Fringe: A Recap

By Rhea Dee

Finally, after months and months of crap American Idol bs, Fringe is back!

I think it’s a good time for a quick recap, yes?  It has been 2 months since we last saw a Fringe episode, and my mind is overcrowded with enough geeky things as it is.  So, to recap the most important bits of Fringe:

-Olivia has a Cigarette Smoking Man at work! Sandford Harris is his name, and he’s on the job to review the credibility of the Fringe division.  Harris isn’t as omnipotent as the Cigarette Smoking Man, or as secretive, but he’s a general nuisance and butts heads with Olivia over protocol procedures.  The good news is that Olivia’s got Broyles on her side and he’s waaay better than Skinner ever was to Mulder and Scully (mostly because Skinner was also under the Cigarette Smoking Man’s thumb).

-Olivia’s ‘Dead-Double-Crossing-Sweetie-Pie-Is-In-Her-Head-Sharing-Her-Thoughts’ arc is over.  Double yay!  That whole arc had a lot of ups and downs, as far as quality storytelling, and it’s probably the only thing that has bothered me about the show so far.  It’s good that they finally clamped down on that, especially since Olivia is becoming closer to Peter, Walter and Astrid.  Escaping into her mind for a dull character when there are other fascinating ones right in the room was always a bit wtf for me.

-Mr. Jones, aka the prison teleportation guy, has transformed into something else.  He was dying, and then…boom! Gigantic hole in his hospital room.  What the hell?  Hulk smash?  Why do I get the feeling that they’re gonna hold out on revealing exactly what happened for a long time?  (Hopefully it won’t be as long as the giant four toed foot statue of Lost.  And on that note, hopefully when we do get to see Hulk Mr. Jones, it’s not for four freakin’ seconds.)

-Olivia has super powers! Okay, she shut off some lights with her mind.  Maybe.  But still, powers!  Yay!  I loved this little plot development; I hope she discovers more powers in the coming episodes/seasons.

-My GOD, WALTER WROTE THAT BOOK.  The weird technology manifesto book!  And he didn’t even know it at first!!  That had to the best cliffhanger of the season so far.  Kudos to John Noble’s acting–the look on his face at the end of the episode when he realizes that he’s the “nut” that wrote the book is amazing.  It made the whole scene that more shocking.

Jeez, I can’t wait for this show to be back.  Is it 9 PM yet?

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Rhea Dee teeters between hipster and geek (at least that’s what that one quiz said).  She spends her time collecting vintage junk, daydreaming about Eli Roth, and pondering the genius of John Carpenter soundtracks.  She really likes horror films.

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