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Okay, Fringe. As always, you have my attention. Sure, I laughed at my screen for at least a full five minutes after you knocked up Alt!Livia. (OMG, BEAN, TOTALLY YOUR FAULT. I has proofs.) And yeah, this week you had Peter actually say, "And it was beautiful," when telling Olivia about what it's like for them to be together. (Really?) Also, you made Olivia jump in bed with Peter just in time for them to find out about his Baby Mama on the other side. (But, then again, you are actually showing real live actual SHIP on your TV show and doing it rather well and interestingly besides the occasional cheese oozing ever so slightly over the edge. Which is more than I can say for most shows. Don't make me eat those words a few seasons from now.)

But you're also starting to make 'our' universe pull apart at the seams, facing our side with the same dilemmas that had seemed upon first glance to make the other side so evil. You have Walter driving himself ~~crazy~~ even crazier trying not to become his evil counterpart. (And, omg, you tied in that random bus incident from like the second episode ever!! Amber! I am ashamed I had not made the connection already.) And Fringe, your coup de grace? Giving us a tiny glimpse that maybe, of the Walters, Walternate may actually be the more moral of the two because he won't experiment on kids when Walter had no compunction of doing that himself. (All of which tells me that Walternate probably never had any intention of using Peter to kill the other universe, not at the cost of his son's life. There is way more going on here. I'm thinking a la Harry Potter, Peter needing to choose to give up his life to save the universes. Then again, my guesses on this show have not been that great so far.)

There is just one tiny thing that would make your show even more awesome. MORE ASTRID. I'm just saying.

You do have my attention though. And I can't wait to see more.

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I missed Astrid this week :(
Nina continues to be creepy and cunning, but at least Olivia got her groove back. What worries me most is Walter finding out about Jr., 'specially with his fanaticism about his family. One thing this show does well is signpost, right from the beginning, and I think this whole baby plot is part of a larger 'sins of the father' theme. Or I could totally be off in left field too. ;)

I'm trying to tell myself that I'm overly gunshy with the baby plot line just because of badfic. But oh, how are they going to pull this off? Eeeeee! Sometimes I wish I didn't love this show quite so much as I do. It might make it easier. Lol.

Lol naw, sit back and enjoy the ride, and if it all goes badfic you can yell "I told you so!" at me then. :)

The pregnancy thing made me immediately think of that comment on the other post and I just started giggling. My husband thought I was nuts.

And I was kicking myself, too, for not making the connection between the bus thing and amber. I basically agree with everything you said.

It's nice to feel like a show might actually have things planned out in advance and isn't just flying by the seat of their pants. Lol.

I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I will now focus my all inspiring power to affect the writers for good!

"Write Astrid Write Astrid!"

You should write me some Astrid. That might make up for it. :)

Normally I'm a cynic, but I kinda liked the "it was beautiful" line :) but I was totally shouting (much to my husband's amusement) "SHOOT THE OLD LADY" at the end. I mean, if she's dead, she has to let it go right? *cough* Okay, I sound like a heartless bitch...

But what I do appreciate is the "who is right" question being raised. At first it seems like they're so evil, planning for this war and wanting invade us, but it just comes across more and more like a pre-emptive strike - we're busting holes in the fabric of the universe and they're the ones suffering. Who wouldn't do what had to be done to save themselves (as the collective billions of people)?

And while there maybe twists and turns with Pete and Olivia, I love, love, love how they actually TALK to each other and just have it out. I mean, things take time and Olivia's had a lot of crap to work through (and still does). Instead of playing the "angst-I'm-not-going-to-tell-you-and-stare-forlornly-into-the-camera" card, she allows herself to have that conversation.

Okay. I'm off my fan-girl Fringe thing. Oh I so hope it gets renewed *cries that she doesn't own it all on DVD so she can watch it over and over and over*.

Oh - and totally more Astrid :D

I am perhaps overly hypersensitive to anything smacking of romantic cheese. Lol. It's a failing.

I do love the rather ambitious goal the writers have taken upon themselves to make us sympathize with both sides equally (or even sympathize with the other side more).

More Astrid!!!

So with you, especially on the Astrid thing. And the cheese oozing over the sides. But still! Actual ship!

We may have become slightly hard to please. Lol.

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