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

On 5/19/2025 5:38 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

 What did you watch?
 

Fringe S2E15 'Jacksonville'.  An interuniverse earthquake has Walter trying to make Olivia see The Other Side.  And Olivia has a revelation about Peter.
The glyphs in this episode spell "Reveal".
Astrid Farnsworth: All right, so what am I looking for?
Dr. Walter Bishop: Anything that looks like it doesn't belong.
Astrid Farnsworth: I think this qualifies. Richard Nixon on a silver dollar.
Dr. Walter Bishop: That's disturbing.
No scenes were actually filmed in Jacksonville, Florida despite the name of the episode.
Fringe S2E16 'Peter'.  Walter has 1985 flashbacks while justifying inter-universe kidnapping to Olivia.
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.
The glyphs from this episode spell out: Peters
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".
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.
On the DVD commentary, Blair Brown says that to create her "1985" hairstyle for the flashback scenes, she brought in to the hairstylists some pictures of herself from Continental Divide (1981), and the hairstyle she had in that actual 1980s movie is the model they used to cut the wig for younger Nina's hair.
Dr. Walter Bishop: There's only room for one God in this lab, and it's not yours.
Dr. Walter Bishop: The Casimir Effect should produce a thinner, more porous region of space-time. I only need to affect the area for long enough to cross over to the other side with the vial of the cure. And... and then, of course, recreate the effect to cross back again.
Dr. Carla Warren: Walter, you're trying to create a wormhole into another universe?
Dr. Walter Bishop: Yes! I think I just said that.
Fringe S2E17 'Olivia. In the Lab. With the Revolver'.  IMDb sez: "The Fringe team investigate a series of mysterious deaths caused by cancer that seems to have been transmitted by touch. Olivia realizes the perpetrator is after the kids who were part of the Coretexiphan trials."
Dr. Walter Bishop: When you open your mind to the impossible, sometimes you find the truth.
The glyphs from this episode spell out: Energy
What Did You Watch?
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