In this episode of The Fringe Podcast we wrap up our rewatch of Fringe season 3 with the episodes, “Stowaway,” “Bloodline,” “LSD,” “6:02 AM EST,” “The Last Sam Weiss,” and “The Day We Died.” Joined by The Fringe Podcast community members Brandon (the Observer), Kathleen, and Erin, we have a lively discussion! We share thoughts and new theories about Mr. X, the impact Peter might have had on William Bell, and the presence of Sam Weiss in the Redverse. We also talk about the Peter/Olivia relationship, First People, easter eggs found in the LSD episode and “future hair.”
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Great job everyone! Observer Brandon was a hoot. Good work from Kathleen and Erin too. Really enjoy hearing the different reactions/interpretations everyone has.
Kudos!
Guess nobody likes the Destiny angle as to why Fauxlivia became pregnant. 😉
Also, the identity of Mr. X has everyone reaching different conclusions. My take was Mr. X was September based on the Season 4 episode The End Of All Things when Peter and September are hooked up together.
September’s display was labelled Mr. X. And September’s interference in the timeline is what leads to Olivia’s death.
Wonderful job covering these awesome eps and being able to maintain control of the podcast even in the presence of an very “amusing” observer. Well done and am sure I will listen to this podcast several times
I never laughed so much during a podcast before, observer Brandon rocks!
Anna Torv doing Nimoys Bell was and is brilliant; she was put on the spot , no warning, no time to prepare, and without any help, no prosthetics etc, we saw a different character and believed it to be Bell.
On top of that Anna Torv had to do most of her scenes with Josh jackosn, who said in EW,com in april last year in an interview with John Noble that he hated what Anna did with Bell.
Always great to have your costars bash you in public, especially by someone who does only seems to be able to play a form of Pacey in everything he does.
Only if Jackson can do a Blair Brown Nina Sharp, he can talk.
StowAway, in the beginning how she switches from Bell to Olivia, and her body control with the epileptic attack, see also 4.14, great.
Anna Torv still does not want to talk about Bell, see TCA in july this year, and with that I am even more surprised that for some reason the only time she gets a compiment from Wyman/Pinkner is for that.
As if all the brilliant versions of Olivia and AltLivia were of no importance at all. For them it is always about Noble, who actually only plays one Walter, in his 60’s or 70’s makes no difference, as he reacts whatever the circumstances. Walternate is whatever the lines say.
The great 3.01 until 3.09 Olivia versions, how she became Altlivia in 3.01 and AltLivia undercover, and the return of Olivia, I still have to keep reminding myself it is one and the same actress.
But neglected by her own production.
Bloodline was a great episode, fantastic acting by Anna, again put on a spot for having to play pregnant and speed birth, circumstances they never put John Noble in.
Last Sam Weiss, beautiful acting form Anna Torv, and in those scenes together with John Noble, but I still hate the fact that after Firefly Olivia has been made so insecure that she needed Walter to tell her what to do.
Compare that to the Olivia in the pilot, and the conclusion is that Olivia was a strong independent woman before the Bishops came back into her life.
I hope season 5 will bring back the Olivia from the pilot, from what I heard Anna say, also on your table, it looks like she will, as Anna also noted somewhere else that she wants Olivia to be forwardmoving, as she has been to much lost and reflective, since midseason 3.
It is already bad enough that Anna is the one that gets a poor mini me Olivia version in Etta, that actually copies Olivia Dunham , imagine giving John Noble or Josh Jackson a copy mini-me of Walter or Peter, that copies their character, I am certain they would not accept that.
I so hate 4.19, so I hope that it will only be the observer part as enemy that will be used in season 5, and the rest will be different.
By far the best period of Fringe is between from Jackosnville (minus the horrible NothWestpassage ) until Marionette, with some greta episodes in S 1 and s 2 before and some in S 3 after.
Season 4 had the great ones in One Night in October, Subject 9, Short Story about Love, and some others, but it ruined a great storyline for Ollvia, who became the ultimate victim and machine instead of the hero and savior.
So Anna Torv is going to play Olivia how she wants Olivia to be, and taht will be the active forwardmoving one that Olivia-fans love.
Thta would bring season 5 in the best period of Fringe episodes.
Great write up on Anna. I love her Acting and that Beautiful lady has really driven this show. How many characters she play? How many Angles she have to approach from the beginning of the show to the end of season 4.
Her acting was superb IMO. After re-watching the soul magnet Eps I thought she did a herald job playing William Bell.
I love the whole cast TBH and I have noticed some signs of these characters playing a tad out role but they have done outstanding Job.
In the Road not taken I can hear Anna’s AU accent come in when she is yelling at Nancy Lewis but I could not Imagine trying to tuck a native tongue aside to sound like a westerner from the states. That has to be tough alone.
Love the Podcasts thanks guys and gals