Olivia

Season 3, Episode 1, Aired
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Olivia, captured on "the other side," attempts to escape and return to her home world. However, the other side's Walter has other plans, and Olivia soon discovers that she must face a threat from within.
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  • N0t what I expected

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    By dreamgoat, Jan 31, 2012 Report Abuse
    Well it was good to see it back again. Good run episode Olivia escaping it had me going and hoping that she would find a way out of there. Everyone was out to get her only help she had was the taxi driver. Olivia been given some time of drug that put their Olivia memories in our Olivias memories it wasn't working at first but after she escaped she begin remembering the other Olivias memories. It turns out that the adrenaline help to push drug into her brain, now Olivia is lost transform into the other Olivia. This is very sad and the others don't have a clue which is very odd especially they knew there was another Olivia so they have an advantage over the other side. I guess this is going to be along one probably all season till Olivia gets back or if she every does. :/moreless

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  • Huge disappointment.

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    By mobilehead, Oct 05, 2011 Report Abuse
    Really?! After everything that happened in the previous season in the pilot of the third season I receive this? I am very disappointed with this episode. Basically there was nothing interesting apart from strange things happenning to Olivia. Where's Walter, where's Peter, where's "Fringe" glue that attracted me to the screen?
    The episode was dull. I had great expectations towards this episode and frankly speaking I hope that next episodes will bring something much more interesting than just some slow-paced action with no follow-up story and vague plot line.
    I have considerd "Fringe" as one of the best shows created. Everything has had its logic, has had its consequences. This episode was full of things that never really happened in "Fringe" I know. I would consider them as discontinuity and something that was made without any previous thinking that the viewer can't be so stupid believing it. And I don't think of memory repression and replacement but simple occurences that existed in "Olivia" episode.
    I am looking forward to the next episode but I have mixed feelings if what I see will satisfy me. A very bad starter bu let's have a hope that it will change only for better.moreless

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  • One of my favorites!

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    By becksdakex, Oct 03, 2011 Report Abuse
    Red episodes are really cool, I like being on the other side, seeing what could have been and what couldn't. I bet season 3 is going to be the best one yet. Big applaud to the actors who so amazingly change their characters for the alternate universe.
    It's scary to see what Olivia goes through in this episode, her "change" and Walternates abuse. The man is evil, can't wait to see the reason for all this. I loved the cabdriver Henry, having a big case of the Stockholm syndrome, hope to see him more. Mother Dunham was also a big treat even though Olivia went totally lost in her arms, mommypower!
    But as always a few parts didn't really make sense...
    From the season 2 finale, everything goes really fast when the "other" Olivia gets the order to switch side. I know she is a genius, but how does she know about the typewriter and small stuff like finding her way in Boston (It's amber in her world), her apartment and so on?? She didn't even know that the other side existed a few hours ago.
    I was really upset that no one (on both sides) of her friends and partners thought that she could be the wrong Olivia. When our Olivia met Lincoln at thegas station she could have said: "Don't you get it!? Theswitched us! I'm Olivia from the other universe, not your partner!" But yeh, wouldn't be a very good story then...
    Peter is being very stupid also, the guy must have a pretty big ego to think that Olivia would change so much dating him. Think with your head Peter!
    Love that they brought back Charlie and added Lincoln to the show, they are funny together! Astrid though...She seems like a very nice and caring person on our side, why make her a robot computer thing!?
    And finally something stupid...Henry must have read our Olivia like a book when he went shopping for her, he picked out the typical Olivia off work clothes and amazingly everything fits perfectly even though he never asked her about her size. Good work, I wish I could hire him as my personal shopper.
    Anyway, I loved the episode, can't wait to see how everything unfolds!moreless

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  • Yes!

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    By Dark_Davis, Oct 03, 2011 Report Abuse
    It's back, and it's starting off as good as it left off! This episode had me swearing like no other. I love the show but oh my, this has to be the biggest thing of the whole series. Olivia, our Olivia, I dare not say more for it would spoil it but darn! I like how they approach it now, there are technically two stories, one on each side. This should make for a lot of good content to come, now that we have both sides to hear from. I am just a little worried, Olivia is the main character of the whole show, I hope they don't mess things up with this new plot, I can see it running for a bit but as long as it doesn't stay this way, I will be fine.moreless

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  • Olivia comes home, sort of...

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    By ionee24, May 31, 2011 Report Abuse
    Still stuck inside the room she was left off, Olivia is being brainwashed into thinking the alternate universe in which she actually lives it's an stressed related fantasy because of her job on Fringe Division. Little by little, the things she takes for granted are questioned as a Doctor shows her pictures of alternate Olivia's life, one in which both her mother and Charlie Francis are still alive, one in which there's no Dr. Walter Bishop or Peter.

    Secretary Bishop insist to continue the treatment until Olivia makes her last attempt to escape, a taxi driver oddly similar as Sam Weiss takes her to the part as agent Linc gets a visit from original agent Francis and the two joke as the friends they never got to be in our Universe bith of them under the impression that our Olivia indeed escaped and it's their Olivia the one with a psychotic break so, once reports of her escape surfances, they go to help her like Peter would've done.

    But in the end it's not her partners, not the treatment, not even her loneliness but her mother herself what triggers the expected results of Secretary Bishop's experiments: Olivia finally comes home, even if its not hers.moreless

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    • Trivia: The company who advertises daily trips to the Moon is called "Glatter Flug," which is German for "smooth flight." Glatter Flug is also the name of the airline in the pilot episode. Edit
    • Trivia: The glyph code for this episode is AMBER. Edit
    • Trivia: The Observer can be seen passing behind Olivia as she looks for Nina Sharp at Massive Dynamic. Edit

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    • Changes seen to opening credit sequence: red shading and new fringe science list: wormholes, singularity, speciation, synesthesia, pandemic, transhumanism, neural networks, reanimation, telepathy, transcendence, retrocognition, biotechnology. Edit
    • Injoke: The penny-farthing bicycle seen on the Other Side is a reference to the same item being used as a symbol in the British TV series The Prisoner. That series also featured several episodes where the Prisoner, Number Six, is brainwashed and reprogrammed, and where he encounters counterparts to people that he knows. Edit
    • Blair Brown is credited but doesn't appear. Kirk Acevedo is credited as "Guest Appearance by." Edit

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    • Lincoln: Hey, Melissa, you know how Agent Francis can tell which end the worms living inside his body are which? Tickles them in the middle and sees which end farts. Edit
    • Walternate: (about Olivia) All around us, our world is under attack. Somehow, this girl came here. Somehow, she is equipped to move through universes. We need her to help us understand this skill because if we can do it, we can win this war. And if not, soon, there'll be nothing left to protect. Edit
    • Henry Higgins: What about you? You got someone? Olivia: Sort of. Henry Higgins: That's an odd name--"sort of." Edit

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    • Dr. Chase: Your Jedi mind tricks won't work here. Henry: You got my number. Jedi mind trick. Referencing the Star Wars series and the Jedi Knights. The Jedi Knights are the "good" protectors of the galaxy, capable of tapping into the mystic Force to gain a variety of powers such as mind control and telekinesis. They avoid strong emotion, which can lead them to the Dark Side, the "evil" side of the Force. The Jedi and the Force are first mentioned in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977). House's subsequent line about droids is from the movie when Obiwan Kenobi, a Jedi, uses the Force to distract two Stormtroopers. Edit

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