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marinessOk, now THAT'S how you do a season finale. It's also how you end an extraordinary 60 year acting career.
Others around the internet have said this better than I could, but in watching the episode, I realized that Leonard Nimoy has been part of my viewing existence for my entire life: I started watching Star Trek when I was a very, very small girl, and followed him through various In Search Ofs and more Star Trek and now this: his final role as a mysterious maybe-maybe not bad guy. I can more than respect his decision to retire, but well done, Mr. Nimoy. Well done.
Ok, so this wasn't a perfect episode. I refer, of course, to the presence of the cow. Up until that point I was a fairly happy little Fringe watcher, if admittedly a Fringe watcher who finds it difficult to believe that Harvard University would just leave particle accelerators around no matter what universe Harvard happens to be in. (Seriously, what? I understand that this gave Walter and Bell some Time to Bond, and all of us time to go, OOH, SPOCK! (ok, that part was probably JUST ME) but still.) And then the cow returned, its appearance made only more pointed and poignant by the fact that EVERYBODY in the alternative universe is TOO SENSIBLE to put a cow in the lab, which is probably why they have, for the most part, better medical technology.
But otherwise, I found surprisingly lots to love in this episode, including the Olivia and Peter moment, the Kentucky Fried Chicken bit (ok, it screamed product placement but I must admit I laughed), the Walter/William Bell scenes (it might have been Star Trek nostalgia speaking there, I admit), Leonard Nimoy killing himself to save his friends yet again (was anyone else halfway expecting him to say to Walter, "I have been, and always will be, your friend, or was that just me?) Red Lantern and Red Arrow, a decent setup for next season, and well, pie. I am hoping that I am wrong about a potential foreshadowing of an Olivia-Peter-Astrid and pie love triangle, unless, unless, unless, they justify that scene in "Brown Betty" - you know which scene - with some lovely hot threesome action, but, let's face it, I think that would probably be Too Much even for Fox.
Others around the internet have said this better than I could, but in watching the episode, I realized that Leonard Nimoy has been part of my viewing existence for my entire life: I started watching Star Trek when I was a very, very small girl, and followed him through various In Search Ofs and more Star Trek and now this: his final role as a mysterious maybe-maybe not bad guy. I can more than respect his decision to retire, but well done, Mr. Nimoy. Well done.
Ok, so this wasn't a perfect episode. I refer, of course, to the presence of the cow. Up until that point I was a fairly happy little Fringe watcher, if admittedly a Fringe watcher who finds it difficult to believe that Harvard University would just leave particle accelerators around no matter what universe Harvard happens to be in. (Seriously, what? I understand that this gave Walter and Bell some Time to Bond, and all of us time to go, OOH, SPOCK! (ok, that part was probably JUST ME) but still.) And then the cow returned, its appearance made only more pointed and poignant by the fact that EVERYBODY in the alternative universe is TOO SENSIBLE to put a cow in the lab, which is probably why they have, for the most part, better medical technology.
But otherwise, I found surprisingly lots to love in this episode, including the Olivia and Peter moment, the Kentucky Fried Chicken bit (ok, it screamed product placement but I must admit I laughed), the Walter/William Bell scenes (it might have been Star Trek nostalgia speaking there, I admit), Leonard Nimoy killing himself to save his friends yet again (was anyone else halfway expecting him to say to Walter, "I have been, and always will be, your friend, or was that just me?) Red Lantern and Red Arrow, a decent setup for next season, and well, pie. I am hoping that I am wrong about a potential foreshadowing of an Olivia-Peter-Astrid and pie love triangle, unless, unless, unless, they justify that scene in "Brown Betty" - you know which scene - with some lovely hot threesome action, but, let's face it, I think that would probably be Too Much even for Fox.