I was looking forward to this much hyped episode and I hate to admit it but I was disappointed. I enjoyed the look of the episode but I wanted a) more singing (I, like Walter's mother, love musicals) and b) I don't like being hit over the head by things (I get it that Peter leaving has broken Walter's heart.) I wanted to like the noir-ish aspects of the episode but I found the cellphones and computers a bit jarring. When Astrid broke into a song from A Chorus Line I so wanted a line of of hospital staff to appear behind her doing a kick step (didn't happen) And why does Walter see the Observer's as dangerous. Walter has always thought of them as the ones who saved Peter and himself (the story of falling into the frozen lake was true after a fashion). No, in this drug induced fantasy he fears them. I don't think so. I was glad to see Water is regretting some of the decisions he and William Bell made in regards to experimenting on children. And yes as Peter tells Olivia, Walter has done a lot of bad things, but again this is something we already knew.
I suppose I am so disappointed because I had such high hopes. Fringe has been so off the wall from day one that I just knew they'd do this up right. But it felt to much like filler. Like a brief respite before the big, bad season finale starts. I thought many of the "singers" did a great job. I wish Broyles and Astrid had both been given a longer time to sing. They each have wonderful voices. I was hoping for a Peter and Olivia duet (in their case it might have been The Impossible Dream) And what is it with Willy Wonka lately. Seems like music from the original Gene Wilder film is popping up in a lot of places. And couldn't you just see the Observers singing "Someone to Watch over Me"?
Friday, April 30, 2010
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
HGTV Design Star
Right now I am obsessed with HGTV's Design Star. I started watching Color Splash and found out that David Bromstad had been the winner of the first season of Design Star. I found that all the episodes of season one are available as free podcasts from Itunes. So I downloaded all episodes and watched the whole thing (almost in one sitting) It was wonderful. Even knowing the ultimate winner, I still enjoyed every episode. So I started looking for the other seasons. Itunes has season three and season four as tv series downloads so I forked over my money (well Heath's money, it is his Itune account) and got both seasons. Loved them. I think I liked season 3 more than season 4. I liked both Jennifer and Matt from that season. I would have preferred Matt to win, but you can't have everything. And I really did not care for Antonio in season 4. He's designs were not really to my taste. I really liked Dan. And thanks to HGTV I hope to be able to watch all of season 2. They have it as streaming video on their website.(Or had, last time I checked it seems to be down--will try again later) And now I find out that season 5 is coming. I as so happy. Something to look forward to this summer. I am finding HGTV a great source of fun and entertaining programming. And as reality tv seems to be taking over most of tv at least on Design Star the "Star" does seem to be the design. Now I have a lot of Color Splash to watch while waiting for the new season of Design Star.
Friday, April 16, 2010
Fringe--White Tulip
Last night's episode of Fringe dealt with one of my favorite fictional concepts, time travel. I have always loved the idea of time travel. In an aside, Dean Koontz book Lightning is a great time travel book. Now back to Fringe. The episode starts with people on a train. The lights in the car start to flicker and then go out and then a man just appears in the middle of the aisle. The man is sweating and seems in some pain. He exits the train bumping into a young pick pocket who was hanging around on the platform panhandling. The kid enters the train car to find every person dead.
We then see Walter writing a letter. I am slow because I only realized he was left handed a couple of episodes ago. While he is writing the phone rings. It is Peter and he begs Walter to pick up the phone, even explaining to him how to turn the phone on. Peter is very kind to his father these days. Walter listens to Peter but does not pick up the phone. Peter tells him to get his kit together that he will pick him up fifteen minutes, that Olivia needs them on a train, and he knows how much Walter loves trains. Walter smiles at that last remark. Walter finishes his letter and puts in an envelope and addresses it to Peter. He then puts the envelope in this pocket.
At the train Walter is mystified by the deaths. He says it is as if they all had heart attacks at the same time. Peter discovered that all of the phones, laptops and mp3 players on board were drained of energy. An FBI agent finds Walter's letter to Peter laying in the aisle. Walter sees it and retrieves it before Peter can see it.
