somniloquence

Well, it's not to say that Fringe is making me unhappy. I'm just torn. I have had a lot of "we're getting our asses kicked and everyone dies" fandoms lately, and I'm not in a place where I can really take that much more of it. I would die of happiness if Charlie and the other guy were able to come into our world, for instance -- I miss Charlie so, so much. I mean, he was a huge part of what I liked about it in the first place because I have a thing for Kirk Acevedo.

But anyhow, it's a lot of good in with the bad. I am loving the fact that Olivia is going to get herself out, we can see that happening now. She'll probably enlist the help of her team -- this is what I love about her that they haven't changed. She is so strong and so smart. And this past episode, even though there were things I gritted my teeth over, really hit me in the heart. I knew immediately when they started sawing that amber that the guy was looking for his twin. And they did an amazing job with that storyline, one of the few times I think I have seen a TV show handle twinship and loss and guilt over that loss in any way that's remotely true. And I loved that it was Olivia who knew they had switched.

Everything they did with her visits back to our world were amazing, too -- the breaking snowglobe (which I agree with what you said about it in your post), the sight of no twin towers... that was so compelling. I have a lot of things I want to say about it all, but at the same time, the whole thing makes me a nervous wreck and I am really afraid of it descending into BSG territory, where it's this constant grinding down of the world, the characters, the humans, and then in the end you just get smarmy shit thrown at you... And I've seen the kinds of things JJ and his team can do to a show with Alias, so I worry.