Especially when you Drop In to Raiden Lake, Nude, from nowhere.
I need to drop in a little remembrance for Chadwick Boseman, who played "subject nine" in this episode. RIP Chadwick Boseman. he magnificently portrays a grown-up cortexaphan kid who only wanted to be normal, but he could not even use his cortexaphan-powers to do good. What good would Magneto's power be if he could not control that power? There was a similar episode to this where we encounter a Professor-X type, with the same situation. The only difference is that here, subject nine was able to blend in to the fabric of his reality, only if he stayed calm.
At the very beginning of this Ep I knew this energy vortex was Peter-Related. Olivia and Walter were taken on a Macguffin-Ride by Hitchcockian Fringe Writers, and we could care less that it was pretty much predictable. I KNEW this thing was Pete, but I didn't care that I knew. And so, this episode shows us that the Cortexiphan Kids were never collected by the Fringe Team, and if not by Fringe Division, perhaps not by Agents of ZFT.
The original Fringe Universe, is "Fringe Blue", the "Other Side" is "Fringe Red" - And the colour of these episodes, are "Fringe Orange" - Because THIS Fringe 'verse is the "Bridge Universe" - Peter used the machine to create this 'verse where he "never grew to be a man" - And so, we are all, Blue and Red 'verses, still "In The Machine" and Since Peter is still in a way attached to it, then the machine must still be operating.
But what I'm happy about is that this speculation is probably wrong. So now, we have been kicked in the pants once more, Peter's BACK - But now nobody believes he is who he says he is. Cos although Peter is back, the TIMELINE did not revert - Which was what I was expecting, I did not expect this, it's a twist to end all twists.
And this Ep introduced, the first of THIS "Orange-Fringe" timeline, a new Cortexiphan Kid. Introducing Chadwick Boseman. And I dig the stuff this he can do. I hadn't realised just how Neurotic this Walter is without Peter, and could be sent back to the "Horrible Butterscotch Pudding Place", and how much of a big step it was for him to leave the Lab.
Because in the first of this season's eps, we did not notice that Walter was not going to the crime scenes with the Team, and he had made a Gadget for Astrid to wear to be his eyes. We just took it for granted. And then to top it off, the music that Walter listens to in this 'verse, is a lot different than his Yes albums and Al Green albums. This walter likes to listen to 70's Pop songs! How many more things will we find, "That are not like the other?" - I wonder! I Wonder. I look to the stars and wonder- And Fringe helps me think of things to wonder about. So... Each episode leaves me with a "Now What?" feeling.
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