previously noted:
+ The elder Penrose got away, never to be seen again. Hmm.
* But what really gets me about this episode? The tesseract. Apparently all in one day: Olivia goes to a crime scene at the hospital at 4:00 a.m., goes to the lab in Cambridge, goes to the hotel where Loraine died, drops by the Federal Building in the middle of Boston, heads back to the lab, drives over to Boston College (west of Boston proper), comes back to the lab, goes to New York to meet with Nina Sharp [at least a four-hour trip by car], comes back with equipment for Walter to do his eyeball experiment, goes to catch Penrose at a warehouse [hey, it’s finally night]. The next day she drops in on Nina and then finishes up at the Federal Building and the lab.
"Bad Dreams" has even worse tesseract whiplash.
Still want the AU where Olivia took Nina up on her offer. (Or an s4 AU where she went to work for MD after college.)
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Date: 2014-04-04 04:16 pm (UTC)Yeah, I was also interested in the Olivia at Massive Dynamic AU. I feel like there are ways in which Nina is not wrong, that it would have been a good fit for her curiosity. And I reallywant the fic where Olivia learns about Jacksonville from Nina while working for her, instead of from Walter.