Fringe 4x02 - "One Night in October" (Discussion, Spoilers)
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That's an interesting way to look at it.
I concur with Joe Washington, that is an interesting way to look at things. OTOH, this is TV drama, and as a viewer, I too, feel that Peter's storyline is just way too huge to be teasing along like this, especially when it seems like 4x03 is going to be another FotW type ep.
But it is kinda funny to watch Walter lose his marbles (more than normal) over hearing voices and seeing ghostly images.
I'm not sure why they keep building up to huge season ending episodes and then go back to freak-of-the-week stuff. I wish they had kept building on the mythos, personally.
Definitely an improvement over last week's episode (mainly due to John Pyper-Ferguson) which had been a bit of a disappointment.
Obviously these episodes are trying to be Fotw, business-as-usual-type episodes. No one within the narrative knows anything is different.
On that note I think these two universes may be alternates to our regular two universes. Both of these new ones have there own internally consistent, fully developed histories, just like our normal two. I don't think a history just comes into being, it was always there. When Peter originally turned the machine on, he activated the machine 'over there' as well. Maybe he activated all the alternate machines in all the different universes that contained a fully assembled machine.
I'm not sure if it was Peter who dissappeared after exiting the machine or just our point of view that switched into a different set of two realities where both Peters died as children.
Maybe the apparitions that Walter is experiencing are attempts by our two regular universes to contact these two others. For some reason.
Perhaps I'm over-thinking the plot and it will be a much simpler resolution. Though the promo poster released in the summer sorta hinted at more alternate universes.
On that note I think these two universes may be alternates to our regular two universes. Both of these new ones have there own internally consistent, fully developed histories, just like our normal two. I don't think a history just comes into being, it was always there. When Peter originally turned the machine on, he activated the machine 'over there' as well. Maybe he activated all the alternate machines in all the different universes that contained a fully assembled machine.
I'm not sure if it was Peter who dissappeared after exiting the machine or just our point of view that switched into a different set of two realities where both Peters died as children.
Maybe the apparitions that Walter is experiencing are attempts by our two regular universes to contact these two others. For some reason.
Perhaps I'm over-thinking the plot and it will be a much simpler resolution. Though the promo poster released in the summer sorta hinted at more alternate universes.
You might be overthinking it only from the standpoint that I don't see Abrams and Company going that advanced or intricate with the plotline. Then again I could be wrong; the multiple worlds interpretation pretty much states that there are an infinite number of realities, and Walter himself stated as much in the first season.
Still, that would imply that it's Peter 2.0 trying to break through into this new reality and there are indications that Peter is not going to quite be the same one we know when he does return.
Sure seems it, since Olivia was "kidnapped" to over there--and for only 2 weeks. And since there was no Peter to impregnate Fauxlivia, no baby.
When Peter comes back, will it be like he's always been here (baby's back!) or kinda dropping back into place, so to speak?
I got the idea that "our" non-serial-killer won't become one since, as Olivia said, he doesn't remember Marjorie but remembers what she taught him. Which let Broyles have his Peter-related line about some people leaving indelible marks.
