Fringe: "Peter" 4/1/10 - Grading & Discussion
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I believe he said something about the water helping to absorb the energy (that was probably created by opening the door).
Incredible episdode!!
Heroes is probably dead
Quinto is still a TV actor
has an Abrams connections
Maybe he would have been too young to portray 1985 William Bell.
And yeah Walter can tell Peter it was all a bad dream
So what's the opposite of jumping the shark? That was a really great episode.
I felt bad for alternate Walter and his wife, I wonder what happened there, from her perspective the last she saw of her son was him leaving with her husband after being told to explicitly stay behind. Assuming he is free due to lack of evidence that has to have killed their relationship right there and losing his son in that way would have to make the other Walter even more unhinged than ours.
EDIT: Looking back I missed it but I see this has already been discussed.
I felt bad for alternate Walter and his wife, I wonder what happened there, from her perspective the last she saw of her son was him leaving with her husband after being told to explicitly stay behind. Assuming he is free due to lack of evidence that has to have killed their relationship right there and losing his son in that way would have to make the other Walter even more unhinged than ours.
EDIT: Looking back I missed it but I see this has already been discussed.
I would say Peter doesnt remember because A. He was burning up with high fever, and then B. dumped into an icey lake. So he believes Walters cover story about the car crashing through the ice.
A most excellent episode.
Questions? Why if the tech for peering into the other universe exists wouldnt the other side have done it first? If they did, why use a typewriter to communicate instead of just firing up the device and talking to each other? Speech is just evergy like light and should travel through easily.
I am almost sure now that Walter was interacting with Walternate in the asylum in season 1 and only thought he was crazy.
A most excellent episode.
Questions? Why if the tech for peering into the other universe exists wouldnt the other side have done it first? If they did, why use a typewriter to communicate instead of just firing up the device and talking to each other? Speech is just evergy like light and should travel through easily.
I am almost sure now that Walter was interacting with Walternate in the asylum in season 1 and only thought he was crazy.
^^ Speech isn't going to travel unless it could vibrate the air in our universe.
Maybe by the time that Walter went insane, the Walternate invented a way to "project" himself into his reality and was trying to find out what happened with Peter...
I was wondering about that myself. The answer we got in the episode is that the other universe is more advanced in some areas, which means they're also less advanced in others (such as, dimensional windows.) But...
I wonder if there's a direction to all this. If you'll just bear with my amateur physics: usual multiverse theory says there should be many parallel realities out there. Yet we seem to only be interacting with one, neighbouring universe; certainly the window consistently showed the same reality. Walter said something about capturing residual photons--but (quite apart from the idea that photon travel between dimensions) who is to say it goes both ways? The spatiality of 'neighbouring' realities leads me to picture the multiverse in a stack, and there may be a direction to this stack which is the natural flow of things like photons. We're 'downstream' from that reality, if you will, picking up their quantum residue. So if the other reality created a window, the reality they would see is not ours, but the next reality up the stream, the one shedding its photons into their universe. And by the same token, there's probably another universe downstream of us, which could watch us usign the window. This could also explain why it was so easy for Walter to cross-over there, but it seems so much harder for Walternate and his agents to cross over to our reality--they're going against the natural flow between universes, going against the current so to speak. The Observers, on the other hand, are not bound to any particular reality, but travel between universes with ease: so to explain their vanishing act, they actually 'step' into an adjacant universe.
That's my theory, anyway. More interesting than 'they just didn't invent it'.
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
^ I imagine they knew that making the episode.
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
I have a feeling there's going to be a walter v walter showdown before this is all done with.
^^ I like how Personal Computing is one of the things listed.
That opening was great, all of the 'fringe sciences' of 1985 are considered normal and almost mundane now.
^ Oh come on! There will never be personal computers. They take up entire rooms! 
When Walter gets the window to work in 2010, he'll see Caprica starring Michael J. Fox.
In a TV interview with Joshua Jackson, he said it would be fun if Peter became the bad guy in season 3, but that's just what he said.
So the blond assistant, she's the one who dies in the fire?
I was trying to figure out where I've seen Irish Claudia Black before (Walter's wife) and she played James Woods' ex-wife on Shark, when they recast her and suddenly the character ceased to be a blond American.
When Walter gets the window to work in 2010, he'll see Caprica starring Michael J. Fox.
In a TV interview with Joshua Jackson, he said it would be fun if Peter became the bad guy in season 3, but that's just what he said.
So the blond assistant, she's the one who dies in the fire?
I was trying to figure out where I've seen Irish Claudia Black before (Walter's wife) and she played James Woods' ex-wife on Shark, when they recast her and suddenly the character ceased to be a blond American.
MeanJoePhaser
Admiral
Yeah, we take cold fusion for granted now.
That's an interesting theory, one that I hadn't considered before.
Now, I think that it's entirely possible.
DonnyBaker
Lieutenant
That was an excellent episode. I also like how this episode sets up alot of interesting possibilities.
And about back to the future...
Michael J. Fox was the first choice to play Marty McFly, but he was committed to the show Family Ties. So Eric Stoltz was cast.
But... Four weeks into filming, Zemeckis decided Stoltz was miscast. Spielberg explained Zemeckis felt Stoltz was too humorless and gave a "terrifically dramatic performance". So they begged for and got Michael J Fox...
And about back to the future...
Michael J. Fox was the first choice to play Marty McFly, but he was committed to the show Family Ties. So Eric Stoltz was cast.
But... Four weeks into filming, Zemeckis decided Stoltz was miscast. Spielberg explained Zemeckis felt Stoltz was too humorless and gave a "terrifically dramatic performance". So they begged for and got Michael J Fox...
