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.
Ah, this is my really wanting to believe (ha!), I think. Being someone who absolutely believes in the power of probability and the law of large numbers, and therefore in coincidence — unlike Fringe (and this is one of my BIGGEST PET PEEVES with Fringe, okay, fine, totally misrepresent quantum entanglement, who really cares except me, it's not like we see quantum in everyday life, but PROBABILITY, people, like wendahl1 said, what the world apparently needs is more psychobabble about this kind of stuff to mislead people about what they see every day!) — I, of course, see the bullet saving her life as a complete coincidence and a philosophical way that humans bring meaning to something that doesn't in fact have meaning at all. (I was also thinking about this Dear Sugar column — the last letter, and as usual for Dear Sugar, warnings for emotionality, etc.)
But now that you mention it, Olivia… almost certainly meant it as a Statement of Science, like you are saying, and not philosophical like I reeeeally want it to be. ARGH FRINGE WHY IS YOUR SCIENCE SO BAD. SO BAD I BLOCK OUT HOW BAD IT IS.
I also seem to have benefited from watching this episode in bits and pieces, because this reminds me that I objected really strenuously to the speech she gave to the electromagnet woman for many of the same reasons — and it occurs to me that her speech to Peter is supposed to, natch, be all of a theme with that. But I could cheerfully disassociate them since I watched them a week apart :)
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Ah, this is my really wanting to believe (ha!), I think. Being someone who absolutely believes in the power of probability and the law of large numbers, and therefore in coincidence — unlike Fringe (and this is one of my BIGGEST PET PEEVES with Fringe, okay, fine, totally misrepresent quantum entanglement, who really cares except me, it's not like we see quantum in everyday life, but PROBABILITY, people, like
But now that you mention it, Olivia… almost certainly meant it as a Statement of Science, like you are saying, and not philosophical like I reeeeally want it to be. ARGH FRINGE WHY IS YOUR SCIENCE SO BAD. SO BAD I BLOCK OUT HOW BAD IT IS.
I also seem to have benefited from watching this episode in bits and pieces, because this reminds me that I objected really strenuously to the speech she gave to the electromagnet woman for many of the same reasons — and it occurs to me that her speech to Peter is supposed to, natch, be all of a theme with that. But I could cheerfully disassociate them since I watched them a week apart :)