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FRINGE Photo Recap: “A Better Human Being”
This season of Fringe is on a serious roll right now! It’s tough to keep the magic alive halfway through your fourth season, but Fringe is doing it hard core, and I am loving it! Let’s dive into this past week’s episode, shall we?
When we last left off, Olivia was trying to seduce Peter, who has been playing hard to get because he still isn’t sold on the fact that she has now merged consciousnesses with his Olivia. He seems understandably wary, like he thinks this might be a trap designed to test him, to see if he’ll just sleep with any Olivia that claims to remember all their time together. Afterwards, Olivia regressed to her normal rebooted self, and played it off like it was no big thing.
Top 5 TV “I Love You”s
Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone! (Or, happy League of Women Voters Day, if you’re Liz Lemon.) And what a wonderful coincidence that it happens to fall on a Tuesday, making it the perfect excuse for me to celebrate Top 5 Tuesday by counting up our top 5 declarations of love on television…
‘FRINGE’ Photo Recap: “Welcome to Westfield”
You know how you can tell that this was a fantastic episode of Fringe? Because Lincoln Lee wasn’t in it at all, and it didn’t even occur to me until the very end of the episode. “Welcome to Westfield” was like a throwback to classic Fringe, with the core three characters together on a potentially deadly adventure, which started out as a quest for a dessert item. Between Walter’s renewed passion for food, and Olivia’s flashes of memories from what seems to be the original timeline, it was almost like the real team was back together! Let’s go over some of the finer points of this week’s episode, in which the opening scene alone was enough to make it one of my favorite episodes of the season…
TV Twitter Reactions: Fringe 4×12 “Welcome to Westfield”
Read the reactions to Friday’s episode (SPOILERS below!). Don’t forget to visit the site for Louise’s Fringe Photo Recap.
- @KatieKat_13 Omg, the screams that escaped my mouth… :0
#fringe#BreakingOut - @Prettycatchy Covered my eyes through a good chunk of tonight’s
#Fringeepisode. To me, there was a lot of blood and it was kind of scary. >.< - @OraclePisces
#fringe is epic! - @NatalieReis Ok, I’m going to sleep and have sweets dreams with
#Fringe, or nasty ones, right Olivia? LOL - @kjeannefos one for you, one for you…four for you
#fringe ! you go#fringe ! accolades accolades accolades from me to you - @AnnaTorvDotNet Oh what, she remembers about Edina?
#Breaking Out#Fringe#FREAKINGOUT - @maTEEhari Omg! MaTEEhari reference on
#fringe! Love this show!!!! - @alwaysMIKAYLAH …so… I think it’s safe to say that Olivia’s dreams are waaaaaaaaaaaaay better than Peter’s.
#Fringe#WelcomeToWestfield - @Jessskeeee That episode of
#Fringe was so good. And that ending o m g. - @crazyisgood4792 Oooooo good episode of
#Fringe too tonight, interesting ending and promo sounds good for the next episode - @PaddyK
#Fringe Did NO ONE ELSE see 2 Peters on the bus? One in the front driving & one in the back that killed the mutant? Olivia saw but whiffed. - @bxbaby8827 I hope the show
#Fringe doesn’t get cancelled. I love this show!!!!! - @dahne1 Woah! What’s going on here? Olivia just kissed Peter. Awesome and yet scary because it’s going to go wrong quickly.
#Fringe - @BryanWorthy Amazing episode of
#Fringe tonight. - @tweetsofpete Tonight’s episode of
#Fringe kicked ass! Very Twilight Zone & X-Files-esque#BreakingOut - @askdrding Um. Anyone else fighting off an imminent psychotic break from watching Fringe right now? Anyone? Bueller?
#Fringe - @mkieps Best
#Fringe in a while. I hope the rest of the season is like this. - @lostdogs20 I knew it, it’s merging together.
#Fringe - @Karalainee Wait! WHAT? Do we have “our” Olivia back?
#Fringe - @thetelevixen That episode of
#Fringe was oh my gosh great! - @MissRads Oh my god, does Olivia remember Peter?? Tell me it’s finally happening or…??
#fringe - @miaborders Whoa.
#fringe just blew my mind.
