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In this podcast we discuss the mind blowing Season 3 Fringe finale, “The Day We Died.” We discuss the death of Olivia Dunham, the musical score composed by Chris Tilton, the revelations of the origins of the First People, the new title sequence, and, of course, we spend a lot of time discussing time travel and what we might see in season 4 as a result of Peter’s travel through time and subsequent disappearance.
Send in your thoughts and theories to 304-837-2278 or feedback@thefringepodcast.com.
You guys seem to be thrilled by the fact that the first three seasons were a “dream” and now the universes are at war for a different reason. Does in not bother you that the first three season essentially don’t matter anymore?
On the discussion of whether the machine just exists or was made in the future, it had to be built in “Over There, part1” Nina Sharpe is shown the drawing and says that “it’s Williams technology but we never built it” even though on a different timeline they apparently did. So they had to build the machine and then send it back in time on a previous timeline.
Also Peter isn’t necessarily gone; as a result of him changing the future, he is ‘different’, if that makes sense, by changing the timeline the Peter that operated the machine went to the future and back and was about to explain to them how the machine works no longer exists in this new future, like the Walter who sent the machine back in time no longer exists, even though Peter is still alive but the world is different based on the changes that he made during the previous timeline (a decent example is the movie “Dejavu” with Denzel Washington where he experiences the changes in time that he is going to make). So he either changed the timeline like on ‘Back to the Future’ and ‘Dejavu’ or he created a new world like on ‘Source Code’. When they don’t ‘remember’ Peter they mean they don’t remember anything on the previous timeline but apparently the Observer’s can remember things from previous timelines which is interesting, they not only view time all at once but multiple timelines at once.
Walter and William Bell (or maybe just Walter) making a machine which among other things can transport a person (or their consciousness) through time, isn’t very surprising considering Walter tried to make a time machine before in Season 1 in the ‘Safe’ episode, but it turned out to be a teleportation device which like the Wave Sink Device was taken apart and it’s pieces were hidden in separate places.
Some Q&A videos from the producers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8YOWK7SClQ
and an interview with Kevin Corrigan (Sam Weiss): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuVkn3LfXDI
@Geiger
The premise certainly makes me weary. However things pan out, I’m certain Fringe will still intrigue and engage me. Although, as I’m re-watching the show from the start, at the very least it seems like a waste of character progression. ‘Course there has been tons of time, sweat and tears invested in the Peter-Walter, Peter-Olivia relationships. I’m not sure where things are going, but I’m doubting the character dynamic is something that they would throw out the window. Though it may be used to gain emotional “Umph!”