Using CTV footage Olivia and Agent Broyles are able to trace the unknown man as he leaves the train station. They see him enter a restaurant. When they go to the restaurant one of the waitresses immediately recognizes the man as one of the regulars. She finds his credit card receipt and it gives them a name, Alistair Peck. They get an address and go to Peck's residence. There are boards covered with formulae which even Walter has trouble following. He said if he had several years and lots of assistance he might could understand what was being worked on. However, he does know that what Peck was attempting was time travel. While they are looking around Peck's home he returns and demands that they leave. When weapons are drawn he does something and then vanishes and we are back where we started. He winks into existence on the train again. He exits the train running into the same kid. This time he tells him "I'm sorry you have to go through this again".
Olivia, Peter, Broyles and Walter are back at the train. Almost same scenario but this time they find out about Peck's work at MIT. They talk to a colleague who tells them Peck was working on time travel. She gives them three volumes that Peck had written on the subject. Walter reads these volumes very fast and figures out that Peck is a genius and very close to cracking time travel if he hasn't done so already. And he realizes that time travel would eat up a lot of energy (like maybe, a whole train car of the stuff). He then hypothesizes that maybe Peck has traveled in time alright, and that they, the Fringe group, may have done the same thing many times. Walter is brilliant and so sad. You just want him to give that letter to Peter so they can start healing.
They discover that Peck is back in his lab at MIT (dead bodies outside as proof of his time travel). Walter convinces the others to let him go into the lab to talk to Peck. Earlier Olivia has realized that Peck was trying to go back in time because his fiancee had been killed in an automobile accident and that he had been trying to go back and save her. Walter having more than a passing knowledge of grief and what it can lead you to do, wants to talk to Peck alone. He goes in with a wire and does talk to Peck. Then he unplugs the wire and talks to Peck about Peter and about what he did. He tells him that if he does make it back to his fiancee and save her he will see all the people who died each time he looks at her. Walter tells him that he had never believed in God until after rescuing Peter from the other reality. And now he thinks God is punishing him. He said he asked God for a sign, a white tulip, to prove that he is forgiven. Peck says it isn't tulip season and even in tulip season white tulips are rare. Walter says that his why he asked for that sign. The others figure Walter turning off the wire is a bad sign and rush the room. Peck travels back in time and this time he does make it back to the day his fiancee died. He runs to get to her car. He smiles at her and they are hit by another car. You see the colleague of Peck from the earlier scene. She has found a letter to her from Peck. Inside this letter is another letter addressed to Walter, sealed and stamped. Her letter asks that she mail this letter on a certain day. Today is that day. Another person asks her why she doesn't open the letter before she mails it. She said that Peck sealed it so she is mailing it as he asked. We see Walter writing his letter to Peter. He finishes it. No phone call from Peter this time. He seals it and addresses it and then walks over and throws it into the fire. Peter arrives home and asks Walter it he is alright. Walter tells him he is fine. Then Walter sorts through the mail and finds the envelope from Peck. He opens it and inside is a drawing of a white tulip. Nothing else. Water looks surprised and less sad.
I love this show. I can't wait for next week's episode. I think the shape-shifters are back.
We then see Walter writing a letter. I am slow because I only realized he was left handed a couple of episodes ago. While he is writing the phone rings. It is Peter and he begs Walter to pick up the phone, even explaining to him how to turn the phone on. Peter is very kind to his father these days. Walter listens to Peter but does not pick up the phone. Peter tells him to get his kit together that he will pick him up fifteen minutes, that Olivia needs them on a train, and he knows how much Walter loves trains. Walter smiles at that last remark. Walter finishes his letter and puts in an envelope and addresses it to Peter. He then puts the envelope in this pocket.
