A Brief History of Time

I have just learned so much from JJ Abrams these past couple weeks about time travel and alternate realities and hot men. Trying to find answers to mysteries on shows from clues given in a movie is brain-hurting...but let's try anyway!

First, quickly, Fringe. The Germ is who shot Nina Sharp. He didn't kill her, but he did steal a powerful energy chip that was for some reason stored in her robot arm. The Germ is dying from his teleportating, so is using the energy chip to power his alternate reality hole making machine so he can go over to the other world and kick Bell's ass. You see, the Germ used to work for Will but got fired, so has been using all of Bell's fringy thoughts and discoveries to show him what's up. And all of these incidents have been happening where they have because those are the soft spots in the world through which it is easier to travel to the other side. The side that Bell is on. No wonder Nina is such a good personal assistant, her bossy can't ever make his this world meetings!

The reason Alien Baldy came to Walt was to remind him to look for something at his old beach house. When Walt went missing, Peter went to find him, and by reminiscing about whale-shaped pancakes, helped him remember what he was looking for. A plug to close the hole between worlds. Once upon a time, Walt lost something very special in this world (*coughPETERcough*) and wanted it back so badly that he went and took the still alive one from through the looking glass. After finding the plug, Pete and Walt go to the world's softest spot to close the hole and cut off the Germ - litrally - while he is half-way through. Icky.

Nina Sharp calls Olivia to meet her in NYC alone, and after hours of waiting, Liv gets into the elevator to leave, but flashing lights are everywhere, and she is vertically transported to the alternate world where Mr. Spock Leonard Nimoy William Bell is officed, in the still-standing Twin Towers.



To review: From Lost, we've learned that this already happened but we don't remember it because it hasn't happened for the right-now us yet. From Star Trek, we've learned that if for some reason you don't die when you are sucked into a black hole, you will be placed sometime in the past where you will wait to kill your nemesis before he kills your planet. And now, both of these ideas can be applied to Fringe, where things happen to us, and another us is created where those things didn't happen, and we can travel through black hole -esque holes to kill our nemesis in that other world which has its own time history that branched off from ours.

All set? There will be a test last Tuesday.