Fringe: "The Road Not Taken" 5/5 - Grading & Discussion

[Mr Light]

This was a good episode. Dunham randomly flashing into a parallel universe was cool, though it didn't really go anywhere. Gosh what a shocker that the asshole boss turned out to be evil I'm disappointed they killed off cyber-hand lady. She didn't appear for like ten episodes and they bring her back just to kill her off? Can't wait to see where the Observer takes Walter! The finale should be cool.

 

[Mr Light]

Robo-Hand Lady gets off the elevator and there's two dudes in ski masks who shoot and kill her. The end.

 

[Othello]

Thanks much. Appreciate the info.

 

[Forbin]

Yeah, does Idol HAVE to run overtime every. single. frigging. time? There have been live shows down thru TV history that have stuck to a schedule with no trouble.

 

[sidious618]

Ok.. American Idol me again and I missed the last minute or two fo the show. It cut off just as the lady from massive Dynamics was getting on the elevator. So what happened at the end there? Can someone please tell me?

Guys in masks shot her. Unknown if she's dead.

 

[Forbin]

Oh yeah - after the melted-window-recording-sound explanation, my wife and I looked at each other, and said "Oh, bullshit!" at the same time.

 

[May 20]

Hubby said the same thing about the window recording to me, too.

I'm pretty good at suspending disbelief for the sake of the story, especially for a show of this nature. I just rolled with it.

 

[Roshi]

Actually that scene reminded me of an old MacGuyver episode (aren't they all 'old'?) where some spy used a laser beam directed to a window that could "read" the vibrations made by the speech sounds...

 

[hyzmarca]

Laser microphone. They're real, they work, you can buy one, or build one. They've been around since the 50s.

The issue here is the lack of a linear tracks. Though the vibrations would affect the shape of the molten glass, there would be no way to chronologically order them.

 

[Roshi]

Hey, where's your suspension of disbelief?

 

[Michael Chris]

If you're going to go after Fringe for science, well don't start with the record player!

 

[Worf2DS9]

According to next week's preview that I saw here...

Spoiler: Next week's preview:

...the Massive Dynamics lady appears alive and well. Maybe those goons shot her with a tranquilizer gun?

 

[LutherSloan]

I'm guessing next week's finale is going to be some kind of cliffhanger, I just can't imagine it being anything else.

 

[Aragorn]

I wonder if this parallel universe thing will allow them to bring back John Scott if Mark Valley's new show tanks.

 

[PurpleBuddha]

So did the episode make it obvious that Walter is the one who wrote the ZFT manuscript?

 

[Mr Light]

The typewriter was William Bell's, Walter just had it in the present. So Bell wrote the ZFT Manifesto, which included an ethics chapter that the bad guys ripped out. So basically Bell wasn't all evil but his cause was later perverted by others.

 

[Hyperspace05]

The typewriter was William Bell's, Walter just had it in the present. So Bell wrote the ZFT Manifesto, which included an ethics chapter that the bad guys ripped out. So basically Bell wasn't all evil but his cause was later perverted by others.

We don't know that for sure... That's just Walter's speculation. (or wishful/in denial thinking) From what we have heard about Bell in the past he certainly seemed more sinister/aggressive in his experiments.

But I'm suspecting it isn't as simple as Bell just running ZFT... I expect us to see many factions in this inter-dimensional war.

Otherwise I gave this episode Above Average. My major issue is with how her boss was handled. A bit of a cop-out. I wish he had just been a regular power-hungry a-hole. Sometimes an a-hole is just an a-hole, not a villain.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

The latter part of this episode reminded me a lot of the first episode of Eleventh Hour, at least the UK version. I don't know how many people would have seen both to make the comparison but I got a strange deja vu from that.

And damned Fox just killed the parting shot for us time-shifters. I need to remember to add a few to my recording next time (which is a pain in the ass).

 

[Hyperspace05]

And damned Fox just killed the parting shot for us time-shifters. I need to remember to add a few to my recording next time (which is a pain in the ass).

After being burned the 1st time I set my Tivo to record an extra 30 mins of every episode. ^&&*(&*( FOX and crap Idol.

 

[Checkmate]

I'm pretty sure (and this is just speculation; hardly a spoiler) that Robo-Hand Lady is actually from the parallel universe. That horrible wig she wears hides the tell-tale baldness that the Observer and psychic kid had.

Likewise it's pretty obvious that her comment that Bell is "traveling" indicated that he was jumping between universes, not off flying to a foreign country. This is why she's so loyal to him; he probably rescued her from one of the more disasterous universes.