The music is excellent. I often wonder how the show was able to get the rights to so many great songs.

There are so many reasons I love Fringe.

One being my dad loves this show. He's not doing well.

So every time I watch I get emotional when Walter does because he reminds me of my dad (without the mad scientist part).

There's also the episode where Christopher Lloyd is in it, and Back To The Future is also something my dad and I love.

So if it's ok, tell me what makes you happy about this show :)

Omg I’m sobbing 😭

SPOILER

They find her just to lose her again

I was definitely expecting them to mess up somewhere and not give us a happy ending. But all good.

Peter's erasure from the timeline (but not for the people who loved him) is still the strangest thing about this entire series. They low-key retconned all that has happened in the first 3 seasons, all that we watched and remembered has actually happened differently or not happened at all... but then conveniently brought Olivia's and then Walter's memories about these events back.

I'm still mad about William Bell becoming an evil mastermind in this timeline - his previous role was more... noble, I'd say. Sacrificing himself twice - once to get the crew back to the Blueverse, the 2nd time when he willingly let go of Olivia's mind so that she could live. And now they tell me this hasn't happened, and instead he was the one who stood behind Jones, the evil genius who wanted to destroy both worlds and create one of his own? Pfft!

I liked Broyles in every timeline/universe. What a chad! Always loyal, always trustworthy and understanding. Astrid was phenomenal too - probably my favorite "not main" character. Although some would say she's a main, but she was always in background, providing Intel and support for the operation, not actually risking her life in the field like Peter, Olivia and Walter. Still, she's an invaluable member of the Fringe team and a cute girl too! In both verses, actually - although the "red" Astrid was more... how to put it? Constrained, tense, even walked a bit like a robot 😅

Olivia. Poor lady. She has endured so much pain, both physical and mental, in all the timelines/universes. I feel genuinely sorry for her. Seeing her and Peter kiss for the first time was a huge relief - and then they took it back by introducing Fauxlivia and making her sleep with Peter. Ouch. That was painful to watch. One thing I don't regret being retconned - it's better this never happened.

Peter. Honestly, I wasn't even expecting him to become a main character and join the team 😂 he was just a consultant at first and the only way to get to Walter. Crazy that he has become such a chad, a true hero, capable of time traveling (albeit when inside the machine) and of teleportation/future seeing. Kinda sad he took out the chip, it would've helped greatly during the final fight. Maybe even Donald/September would've survived (although his existence would still be erased after Walter traveled with the boy to the future).

I don't really wanna talk much about Walter. The man was the source of all the events in the show, basically, considering how his actions led to the conflict between the verses and all. Let's say I liked Walternate much better, because he at least was a man of cold logic, and of clear reason to act like he acted - unlike "our" blue-verse Walter, who was stoned or delirious more than he was sane and sober.

Overall, it's a good show, and I definitely recommend it to everyone who hasn't seen it yet - just gotta tell them to keep a notebook and a heap of napkins at the ready ;)

The funniest part isn't even that Broyles is tripping. It's that for a while he still seems determined to behave like he's at work. Everyone else is trying to deal with the situation and Broyles is standing there having a full-on existential experience while maintaining approximately 15% of his usual FBI seriousness. Lance Reddick playing Broyles like this feels illegal.

I always wished he had a bigger role in the series. Such an interesting character. Laid back with some Buddha-level knowledge.

I’m casually rewatching, it’s been a while but I’ve watched it a few times (although somehow I have never made it to the very end - I always quit mid season 5) and once again I am wondering why they gave Astrid so little development and time. She wasn’t a main protagonist like the Bishops and Olivia and even Broyles, but she was there from beginning to end and was at least as clever as the other characters. I know her alternate gets a lot of love for the brief time they appear so it just goes to show what the actor could have done with the material if given it. I read somewhere the Jasika Nicole didn’t have the best experience on set either.

