Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-05-18 (Sunday)

On 5/19/2025 6:01 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 5/19/2025 11:49 AM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:

On 5/19/2025 7:14 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

Fringe S2E16 'Peter'.  Walter has 1985 flashbacks while justifying
inter-universe kidnapping to Olivia.
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Despite being named after his character, this is the first episode to
not feature Joshua Jackson, apart for a small clip from a previous
episode.
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The glyphs from this episode spell out: Peters
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The episode's opening titles have been redone as though it were a
show from 1985, complete with an '80s version of the theme tune and
decade- specific fringe science topics such as "stealth technology",
"virtual reality", and "in-vitro fertilization".
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When the movie theatre from the alternate universe is seen, it is
showing "Back to the Future: starring Eric Stoltz". In fact, Stoltz
did play Marty McFly in Back to the Future (1985) for a few weeks.
Michael J. Fox was originally unavailable, so Stoltz did some
filming, but realized that the part was not right for him. By that
time, Fox had become available and did the movie.

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So that's how they think time travel works.
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Huh?� Most of the episode was _set_ in the 1985. No time travel.

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I thought I was quoting the episode, but I remembered it wrong, or I was
thinking of a different show.
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I'm still convinced they retconned The Observers in later seasons.