At the train Walter is mystified by the deaths. He says it is as if they all had heart attacks at the same time. Peter discovered that all of the phones, laptops and mp3 players on board were drained of energy. An FBI agent finds Walter's letter to Peter laying in the aisle. Walter sees it and retrieves it before Peter can see it.
Using CTV footage Olivia and Agent Broyles are able to trace the unknown man as he leaves the train station. They see him enter a restaurant. When they go to the restaurant one of the waitresses immediately recognizes the man as one of the regulars. She finds his credit card receipt and it gives them a name, Alistair Peck. They get an address and go to Peck's residence. There are boards covered with formulae which even Walter has trouble following. He said if he had several years and lots of assistance he might could understand what was being worked on. However, he does know that what Peck was attempting was time travel. While they are looking around Peck's home he returns and demands that they leave. When weapons are drawn he does something and then vanishes and we are back where we started. He winks into existence on the train again. He exits the train running into the same kid. This time he tells him "I'm sorry you have to go through this again".
Olivia, Peter, Broyles and Walter are back at the train. Almost same scenario but this time they find out about Peck's work at MIT. They talk to a colleague who tells them Peck was working on time travel. She gives them three volumes that Peck had written on the subject. Walter reads these volumes very fast and figures out that Peck is a genius and very close to cracking time travel if he hasn't done so already. And he realizes that time travel would eat up a lot of energy (like maybe, a whole train car of the stuff). He then hypothesizes that maybe Peck has traveled in time alright, and that they, the Fringe group, may have done the same thing many times. Walter is brilliant and so sad. You just want him to give that letter to Peter so they can start healing.
They discover that Peck is back in his lab at MIT (dead bodies outside as proof of his time travel). Walter convinces the others to let him go into the lab to talk to Peck. Earlier Olivia has realized that Peck was trying to go back in time because his fiancee had been killed in an automobile accident and that he had been trying to go back and save her. Walter having more than a passing knowledge of grief and what it can lead you to do, wants to talk to Peck alone. He goes in with a wire and does talk to Peck. Then he unplugs the wire and talks to Peck about Peter and about what he did. He tells him that if he does make it back to his fiancee and save her he will see all the people who died each time he looks at her. Walter tells him that he had never believed in God until after rescuing Peter from the other reality. And now he thinks God is punishing him. He said he asked God for a sign, a white tulip, to prove that he is forgiven. Peck says it isn't tulip season and even in tulip season white tulips are rare. Walter says that his why he asked for that sign. The others figure Walter turning off the wire is a bad sign and rush the room. Peck travels back in time and this time he does make it back to the day his fiancee died. He runs to get to her car. He smiles at her and they are hit by another car. You see the colleague of Peck from the earlier scene. She has found a letter to her from Peck. Inside this letter is another letter addressed to Walter, sealed and stamped. Her letter asks that she mail this letter on a certain day. Today is that day. Another person asks her why she doesn't open the letter before she mails it. She said that Peck sealed it so she is mailing it as he asked. We see Walter writing his letter to Peter. He finishes it. No phone call from Peter this time. He seals it and addresses it and then walks over and throws it into the fire. Peter arrives home and asks Walter it he is alright. Walter tells him he is fine. Then Walter sorts through the mail and finds the envelope from Peck. He opens it and inside is a drawing of a white tulip. Nothing else. Water looks surprised and less sad.
I love this show. I can't wait for next week's episode. I think the shape-shifters are back.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Fringe and the Clue
Olivia in the lab with the revolver was an interesting episode to follow the heart breaking Peter. Olivia (the episode not the woman) starts in a coffee shop with a very ill gentleman talking to a lawyer about his illness which he thinks was brought on my something in the area around where he grew up. When he asks the lawyer if she remembers any of the kids they knew growing up I realized he had probably grown up in Florida. The lawyer who is very concerned for the guy comes up with one name from her past. The man touches her on the hand and you just know that is not good. Sure enough minutes after leaving the man the lawyer is covered in sores and lesions and has passed out in her car at an intersection. When Fringe is contacted they (well Walter) figures out that she was advanced cancer. Only the woman did not have cancer when she left her office.
