"Episode 1.09"

"Just your average multinational corporation specializing in secret bioresearch and defense contracting."
"Dreamscape" had a great episode intro, one of the best! But I SO wanted it to be real killer butterflies with razor wings. And I wish that J.J's shows would stop using the word b#st#rd (and SOB). :-p

So, Dunham actually has friends in the real world. But duty calls of course and it's back to work for her, where she gets another glimpse of Scott at the scene of the accident. And Nina was back in all her slippery corporate presence, but Dunham gets a zinger in as to Nina's clinical attitude towards the death of her employee. I really liked her explanation though: "Where one's domain includes the cutting edge of science, there is a risk of exposure to ideas that aren't easy to reconcile...for some it's too much to take." Or, a little too much immorality going on for their conscience to reconcile maybe Nina? A great load of BS-corporate-speak there -- she probably knows what happened, but it was a great line for her cover-up angle.

There is no way that I would have opened those thumping cargo boxes in the storage building like Dunham did, geez. The frog-juice causing vivid hallucinations and physical manifestations is a lot like the poison on the darts in the movie "Young Sherlock Holmes", a little known Spielberg film that should have had many sequels (I highly recommend it for family viewing as long as the little ones aren't scared by some murderous Egyptian cultists, which is actually tame by today's standards). Why did Dunham see the butterflies wiggle though, did she maybe get a whiff of the frog juice in the victim's apartment?

Pete's personal background story is dangerously creeping into his new life some more. And Dunham's second dip in the tank brings her closer to the threat of insanity, according to Walter. I'm beginning to wonder if Walter spent too many "adult swim" moments in the tank himself, which might be what sent his mind over the edge and his body into the funny-farm. I also think that Scott's brain is being kept "alive" at MD in a petri dish which is why he was able to acknowledge Dunham in their shared consciousness during her isolation tank moment. :-) Great epsiode all around, I thought, I enjoyed it.

"Episode 1.08"

"Does anyone care what I think?"
This post is too little too late because I sprained my right wrist badly last Tuesday, and wasn't able to do much. I'm "mousing" with my left hand which is very awkward (kind of like rubbing your stomach and patting your head at the same time), so I've kept my interweb activities to the important things, like blogging on the Lost blogs! Heheh.

Gosh, Walter really broke my heart in this episode. John Noble is such an incredible actor, I just wanted to jump into the screen and hug Walter! In the scenes where he was going back to the asylum, and when he was in it, you could really sense Walter's apprehensions and fears. Maybe it's just because when I was a kid some old movies that I had watched made me afraid that someone would commit me and I'd never get out again (maybe it was that movie The Snakepit that clinched it for me), but to me those were some of the most moving scenes in the series so far. We also witness Walter having visions of himself in the asylum. I wonder if he's had those before (and we just don't know it yet) or if it's happening to him only since he was put back behind the padded walls. It was kind of like Walter's sane self was watching over him, and was there to make sure that Walter didn't lose it again. Sort of like, "Stay with me Walter, don't go back there." I hope that we find out what that was all about soon.

The science was interesting this week, something about making solids penetrable, and the similarities between math and music. Any musicians out there who can give some insight on that subject?

We are finally shown blatant applications of the GGGRs (green, green, green, red lights) that have shown up as easteregg clues since the beginning (see FringeTelevision for details). We now know that it can be used somehow for hypnoses among other things. Dunham was amazingly void again this week, haha, and when she was standing near the hotel (or whatever it was) talking on the phone I was screaming, "Red castle! Red castle!" to her on the TV. :-)

"Episode 1.07"

"Sie haben keine zeit mehr!"
This week's episode is very faced-paced (not like they all aren't), trying to find answers before an entity that reminds me of the giant man-eating flower in "Little Shop Of Horrors" chomps on an agent's heart (but wasn't his purr so cuddly?!). And yes, we get another infected body in the lab with few Hazmat precautions (somebody call OSHA on these guys!), and more electrical hookups to brains (poor Pete finds out that this isn't his first time).

It is mentioned that someone is "trafficking scientific progress" and that doesn't sound good. To me that could mean that someone is doing nefarious para-scientific work that's going to the lowest (or highest, depending on what the goal is) bidder, and "They" don't much care how the goal is reached just as long as it is reached. It also makes me think that "They" are assigning different jobs to different "vendors", much like most corporate work is vended out nowadays, only the purpose here is to keep all the labs in the network separate and ignorant of what all the other projects might be. It's also a good idea to spread out your work if you are trying to keep it hidden, i.e., if a project is found at one location, all the other locations are safe and still have to be tracked down...in which case you have time to move the lab or obscure as necessary. I hope that it doesn't take too long to get into the meat of these elements. But still most everything here is happening in and around "Bahston", Mass.

Walter is especially annoying to Broyles in this caper, so I'm wondering if there is an approaching confrontation between them at some point that will reveal that they have a connection like all the others that link Walter to MD, the Observer, etc. I didn't quite understand all the code business, so I'll have to watch it again to try to get that straightened out in my head. I'll take some help on that too. :-) It doesn't seem like Fringe fans are taking apart the elements on this show in detail yet (you know, the way we do for Lost), I wish that I could find a blog that did - maybe it's out there but I just haven't found it yet. I feel as if I am missing a lot of important obscure points.

Observer was spotted in the German airport, I missed catching him this time, but I forgot to pay attention. Take a look at the episode comments on Fringe-Television to get the translations of all the German spoken in the prison (thanks to Steven!). I was very intrigued by what the prisoner was saying to Dunham about who she is supposed to trust, or not. I mean, it's obvious that there are some shady confidences going on here such as between Broyles and Nina (hey, where's Nina been?!), and Dunham and Scott, but is there an even more surprising "criss-cross" to surface in the future? And I have to say that the twist at the end really tricked me, I wasn't expecting that at all.