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After 3 lacklustre episodes and one pretty good, Fringe is once again awesome as this is the first episode of Season 5 that is just as good as the best of season 4 (the best season of the show in my opinion).
Following the events of the previous episode Etta is dead, Olivia is sad and Peter is out for blood, and I have to say that Joshua Jackson's performance is on par with John Noble as Walternate in terms of intimidation. You can see that the guy wants the Observers dead for what they did.
Story:
The Observers have a supply line from the future in the form of wormholes which they use to bring parts to finish the CO factory in Central park which they'll use to poison the Earth's atmosphere. Peter and Walter devise a plan to stop the Observers from getting any more supplies from the future by using anti-matter and an Observer device to open a wormhole to the future right as a supply shipment arrives and collapse it using the anti-matter on the future side to turn it into a black hole destroying the future Earth's capability to supply the occupation in the present greatly disrupting Observer operations and buying the Fringe team more time to enact the plan do defeat them once and for all.
What this season has done really well so far is show that the status quo no longer exists, the team isn't fighting an enemy that can collapse two universes into one anymore. No they are fighting an enemy that is ten times more powerful, resourceful and seemingly unstoppable. This is very much present here as the plan doesn't work in the most unexpected way, and the heroes' hope is taken away. Peter furiously interrogates an Observer after that, resulting in Pater implanting himself with Observer tech.
Characters:
The last episode proved that sacrifices are inevitable if the heroes are to win this and you get the sense that it might just cost them their lives in the process. In this episode Peter's character evolves in a very sinister turn that is very reminiscent of what Walternate became, towards the end of the episode he becomes downright horrifying and in the last scene between him and an Observer, I was scared by Peter especially his line about how he'll be ten times better than the Observer if he had their technology simply because he can feel emotions that they lack. Anna Torv once again proves that she's a capable actress during a scene where she watches a tape of her daughter's birthday.
Conclusion:
The episode builds up forward momentum towards the best part of the season's story arc if not the best of the entire series. The ending was depressing but also very sinister and Lost-like, much like the ending of "The Last Sam Weiss" was. Overall this has been the best episode of the series since "Worlds Apart" last season showed us how the series could have ended on a high note while maintaining the bittersweet feeling of it being the end of an era. I can't wait to see where the story is going but one thing is certain, it's not going to be what we're expecting.
After 3 lacklustre episodes and one pretty good, Fringe is once again awesome as this is the first episode of Season 5 that is just as good as the best of season 4 (the best season of the show in my opinion).
Following the events of the previous episode Etta is dead, Olivia is sad and Peter is out for blood, and I have to say that Joshua Jackson's performance is on par with John Noble as Walternate in terms of intimidation. You can see that the guy wants the Observers dead for what they did.
Story:
The Observers have a supply line from the future in the form of wormholes which they use to bring parts to finish the CO factory in Central park which they'll use to poison the Earth's atmosphere. Peter and Walter devise a plan to stop the Observers from getting any more supplies from the future by using anti-matter and an Observer device to open a wormhole to the future right as a supply shipment arrives and collapse it using the anti-matter on the future side to turn it into a black hole destroying the future Earth's capability to supply the occupation in the present greatly disrupting Observer operations and buying the Fringe team more time to enact the plan do defeat them once and for all.
What this season has done really well so far is show that the status quo no longer exists, the team isn't fighting an enemy that can collapse two universes into one anymore. No they are fighting an enemy that is ten times more powerful, resourceful and seemingly unstoppable. This is very much present here as the plan doesn't work in the most unexpected way, and the heroes' hope is taken away. Peter furiously interrogates an Observer after that, resulting in Pater implanting himself with Observer tech.
Characters:
The last episode proved that sacrifices are inevitable if the heroes are to win this and you get the sense that it might just cost them their lives in the process. In this episode Peter's character evolves in a very sinister turn that is very reminiscent of what Walternate became, towards the end of the episode he becomes downright horrifying and in the last scene between him and an Observer, I was scared by Peter especially his line about how he'll be ten times better than the Observer if he had their technology simply because he can feel emotions that they lack. Anna Torv once again proves that she's a capable actress during a scene where she watches a tape of her daughter's birthday.
Conclusion:
The episode builds up forward momentum towards the best part of the season's story arc if not the best of the entire series. The ending was depressing but also very sinister and Lost-like, much like the ending of "The Last Sam Weiss" was. Overall this has been the best episode of the series since "Worlds Apart" last season showed us how the series could have ended on a high note while maintaining the bittersweet feeling of it being the end of an era. I can't wait to see where the story is going but one thing is certain, it's not going to be what we're expecting.