Fringe: "Peter" 4/1/10 - Grading & Discussion

[Trent Roman]

Note that this 'invasion' has only kicked into high gear two decades after Alt-Peter's abduction. It may very well have taken Walternate a while to figure it out.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[Samurai8472]

I hope they do a 60's or 70's episode with Bell meeting Walter

Fringe credits with mobile phones, GPS

 

[LitmusDragon]

Wow, 43 excellent votes? I really should catch up on this show.

(About 1/4 through the first season still)

 

[Ensign_Redshirt]

I hope they do a 60's or 70's episode with Bell meeting Walter

Does this mean that Zachary Quinto is gonna guest star as young William Bell?

 

[Checkmate]

Wow, 43 excellent votes? I really should catch up on this show.

(About 1/4 through the first season still)

Most of the episodes are rather bland and uninspired; little more than X-Files ripoffs. It's the ones that touch on the show's mythology that get all the acclaim, and that describes this episode to a letter. It's pure mythology.

 

[stj]

^^^There's a lot of truth to that. But the last episode before Peter was Jacksonville. It too was pure mythology. But it centered on Olivia/Anna Torv, and did not get the approval this episode did. Also, this episode contributed not one bit to the overall arc, it just showed us what we had already figured out (except about Nina's arm and as someone said, who cared about that?)

This episode got the raves because of John Noble playing Walter Bishop at the turning point of his life.

 

[Greylock Crescent]

This episode got the raves because of John Noble playing Walter Bishop at the turning point of his life.

You're quite right about Noble's performance. But this episode got raves because not only was it mythology, it was a pure character-driven exploration/tragedy. The whole story, from start to finish, plays like a classic tragedy in the Shakespearean sense: No matter what Walter does, tragedy will ensue. Everything we see from Walter is plausible, but in essence, he's the villain. He's the one to steal a child from the rightful parents. He's the one to open the door between realities. But the brilliance of the episode is that we identify and sympathize with Walter's motivations. Even if he was wrong to do what he did, it's almost impossible to fault the emotional rationale for his choices.

 

[Procutus]

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Well said. As Walter himself said, all of this was in essence his fault, but I could truly feel his pain and understand his motivations.

If he is a villian, he is truly a most human one.