Last dark , Fringe bear witness us a lot more of the alternate existence , including a somewhat different reading of 1985 . More importantly , we check Young Walter , and learn just what sort of shaft he was : a complicated , conflicted one . spoiler ahead !
Wealready post a spoiler - spare preview of last night ’s Fringe , “ Peter , ” so this recap will be a snatch on the short side . As we write before the episode aired , there turned out to be a fortune more to 1985 Walter than we ’d expected — we ’d always imagine he was an unalloyed , immoral bastard , but perchance that part came subsequently , or maybe there was always more to the floor than we ’d imagine . He definitely was n’t just the vile nihilist whom we glimpsed when the miss clump of his brain got temporarily reinserted a while back .
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This Walter was contented to observe the alternate universe , instead of trying to interact with it , which could cause unimaginable danger . ( As we ’ve already witnessed . ) Even after Walter ’s son is die of a rare condition , and he see his alternate - world counterpart coming tight to a cure , he does n’t give in to the temptation to try and visit his other ego . After his Word die , he comforts himself ( and his wife ) with the noesis that in another humankind , Peter will grow up happy :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faJ66n3lRCc
It ’s only after he reckon his other self miss a crucial discovery in the lab — due to the reaching of an overzealous perceiver — that Walter decides to take matters into his own hand and call in the other macrocosm . Even then , he only plans to bring the curative to the other Peter , administer it , and leave behind . Unfortunately , in the struggle over whether Walter should visit the other creation , his vial of the cure is break , so he has no choice but to kidnap “ his ” son and take him back to our universe . And it ’s only once Peter is in our world and cure once and for all that Walter and his wife start to retrieve about keep him .
So in fact , Walter goes through the whole business sector with the best of intentions , and it ’s only after he ’s in risk of seeing his son decease a second sentence that he breaks down and decide to violate the jurisprudence of the multiverse . And possibly the fatal moment that this act leads to are what force-out Walter to become such an unscrupulous researcher afterward on — excruciate kid for create someone like Olivia , who can see intruders from the other universe . Walter turn out to be more of a tragical figure , and reasonably less of a lusus naturae , than we ’d mean . William Bell , though ? William Bell was always a behemoth .
I particularly loved meeting Dr. Warren , Walter ’s colleague who avoids the stereotypical spiritual / scientific difference and is actually able to hold her own in arguing with him . More of her , please — I wonder if she ’s still alive in 2010 ?
The big relief of this episode was how non - silly past Walter calculate . Considering how defective he could have been :
They in reality did a decent job of making John Noble look importantly young — Noble managed to metamorphose his whole trunk speech and attitude , and whatever they did with hair and prosthetics really worked , despite how many times I squinted .
The alternate 1985 credits ( see above ) were fantastical and did a gravid caper of driving place one of Fringe ’s principal point — that things which were once skill fiction are becoming reality at an speed pace , piddle Walter Bishop the tragic hero of our prison term .
Also , in the alternate world , Caprica star Eric Stoltz in reality starred in Back To The future tense :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2f8DUa4xx4
This is a pretty great in - joke , since asFringe Televisionreminds us , Stoltz actually did star in BTTF — until they had frivol away half the movie and decide to replace him with Michael J. Fox :
Plus everyone in the alternate 1985 has cellphones , and plain more advanced super - science in other ways . Except not , apparently , the ability to view or visit other creation . Yet .
So what did you think ?
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