Re: Fringe -- "Letters of Transit" -- 4/20/12
 

And I thought it was cool to walk away from explosions without looking. Walter took it next level.

Re: Fringe -- "Letters of Transit" -- 4/20/12
 

Goddamn...Walter doesn't just blow it up, he erases the building from reality. :lol: You do not want to mess with our Fringe team.

Seems like a cool direction for the series but Torv HAS to be a part of it. Maybe they are planning on Fauxlivia. And cool they got Nimoy back. And glad they aren't wrapping it up yet...another thing that makes Fringe one of the best shows on TV.

Re: Fringe -- "Letters of Transit" -- 4/20/12
 

I'm curious if this is our world's future, the alt world's future, of if they end up merging some how. This episode had the amber (alt world), the double F fringe logo (alt world), and the Fringe office was the alt office as well..

Re: Fringe -- "Letters of Transit" -- 4/20/12
 

Like David Robert Jones? I think he'll be the one to cause the merge at the end of the season.

Re: Fringe -- "Letters of Transit" -- 4/20/12
 

Good point :)

Re: Fringe -- "Letters of Transit" -- 4/20/12
 

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Just doing some math here. Etta is 20 and it's 2036 so she was born in 2016. The purge happened in 2015. Etta said she was 4 the last time she saw her parents so Olivia was still alive in 2020. I'm guessing she was killed that same year the team was encased in amber.

Re: Fringe -- "Letters of Transit" -- 4/20/12
 

Am I to assume that Peter was in the amber with Walter, Astrid, and William Bell? I was a bit unclear on that point... the guy at the beginning who got shot said that there were two more people in the Amber, a man and a woman. And when we get there, there is a younger William Bell and Astrid, which would account for the man and woman. Then it looked like they were getting someone/something else out of the amber (when the red/green lights were flashing), Simon freezes himself in the Amber, and Walter, Astrid, Etta, and Peter are on a train. That was sort of confusing and I had to watch the episode a second time to see what was going on.

I wonder if William Bell didn't somehow steal Olivia's body with his soul magnets. Olivia was MIA, and Bell did something unforgivable to Olivia. Which makes me wonder what the bullet Etta was wearing as a necklace was.

Re: Fringe -- "Letters of Transit" -- 4/20/12
 

Bell was holding his hand straight out, and it was sticking out in a "bulge" of amber that Walter was able to cut off. The amber isn't too difficult to cut because they were able to carve out Walter.

Re: Fringe -- "Letters of Transit" -- 4/20/12
 

They didn't carve out Walter... they did the same thing they did later -- used a device that liquified or aerosolized the amber momentarily and pushed him out of it during that moment before it resolidified.

But yes, Walternator simply went medieval. ("We got what we needed.")

Re: Fringe -- "Letters of Transit" -- 4/20/12
 

They carved him out in a giant chunk and threw him in the van.

Re: Fringe -- "Letters of Transit" -- 4/20/12
 

William Bell was in another part of the lab, down the hall from where Peter, Astrid and Walter were.

Re: Fringe -- "Letters of Transit" -- 4/20/12
 

Maybe that's not the William Bell and that hand won't do them any good. Either way, really hope we see Nimoy back next season for some episodes, with at least one good appendage.

Re: Fringe -- "Letters of Transit" -- 4/20/12
 

:thumbsup: That was a fantastic episode. I agree with the comments that it felt like a 2 part episode. :lol: I felt cheated in the end that there wasn't a 2nd hour. So where is Olivia supposed to be? Is she dead?

Walter: "What is that monkey feces?" :lol:

I would love to see a 5th season take place in 2036 and pick up where this episode left off. The problem is, doesn't FOX want WB to slash the budget for a 5th season? Doing a season that takes place this far ahead in the future sounds expensive to me. WB would literally have to pay for the entire season out of their own pocket IMO since FOX wants the budget slashed.

I really liked the actress who played Henrietta. Hopefully they will bring her back (if there is a 5th season) Henry Ian Cusick is a series regular on Scandal on ABC. If that comes back in the Fall, he probably won't be able to return, hence he's stuck in the amber.

Re: Fringe -- "Letters of Transit" -- 4/20/12
 

I'm curious to the motivation behind the making of this episode. They had to have know fans would flip over it, yet the probably of revisting this storyline is nil without the show being renewed. It appears the final three episodes wrap up the current David Robert Jones storyline. Epguides.com has the final 2-parter titled "Brave New World" (universes merging maybe?), while imdb has the final 2-parter titled "End Game".

This episode did serve to answer the mystery of the observers and importance of the baby in a highly entertaining way.

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Re: Fringe -- "Letters of Transit" -- 4/20/12
 

Thanks for that! I had totally forgotten about that scene.

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Why in the world would William Bell be in amber? He's been dead for over two seasons. That didn't make sense to me at all.

Re: Fringe -- "Letters of Transit" -- 4/20/12
 

At the very least - she's in her mid-twenties.

Peter and Co. had been in Amber for twenty years.

Re: Fringe -- "Letters of Transit" -- 4/20/12
 

She's obviously 24 - born in 2012, 4 when she last saw them (2016, when they were ambered)...so there you go.

Re: Fringe -- "Letters of Transit" -- 4/20/12
 

Have they said that Bell is dead in the Orange Universe?

I know Bell is dead in the Blue/Red Universe, but I'm assuming these events in 2036 are from the Orange Universe and if I'm not mistaken they never said that Bell was dead.

:lol: That was pretty extreme for Walter to saw off Bell's hand from the amber, when he's technically still alive.

I'm assuming Nimoy's likeness in that amber was CG. Nimoy has made it clear recently that he's retired from acting. The only reason he did the cartoon episode last season was because he could stay in LA and record his lines at a studio in a Voice Over booth.

Re: Fringe -- "Letters of Transit" -- 4/20/12
 

I specifically remember Nina saying Bell had died in this orange universe a few episodes back. I think it was the one where they were asking Nina about cortexiphan and she mentions she was the only one with access since Bell died.

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Yep, this.

Re: Fringe -- "Letters of Transit" -- 4/20/12
 

Wow!

So everyone, everywhere, was "spamming" video previews of this episode. And all the replies said that this was going to be a great episode.

Thank God I was strong enough to not watch any of the previews. Because I loved this episode!!!

One of the best episodes ever of the entire series.

Re: Fringe -- "Letters of Transit" -- 4/20/12
 

Any chance alternate Bell from Orange lived some how? Not sure if Peter would have had anything to do with his death in the original timeline.

The other idea which has been mentioned is something to do with Olivia (and perhaps some sort of tech allowing Bell to live on). Or Nina lied?

Re: Fringe -- "Letters of Transit" -- 4/20/12
 

Actually no that was Nimoy. One of the EP's confirmed he came in to film that.