Fringe: From where do the Observers originate?

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Working our way through the Season 3 DVDs, we just watched the episode 'The Firefly', one of the best eps in the Observer arc. To me, they're one of the most intriguing and mysterious aspects about the show.

Their origin is unclear, but these seem to be the most likely possibilities.

 

[CaptainCanada]

They move between the two universes at will (and seemingly without damaging the boundaries between them), and there appears to be only one set, so I don't think they're native to either one.

 

[sojourner]

I think they originated from the single universe from which the 2 current universes split in two.

 

[Checkmate]

With the producer's track record and the way the last finale ended, I doubt even the writer's have a clue and are just throwing them in cause it's "cool." Much like most of the mysteries on Lost that didn't make a lick of sense.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

They're made out of coherent graviton fields so they can penetrate between branes at will. Walter will accidentally bring them into being when he uses a retrovirus to get Gene to produce strawberry flavoured milk.

 

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My own thoughts are that they come from a dimension that isn't a normal 'universe' per se, and for whatever reason, that gives them the ability to move at will from ours to the alt-verse without causing structural damage to either side.

Then again, perhaps J.J. & Co. haven't figured it out yet. It wouldn't surprise if they had no real clue either.

 

[spooky spice]

I'm liking this "They're from neither of the two known universes, but a third one we haven't seen." idea, makes the most sense (well to me anyways!)

 

[ManOnTheWave]

I sometimes wonder if they are from the future, after a point which the conflict in the multiverse is resolved, perhaps by creating one coherent universe by uniting the fractured parts. I, of course, am basing this on nothing at all.

 

[Obiwanshinobi]

I think the real question is what's their obsession with hot sauce?

 

[Mistral]

I sometimes wonder if they are from the future, after a point which the conflict in the multiverse is resolved, perhaps by creating one coherent universe by uniting the fractured parts. I, of course, am basing this on nothing at all.

Not such a bad theory. They comment about the future pre-disposition of characters and events when they appear-and the one that

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died seemed to have disrupted the natural flow of events aka the time stream.

So it's possible, I guess.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Along the lines of what Manonthewave said, I guess the Observers will turn out to be similar to the Eternals from Isaac Asimov's The End of Eternity.

 

[Checkmate]

I think the real question is what's their obsession with hot sauce?

That was explained early on. Their sense of taste is extremely mute, so they use tons of hot sauce so they can actually taste something.

 

[Obiwanshinobi]

Ah ok, coming back to me now.

 

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I sometimes wonder if they are from the future, after a point which the conflict in the multiverse is resolved, perhaps by creating one coherent universe by uniting the fractured parts. I, of course, am basing this on nothing at all.

I like this idea, that thought hadn't occured to me when I set this up. I wonder if this is the way Team Abrams is going to go.

 

[Canadave]

Personally, I suspect they either are, or are related to The First People.

 

[Bob Morton]

^So the Observers are descendants of negated alternate future versions of the main characters.

 

[sojourner]

Personally, I suspect they either are, or are related to The First People.

The main characters are the first people.

 

[Meredith]

I think the real question is what's their obsession with hot sauce?

There are evolved from dinosaurs that survived the extinction event. Why Hot sauce? Birds can eat hot sauce but mammals can't without feeling the "burn" of peppers. And since birds are derived from dinosaurs (therapods), ipso facto the Observers are evolved humanoid dinosaurs.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

I think the real question is what's their obsession with hot sauce?

There are evolved from dinosaurs that survived the extinction event. Why Hot sauce? Birds can eat hot sauce but mammals can't without feeling the "burn" of peppers. And since birds are derived from dinosaurs (therapods), ipso facto the Observers are evolved humanoid dinosaurs.

Ugh, suddenly I'm reminded of that godawful Voyager episode where the crew encounters a giant alien ship full of descendants of the dinosaurs.

 

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Yeah. That one was bad.