Season was given to them by FOX to finish the series and it is pretty much a patchwork season with a reset button in the finale. Losing Darin Morgan meant losing some of the more memorable storylines. Personally I wasn't quite as thrilled by the red universe stories as others were. John Noble though was excellent and it's a shame he didn't get an Emmy nod.
Fringe - first time watching
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It's an interesting coincidence that both Eureka and Fringe made permanent alterations to their timelines at the start of their fourth seasons. The only other show I can think of that did a wholesale timeline reboot anything like that was TNT's Witchblade at the end of its first season -- though that wasn't the same, because it basically just turned back time to the pilot and started the whole story over again without even the lead character remembering the prior version of events (I think), and with things inexplicably happening differently even though it supposedly covered the same span of time (so that logically you'd expect a lot of the same crimes and such to be committed).
I can't think of anything quite that big. Buffy had Dawn retroactively added to the timeline for season 5. And "The Big Bang" on Doctor Who undid the present-day events from the first five series of the revivial
In a similar fashion, yet slightly opposite, Angel had Connor erased from people's memories (except Angel & Eve) for Season 5. And therefore a lot of the events of seasons 3 & 4. It was never really made clear how the rest of the gang remembered those years.
Those were more memory alterations than actual timeline alterations, though. But I guess it doesn't make much difference from a storytelling perspective.
I called her "Otherlivia," but it never caught on.
And yes, Fauxlivia was great fun. One thing I liked about Anna Torv right off the bat was her warm smile, but over time, Olivia got so much more somber and closed off. Fauxlivia was a breath of fresh air. And Torv's transformations were amazing. In the first half of season three, she was playing four distinct characters -- Olivia, Fauxlivia, Fauxlivia impersonating Olivia, and Olivia brainwashed into thinking she was Fauxlivia -- and making them all clearly distinct from one another. Like I said, it was the same sort of thing Tatiana Maslany does in Orphan Black, and Torv did it just as well.
Oh, I mentioned Bellivia already, though not by that name. That was utterly astonishing. I'm sure they had Nimoy record the lines so she could study his performance, but her mimicry was uncanny. I mean, I've been listening to Nimoy's voice since I was five years old, and I know his speech patterns as well as I know anyone's -- and I have a very good ear for speech patterns. I can tell when an impression falls short. And while there were moments where Torv's delivery and cadence were a bit off from Nimoy's, there were others where she was just eerily perfect.
Ooh, you know what opportunity they missed? An episode where Olivia and Walter switch bodies. That would've been a cool acting exercise for the show's two most versatile players. After all, John Noble was rather chameleonic himself over the course of the series -- standard Walter, Walternate, younger/amoral Walter, sadder amber-timeline Walter, etc.
Ooh, you know what opportunity they missed? An episode where Olivia and Walter switch bodies. That would've been a cool acting exercise for the show's two most versatile players. After all, John Noble was rather chameleonic himself over the course of the series -- standard Walter, Walternate, younger/amoral Walter, sadder amber-timeline Walter, etc.
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