Actually, my main thought while she was talking him down was something like, Anna Torv, how can you make me actually care about you and Peter when I'd thought I'd checked out entirely? She's just that good, I think.
Seriously. S5 has the raw material for great episodes, but it really struggles on the execution.
(Honestly, as an outside watcher, it seems to me that Peter has a point . . . Peter's plan makes a lot more sense, looking at it logically.)
Ha, yes. We are supposed to take Walter's plan on faith. We're supposed to believe in it, because... Walter is so trustworthy?
Ah, no. Like I said, it doesn't come together for me.
It makes a difference that I didn't actually think she was making a scientific point -- was she? -- I thought she was making a philosophical one, about how their emotions are their human strength.
I would like to buy the philosophical approach you are selling! Especially because, spoilers, it's exactly where the rest of the fifth season is headed! It's tough, though, since Olivia's speech opens with, she saved my life today with the bullet she brought to us. That doesn't strike me as a very philosophical phrasing.
That being said, the Observers used to be able to, like, change up the universe and in fact actually erase things like, oh, parent-kid relationships.
The thing I noticed about the Observers in earlier seasons is that their interference is limited and their reach enigmatic. We're not really sure what they can and can't do. But what the actually do for the most part is either stand around, Prime Directive style, or unleash ridiculous Rube Goldberg-esque chains of events.
Does it feel like their abilities have been changed in the fifth season? Or is this a logical interpretation of their abilities relative to previous seasons? I'm curious to hear other perspectives on this.
...except that S5 makes the Observers some sort of weird cracked-out weakling caricatured-evil version of themselves, so maybe she's right at this point. Who knows, I've lost track of what incarnation of the characters we're at.
I guess that answers the "other perspectives" question. Flat evil is disappointing. Come on, where is complicated opposition? Especially considering the Observers of earlier seasons were a small group who still had diverging agendas (cough August cough).
With respect to tracking character incarnations... I think I need to dig out that gif of Broyles asking Why are shape-shifting soldiers from another universe stealing frozen heads? because the timelines have gotten that silly.
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Date: 2015-05-14 05:24 am (UTC)Seriously. S5 has the raw material for great episodes, but it really struggles on the execution.
(Honestly, as an outside watcher, it seems to me that Peter has a point . . . Peter's plan makes a lot more sense, looking at it logically.)
Ha, yes. We are supposed to take Walter's plan on faith. We're supposed to believe in it, because... Walter is so trustworthy?
Ah, no. Like I said, it doesn't come together for me.
It makes a difference that I didn't actually think she was making a scientific point -- was she? -- I thought she was making a philosophical one, about how their emotions are their human strength.
I would like to buy the philosophical approach you are selling! Especially because, spoilers, it's exactly where the rest of the fifth season is headed! It's tough, though, since Olivia's speech opens with, she saved my life today with the bullet she brought to us. That doesn't strike me as a very philosophical phrasing.
That being said, the Observers used to be able to, like, change up the universe and in fact actually erase things like, oh, parent-kid relationships.
The thing I noticed about the Observers in earlier seasons is that their interference is limited and their reach enigmatic. We're not really sure what they can and can't do. But what the actually do for the most part is either stand around, Prime Directive style, or unleash ridiculous Rube Goldberg-esque chains of events.
Does it feel like their abilities have been changed in the fifth season? Or is this a logical interpretation of their abilities relative to previous seasons? I'm curious to hear other perspectives on this.
...except that S5 makes the Observers some sort of weird cracked-out weakling caricatured-evil version of themselves, so maybe she's right at this point. Who knows, I've lost track of what incarnation of the characters we're at.
I guess that answers the "other perspectives" question. Flat evil is disappointing. Come on, where is complicated opposition? Especially considering the Observers of earlier seasons were a small group who still had diverging agendas (cough August cough).
With respect to tracking character incarnations... I think I need to dig out that gif of Broyles asking Why are shape-shifting soldiers from another universe stealing frozen heads? because the timelines have gotten that silly.