Olivia who is still having trouble sleeping has a visit in the night from bowling alley guy who brings a Clue game (hence the episode title) for them to play. Are they telling us that like "Lost" Fringe is one of those series where you are always looking at the clues but never really seeing the whole puzzle. Figured that out in episode one, but thanks.
This episode once more shows how much harm was done by the experiments Walter and William conducted on children in Jacksonville and other places. I hope we do really see some good come from these because we have seen a lot of bad. Olivia has that ability to see objects and people from the other side but what other abilities were Walter and William trying to create? This is an always interesting show.
Can't wait to see how it all plays out.
Olivia who is still having trouble sleeping has a visit in the night from bowling alley guy who brings a Clue game (hence the episode title) for them to play. Are they telling us that like "Lost" Fringe is one of those series where you are always looking at the clues but never really seeing the whole puzzle. Figured that out in episode one, but thanks.
This episode once more shows how much harm was done by the experiments Walter and William conducted on children in Jacksonville and other places. I hope we do really see some good come from these because we have seen a lot of bad. Olivia has that ability to see objects and people from the other side but what other abilities were Walter and William trying to create? This is an always interesting show.
Can't wait to see how it all plays out.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Modern Family (Television grows up)
When I saw that ABC was showing a new sitcom, last fall, called Modern Family I thought, how lame. But something about the ads for the new show made me give it a try. The fact that it appeared just before the new Courtney Cox sitcom probably didn't hurt either. So I watched Modern Family and thought "okay, I could watch another episode". Now one episode was all I needed of the Cox sitcom to decide it wasn't for me. Sorry, Courtney.So I tuned in to the next episode of Modern Family and the next, but it was the fourth and really the fifth episodes which made me a fan. The fourth episode called The Incident had Shelley Long (Cheers) as Mitchell and Claire's mother and Jay's ex. She comes to visit Mitchell and see his new baby Lily. But really she is looking for forgiveness for "the incident". At Jay and Gloria's wedding she got drunk and basically ruined the reception. Gloria recalled that at her first wedding in Columbia men had rushed in and assassinated the judge conducting the wedding, but felt her wedding to Jay was much worse. His mother tells Mitchell that she needs closure because she has meet a man but can not be intimate with him until she clears her conscience. Mitchell seems to have a history of cleaning up after Mom. Claire who sided with her Dad in the divorce does not get seem nearly as happy to see her mother. And after a couple of minutes you understand why. DeDe (Claire's mother) is hyper-critical of Claire. Her hair is too long (though it seems to be the same length as DeDe's. She questions Claire's parenting skills in front of Claire's children. She doesn't like Claire's blouse, etc. Claire in an aside to the camera said that as children we often have this voice in our head telling us we aren't good enough, well hers was outside driving her to school. Anyway, Claire agrees to let her mother come to dinner to try and get Jay and Gloria to forgive her. Claire also has her daughter invite her boyfriend Dylan to the family dinner. Mitchell goes to get Jay to approve the visit from DeDe. Jay tells him he wants to get it all behind him as well but that he wouldn't be able to get Gloria to go if she knew DeDe would be there. So Jay tells him they will show up but that he will act like he didn't know that DeDe would be there.
