Minicap: Fringe

Recaps

By TheCzar | Saturday, September 24, 2011 | 12:00 pm | 18 Comments
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I have good news and I have bad news. The good news is, after a 4-month-long hiatus, “Fringe” back. The bad news is, Joshua Jackson is not. Nope, Peter Bishop went missing in last year’s season finale, and no one seems the slighted bit concerned about it anymore. Rather than trying to find Peter, keep their world from being destroyed or prevent Olivia’s predicted fate of being shot in the head by the evil Walternet (I have no idea what happened to him either), the Fringe devision goes about their daily business, solving mysterious crimes that, for all we know, may or may not have ties to the alternate universe.

But back to more important things here – WHERE THE HELL IS JOSHUA JACKSON? He was standing right there just a moment ago – RIGHT THERE – before he suddenly disappeared! With the exception of a minor glimpse of him as a reflection in Walter’s television screen (I think), Peter doesn’t make an appearance at all this episode. Either the producers have something up their sleeves, or something went haywire with Joshua’s contract. Whatever the reason, they better fix it, stat. Without Peter, who’s gonna be the Tom Cruise to Walter’s Rain Man? And who’s gonna add the tender moments with Olivia for the 2% of their viewers who don’t care about the science part and tune in just to watch Joshua Jackson get it on?

Lincoln Lee 9.23.11Who’s this guy?

Well, I tell you one thing, it ain’t gonna be Lincoln. Lincoln is Olivia’s agent partner in the alternate universe who is just another unassuming FBI agent in ours. But things move quickly on “Fringe,” and within an hour, Lincoln has gone from a low-ranking, blissfully unaware average guy to a full-fledged Fringe member with full security clearance to the Fringe Division’s secrets. But really he’s just here to fill in for Josh by trying to add some humor and make googily eyes at Olivia.

It all starts when Lincoln and his partner chase a bad guy through a dark, deserted warehouse, as they tend to do on these shows. Lincoln gets his guy, but later finds his dead partner’s DNA being sucked out of him by some weird translucent shapeshifter. He’s interviewed by Olivia, who can’t tell him what division she works for and why she’s asking questions. But she really pisses him off when she tells him she can’t release his partner’s body to his family – and Lincoln is expected to keep it quiet. But Lincoln is no dummy – and he finds a way to track down Olivia, and eventually ends up in Walter’s lab. Well, now that he’s here, Olivia might as well use him, she thinks. So she takes him on a wild goose chase that results in them running around a train depot, shooting translucent shapeshifters and saving each others’ asses.

In the couple of days they get to know each other, Olivia and Lincoln discover they have a lot in common, like they both lost a transparent partner. No, I don’t mean that it’s obvious what these people are thinking or feeling when you look at them - I mean, their partners were literally see-through when they died. Since they’re the only two people in the world who share this experience, they bond pretty quickly. By the end, Olivia trusts Lincoln completely, and all it takes is answering a few questions and getting a hand scan for Lincoln to gain full security clearance to the most top-secret division of the FBI. Something tells me Lincoln is here to stay for awhile.

Oh yeah, Olivianet is here and working for Fringe now, even though no one trusts her. Yes, Olivia has to work with the chick who stole her identity and slept with her boyfriend. That should make for some interesting gossip at the water cooler. Oh, and one other minor detail – they’ve built a full a portal to the other world in the room where Peter connected the two universes and then disappeared, which is amazing considering that no one can figure out how to stop a satellite from crashing into the earth. Ah, technology. All I have to say is, this is going to be one confusing, dramatic year. But I don’t care – I’m in!

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18 Comments

  1. 1
    TiredMom
    Posted September 24, 2011 at 2:31 pm

    I LOVE FRINGE!!! But that one glimpse of Peter last night will not do it for me – BRING ON PETER!!!!!!!!!

  2. 2
    Moli Moli
    Posted September 24, 2011 at 3:01 pm

    Oh the Gasmi gods have answered. This is my favorite show

  3. 3
    TiredMom
    Posted September 24, 2011 at 9:28 pm

    Agreed – why there isn’t a bigger fan base for this show is beyond me. I was hoping they would release earlier seasons on Netflix this summer so more people could get hooked – it is fantastic!

