What Did You Watch? 2025-05-10 (Saturday)

Fringe S2E02 'Night of Desirable Objects'.  Olivia suffers side effects from her recent trip while people are disappearing as though swallowed up by the ground.
The glyphs in this episode spell "mirror".
Sheriff Golightly: Have you run across something like this before?
Dr. Walter Bishop: [eagerly] Absolutely not. The air here is quite auspicious!
[breathes deeply]
Dr. Walter Bishop: Makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck.
Sheriff Golightly: [perplexed] The air?
Dr. Walter Bishop: [evidence bag] This! It's a fresh mystery, pregnant with possibilities.
Dr. Walter Bishop: [giddy] Who knows where it may lead?
[chuckles]
Dr. Walter Bishop: We're all mutants. What's more remarkable is how many of us appear to be normal.
Trivia: Just before re-creating Olivia's car accident, Walter calls Astrid by her actual first name.
The farm house visible in this episode is the same as used in X Files Home (season 4 episode 2).
The farmhouse used in this episode is the home of Ron Pergman in the Big Sky Season 1 series.
Something I'm noticing about in the IMDb trivia and goofs for 'Fringe' are that a lot of the entries are about "geographical errors".  This building isn't in that city, this city isn't located there, etc.  And I keep thinking "Not in our universe they aren't but this show isn't in our universe!"
Fringe S2E03 'Fracture'.  Someone is turning others into crystalline bombs.  Making a watermelon explode excites Walter enough he calls Astrid by her correct name.  Which upsets her because she has to clean up the watermelon splatter.  The first hint that the Observers may want to do more than Observe.
The glyphs spell "burial".
[to Walter]
Peter Bishop: So apart from the obvious, anything out of the ordinary?
Fringe S2E04 'Momentum Deferred'.  IMDb sez: "Walter analyzes the body of a shapeshifter and then reconnects with an old patient that has the ability to distinguish the people from the other world. Olivia finally recalls her encounter with Belly."
The glyphs say "Memory".
After Dr. Bishop talks Olivia into drinking a bunch of pureed flatworms Astrid answers the phone with "Bishop's Deli".
Dr. William Bell: Physics is a bitch.
Dr. Walter Bishop: Let's see how this thing operates.
Astrid Farnsworth: What are you saying, that this is not a person?
Dr. Walter Bishop: My dear, I'm not certain that you're not simply a figment of my imagination.
Plot Hole: Since the shapeshifters have so much mercury in their blood, a simpler method of detection (although not nearly as 'Fringe Worthy' ) would be to use a standard mercury sniffer. These are used for cleaning up mercury spills and can detect mercury well into the part per million range. One of these detectors would peg out near any shapeshifter.
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