The night turns into the kind of disaster you would expect (almost) and the almost is what raises this show above the average sitcom. DeDe apologies to Gloria and Jay. Gloria accepts the apology which DeDe did not expect. So DeDe starts hitting Gloria, who hits back. Finally they are separated and Jay tells her that their marriage was over long before he meet Gloria. That she, DeDe had been the one who left. No one can seem to understand what is going on except Haley's boyfriend Dylan. Showing more maturity that most of the adults he says that he can understand why DeDe doesnt' want to leave this great family. He said he knew that Haley was pretty but it was her confidence that had really attracted him. He said she got the confidence because she knew that her family truly loved her. The adults look ashamed and then decide that Dylan is a great kid and ask him to sing. The song is funny and very teenaged boy mostly talking about wanting to have sex with his girlfriend. The parents decide maybe he isn't as perfect as they thought. But the episode goes off with each member singing Dylan's song (which is one of those tunes that gets stuck in your head)
The fifth episode is called Coal Digger and is the funniest episode to this point. (Actually this episode, Fizbo and My Funky Valentine are the three best episodes so far in season 1, imho) This episode had Manny and Luke getting into a fight at school. The school calls the parents to come. After the principal has problems figuring out the family tree it turns out the fight started when Manny kept calling Luke his nephew. The principal tells the parents (and grandparents) to get the matter settled at home. Jay and Gloria are hosting the whole family at a BBQ so Jay and Phil show their different parenting skills. Phil trys to get the boys to be friends. Jay thumps them on the head and tells them that in this family that love each other. They kids start playing together. Later when discussing where their problems with each other started Luke said he made fun of Manny because his mother had been a coal digger. Luke says he heard this mother say that. The always helpful Phil says it was probably gold digger. So now Gloria is mad at Claire. Phil tries to apologize for Claire but Gloria isn't interested. So finally Claire and Gloria talk and Claire explains that when she first met Gloria that she had been afraid that the much younger, very beautiful Gloria was just after her Dad's money. She asks Gloria to forgive her. Gloria says she will on one condition that Claire jump into the swimming pool with her clothes on. Claire says she won't so Gloria says she will not forgive her. So Claire goes to the pool with everyone else trouping along. She shows her willingness to jump thinking that Gloria will cut her a break, but no, Gloria is waiting for her to get wet. So finally Claire jumps in. Then when she swims over asking for help to get out Jay pushes Gloria into the pool. Then he pushes Phil in and then Luke and Manny push Jay in and go into the pool together. Mitchell picks up Alex and jumps into the pool and Cam cannonballs into the pool. It is a wonderful beautiful family moment.
I love this show. Long may these families light up our lives.
Monday, April 12, 2010
The Amazing Race and the Lesbians
Now I was not one of the people who watched The Amazing Race from the beginning. In fact I didn't watch any episodes until season 14. Since then I have gone back and watched all seasons of the show. I have always been very pleased that The Amazing Race has been open and honest about having Gay, Lesbian and Bi-sexual competitors. From the first season on, almost every season has had an individual or a couple who fit one of these categories. And I can only think of one instance where one person acted uncomfortable when he found out that two of his fellow competitors were a couple (I'm thinking of season 4 when Chuck looked affronted by Reichen and Chip discussing how they were married--and with Chuck it was only a look, he did not say anything)
Now forward to season 16 and suddenly a dating couple are being targeted in what almost seems like a homophobic attack by another couple. Carol and Brandy are dating. Yes, they are open about this fact. Caite (of Caite and Brent) has from the very beginning referred to Carol and Brandy not by name but as the Lesbians and usually the Mean Lesbians. She has said numerous times how much she hates the mean lesbians. Now I realize this is just a game but she seems to have a serious problem. I am suddenly reminded of the song from South Pacific "You've got to be carefully taught". That song was about racism but I think the same would hold true for a hate towards those whose sexual orientation is not heterosexual. I think Caite has been taught from childhood to hate things and people whom she doesn't understand. She was told that she was pretty and that being pretty would let her get away with a lot (and so far that has been the case). She seems unaware of how shrill and unattractive she can be. The episode that stand out for me was when each team had to load all the coconuts and take by cart to another place. 3 teams goofed and left one of the coconuts behind but only Caite whined about why was this happening to them and then starts to cry. And Brent just says he is going to quit. Bad things happen all the time (much worse than losing a tv race). Caite seems to be one of those people who think life should just be easy for them. She knows that video of her at the beauty pageant is on Youtube, so why is is surprised when others know about it. If she had laughed about it with the others and told how she was so frightened to be put on the spot in the pageant she would have gotten most of the others over on her side and made friends. Instead she decided to be affronted that someone would have mentioned such a thing. Caite I hope you learn to laugh at yourself and i hope you learn not to judge people by their sexual orientation or ethnicity. And as for The Amazing Race I am disappointed that you kept all the cuts in with Caite talking about the mean lesbians. I thought better of you. I have found your show competitive but not usually mean spirited. I hope on future races you spend more time checking on contestants IQs and less worrying about filling your "model" quota. I would like you to have more average joes and jills and fewer (as in no more) people from other reality shows.
