Well, sure, the science on the show is always inaccurate to real world science, but there's a difference between distracting bad science and nondistracting bad science. This will differ for different people, depending on their scientific background, but I found the bad science in this episode particularly distracting.
I'm sorry you think I was trashing Olivia. That was not the intention, but I do think her feelings about Massive Dynamic deserve a little more critical thought. She's crawling deeper and deeper into bed with this corporation that thus far has been involved in disturbing ways with a lot of amoral technology use, and I think it's weird that Olivia draws that line at having knowledge that Massive Dynamic has been engaged in routine investigation of its corporate competitors.
In this episode, ultimately, Nina Sharp uses Olivia as her stalking horse to take down a competitor- and Olivia is aware of this, and she willingly does it because Olivia is relentless in her pursuit of the truth and justice for the underdog. The bargain in this episode may be explicitly between Peter and Nina, but ultimately it's one more brick in the relationship between Olivia and Nina, and my whole point is that Nina has to know that for Olivia the partnership is always going to be secondary to her relentless pursuit of the truth and justice for the underdog. If Olivia ever tumbles to anything evil that she believes Nina has done, she won't stop until she's destroyed Nina, until she's taken Nina out in the same way she took out Esterbrook... That's the monster I'm talking about. With every move where Nina helps raise Olivia's personal stature within the Fringe Division, she's empowering the bulldog who will bring her down if Nina ever exposes herself and Massive Dynamic, with no thought given to any favors Nina may have done for her in the past.
Olivia values loyalty, but she values honesty and humanity more. Loyalty she will trample on, just look at poor Charlie Francis and all the things she's asked him to do.
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Date: 2014-04-20 07:06 pm (UTC)I'm sorry you think I was trashing Olivia. That was not the intention, but I do think her feelings about Massive Dynamic deserve a little more critical thought. She's crawling deeper and deeper into bed with this corporation that thus far has been involved in disturbing ways with a lot of amoral technology use, and I think it's weird that Olivia draws that line at having knowledge that Massive Dynamic has been engaged in routine investigation of its corporate competitors.
In this episode, ultimately, Nina Sharp uses Olivia as her stalking horse to take down a competitor- and Olivia is aware of this, and she willingly does it because Olivia is relentless in her pursuit of the truth and justice for the underdog. The bargain in this episode may be explicitly between Peter and Nina, but ultimately it's one more brick in the relationship between Olivia and Nina, and my whole point is that Nina has to know that for Olivia the partnership is always going to be secondary to her relentless pursuit of the truth and justice for the underdog. If Olivia ever tumbles to anything evil that she believes Nina has done, she won't stop until she's destroyed Nina, until she's taken Nina out in the same way she took out Esterbrook... That's the monster I'm talking about. With every move where Nina helps raise Olivia's personal stature within the Fringe Division, she's empowering the bulldog who will bring her down if Nina ever exposes herself and Massive Dynamic, with no thought given to any favors Nina may have done for her in the past.
Olivia values loyalty, but she values honesty and humanity more. Loyalty she will trample on, just look at poor Charlie Francis and all the things she's asked him to do.