FRINGE #10:Grey Matters/Season 2/2009

[Truth Seeker]

Grey Matters

The Fringe team investigate a mental institution after a patient has brain surgery and begins to show an improvement despite having his brain exposed. Agent Dunham makes a discovery of her own after seeing footage from the surveillance tapes.
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[Crothian]

That was cool. Nice to see Lovecraft references in there as well!!

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

That was cool. Nice to see Lovecraft references in there as well!!

Lovecraftian? I only got Matrix reference - the woman in red.

Liked it. I just wished they had given more time to Bishop as "sane" person with all memory intact. The short scene he had it he definitely seemed different, more assertive and confident, arrogant even.

 

[Crothian]

Lovecraftian?

Dunwich Asylum, Dr West, Stuart Gordon

 

[satori01]

Liked it. I just wished they had given more time to Bishop as "sane" person with all memory intact. The short scene he had it he definitely seemed different, more assertive and confident, arrogant even.

Clearly at some point a "restored" Dr. Bishop will be a reality. Bishop had a strange expression on his face when he was going through the second MRI....regret at the memories geing 'gone', or concern that the MRI might reveal more brain function.

I have stated since the second episode of Fringe that a restored Dr. Bishop would be a scary thing.

A Mad scientist is one thing....
a Moraly Flexible, Brilliant Angry Scientist is quite another.

 

[Viking Bastard]

I suspect that we'll see the 'whole' Bishop in the form of 'parallel universe' Bishop later on.

 

[RigaMortus2]

I'm sure others were quicker to pick up on this than I was, but I liked the who "Walter is from another dimension" facet. I did not see that one coming.

I'm not quite sure what the other dimension(s) has to do with anything in the grand scheme of things. Is this something they just added as this season's plot, or will this be an on-going plot line?

I was never into X-Files (yeah yeah, I know), but Fringe reminds me of what X-Files probably was like had I watched it. Am I close on that?

 

[Crothian]

I was never into X-Files (yeah yeah, I know), but Fringe reminds me of what X-Files probably was like had I watched it. Am I close on that?

Yes, it is like the X-Files. Fringe has done more with the big plot in a season and a half then X-files did in that time. X-Files I felt had better monster of the week episodes dealt with a wider range of location and plots.

 

[coyote6]

I get the feeling the Fringe creators have a better grasp on what their overall plot is than Chris Carter & co. had for X-Files; but that might just be wishful thinking (and hoping they learned from the X-Files, and Lost). The X-Files definitely had better funny episodes, though.

FWIW, Walter isn't from another universe (as far as I know); the Peter that's on the show is. Walter's Peter died as a kid, so he built a gizmo to go to an alternate universe and kidnapped that universe's Peter. AFAIK, we haven't seen alt-universe Walter yet, nor any clue about him.

The alternate universe thing has been part of Fringe from the beginning, though it only became clear at the end of the first season.