Now forward to season 16 and suddenly a dating couple are being targeted in what almost seems like a homophobic attack by another couple. Carol and Brandy are dating. Yes, they are open about this fact. Caite (of Caite and Brent) has from the very beginning referred to Carol and Brandy not by name but as the Lesbians and usually the Mean Lesbians. She has said numerous times how much she hates the mean lesbians. Now I realize this is just a game but she seems to have a serious problem. I am suddenly reminded of the song from South Pacific "You've got to be carefully taught". That song was about racism but I think the same would hold true for a hate towards those whose sexual orientation is not heterosexual. I think Caite has been taught from childhood to hate things and people whom she doesn't understand. She was told that she was pretty and that being pretty would let her get away with a lot (and so far that has been the case). She seems unaware of how shrill and unattractive she can be. The episode that stand out for me was when each team had to load all the coconuts and take by cart to another place. 3 teams goofed and left one of the coconuts behind but only Caite whined about why was this happening to them and then starts to cry. And Brent just says he is going to quit. Bad things happen all the time (much worse than losing a tv race). Caite seems to be one of those people who think life should just be easy for them. She knows that video of her at the beauty pageant is on Youtube, so why is is surprised when others know about it. If she had laughed about it with the others and told how she was so frightened to be put on the spot in the pageant she would have gotten most of the others over on her side and made friends. Instead she decided to be affronted that someone would have mentioned such a thing. Caite I hope you learn to laugh at yourself and i hope you learn not to judge people by their sexual orientation or ethnicity. And as for The Amazing Race I am disappointed that you kept all the cuts in with Caite talking about the mean lesbians. I thought better of you. I have found your show competitive but not usually mean spirited. I hope on future races you spend more time checking on contestants IQs and less worrying about filling your "model" quota. I would like you to have more average joes and jills and fewer (as in no more) people from other reality shows.
Friday, April 2, 2010
Fringe John Noble's noble turn
After weeks off the air Fringe returned last night with one of the best episodes of the series and John Noble (Walter Bishop) was terrific. This episode simply titled "Peter" is where we get answers about not only Dr. Bishop's son Peter, but, perhaps more importantly, about Walter himself. The few glimpses which we have been given of Walter before his brain surgery (Season 2 episode 10 Grey Matters) show us a very arrogate man who seems to place science above all other pursuits. Walter is that man, or rather was that man, but he was also a father and that is at the heart of this episode and consequently the series. Because in this incredible episode we find out how the fractures in our dimensions began.
In our reality Peter was a very sick boy. It is 1985, which if memory serves (gravestone from last season) would make Peter 7 years old. He has some sort of genetic abnormality which is making him waste away. Walter and his wife, Elizabeth or Liz as he calls her, are consumed with fears for Peter's health. Walter is trying to find a cure for Peter and he is using any means necessary including using a window he has created which sees into the alternative universe. Using his window, which he has shown to the military, he watches his alternative self (he calls it Waternate to his assistant Carla) trying to find a cure for his son Peter. Our Walter is called home by Liz saying Peter is asking for him. He returns home to have Peter performing his coin trick for him just before Peter dies. Walter and Elizabeth are devastated. Nina Sharp is at the funeral and she tells Walter that William wishes he could be there. Seems Bell is in Europe. (Aside--I am beginning to dislike William Bell a lot) Walter brushes her aside and leaves the cemetery with Elizabeth. Then Walter wakes Liz and tells her he needs to show her something. He has been to his lab and brought the window back. He places the window in Peter's room and shows Liz the alternative Peter who is still alive. Liz is amazed and wants Walter to leave it on she she can watch Peter. Walter tells her that he has shown her this image so she would know that in another world Peter was alive and that she must think of him like that. He takes the window back to his lab where he continues to watch Walternate. Carla does not understand why. She even questions whether he realizes his Peter is dead. Walter in his best disdainful manner lets her know how foolish that idea is. He is still watching because he hopes Walternate will find the cure which he could not. And Walternate does find the cure only he doesn't realize it. Walternate is interrupted by one of the Watchers, August, who keeps him from realizing what has happened.
