I’m not going to lie, I was pleasantly surprised by Muppets From Space. I remember seeing some of the trailers when it was first coming out, and to me it looked like a big silly misstep. The muppets had really figured something out by interpreting literary classics with a Henson twist, but this seemed like…
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Fringe (2013) – The Boy Must Live, Liberty, and An Enemy of Fate
This is it, the last trio of episodes of Fringe. How will things turn out? Will timelines be restored? Will the Observers be wiped out? Let’s find out. The Boy Must Live was written by Graham Roland and first aired on 11 January, 2013. It puts a reveal on a line often heard from the…
Fringe (2012) – Black Blotter, and Anomaly XB-6783746
Walter (John Noble) is in crisis. He’s trying to recall his plan to defeat the Observers and along the way, he decides to drop some LSD that he’s rediscovered in his lab. What follows is a troubling confrontation with himself as he, Astrid (Jasika Nicole), Olivia (Anna Torv) and Peter (Joshua Jackson) continue in their…
Fringe (2012) – Five-Twenty-Ten, and The Human Kind
Both Peter (Joshua Jackson) and Walter (John Noble) are having issues with their brains this week in Five-Twenty-Ten, and Olivia (Anna Torv) learns what Peter has done. Written by Graham Roland, this episode first debuted on 16 November, 2012. Peter is keeping secrets from Olivia, specifically the fact that he has incorporated Observer tech into…
Fringe (2012) – An Origin Story, and Through the Looking Glass and What Walter Found There
Peter (Joshua Jackson) and Olivia (Anna Torv) are mourning the death of their daughter, even as Walter (John Noble) works to get another tape free of amber, and Astrid (Jasika Nicole) works on breaking the Observer’s written language. An Origin Story was written by J.H. Wyman, this episode first aired on 2 November, 2012 and…
Fringe (2012) – The Recordist, and The Bullet That Saved the World
The hunt for the tapes containing Walter’s (John Noble) plan continues. The team finds Tape 3 in the lab and sets off on a mission because of it. Along the way they encounter a group of infected humans who work as archivists, cataloguing human history. Written by Graham Roland, The Recordist first aired on 12…
Fringe (2012) – Transilience Thought Unifier Model-11, and In Absentia
Fringe’s fifth and final season began on 28 September, 2012 with the Transilience Thought Unifier Model-11. Written by J.H. Wyman it takes us back to the future, the year 2036, which was first introduced in the fourth season episode Letters of Transit. As Peter (Joshua Jackson), Walter (John Noble), Astrid (Jasika Nicole) track down Olivia’s…
Fringe (2012) – Letters of Transit, and Worlds Apart
We leap forward to 2036 after being given a rather Blade Runner-like opening crawl that tells us that in 2015 the Observers finally got tired of observing and took over the planet. Everyone else became known as Natives, those who were loyal to the Observers were called Loyalists, and of course, there was a resistance…
Fringe (2012) – A Short Story About Love, and Nothing As It Seems
J.H. Wyman and Graham Roland deliver A Short Story About Love which first aired on 23 March, 2012. While Olivia (Anna Torv) and Lincoln (Seth Gabel) investigate a case that sees a killer attempting to re-experience a moment of love by dehydrating husbands and using their pheromones to seduce their wives before killing them, Peter…
Fringe (2012) – Making Angels, and Welcome to Westfield
What are the Observers up to? Making Angels is a solid episode, that gives Jasika Nicole a chance to shine in her dual Astrid roles. Written by Akiva Goldsman, J.H. Wyman and Jeff Pinkner, it first aired on 3 February, 2012. A man, Neil (Chin Han), seems to have a unique ability to see all…
The Mind Reels 