So I was trying to keep from doing any more recaps, and for those of you that have been following what I have to say you know for about a week or so I did a lot of really crappy recaps so I told myself no more unless they're for season beginners, and season/possible series finales. Speaking of which I'm going to cap the f-ed up season finale of Psych because I finally watched it and if you have too you’re probably like me:
Trippin!
But back to Fringe. So this week’s episode opened up a lot of questions one that will sub category them all: Is this a possible set up for Season 5? If you read my post a few days ago on Fringe being prepared in case they get cancelled you know about the double season finales they have filmed just and will show depending on the fate of the TV show. But after Friday, I can’t even believe they’re considering cancelling this awesome show. They have a finale taped to set it up for a season five or for a series ender but Friday night’s episode makes me think they were setting it up a little bit there as well.
Friday’s episode went twenty four years into the future where the Observers are no longer observing but controlling us. Why? Whomever the higher being in Fringe only knows. But apparently our lovable team was able to go ahead and create a way of getting rid of the Observers for good, but they were ambushed before they got the chance and Dr. Bishop froze them all in amber. Believing they were dead the world moved on and Fringe division was made into the police force for the enslaved humans.
One Agent of the Fringe division happens to have a contact who found Dr. Bishop. She is also revealed to have a power to keep the Observers from reading her mind; sound like any other “Super powered” blonde female heroine we know? Before her contact can tell her where the rest of team is he's killed. Together, she and her leader, Simon, wake up Dr. Bishop but his mind is off because of being so close to the amber explosion. Paying a visit to Nina they go back to the old Massive Dynamic building which is in "the city" to use the old pieces of Walter’s brain to repair him. I kept asking why “the city” was so bad...and that's when you find out that there are a lot of Observers in the city. I thought there were only Twelve since the one that kept helping the team was named September, man I was wrong.
But they use the old pieces of Walter’s brain to bring him back and, like anyone who was watching this episode would have guessed, the rest of the team is in the old university building. But what people don't expect is in the rest of the amber they find Astrid, Peter...and William Bell. Olivia is nowhere to be seen and after they leave with Peter and Astrid, Astrid asks a really puzzling question about William Bell.
"How could you just leave him? We need him Walter."
"You know what he did to Olivia, not even you are that compassionate. Besides we got all we need." And that's when he shows her he severed Bell’s right hand from the amber. But--WOAH! Not only is Bell alive but he did something so bad to Olivia Walter is unforgivably pissed. Anyway other than that the episode ends with a compassionate hug when Peter realizes the agent that helped him is his and Olivia's daughter, Henrietta Bishop. So the question remains: Is this a possible season 5 set up?
Here's why I'm lost if it is:
1. Bell is alive!
· His consciousness was supposed to be wiped last season so why the heck is suddenly alive!? And with a body!?
2. Olivia is gone.
· You can't have Fringe without her but I'm pretty sure that the new season would take place with them hopefully stopping this future and September coming to help them along the way.
3. Leading to this: Where is September!?
· Walter hints at the fact that September was the one that told him about what the Observers do in the future. So what happened? Last time we saw him he was telling Peter he was home then he vanished like Batman on steroids. So where did he go?
4. Henrietta "Etta" Bishop: What the heck happened to Henry!?
· Obviously the names are similar but September said Henry was born to the wrong Olivia Denim implying they were supposed to have a son no-matter-what? But the timeline has been changed and as I guessed, Olivia and Peters baby is a super baby like John Connor of the Terminator series. So what's going on with that?
All I know is it was a good opened questioned episode and I feel like they're pulling a Ben Ten type deal; where there are many different realities to their future but only one at the current time is the "true" reality. Maybe the Observers were really trying to make sure the events that create them happened. Who knows? I really won’t worry about it as long as FRINGE gets picked up! Anyway, until the next exciting post, According To Michael III, there are so many questions with great potential for great stories.
—Michael III
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