There is a scene where the Watchers discuss August's tragic mistake and how to rectify it. The Watchers say Peter is important, so he must be saved. They tell August that he will have a change to undo the damage. (Icy lake comes to mind)
Walter creates the cure for Peter and decides that he must take it to AU Peter. Carla can not believe that he would even consider doing such a thing. She tells him there are lines which must never be crossed. She tells him he isn't God. He seems to disagree. I actually think that he is so consumed by his need to save Peter that he can no longer think rationally. He takes his device, which he had told the military would not work, to Reiden Lake, famous from the last episode of season 1. He sets up the machine on the ice and checks that he has the medicine and is about to activate the device when Carla and Nina show up. They are intend on stopping Walter. Nina says William Bell wants him to stop. Walter laughs at this and tell Nina that Bell has pleaded with Walter to try this very thing not once but twice and no for altruistic reasons either. Nina seems shocked, but she tries to stop Walter. She tackles him after he opens the door but he gets though and closes the door (on her arm--now we know how she really lost her arm). Walter now realizes that in his fall he has broken the bottle of medicine. (Plot point, I do understand why this was done, but really. Broken bottle. I would have put that precious liquid in something a tank couldn't smash) Walter is shaken. He stands looking at the bottle and seeing the death of this universes Peter. Then he realizes what he must do. Walter walks off the ice to toward the cabin where Peter is. He finds Peter who is very sick and prepares to take him to his universe where he can save him. It doesn't seem to occur to him that he could just leave the correct formula for Walternate. Anyway, Elizabeth walks in and Walter has to pretend to he her Walter. He convinces her to stay at the cabin while he takes Peter to his lab for the cure. Elizabeth tells him to bring Peter back to her. Walter promises that he will and I for one believe that he really intends to do that.
Walter and Peter return to the lake where Walter activates the device that returns them to our universe. The ice under them cracks and Walter and Peter are plunged into the icy water. Cue August, the Watcher, just as Walter has told Peter time and again. A man jumps in and saves them from there watery graves. Walter comes to as August is driving them back to Cambridge. He tells Walter that Carla and Nina have left to get medical attention for Nina. He asks Walter if he can drive. He tells Walter that Peter is near death and that he must not let this happen as Peter is very important. Peter must live. I wonder when we will find out what that means? The Watcher gets out of the car and disappears. Walter drives to his lab and starts Peter on the serum. Elizabeth arrives at the lab because Walter did not come home the night before. She sees Peter. Walter explains that he is from the AU and that he must be returned when he is well. Elizabeth gathers Peter into her arms and you just know that isn't going to happen. Back to the present time, Walter asks Agent Dunham what she is going to do know that she knows the truth. She tells him she doesn't know.
I can not wait for the next episode. John Noble rules!