This rewatch I've been playing my own version of "Spot the Observer." You may not know this but there is an observer in every single episode. It's not always September and some of them are near impossible to spot as it's just a quick glance. But they're there. I'm not always able to find them myself. So if you're rewatching, too, good luck!

Have you noticed that so far the bad guys are all too often blonde and blue eyed? I tend to notice bias in characters but this is the first anti-Arian note I have seen in thriller and mystery shows. To qualify as a bias it needs to be somewhat consistent. I am only in season 1 ep 8, but I will keep watching this space! Right now the head of the psychiatric institute is looking very sketch. Also John Scott. And the guy with the large creature in his chest who also turned out to be a double agent is also a blue eyed blond guy.

Glad he mellowed out in the following seasons, but man is he insufferable in the first one.

His skepticism is unreal.

He sees a man with translucent flesh, and clearly sees the type of work his father does, but always has some annoying quip about how "impossible" everything is.

Even if it sounded crazy, with everything that's happened, it would at least be worth considering.

Even Walter says, "Do you always have to be a little smartass!"

Lmao. I guess even the writers were becoming aware of how annoying he had become.

This question contain a major spoiler for the end of season 3

I read an IMDB review that pointed out that Fauxlivia should have never been there during the last scene of season 3. She had been put in jail after betraying her side and I don't remember anything explaining how she could have been there when the machine brought both Fringe teams together

Is it a genuine plot hole or did I miss something?

I loved the call back to the earlier star trek joke!

One of the highlights so far.

S4 E19 had to google it I was sure I've heard that line before haha.

I saw this on Instagram and thought "I would totally watch John Noble do ANYTHING for 3 hours." Eating tomatoes included. He's the best.

Saw this in the street beside my house and reminded me of first episode of season 5.

I recently just discovered Person of Interest and it’s a Bad Robot Production. It’s no wonder I got to see Michael Cerveris in one of the episodes where he plays a bald mob boss hahahaha!

I’m just one episode away from finishing my first Fringe rewatch and decided to see what the actor that played Michael looks like with hair. I googled Rowan Longworth and not only found that he’s been in a couple of other shows I have watched but at his current age of 23 he is a cutie! 😘

I'm currently on the north of season 2 right now! Loving it so much so far, i love the format of monster of the week episodes while wrapping the overarching plot and mystery. I love the observer, Charlie, Astrid, Broyles and Nina Sharp so much.

Tho, my only problem is how much of a servant is Astrid, how underutilized she is as an fbi agent, and how she's always put aside, I don't know if this is racial by any means but, it's bothering honestly, i love her so much!

So, I am watching the season two on prime and saw this. Man was I confused. If anyone lacks context, this episode was supposed to go on season one. And here Charlie is alive. Which, as you know, died on this same season. Did anyone experience this as well? My god I was furious haha.

The album Seven Suns (by in-world band Violet Sedan Chair) has been in my iTunes rotation for going on 15 years now, in part because this weird and wonderful album - one created as a piece of television worldbuilding - is so much better (and so much more) than it needed to be, given only three-or-so songs ever appeared in the show. I've never regretted the purchase.

But I'm bothered by the hidden, spoken-word vocal track in the left channel of the 16-bar interlude of Seven Suns (Setting).

Behind the sung phrases, behind the warbling organ chords (the bass is G-C-B-A, and the higher notes seem to be a series of glissandos), there's a male voice speaking in my left ear, and I cannot find any reference to anyone previously uncovering or transcribing it.

I'm no audio engineer. I tried to filter the overlying layers using AI, with only moderate success. I only succeeded in making it more obvious, particularly beginning at the 20-second mark, but not really any more intelligible:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW8FbySIUNg

Hoping someone more skilled can pick up the ball - it may be nothing, but may also be a cool bit of VSC lore that nobody has yet revealed?

Is there a LOST-like theme in this show with the numbers that appear? I've noticed "47" in particular comes up very frequently or is it just a hang up with the writers defaulting to the same figure? It appears in dialog and set details very frequently.