If this were tumblr, I'd be reblogging with additional "I WANT TO BELIEVE" giftset content. "Nothing As It Seems" was not a bad idea, but the execution was... not that brilliant.
Fringe loves iterative stuff! It comes back and circles around to poke at the same themes from different angles! "Nothing As It Seems" should be taking advantage of the wacky fractal-chaos-theory-handwavey nature of the show when it revisits the porcupine case!
This is not what we got.
The show continues to give the Writer Stamp Of Gooey Warm-Hearted Approval to Olivia losing her memories. As much as I like Broyles sticking up for Olivia, the people questioning her choice to toss her memories of the amberverse timeline over the side have some really good points about Olivia's memory loss compromising her effectiveness in the field. And the show continues to steamroll over those in blatant and less than entertaining ways.
The Lincoln B-plot was... frustrating. The AV Club review seems prescient, in light of 4x17, when the reviewer comments, "so while everyone else around him is changing, Lincoln stays the same." But change isn't the only way to judge characterization, and by this point in the season, it feels like the viewers had been shortchanged on Lincoln development. Or maybe I'm just wistful, because slightly bitter not-fitting-in Lincoln was surprisingly entertaining, and I wouldn't have minded Fringe doing more along those lines.
Is there any point in mentioning the silliness of the science? I could mention several things about the wacky human-mutating virus, and Walter's lab tests, which pretty much boil down to "science and medical advisors: use 'em."
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Date: 2015-03-16 05:37 am (UTC)Fringe loves iterative stuff! It comes back and circles around to poke at the same themes from different angles! "Nothing As It Seems" should be taking advantage of the wacky fractal-chaos-theory-handwavey nature of the show when it revisits the porcupine case!
This is not what we got.
The show continues to give the Writer Stamp Of Gooey Warm-Hearted Approval to Olivia losing her memories. As much as I like Broyles sticking up for Olivia, the people questioning her choice to toss her memories of the amberverse timeline over the side have some really good points about Olivia's memory loss compromising her effectiveness in the field. And the show continues to steamroll over those in blatant and less than entertaining ways.
The Lincoln B-plot was... frustrating. The AV Club review seems prescient, in light of 4x17, when the reviewer comments, "so while everyone else around him is changing, Lincoln stays the same." But change isn't the only way to judge characterization, and by this point in the season, it feels like the viewers had been shortchanged on Lincoln development. Or maybe I'm just wistful, because slightly bitter not-fitting-in Lincoln was surprisingly entertaining, and I wouldn't have minded Fringe doing more along those lines.
Is there any point in mentioning the silliness of the science? I could mention several things about the wacky human-mutating virus, and Walter's lab tests, which pretty much boil down to "science and medical advisors: use 'em."