Last season, the first half was peppered with Olivia (Anna Torv) reliving John (Mark Valley)'s memories, and waiting for him to appear again and watching her heart breaking made me desperate to see the show again. And there was such a sense of conspiracy with the Pattern. What was it? What was causing it? What was Walter (John Noble)'s involvement?
The second half, we focused on Olivia. That she was one of Walter and Bell (Leonard Nimoy)'s test subjects as a child. And we had David Robert Jones (Jared Harris), who was trying to find all the devices Walter had once made. I didn't know many details, but I could see how everything was interconnected.
This season lacks that connectivity. I have no idea where this season is going, except that the people from the parallel world want to destroy/take over ours. So I know what the conspiracy is. But we no longer talk about the Pattern and what it could mean or how it might be developing. Now all the strange things that are happening are simply strange things - do they have anything to do with the parallel world? Do I care? And there are not enough delightful moments with Walter...for instance, this last episode, instead of Walter telling Agent Kashner (Travis Schuldt) that he loves operating on brains, Astrid (Jasika Nicole) mentioned it. And much as I love Astrid, she is NOT Walter.
Last week was great - it felt like we were finally going somewhere again, but this week, albeit that the dream interference plot was pretty cool, the only thing that really made it worth it was Olivia collecting business cards and mourning Charlie (Kirk Acevedo). So again, please, please step up your game and give me something to hang on to. Why will I watch next week? Cause I'm still under the impression that I love Fringe - I can't think of another reason.
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