1x11: Bound
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fringe_rewatchAnd we're back!
Because "Safe" ended in a cliffhanger, with Jones escaping and Olivia being kidnapped, and "Bound" at least partially resolves that in what has to be the longest before the credit sequence I have ever seen, the episodes together almost work like a two-parter. I liked "Bound" much more than "Safe"; however, I liked "Safe" more after having watched "Bound."
Onward.
Writers: J.J. Abrams, Jeff Pinkner, Alex Kurtzman, and Roberto Orci
Director: Frederick E.O. Toye
Originally aired: 20 Jan 2009
Synopsis: After they inject an unknown substance into her spine, Olivia manages to escape her captors. Fortunately, since the warehouse where she was held is empty before the FBI assault team arrives, she's taken some evidence with her and hidden it. By coincidence (or not?) an old adversary, Sanford Harris, has been sent by the Pentagon to do an internal audit of Fringe Division. Also, not by coincidence, an infectious disease specialist has died mid-lecture in a bizarre and exciting way. Olivia's team is called in to investigate. We also learn that Olivia has a sister, Rachel, and a niece, Ella, who is pictured above with her Magic Eight Ball.
Most Memorable Quote:
PETER: Get it, get it. get it!
(Walter regains his focus and throws a wastebasket over the organism)
WALTER (beaming happily): Things like this used to happen in the lab all the time. Makes me nostalgic.
Matchmaker!Walter:
Walter: I was worried when you were taken, too.
Olivia: Thank you, Walter.
Walter: Not as much as him, of course.
Peter: Walter.
Links:
transcript
A.V. Club Review
And for anyone who wasn't certain, from Popular Mechanics: Could Someone Really Teleport Out of Jail?
Fanfiction:
No, sorry. There should be. WRITE SOME!
Because "Safe" ended in a cliffhanger, with Jones escaping and Olivia being kidnapped, and "Bound" at least partially resolves that in what has to be the longest before the credit sequence I have ever seen, the episodes together almost work like a two-parter. I liked "Bound" much more than "Safe"; however, I liked "Safe" more after having watched "Bound."
Onward.
Writers: J.J. Abrams, Jeff Pinkner, Alex Kurtzman, and Roberto Orci
Director: Frederick E.O. Toye
Originally aired: 20 Jan 2009
Synopsis: After they inject an unknown substance into her spine, Olivia manages to escape her captors. Fortunately, since the warehouse where she was held is empty before the FBI assault team arrives, she's taken some evidence with her and hidden it. By coincidence (or not?) an old adversary, Sanford Harris, has been sent by the Pentagon to do an internal audit of Fringe Division. Also, not by coincidence, an infectious disease specialist has died mid-lecture in a bizarre and exciting way. Olivia's team is called in to investigate. We also learn that Olivia has a sister, Rachel, and a niece, Ella, who is pictured above with her Magic Eight Ball.
Most Memorable Quote:
PETER: Get it, get it. get it!
(Walter regains his focus and throws a wastebasket over the organism)
WALTER (beaming happily): Things like this used to happen in the lab all the time. Makes me nostalgic.
Matchmaker!Walter:
Walter: I was worried when you were taken, too.
Olivia: Thank you, Walter.
Walter: Not as much as him, of course.
Peter: Walter.
Links:
transcript
A.V. Club Review
And for anyone who wasn't certain, from Popular Mechanics: Could Someone Really Teleport Out of Jail?
Fanfiction:
No, sorry. There should be. WRITE SOME!
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Date: 2014-05-14 03:35 pm (UTC)That said, there are some problems. Macro cold viruses? OOOOOOK. Even knowing what ZFT is up to, I can't figure out why they do the things they do. And I don't think anything Loeb said after being taunted by his interrogator would hold up in court. Guantanamo for him, I guess.
Walter and Peter were excellent comic relief. "You're like a question machine!"
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Date: 2014-05-16 03:21 am (UTC)This is a good point. I didn't understand why Olivia chose to confront Samantha Loeb after Peter's warning. This makes more sense with what you've pointed out.
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Date: 2014-05-16 06:31 pm (UTC)If Loeb had asked for a lawyer, that would ended it, and in real life an FBI agent being accused of a crime would have done so. Instead, the writers have him ask for his wife, which unless she was also his lawyer, made no sense at all. That was a real WTF moment for me.
Olivia's anger toward the man who abducted her, strapped her to a table, and injected something into her spinal column seems justified and completely understandable to me. This same man had instructed his wife to kill Olivia because he knew she was on to them.
Olivia's trying to obtain a confession, using pretty standard interrogation techniques.
I am curious if you would describe the same or similar behavior by a male law enforcement officer as "nasty"?
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Date: 2014-05-18 02:10 am (UTC)From a strictly legal angle, yes Loeb should have known to ask for a lawyer.
But now I'm really confused by Loeb's/ZFT's motivations. Loeb claims they saved her - but had told his wife to kill her. Make's no sense, plotwise.
I am curious if you would describe the same or similar behavior by a male law enforcement officer as "nasty"?
Taunting a suspect with his dead wife - that Olivia had killed - is nasty no matter the gender involved. It worked out to Olivia's favor in this instance, but there were so many ways it could have gone wrong.
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Date: 2014-05-18 03:06 am (UTC)I think Anna Torv really starts to come into her own playing Olivia in this episode. She was probably a little bland to carry a series prior to this. But I'm more interested in her character now.
Philip Loeb is a ruthless terrorist, a murderer, and a zealot. Guantanomo would be too good for him as far as I'm concerned.
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Date: 2014-05-16 12:17 am (UTC)Rachel and Ella! Wonderful. I don't think I need to elaborate on that.
F+ technique for a spinal tap, but the scene was appropriately creepy for ZFT. Let the inconsistency with Cortexiphan begin!
Viruses are NOT cells. I mean really, for a show that went as far as to mention specific proteins involved in fetal development, this just seems lazy.
Harris, the petty tyrant, a believable villain. I like his introduction as a way to bring Olivia's problems down to earth and to add another dimension to her role as an FBI agent. They could have just said, that's not really our show, and left out the challenges Olivia would face as a woman in the FBI altogether but they didn't. Good job, Fringe.
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Date: 2014-05-16 06:35 pm (UTC)I am curious to read what you think of the brain-liquefying computer program in "No-Brainer"...
Harris, the petty tyrant, a believable villain. I like his introduction as a way to bring Olivia's problems down to earth and to add another dimension to her role as an FBI agent. They could have just said, that's not really our show, and left out the challenges Olivia would face as a woman in the FBI altogether but they didn't. Good job, Fringe.
That is a really good point, and not one I would have thought of. Personally I can't stand the character and can't wait for his grisly death.
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Date: 2014-05-18 09:25 pm (UTC)Always the relationshipper, I enjoyed the sudden foregrounding of Peter's attraction to Olivia. As noted and mentioned by Walter, our in-house shipperfan. A little pointed, but believable. Peter really *noticed* Olivia during their date in the bar, and having seen her in action he, the erstwhile tough guy, is intrigued. And of course Walter wants grandchildren.
Of course it is possible that Peter wants to be emasculated.
The fight with Mrs. Loeb was great. Scully never got to do that stuff. Only in Mulder's dreams.
No--I also do not get the plot. But enjoying.
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Date: 2014-05-18 09:36 pm (UTC)I don't ship Peter and Olivia but Matchmaker!Walter is the best.
They spent a lot of time choreographing the fight scene between Olivia and Mrs. Loeb according to the extras on my DVDs.