‘FRINGE’ Photo Recap: “Making Angels”
Paging Jasika Nicole to the Emmy desk. I thought I couldn’t possibly be more disgruntled about the lack of Emmy love for this show, but after seeing Jasika Nicole’s performances as both Astrids in this week’s episode, I’m already preparing my rage-filled diatribe for when she is inevitably overlooked come Emmy season, just as her costars have been for the past three seasons. She was so great in this episode that I didn’t even mind that Lincoln Lee was hardly in it at all. Let’s break it down through another highly analytical photo recap.
‘FRINGE’ Photo Recap: “Forced Perspective”
Olivia & Lincoln look for clues in the home of the man from a girl's vision of an impending catastrophe.
This was the first episode of Fringe in 2012 to focus only on the primary universe, which is to say, it was significantly lower on the “fun” scale than the previous two eps. But a lackluster episode of Fringe is still more exciting than a season finale of NCIS, so I’m not complaining. (As long as there is at least one Lincoln Lee in every episode, I consider it a fantastic hour of TV.) “Forced Perspective” centered around a girl who has visions of people’s deaths. It featured some disturbing developments on the Nina-is-evil front, and an unintentionally hilarious scene in which Lincoln crouched in a corner of the suspect’s apartment while sorting through papers on the floor. Let’s get the ball rolling on the photo breakdown of this week’s episode.
‘Fringe’ Photo Recap: “Enemy of My Enemy”
This week’s Fringe may not have been the action-packed Bruce Willis movie of an episode that last week’s was, but it did feature some much-needed character development, and the greatest news since we found out there were two Lincoln Lees: AltLivia finally dumped Frank! Thank God. Now we can finally see some more of this. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Let’s review “Enemy of My Enemy”… Read the rest of this entry
‘Fringe’ Photo Recap: “Back to Where You’ve Never Been”
Fringe is back from hiatus! And this week’s episode “Back to Where You’ve Never Been” was full of action, excitement, and homoerotic undertones. In an attempt to break down the rich complexities of Fringe, I’ve boiled it down into a photo recap. I was inspired by the absolutely hilarious Vampire Diaries photo recaps by Price Peterson at TV.com. And thanks to FringeFiles.com for providing all the screen caps. Enjoy!
Top 5 Tuesday: Favorite Musical Episodes
I must have been really good this year because Santa (and by Santa, I mean Dan Harmon) gave me exactly what I wanted for Christmas: a musical episode of Community! I’ve been hoping and waiting for my favorite comedy series to finally do a musical, and seeing as I’ll be waiting, ahem, awhile for the next new episode, I’m glad the midseason finale was full of awesomeness to tide me over. To celebrate, I thought this week we’d tally up our favorite musical episodes. Some were astounding, influential, and Emmy-nominated (“Once More, With Feeling”), and others were just entertaining.
Look-Alike of the Week: Seth Gabel and Thomas Dekker
Seth Gabel (left) photo by George Pimentel courtesy of WireImage.com; Thomas Dekker (right) photo by Socialite Life
Don’t let the title of this post fool you. I don’t plan to feature a “Look-Alike of the Week” every week, or with any regularity whatsoever. But my original title (“Seth Gabel and Thomas Dekker Are Both Very Pretty and I Think They Could Be Brothers”) sounded a little strange. For weeks now I’ve been mildly obsessed with the striking similarities between these two actors. (Probably because I’m not-so-mildly obsessed with Seth Gabel.) You probably know Seth Gabel as Lincoln Lee from Fringe. And if you don’t, then I feel sorry for you because your life must be very sad. (Lincoln Lee is pretty much the greatest male television character currently in existence.) Thomas Dekker is currently starring on The CW’s new supernatural drama The Secret Circle, but you might remember him from the short-lived sci-fi series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. But that’s not really important. What’s important is that everyone agree with me that these guys look like they could be related. What’s even crazier than their matching green eyes and chiseled jaws is that they both had an awkward long hair phase a couple years ago:
Seth Gabel (left) photo by Steve Granitz courtesy of WireImage.com; Thomas Dekker (right) photo by Albert L. Ortega courtesy of TopNews.in
So are they in fact the same person? Twins? Doppelgängers? Is one of them aging backwards like Benjamin Button? I don’t know. But I can promise you I will devote myself to the thorough investigation of this phenomenon until I can tell you for certain either way. Step one is obviously to rewatch all of the third season of Fringe. I recommend you all do the same and report back to me with any insight into this curious occurrence.
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-Louise