In our reality Peter was a very sick boy. It is 1985, which if memory serves (gravestone from last season) would make Peter 7 years old. He has some sort of genetic abnormality which is making him waste away. Walter and his wife, Elizabeth or Liz as he calls her, are consumed with fears for Peter's health. Walter is trying to find a cure for Peter and he is using any means necessary including using a window he has created which sees into the alternative universe. Using his window, which he has shown to the military, he watches his alternative self (he calls it Waternate to his assistant Carla) trying to find a cure for his son Peter. Our Walter is called home by Liz saying Peter is asking for him. He returns home to have Peter performing his coin trick for him just before Peter dies. Walter and Elizabeth are devastated. Nina Sharp is at the funeral and she tells Walter that William wishes he could be there. Seems Bell is in Europe. (Aside--I am beginning to dislike William Bell a lot) Walter brushes her aside and leaves the cemetery with Elizabeth. Then Walter wakes Liz and tells her he needs to show her something. He has been to his lab and brought the window back. He places the window in Peter's room and shows Liz the alternative Peter who is still alive. Liz is amazed and wants Walter to leave it on she she can watch Peter. Walter tells her that he has shown her this image so she would know that in another world Peter was alive and that she must think of him like that. He takes the window back to his lab where he continues to watch Walternate. Carla does not understand why. She even questions whether he realizes his Peter is dead. Walter in his best disdainful manner lets her know how foolish that idea is. He is still watching because he hopes Walternate will find the cure which he could not. And Walternate does find the cure only he doesn't realize it. Walternate is interrupted by one of the Watchers, August, who keeps him from realizing what has happened.
There is a scene where the Watchers discuss August's tragic mistake and how to rectify it. The Watchers say Peter is important, so he must be saved. They tell August that he will have a change to undo the damage. (Icy lake comes to mind)
Walter creates the cure for Peter and decides that he must take it to AU Peter. Carla can not believe that he would even consider doing such a thing. She tells him there are lines which must never be crossed. She tells him he isn't God. He seems to disagree. I actually think that he is so consumed by his need to save Peter that he can no longer think rationally. He takes his device, which he had told the military would not work, to Reiden Lake, famous from the last episode of season 1. He sets up the machine on the ice and checks that he has the medicine and is about to activate the device when Carla and Nina show up. They are intend on stopping Walter. Nina says William Bell wants him to stop. Walter laughs at this and tell Nina that Bell has pleaded with Walter to try this very thing not once but twice and no for altruistic reasons either. Nina seems shocked, but she tries to stop Walter. She tackles him after he opens the door but he gets though and closes the door (on her arm--now we know how she really lost her arm). Walter now realizes that in his fall he has broken the bottle of medicine. (Plot point, I do understand why this was done, but really. Broken bottle. I would have put that precious liquid in something a tank couldn't smash) Walter is shaken. He stands looking at the bottle and seeing the death of this universes Peter. Then he realizes what he must do. Walter walks off the ice to toward the cabin where Peter is. He finds Peter who is very sick and prepares to take him to his universe where he can save him. It doesn't seem to occur to him that he could just leave the correct formula for Walternate. Anyway, Elizabeth walks in and Walter has to pretend to he her Walter. He convinces her to stay at the cabin while he takes Peter to his lab for the cure. Elizabeth tells him to bring Peter back to her. Walter promises that he will and I for one believe that he really intends to do that.
Walter and Peter return to the lake where Walter activates the device that returns them to our universe. The ice under them cracks and Walter and Peter are plunged into the icy water. Cue August, the Watcher, just as Walter has told Peter time and again. A man jumps in and saves them from there watery graves. Walter comes to as August is driving them back to Cambridge. He tells Walter that Carla and Nina have left to get medical attention for Nina. He asks Walter if he can drive. He tells Walter that Peter is near death and that he must not let this happen as Peter is very important. Peter must live. I wonder when we will find out what that means? The Watcher gets out of the car and disappears. Walter drives to his lab and starts Peter on the serum. Elizabeth arrives at the lab because Walter did not come home the night before. She sees Peter. Walter explains that he is from the AU and that he must be returned when he is well. Elizabeth gathers Peter into her arms and you just know that isn't going to happen. Back to the present time, Walter asks Agent Dunham what she is going to do know that she knows the truth. She tells him she doesn't know.
I can not wait for the next episode. John Noble rules!
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