Fringe - Momentum Deferred, S02E04

Considering that this was the best episode of Fringe so far this season, and hopefully the beginning of an upward trend, the fact that it is still in the 6am slot on the second day of my Thursday night show reviews shows how hard up it is against its competition. Frankly, I think Fox should move it back to Tuesday nights, where it consistently had higher ratings than it is getting now.

We finally got to find out what Olivia had seen when she was in the other dimension in Season 1's finale. About time. They probably should have brought at least some of this in earlier. I'm interested in what's going on now, and feel like there has indeed been a change in the structure from last season, I feel like we are going somewhere. Leonard Nimoy* as William Bell continues to be a little hilarious for me. I mean, you should not have such a famous actor appear with the first lines being "Who are you?" "I'm William Bell." No you aren't, you're Leonard Nimoy.

But we now know a whole lot more. The other universe, for some unknown reason, wants to destroy our universe. If the two universes become open to one another, they will collide and only one will remain. It might not be ours. So they are sending over the shape shifting first wave to find the guy who can open the door for them.

We had the exit of Kirk Acevedo (though there is always the possibility of seeing him in the other universe). I was glad that he got a pretty cool exit, where he outsmarted Olivia, got the info he needed and passed it on to his comrades before she succeeded in killing him. It still doesn't really make up for Charlie's lame death, but seeing Olivia so distraught by the fact that she had to shoot a man wearing her friend's face was worth it. I will miss Charlie Francis though. Cry!

So Fringe, bring on episodes like this! What did you think?