Fringe -- Season Four

[Dick/babs]

We may have only gotten a little bit of Lincoln but in exchange we got a fair amount of Linclone instead!

I wanted the two to meet

[maczero]

I wonder why the Fringe division on the other side has so much personality compared to our versions (Alt. Astrid & Walternate not included). Even alt. Broyles seems a like more personable.

[Surtur]

So I thought this latest episode was pretty good. The storyline kept me interested throughout the entire thing. Though I'm beginning to wonder exactly how long they are going to wait before they really bring Peter back..

[Pro]

Yea the last part was the best with Walter nearly lobotomizing himself and the fungi storyline was interesting as well.
I think Peter will be slowly reintroduced. It looks like he is "elsewhen" and trying to break through to this timeline with increasing force.

[batGRRRl4ever]

This past weeks episode "Alone in the World" I think is one of the better eps of the entire series, a lot of heart in it. Well my "Nina Sharp might be the future daughter of both Peter & our Olivia" theory was completely debunked with Broyles mentioning both Nina and Massive Dynamic, also I saw that she will be in the episode next week which I give a 'yay!' to as she is my favorite non-central character.

Oh well, I guess I will default back to my original theory that Nina might be a future version of Olivia from yet another alternate universe. There's just so much to mine with Nina, I'd hate it if she's who she is at simply face value, I'd see it as a waste of good potential storytelling.

[Dick/babs]

can any one Gives me a list of FRINGE Mythology episodes I want to re-watche the series but with college I do not have time to watche over 56 episodes With the many TV series I follow

[Chiasm]

Last nights episode was both very good and at the same time very bad.

The character development especially with Walter was excellent but the telepathic fungi storyline was just awful. The whole concept of Fringe is that there is at least some modicum of science in its weirdness but now suddenly we've got a telepathic connection between fungus and a boy based on loneliness. Thats just bad.

[batGRRRl4ever]

Last nights episode was both very good and at the same time very bad.

The character development especially with Walter was excellent but the telepathic fungi storyline was just awful. The whole concept of Fringe is that there is at least some modicum of science in its weirdness but now suddenly we've got a telepathic connection between fungus and a boy based on loneliness. Thats just bad.

Disagree on that, the show is called FRINGE for a reason. It's about the impossiblilities of far out there science. Much of evolution takes millions of years, but sometimes there are sudden evolutionary leaps. I thought the story quite interesting in just how would humanity react to another lifeform on Earth suddenly becoming as intelligent as we are.

[Chiasm]

Disagree on that, the show is called FRINGE for a reason. It's about the impossiblilities of far out there science. Much of evolution takes millions of years, but sometimes there are sudden evolutionary leaps. I thought the story quite interesting in just how would humanity react to another lifeform on Earth suddenly becoming as intelligent as we are.

Evolution is not about "leaps." Its about incremental changes over vast periods of time. This kind of story would work in a comic book where they don't even pretend to have real science matter but Fringe is all about science that could happen in the near future.

[Chiasm]

On the bright side numbers were up for Fringe on a night when most other shows dropped.

[batGRRRl4ever]

Evolution is not about "leaps." Its about incremental changes over vast periods of time. This kind of story would work in a comic book where they don't even pretend to have real science matter but Fringe is all about science that could happen in the near future.

Lol, you realize your arguing for more hard science on a show that does time travel, parallel universes, soul magnets that can insert people's personalities into other people's minds with a simple gong of a bell, etc.

[Chiasm]

Lol, you realize your arguing for more hard science on a show that does time travel, parallel universes, soul magnets that can insert people's personalities into other people's minds with a simple gong of a bell, etc.

Time Travel is theoretically possible, all you have to do is travel really fast. You don't even have to reach the speed of light as relatively effects kick in before then. We can already measure time difference in astronauts who have flown into space. Its an extremely minute amount down to nanoseconds but it does happen. Its actually one of the more plausible things.

Many top scientists already theorize about an infinite number of parallel universes. Fringe's takes a lot of liberties to the point of implausibility but the concept is real. And it actually dovetails with time travel. The parallel universe theory is that there are an infinite # of them where every single possible action by anyone and anything has happened in one of them. An argument against time travel is that if it could happen then why haven't people come back to our time yet. Parallel universe theory would say that they have but we exist in the universe they didn't come back to.

Soul magnets aren't so far fetched either though clearly much further out in the future than our lifetimes What is thought? Its the firing of neurons in your brain affecting other neurons and causing chemical processes to happen. If you can learn to measure these neurons much like we currently measure subatomic particles then its not so far fetched for things like telepathy, mind control, and the like to happen.

A fungus getting lonely and telepathically attaching to a young boy though . . . . . ok maybe if in the future scientists were able to genetically alter the fungus to be intelligent it would be feasible but there was no mention of that in this episode. The fungus just wanted a friend.

[dupersuper]

Soul magnets aren't so far fetched either

For future reference: this is when you lost me.

[Surtur]

I really don't think the connection the kid had with the plant is anymore wacky then anything else they've done. We've had guys gain super powers from using a teleporter, various people with superhuman abilities, monsters, shapeshifters that eat mercury, soul magnets, etc.

[Gizmoduck]

Its nice to see that a mother would know her own son, even when nobody else remembers who Peter is.