Zerstörung durch Fortschritte der Technologie, duh

Firstly, for it is bound to come up again, let me tell you straight up that I am a big, big, since he was Charlie Conway and I was a slumdog baby, fan of Joshua Jackson. I love him. As for the picture, I'm just keeping with the theme of the last post, that's all, okay?

Nextly, because Fringe has actually developed into a true JJ Abrams show where plotlines intertwine and mysterious secrets lurk, I will give you the haps til now so that you can be in the know for when it comes back next week.

Definition: Fringe science, as it sounds, is fringe-ly science; crazy shit that has some scientific plausibility, but not so much probability in our world of skeptical realists.

So in the first eppy, FBI agent Olivia Dunham and her partner, both in the worky and twerky sense, John Scott, get called to investigate a plane of people who died in a gross manner. John gets too close to the suspect's garage of chemicals which blows up and turns his skin clear, and the only way to save him is with an anecdote (yes, I know, it's antidote) for which they need THE fringe scientist, Walter Bishop. Enter the love of my life. Peter Bishop is just a smart, good-looking guy with a shady past and the only one who can sign his father out of the mental institute of technology he's been attending since he killed a young lady in a fringy experiment. While Pete and his pops are trying to cure John, Olivia is trying to solve the case, so she goes into a water tank and gets hooked up to John's brain so she can read his memories and see what the bad guy looks like. Eventually, they cure Liv's love but he turns around and tries to kill her, so she kills him. Sad, but she still has his memories. (HIS memories, did you catch that?)

Liv's boss, Matthew Abaddon, or Agent Broyles as he is called on this JJ show, is impressed and puts her and the rest of the gang on a task force to follow "the Pattern", a string of fringe occurrences. So for the next lots of episodes, all the incidents seem confined to one episode, blah blah. What you need to know: the guy that used to work with Walt on fringy stuff is now the head of an evil corporation, Massive Dynamic, which is somehow connected to all the incidents. John and his memories have been infiltrating Olivia's mind, helping her to solve mysteries and also scaring her and making her sad. Also, there is this alien baldy Observer who has been present at all the incidents (to observe) and long ago saved a drowning baby Peter so Walter owed him one getaway. He seems aight.

As these incidents are all part of a "Pattern" it made sense that things would begin to come together eventually. A group of bad guys walked-through-walls to break into Walter's bank vault and steal a gadget that he invented. They then kidnapped some geniuses to fix the kink in said gadget so they could use it toooo... TELEPORT a scary Germ from his high security prison cell in Deutschland to a field in the States! The head bad guy, Michael Loeb, was actually pretending to be a CIA agent and helped kidnap Olivia, but she figured him out because of a dot on his shoe and then she killed his wife. Upon hearing the news, he said to her, "Oh no you di'n't! We was tryna to save you but now look what you've done. Germ was just doing what's written in the ZFT manifesto. Go look it up, biatch." Then, Olivia goes hottubbing in the tank where she shares John's hopes and dreams and learns that he wasn't a bad guy at all, that he was part of a secret task force too, and that he really did love her. This was just the closure she needed to rid her brain of his.

Meanwhilst, the Germ is decompressing in a chamber, and the gang has learned of his prison break. Peter uses his connections from his times living on the edge to find the ZFT manifesto to understand where Germ is coming from and to figure out why people's orifices are sealing in the latest fringe science craze. Papa Walt then steals the ZFT for some light reading and is just tickled by the Courier New floating y's. After recovering from his jetlag, the Germ goes to the CIA headquarters to speak with Olivia. He whispers some sweet nothings about how everyone has the potential to use their left brain to turn off lights but society is so unaccepting that only kids who had an extra booster shot back in the 80s can do it anymore. And Olivia is one of those kids. So Germ set up a bomb with a Brite-Lite code on a building downtown and only Olivia's brain (sans John's brain, remember) can turn off the lights, and thusly turn off the bomb. So she goes and stares with all her eyes, and die-die-der-der-poof! the lights and bomb turn off. Olivia is convinced he planned it that way to mess with her pretty head but the Germ seems really excited so methinks not.

Last scene before the hiatus: Walter pulls down a rusty typewriter and types A-b-i-l-i-t-floating y. Ohhh scheisse!

And now you are caught up and excited to keep up.