Fringe 4.19 and Supernatural 7.19
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superbadgirlOkay, wha...?
Fascinating 19th episode, really, packed with lots of good stuff and lots of LOL-it's-the-future! stuff. What is it with cheesy "future music" no show can resist when they time jump? And coffee chewing gum (snicker), new tech, old tech that's better than new tech and why do wristwatches still exist? Not to mention, the despotic tyrants complete with their Gestapo-esqe clad army.
Anyway. I knew instantly that the girl was Olivia and Peter's child. The amazingly straight blonde hair gave her away, as did her ability to block the Observers from reading her. While Fringe tried to play that one close to the vest with vague hints, I didn't find those vague hints very vague at all.
All the Observers but September have always creeped me out, so them being evil wasn't a surprise. They've been leading up to that for a while, I think, and it was only made more clear when September when rogue by doing the right thing despite the overriding directive/mission of those jerks.
Simon was love. I really enjoyed him. :(
Walter with his brain put back together (or whatever - I glazed over that whole magic science bit) was rather more ruthless than I was used to. Chopping off Bell's hand? Yikes. I was with Astrid there. Still, it seems apparent Bell had something to do with Olivia getting killed (shot, presumably), and we all know how Walter feels about his Peter and Olivia. We also have seen multiple variations of Walter and know very well how capable he is of being brutally cold.
What I'm wha...? over is the ending. It seemed like a lot of build up for a huge climax, but it just ended with the reveal that Henrietta is Peter and Olivia's girl. Which we all already knew. Are we revisiting this future? I hope so, so they can save Simon and we can see Etta again, and all the special things she can do.
I found the episode satisfying, but totally not at the same time.
1) Annie, a newly made up old hunter friend, calls the boys and we find out (hahaha, brace yourselves, because this is fuh-nny!) that at some point during the course of their made up history, she slept with Bobby, Dean AND Sam. Commence the wink-wink, nudge-nudge "what a slut, but we can't SAY that" insinuations. Really, Supernatural, was that necessary? Rhetorical, because I know the answer is NO. Oh, and they killed her off within three minutes. But don't worry, she got to play Ghost Olympics with Bobby. The huge shame of the whole thing, I think, was that Annie was actually a very cool character. She was tough, smart (except for getting gutted four seconds after walking into a known haunted house), and levelheaded. Come to think of it, she was an awful lot like the lovechild of Ellen Harvelle and Sheriff Jodie Mills. Boilerplate?
2) Supernatural passed Bechdel in this one as Victoria, the fancy lady, and Annie had several interactions. Well, it tiptoed toward passing. This modest achievement was pretty much canceled out by the repeated "fancy lady? you mean hooker?" comment and the fact that, well, both Vicky and Annie got killed.
3) I should have been super excited for a Bobby-heavy episode. You all know how I feel about him. I guess I find Ghost Olympics boring. Mostly, though, it's that I don't agree with his decision to stick around. Dean was not wrong in that classic end episode car conversation. We all know what happens when they start mucking with the supernatural. "Don't worry, Dean, I don't trust Ruby." and "Don't worry, Dean, I can lick that devil and do it alone." <-- Okay, so that one actually worked. Except not really so much at all, in the end. In bringing him back as a ghost and the foreshadowing of how these things end, I have a feeling all we're really going to get is to lose Bobby all over again. And that's pretty shitty.
Mostly, also, I don't agree with the Supernatural PTB for killing him off in the first place.
Fascinating 19th episode, really, packed with lots of good stuff and lots of LOL-it's-the-future! stuff. What is it with cheesy "future music" no show can resist when they time jump? And coffee chewing gum (snicker), new tech, old tech that's better than new tech and why do wristwatches still exist? Not to mention, the despotic tyrants complete with their Gestapo-esqe clad army.
Anyway. I knew instantly that the girl was Olivia and Peter's child. The amazingly straight blonde hair gave her away, as did her ability to block the Observers from reading her. While Fringe tried to play that one close to the vest with vague hints, I didn't find those vague hints very vague at all.
All the Observers but September have always creeped me out, so them being evil wasn't a surprise. They've been leading up to that for a while, I think, and it was only made more clear when September when rogue by doing the right thing despite the overriding directive/mission of those jerks.
Simon was love. I really enjoyed him. :(
Walter with his brain put back together (or whatever - I glazed over that whole magic science bit) was rather more ruthless than I was used to. Chopping off Bell's hand? Yikes. I was with Astrid there. Still, it seems apparent Bell had something to do with Olivia getting killed (shot, presumably), and we all know how Walter feels about his Peter and Olivia. We also have seen multiple variations of Walter and know very well how capable he is of being brutally cold.
What I'm wha...? over is the ending. It seemed like a lot of build up for a huge climax, but it just ended with the reveal that Henrietta is Peter and Olivia's girl. Which we all already knew. Are we revisiting this future? I hope so, so they can save Simon and we can see Etta again, and all the special things she can do.
I found the episode satisfying, but totally not at the same time.
1) Annie, a newly made up old hunter friend, calls the boys and we find out (hahaha, brace yourselves, because this is fuh-nny!) that at some point during the course of their made up history, she slept with Bobby, Dean AND Sam. Commence the wink-wink, nudge-nudge "what a slut, but we can't SAY that" insinuations. Really, Supernatural, was that necessary? Rhetorical, because I know the answer is NO. Oh, and they killed her off within three minutes. But don't worry, she got to play Ghost Olympics with Bobby. The huge shame of the whole thing, I think, was that Annie was actually a very cool character. She was tough, smart (except for getting gutted four seconds after walking into a known haunted house), and levelheaded. Come to think of it, she was an awful lot like the lovechild of Ellen Harvelle and Sheriff Jodie Mills. Boilerplate?
2) Supernatural passed Bechdel in this one as Victoria, the fancy lady, and Annie had several interactions. Well, it tiptoed toward passing. This modest achievement was pretty much canceled out by the repeated "fancy lady? you mean hooker?" comment and the fact that, well, both Vicky and Annie got killed.
3) I should have been super excited for a Bobby-heavy episode. You all know how I feel about him. I guess I find Ghost Olympics boring. Mostly, though, it's that I don't agree with his decision to stick around. Dean was not wrong in that classic end episode car conversation. We all know what happens when they start mucking with the supernatural. "Don't worry, Dean, I don't trust Ruby." and "Don't worry, Dean, I can lick that devil and do it alone." <-- Okay, so that one actually worked. Except not really so much at all, in the end. In bringing him back as a ghost and the foreshadowing of how these things end, I have a feeling all we're really going to get is to lose Bobby all over again. And that's pretty shitty.
Mostly, also, I don't agree with the Supernatural PTB for killing him off in the first place.
