Goodbye, Fringe
Jan. 18th, 2013 10:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwynI have a lot of things I want to say about the recent season of Fringe, and I feel like I want to talk in depth about the series finale, but I'm not sure how to say what I want to say.
This last episode made me actually cry many times, and that is a hard thing to do for a television show. But the scene with Peter and Walter discussing his sacrifice, and the one with Olivia going into the altverse and not knowing if she would come back, got to me, as did the one where Astrid and Walter looked at Gene in amber. Actually that one made me cry like a baby. All those scenes reminded me so much of what it has been like to lose my sister, my dad, my mom, and that's a tribute to the writers and the actors that they could make those feelings so acute.
It also made me laugh out loud many times, especially with Walter, and that's never something I expect in an episode where the emphasis is on the tension and action. "Because it's cool" will forever be something that brings a huge smile to my face.
My heart swells knowing that Peter and Olivia and Astrid and Phillip and Nina are safe and well in the rebooted timeline. I wonder if they know what or why Walter is gone, and I wish that had been answered. But my heart is also broken knowing that Olivia Dunham is no longer going to visit my TV every week.
Many times in the past two seasons especially I have been frustrated and annoyed by the show, and the showrunners. But I never, ever tire of Oliva Dunham, and Peter Bishop and Walter Bishop and Astrid Farnsworth and Phillip Broyles and Nina Sharp (and Charlie and Lincoln, but of course they've been AWOL for most of the time). Olivia especially has been one of the greatest characters ever on TV, and certainly in the pantheon of female characters. She was indeed a self-rescuing princess, a badass, a brilliant, beautiful, damaged diamond of a woman, and I almost can't handle thinking of the entertainment world without her.
Goodbye, show, I loved you and sometimes hated you. But Olivia, I always, always loved you, no matter what.
This last episode made me actually cry many times, and that is a hard thing to do for a television show. But the scene with Peter and Walter discussing his sacrifice, and the one with Olivia going into the altverse and not knowing if she would come back, got to me, as did the one where Astrid and Walter looked at Gene in amber. Actually that one made me cry like a baby. All those scenes reminded me so much of what it has been like to lose my sister, my dad, my mom, and that's a tribute to the writers and the actors that they could make those feelings so acute.
It also made me laugh out loud many times, especially with Walter, and that's never something I expect in an episode where the emphasis is on the tension and action. "Because it's cool" will forever be something that brings a huge smile to my face.
My heart swells knowing that Peter and Olivia and Astrid and Phillip and Nina are safe and well in the rebooted timeline. I wonder if they know what or why Walter is gone, and I wish that had been answered. But my heart is also broken knowing that Olivia Dunham is no longer going to visit my TV every week.
Many times in the past two seasons especially I have been frustrated and annoyed by the show, and the showrunners. But I never, ever tire of Oliva Dunham, and Peter Bishop and Walter Bishop and Astrid Farnsworth and Phillip Broyles and Nina Sharp (and Charlie and Lincoln, but of course they've been AWOL for most of the time). Olivia especially has been one of the greatest characters ever on TV, and certainly in the pantheon of female characters. She was indeed a self-rescuing princess, a badass, a brilliant, beautiful, damaged diamond of a woman, and I almost can't handle thinking of the entertainment world without her.
Goodbye, show, I loved you and sometimes hated you. But Olivia, I always, always loved you, no matter what.
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Date: 2013-01-21 03:13 pm (UTC)I'm nowhere near ready to say goodbye.