  4. 4
    baymenxpac
    Posted September 25, 2011 at 11:36 am

    mad men and fringe are my two favorite shows on television. i’m intrigued to see where the peter storyline takes us, but they need joshua back asap. he really pulls the whole cast together.

  5. 5
    tv
    Posted September 25, 2011 at 7:03 pm

    i dunno, i kinda have a hard-on for lincoln so i hope he sticks around…not sure why olivia doesn’t remember meeting him before though

  6. 6
    Shawn
    Posted September 25, 2011 at 9:22 pm

    wow. amazed such fans dont keep up.
    1. peter sacrificed his existence in the finale last year. the weird bald watcher said “he is gone and as if he never existed” noone would remember peter being gone. he was never in anyones life to begin with. which is why Walter does not remember him.

    2. Lincoln played his “our universe” part last year with the “alternate” olivia thats why she has never met him.

  7. 7
    Moli Moli
    Posted September 26, 2011 at 6:28 am

    Did you catch Walter asking Lincoln has any candy or sweets, Peter is not a fogotten memory….besides seeing ‘The Man’. John Nobles acting abitilies amaze me every episode. Cant wait for Walternat

  8. 8
    NotWithoutMyTV
    Posted September 26, 2011 at 7:00 am

    @Shawn: You seem to know a lot. Why does Olivia always look like she’s fighting down the urge to throw up? Seriously, look at her. In every scene, she’s got this sea-sick look on her face.

  9. 9
    Shawn
    Posted September 26, 2011 at 7:31 am

    Perhaps she is pregnant like the Alt-Olivia was last season. lol

  10. 10
    Cocodawn nicole
    Posted September 26, 2011 at 11:29 am

    Thank you Shawn! I also couldn’t believe how much people forgot. Also, the recap says bizarro Olivia is “here” and working for Fringe. She isn’t-she’s meeting our Olivia at the portal to work together, just as Peter wanted in the finale.

  11. 11
    Shawn
    Posted September 26, 2011 at 1:29 pm

    Thanks nicole. I glossed over that face when I read the recap.
    As big a fan as I am I take it?

  12. 12
    Cocodawn nicole
    Posted September 28, 2011 at 9:06 am

    Definitely. Love the show more every year. How long do you think it will take for Peter to return?

  13. 13
    NotWithoutMyTV
    Posted September 28, 2011 at 10:10 am

    As long as it takes for someone to have a dream sequence.

    I’m a new-comer to Fringe. But man, was I taken with Walter. I only knew the character from commercials and such, but when he was all broken and grief-stricken in jail, I couldn’t stand it. I never feel bad for ANYONE on TV, ’cause I never believe it, and I rebel against the obvious attempt to manipulate of my emotions. But I gotta hand it to John Noble. I wanted to give that guy a Twizzler.

  14. 14
    NotWithoutMyTV
    Posted September 28, 2011 at 10:14 am

    I’m glad someone in the future convinced Olivia to stop skinning her hair back in a severe ponytail. That was NEVER a good look for her. At all. In any universe.

  15. 15
    TheCzar
    Posted September 29, 2011 at 12:54 am

    Yeah, this is my favorite show, and why John Noble has never been nominated for an Emmy is beyond me. But I have to admit, other than embellishing some details for the sake of a joke (shame on me), I am guilty of forgetting some details from last season – watching so much tv has fried my brain – so I totally appreciate any details/corrections you Observers have to offer.

    But here’s the sad thing – Fox won’t release the online version of Fringe episodes until 8 days after they air the original episode, which makes my job much harder. So have patience, dear friends, as I figure out how to get them to you quicker.

    Til we see Peter again,

    TheCzar

  16. 16
    maryedith
    Posted October 27, 2011 at 10:02 pm

    Guess TheCzar hasn’t figured that out yet. Sad horns.

  17. 17
    Flipit
    Posted October 27, 2011 at 10:13 pm

    I have had one hell of a time keeping this show covered! That is the fourth writer that’s had to bail! Sad horns indeed.

  18. 18
    theczar
    Posted October 28, 2011 at 12:03 am

    Sorry guys – Other commitments have come up, and unfortunately I no longer have the time to put into TVgasm right now. Hopefully they’ll get someone else to cover the show.

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