Fringe (TV Series) 6955 kHz (2010) User Reviews

Astrid's Episode

[claudio_carvalho · 8/10 · 11 March 2017]

When several persons are affected with amnesia by a broadcast, the Fringe Division is assigned to investigate the case. Soon they locate the station that broadcast the signal and Dr. Bishop brings a mysterious box they found to his laboratory to study it. Peter goes to a library with Olivia and their friend Edward Markham gives a rare book about "The First People" from an advanced civilization to them. They learn that the broadcast numbers are the same they find in the book. Meanwhile Walter is upset with the Peter that is studying the Doomsday Machine. When Astrid deciphers the code, they discovers that they are coordinates. What is the secret of the mysterious coordinates?

"6955 kHz" is an episode of "Fringe" where Astrid has the opportunity to show how important she is to the show. The alternate Olivia continues to sabotage the investigations and Peter, who is close to her and could discover that she is a fraud, is in love with here and therefore completely blinded. The participation of Broyles and Astrid are growing and that is a good thing for the show. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil):" 6955 kHz"

Olivia Drives Me Nuts

[Hitchcoc · 9/10 · 8 November 2023]

While we don't want every character steeped in paranoia, it seems that someone like Peter, who is suspicious by nature, should be more aware. He knows he is the center of the final machine, so when FauxLivia starts coming on to him, he should at least question it a bit. Of course, he is a man with a checkered background who doesn't follow rules, so he feels he can do whatever he wants. Of course, he's been on the other side and knows what's there. Still, it makes me crawl whenever FauxLivia is on the screen. She always comes in when something critical is going. She also shows herself again to be a murderer with no regard for human life. The whole numbers thing is a great plot development and it makes things more global. We may forget that a Bushman in Africa has some skin in this game that is run by a bunch of people in Boston.

Kevin Wiseman has no Genies this time

[XweAponX · 10/10 · 28 April 2012]

This episode deals with "Number Stations" - Which, Peter's Friend Markham the Bookstore Owner tells them have been around since before Marconi ever invented Radio. In fact, when Marconi made a radio the first thing he ever heard was a Number Broadcast. That's what Markham says at least.

I could not find any mention of this, of course. Just a website for The Conet Project and a Wiki-Sticky-Pedia page regarding possible sources of Numbers Stations. In fact, nobody really knows what they are, Why they are, or who does them. But this Fringe Episode uses recordings of the actual call signal from one of the stations- In particular, the "Swedish Rhapsody Irdial." And our Fringe Episode gives us a fairly decent Fringe-Universe possibility: The Numbers may be strings of latitude and Longitude. But pointing to what? In our Teaser we see several people in different places getting ready to listen to a Numbers broadcast. But as the numbers start, the people suddenly forget who they are!

As this happens a few more times, And an unfortunate Pilot who was flying a plane and inadvertently switched his radio to one of the broadcasts forgets how to fly his plane and crashes, Fringe is called out to track down the source of this thing. Which nobody has ever successfully done, by the way - But Walter and Peter hash it out, they find the location of where it came from, all the people in the station D-E-D Dead. And a Mysterious Floating Box, which they disconnect and Walter Grabs.

Peter takes it apart, and finds parts he can trace, and he traces them - to Kevin Wiseman (aka Gemini, or, Joe Feller). Gemini is a Shapeshifter, hired by Fauxlivia, of course. And as Kevin has no Genie as he did in the X-Files Ep "Je Souhaite" - To make him Invisible then Yellow then Undead - Fauxlivia throws the hapless guy out a window! Poor guy, first gets hit by a truck, then painted Yellow by Skully, then brought back from the Ded, Then Blown to bits by his idiot brother who was too dumb to wish for legs, then tossed out a window by Fauxlivia!

Kevin ain't got no fun - Not in this Ep at least. But he was still great to see here. But Fauxlivia succeeds in getting Fringe division to start looking for what the Numbers are actually locating: Pieces of "The Vacuum" (aka The Machine) - Which after this episode, becomes one of the central Set-Pieces of Fringe for two seasons.

We also hear, for the first time, mention of "The First People" and the book of the same name. On the other side, Olivia's appointment with Walternate and Brandonate is mysteriously canceled - Her internal Peter tells her, it's time to go home...

Unoriginal story, déjà vu elements, freaky guest, questionable Fauxlivia, interesting father and son relationship, exciting cliffhanger

[igoatabase · 6/10 · 15 January 2011]

Fringe's format works as long as the episodic story is good. That's why I was slightly disappointed by this installment. Indeed after three rocking scripts 6955 kHz's one felt conventional and nearly boring. Radio frequencies and number sequences are elements that have been used over and over. An idea is not dated as long as its execution is exciting but this time it wasn't the case. In the end we don't even know if the injured individuals recovered. Still they made the right move when hiring the actor who portrayed the freak of the week. As a newcomer I didn't even know who he was so the investigation outcome surprised me. However Fauxlivia's behavior is starting to annoy me because with all the mistakes she has made so far I'm amazed that the others haven't figured her out. It should be the case considering her situation mirrors Olivia's one in the parallel universe. I also question Anna Torv's acting because her facial expressions are not subtle enough. She should better fake emotions, it would definitely make her character more believable. But her spy skills are good enough and I wonder how they'll be able to uncover her true identity. As usual Walter Bishop's dialogs were very interesting and for once they also took good care of his complex relationship with Peter. Last but not least the cliffhanger was a direct connection to the next episode so I can't see anyone who could resist The Abducted. However I really hope that they'll swing things a little bit because some ingredients have already been used far too many times.

Another "monster of the week" episode

[interestingstuff · 25 February 2023]

It looks like the show is back to "monster of the week" formula after several exciting stories that moved the main story arc forward. This is another one of those episodes where the main story barely moves and our heroes are trying to figure out the mystery of the week and fighting the monster of the week.

This week's mystery isn't that interesting either. The whole mysterious numbers thing has been overdone to death already, especially by JJ Abrams who is the executive producer of this show as well as many other shows that overplayed this whole "mystery numbers" thing including but not limited to Lost and Person of Interest. After having seen this whole thing play out in so many shows, it's not interesting anymore.

This episode is boring and uninspired at best.