Fringe

Forced Perspective

Season 4, Episode 10, Aired 1/27/12

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While the Fringe team tracks down a girl who can predict the future, Olivia tries to cope with the message given to her by the Observers.

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Anna Torv

Olivia Dunham

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Joshua Jackson

Peter Bishop

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Lance Reddick

Phillip Broyles

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I Don't Know

7.0

"Good"

By dreamgoat, Feb 07, 2012 Report Abuse

It's hard looking episode by episode with noting really going on. A girl has vision of people death so she draw them on paper and tries to warn them of there death by giving them her drawing. The case was boring we seen this before except now a teenage girl can do it. But boring it was also decent, and I like that Peter and Walter are working together. But here's the main problem that have and its about Peter time in each episode is very low he hardly has lines. The relationship between Peter and Olivia is shattered and that's sad they always leaned on each other when things got tough and had each other back. Now it seems like a free for all. When Peter asked Olivia has the observers said anything to her she said no, even though Peter knew she was lying the issue wasn't pressed anymore. Because Peter felt like this is not my world or my family and that is the reason he will never fit in this season. 1-3 seasons were epic I won't forget them, if season 4 can measure that I'll be surprised.moreless
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Forced Perspective

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By thefanof, Feb 02, 2012 Report Abuse

The latest episode of Fringe shows what this Friday drama can do and so few others can: entertain us through the supernatural. A great story here about the value of life, coinciding with a girl who was forced to draw the pending deaths of numerous individuals. It was good from a sci-fi perspective, and a philosophy mindset, and really thoroughly entertained. Strong show tonight.
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Oliva Prevents A Disaster

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By AudioFileZ, Jan 30, 2012 Report Abuse

This was, in this viewer's opinion, a solid "stand-alone" episode as it failed to advance the fate of the two universes, yet it opened a possibility it could be done. The special effects of the young girl's courthouse bombing was spectacularly well done adding urgency to the need to prevent what she believed was, likely, impossible. The episode displayed a lot of humanity, both uplifting and somber, and little science or technology and was a welcome change of pace even if it did not advance the viewer's insight into what will be, most certainly, playing out over the few remaining episodes.

So, one must stay tuned to see if the episode was just Olivia displaying her maternal side (she was excellent), or if is the beginning of a more driven Olivia. Either way this weeks story was a solid one if not overly revealing.moreless
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By ionee24, Jan 29, 2012 Report Abuse

Forced perspective is about death and what little good anyone can do with the time one has left: for Peter was to save two Universes, for Walter was to simply save him, for Olivia is to protect a girl called Emily, who's simply trying to save a father - just like her own - from himself. In Observer like fashion, Emily goes through people's lives experiencing events she can't change long before they happen, her drawings the only testament to a life as enigmatic as it's short, for she achieves her one good deed through Olivia, right before she perishes from a gift that assured her: her father would always be there for her.moreless
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Olivia and the minority report dead zone ...

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By Lccf, Jan 29, 2012 Report Abuse

Precog stories seem to be everywhere in sci-fi. And this one ... well, the actors, both regular and guests, did a good job, but the story itself had nothing really original. The effects when Emily explores her vision were well done, for instance, but it's nothing we haven't seen in The Dead Zone, for instance. And the old "fate vs. free choice" debate ... please, it's everywhere, from Minority Report to Matrix Reloaded. Yes, it echoed with what the Observer said, but right now it's not leading anywhere. Now, if we'd had to a conflict between the FBI and Massive Dynamic for the sake of the girl, it would have been immediatly more interesting ( let's say, she WOULD have been kidnapped by Nina in the end, making it a two-parter I would have liked to see ).
Not to say there weren't any higlights : Walter seemed even more unhinged than usual in his first scene, Peter reminds us how smart he is by translating latin and saving the day, Olivia reminds us how scarred she is when she clearly identified herself with Emily ( in a more convincing way than in "Wallflower" ), and how tough she is by refusing to flee when ordered to ( great acting when she talks the bomber into giving up ) ... and, well, the fact that the Observer has been exposed to Spanish flu was a puzzling bit of information : were these guys human at some point ? But, all in all, it wasn't much.moreless
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- Trivia: The glyph code for this episode is MARCH.
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- In the opening death sequence, Englehart and his friend walk past the dumpster. The I-beam then falls, hitting Englehart in the chest and driving him backward. However, in the next shot, Englehart is pinned to the dumpster. That could only have happened if the dumpster instantly moved behind Englehart as soon as he passed it.
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- Music: The Walk (Mayer Hawthorne)
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- International Airdates:
  Canada: January 27, 2012 on Citytv
  UK: February 22, 2012 on Sky1/Sky1 HD
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- Walter: Hello, Olivia. We're discussing cis-acting meiotic double-break strand hot spots.
  Astrid: Don't worry, Olivia, I have no idea what he's talking about either.
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- Peter: I can't say you're gonna get his full attention, per se. He's a little wired up today. He's already electrocuted himself three times.
  Walter: Which reminds me, I can't feel my urine response yet. I should probably go empty my bladder again.
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