joefrog91

I don't know if it was, but it did remind me of that also Waltz with Bashir.

I kept looking for a cartoon observer. I'm sure I missed it.

Setzer

RichC2

This is probably my favorite episode so far (I'm not a regular viewer).

One thing that cracks me up is I live in Jacksonville, FL which is obviously the Jacksonville they're referring to (not sure if it's mentioned with state -- but our E. Union St. is close to the Matthews Bridge/Expressway ), I love the naming schemes here -- "Jacksonvile Military Base" "Jacksonville Day Care", etc;

To their credit, it was kind of cool seeing something that resembles our downtown and naval station in Waking Life animation.

chuckd21

Same here. Just the fact that they did a moments worth of research to name drop Union St. and Matthews impressed the hell out of me. Even though downtown looks nothing like that, LOL

Goldberg74

No, that was rotoscoping... this was more in line of the "quick let's get it done quick" kinda like a Robbie William's video.

RichC2

The moments check = "Somebody hop on Google Maps and look up downtown Jacksonville"

Raul3

Loved, loved the episode. And the ending was great.

But yeah, the animation was mediocre. But I didn't care.

treszoks

Awesome episode!

yourlocalcinema

Anyone have a nice HD still of the "How Wonderful" scene? I'd love to make it my desktop background but fullscreen screenshots from Hulu at 480p are coming out fuzzy.

Gunde

Whew, finally caught up.
I started watching shortly after the season 4 renewal, having originally dropped it after episode 3.
I'm glad I gave it a second chance. Besides "Black Betty" (which almost made me stop again) it's been one hell of a ride. The show's consistently awesome.

Only minor critique would be the mad love between Olivia and Peter that kinda came out of nowhere. The attraction/chemistry was always there but it seems they wen't to full blown "made for each other" in one episode. On the other hand I get the desire to appeal to more viewers...

Looking forward to the rest of the season.

shadowhawk2020

I think this is a larger version of the same file:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/26379203/vlc...0h41m17s12.png

yourlocalcinema

Awesome, that's perfect. Thanks!

DJariya

OMG, that episode was so good. It was Fringe on drugs.

at Broyles being high on LSD most of this episode and analyzing licorice and seeing cartoon birds.

The animated sequences were pretty good too. I don't think Olivia's animated character was as good as Peter and Walter's. I thought it was a really fun way to bring Olivia back.

I guess Nimoy's special appearance was sitting in an audio booth recording lines for this episode. I assume he's back to being "retired" now.

DJariya

I'm glad you watched, but the show is pretty heavily serialized. Personally I wouldn't pick and choose episodes to watch as it would be hard to appreciate the characters and all the events they went through. If I just randomly watched this episode after not having seen the entire season, I would have no clue what anything meant.

superfro

I've loved every single thing that Fringe has done since episode 1.

I hated this episode something fierce. Thank christ they didn't put Bell in a computer. Yet anyway. Ugh.

I'm glad you guys dug it, but I thought it was absolutely terrible. Between the terrible animation and straight up Inception storyline I could not get into it at all.

johnnysd

Well it improved on Inception at least which is a complete exposition slogfest

shadowhawk2020

I had to make it my phone background...

RichC2

My issue with Fringe is I like the overarching storyline but am not a big fan of the MOTW stylings. I've watched more this season than any prior, it's just more interesting and I feel like I do have a feel for the characters at this point.

That said, I do understand what you mean Will have to go back at some point and fill in the blanks.

ATX

^ they've actually become decent at making fotw/motw episodes

they are incorporating em now in both red & blue episodes and they seem to be written alot better

Gizmo

So Bell being inside Olivia was essentially 2-3 episodes of nothing just so Olivia knows who will 'kill' her?

ATX

well, now that you mention it...



just gotta assume that either they are trying to set up a new character for the finale/next season or they are trying to fill the 24 episodes

the next episode is red i believe, maybe dudes a super soldier assassin walternate is sending over to kill olivia

he was in a zepellin, so it has something to do with redworld

Flave

Although I thoroughly enjoyed this episode, this was exactly what I concluded after thinking about it for a minute. I enjoyed the ride but three shows just for a 5 second payoff in that final scene? And nobody dies in TV shows anymore so you know Bell will be back. So you have to wonder, in terms of story progression, whether the point of this Bell arc was just a self-indulgent stab at animation.

This show is very "bipolar" for me. On the one hand, the science and the logic can be embarrassingly bad and there are a lot of stories that lead nowhere. On the other hand, I really don't care because the show is so bloody entertaining!

[Edit] I also wonder whether the "me" when she says "he's the one who's going to kill me" is alt-Olivia?

shadowhawk2020

I think maybe a little of Bell coming back was for Walter to be able to move on. He had been complaining that he couldn't get along without Bell. Now, Walter can have confidence that Bell thinks he will do the right thing.

Aphex Twin

This episode had hints of Blade Runner, A Scanner Darkly, Dreamscape, and Inception

wearetheborg

Tripping Broyles was just awesome