Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-05-19 (Monday)

Ubiquitous wrote:
In article <100j8gr$2g7u8$2@dont-email.me>, dtravel@sonic.net wrote:

What did you watch?

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Fringe S2E18 'White Tulip'.
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IMDb sez: "The Fringe team investigate a train full of people who died
in a mysterious way. Olivia and the others then meet the astrophysicist
who was responsible for the "experiment" and who can reset the time."
Well, that planes and trains now they just need a mass casualty
automobile event.  As well as a credit to 'Groundhog Day'.
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The glyphs in this episode spell "Secret".
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Dr. Walter Bishop: [to Alistair Peck] I, too, attempted the
unimaginable, and I succeeded. I crossed into another universe, and took
a son that wasn't mine. And since then, not a day has passed without me
feeling the burden of that act. I'm going to tell you something that I
have never told another soul. Until I took my son from the other side, I
had never believed in God. But it occurred to me... that my actions had
betrayed him and that everything that had happened to me since was God
punishing me. So now I'm looking for a sign of forgiveness. I've asked
God for a sign of forgiveness. A specific one, a white tulip.  (I think
that explains the episode title.)

Yes, that was it exactly, as well as the ending.

Guest star Peter Weller plays a scientist who has implanted mechanical
and electrical devices in his body that give him special abilities - the
dictionary definition of a "cyborg." Weller is most famous for playing
the lead role in the RoboCop movies, in which his character is a cyborg
police officer.

I like the continuing theme that "science is dangerous!".
Sure, you can time travel, but you kill everything withing a radius of where
you arrive, depending on how far back you travel.