Another fantastic Fringe episode this season even if I prefer a bit the ones before it (it's the difference between rating 9.0 and 9.2). This season Fringe is truly great.
I love how they make the transition between the universe by showing us the same location but with their respective differences.
This season Anna Torv is really showing her acting chops and it's incredible how she does infuse both Olivia with a different energy and mannerisms.
I hope we still see the alternate fringe team solving cases. They are a truly charismatic bunch. Franklin, Charlie, alt-Olivia, their slightly more advanced universe, the bantering between the characters, the differences with us, witty and cool. I miss them already.
Walter was again great in this episode from Vagenda to him trying to cover for Peter to his liberated college year.
I also love the way the alternate universe people are not shown to be evil with a black suit. But just people doing their best to save their world (beside Walternate which is a inhabited with anger, hate and revenge after the lost of his son). When the typewriter store clerk brought the weapon piece and ask for having his legs as promised. I expected the guy to just shoot him as cliche bad guy do. But they didn't. They held up to their end of the bargain. Beautiful.
I loved the scene with Brandon and Walternate in which Brandon suggest to Walternate to cut off Olivia's brain part for study. After watching a lot of CSI medical examiner chopping body part around, it's no surprise such scientific man can see human as meat and think about maximizing their benefit in their war. It was cold!!
It's also great that it's actually the little gastronomical gift brought by alt-livia which were able to crack the case for our team.
The little scene where altliva come back to her team was also great. With Lincoln saying it is as if nothing ever happened. Would have love to see the reaction of Charlie. I also wonder how close Altlivia was to their Broyles. This and her stint in our universe may influence her opinion about the inter-universe war.
Peter got a lot of explaining to do.
9/10
Still don't care for Peter/Olivia shipping. I guess the extra dose of crofexerin{sp} was what allowed her to stick around permanently in our universe insteading of being pulled back--meh--more mumbo jumbo quick fix that I can't stand about Fringe.
I didn't see that coming, and I feel like I did about Charlie. Nooooooo!
