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Fringe 3: Stowaway
Nov. 23rd, 2011 09:24 pmOh. Wow. So many things to love, so little space to say.
William and Walter put the dream team back together ("Look at this! Me and Belly collecting human tissue and fluid specimens, just like when we were kids!") Plenty of gratuitous polo necks and lab coats. Bell leching over Astrid and Astrid being totally creeped out. Lincoln being super-nerdtastic. A plot involving soul sucking vampires. Cow petting and drug induced giggling. "What are they saying in the background?" "I have no idea. They're doing that thing again where they don't finish sentences."
And Anna Torv (and her right eyebrow) shamelessly stealing every scene.
William and Walter put the dream team back together ("Look at this! Me and Belly collecting human tissue and fluid specimens, just like when we were kids!") Plenty of gratuitous polo necks and lab coats. Bell leching over Astrid and Astrid being totally creeped out. Lincoln being super-nerdtastic. A plot involving soul sucking vampires. Cow petting and drug induced giggling. "What are they saying in the background?" "I have no idea. They're doing that thing again where they don't finish sentences."
And Anna Torv (and her right eyebrow) shamelessly stealing every scene.
Fringe 3: the big reveal
Nov. 15th, 2011 08:23 pm"You know when you go on vacation and when you come back some things are a revelation..."
I just love the reveal scene between Olivia and Peter the hospital in Marionette. It's seriously good bit of writing and acting. The way that Liv braces herself when Peter starts to talk; the way the shot stays on her as he explains; the way you see her dying by degrees as the truth comes out. And then it's back to classic Bulletproof Olivia mode as she boxes up her damage and tries to persuade Peter that she's not hurt: "It's fine. We're good. Let's go."
And the kicker? Peter, poor deluded fool that he is, thinks she's taken the news well. Walter, on the other hand, is surprisingly insightful: "Really? Do you think possibly they replaced her with a robot?"
I just love the reveal scene between Olivia and Peter the hospital in Marionette. It's seriously good bit of writing and acting. The way that Liv braces herself when Peter starts to talk; the way the shot stays on her as he explains; the way you see her dying by degrees as the truth comes out. And then it's back to classic Bulletproof Olivia mode as she boxes up her damage and tries to persuade Peter that she's not hurt: "It's fine. We're good. Let's go."
And the kicker? Peter, poor deluded fool that he is, thinks she's taken the news well. Walter, on the other hand, is surprisingly insightful: "Really? Do you think possibly they replaced her with a robot?"
Fringe 3: friends old and new
Nov. 12th, 2011 05:11 pmDespite my initial scepticism of central conceipt of season 3 of Fringe, it took me a mere episode and a half — enough time to see all the characters in action — to completely steal my heart. All over again. Now all I have to do is resist the terrible temptation to sit down and watch the whole series in one giant marathon session.
My only gripe so far? In 6955 KHz, Astrid fishes out a recording of JS Bach's The Art of Fugue but when she actually puts it on, it turns out to be the air from the 3rd orchestral suite. An unintentional slip or an intentional indicator of Walter's generally chaotic attitude to record keeping?
My only gripe so far? In 6955 KHz, Astrid fishes out a recording of JS Bach's The Art of Fugue but when she actually puts it on, it turns out to be the air from the 3rd orchestral suite. An unintentional slip or an intentional indicator of Walter's generally chaotic attitude to record keeping?
Walter as Bach fan
Nov. 3rd, 2011 07:20 pmHaving got as far as episode 2.15 of Fringe — where Walter spills the beans to Olivia — I found my brain snagged on the piece of Bach that 80s Walter puts on when he returns home to Peter and Elizabeth. I was pretty sure it was the opening to an aria, but I couldn't remember whether it was from one of the passions or whether it was from somewhere else entirely. It wasn't until this morning, I caught myself adding in the words, that I realised it was the obbligato opening to the Benedictus from the B-minor Mass:
(Walter's enthusiasm for Bach goes all the way back to ep 1.3, when he asks Peter to play the Mass in A-minor on the piano. Which as any Bach nerd knows doesn't make much sense: Bach didn't actually write a mass in A-minor. So perhaps Water was thinking of the missa brevis in A-major BWV 234 or, more likely, the Mass in B-minor BWV 232, but I don't suppose it matters much since Peter refuses to play it)
(Walter's enthusiasm for Bach goes all the way back to ep 1.3, when he asks Peter to play the Mass in A-minor on the piano. Which as any Bach nerd knows doesn't make much sense: Bach didn't actually write a mass in A-minor. So perhaps Water was thinking of the missa brevis in A-major BWV 234 or, more likely, the Mass in B-minor BWV 232, but I don't suppose it matters much since Peter refuses to play it)
