What Did You Watch? 2025-05-31 (Saturday)

Fringe S3E15 'Subject 13'
IMDb sez: "This follow-up to last season's "Peter" flashback episode revisits a poignant period of time for both the Bishops and Olivia. "
A 1985 episode so everyone but Mr. Noble got a vacation.  :)
Plot Holes: Given the way that they all are supposed to have interacted as shown in this episode, it becomes questionable as to how none of Walter, Peter and Olivia have any recollection of each other when they meet in the pilot episode - Walter is perhaps forgivable due to his memory loss, but Olivia should have recognised at least the names of Walter and Peter, and Peter should have known Olivia.
The glyphs for this episode spell out: SWITCH
When Walter is trying to activate Olivia's ability to cross over he gives her a puzzle. This puzzle was used in J.J. Abrams show Alias. It was a tool used when training children to be sleeper agents for the CIA
The timeline of this episode contradicts previous episodes that suggest Olivia was three and living in Jacksonville with her father at the time of the Cortexiphan trials. The room where Olivia starts a fire is also different, and the burn marks leave a circle in the middle of the room rather than an untouched corner.
This episode takes place in Jacksonville, Florida home to sun and high temperatures. Yet in the scene where Peter and Olivia return to the school it is snowing.
(Obviously the Abrams Curse of "randomly throw shit at the wall and see if anyone notices" was making its presence known in this episode.)
Fringe S3E16 'Os'
IMDb sez: "The Fringe team attempts to find out what process enables people to become lighter than air and float. Peter and Olivia deal with trust issues in their relationship, while Walter becomes increasingly obsessed with retrieving William Bell's consciousness from beyond the grave."
The episode opens with Walter getting stoned with Hurley in the security room of Massive Dynamics.
The glyphs for this episode spell out: "Earth"
The episode title is the chemical symbol for the element Osmium, the densest of the naturally occurring elements.
When Nina arrives at Walter's lab she calls Astrid "Astrik".
Agent Astrid Farnsworth: "I went to Quanico for this?" (after Dr. Bishop asks her to dispose of many gallons of blood).
Fringe S3E17 'Stowaway'
IMDb sez "As the Fringe team hopes to alleviate Olivia's possession quickly, Agent Lincoln Lee of the F.B.I. meets them for the first time over the curious case of what he calls "the compassionate soul vampire.""
The glyphs for this episode spell out: ERODE
Lincoln Lee: Feel free to give me a call if you ever find yourself needing some help.
Peter Bishop: Be careful what you wish for.
William Bell: You know, stranger things have happened
Lincoln Lee: No, they haven't
Dr. Walter Bishop: Even if we were able to transfer your consciousness safely inside Gene there are other matters to consider.
William Bell: We would communicate through my brainwaves. You would hook me up into an EEG machine and decipher my thoughts.
Dr. Walter Bishop: That may work but still... I'd have to milk you.
William Bell: We could assign Astrid.
Peter Bishop: Walter. Walter?
Dr. Walter Bishop: Not now son, we are on to something.
Personal observation, Leonard Nimoy never looked better than he does in this episode.  ;)
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