FRINGE RECAP 5
Season 3: Episode 7 “The Abducted”
“No one listens to you when you’re a kid.” “No one listens to you when you’re old.” “I’m a white male age 18 to 39, everyone listens to my ideas!”
First off, apologies for the late posting of this recap, busy day of work, not helped by the fatigue of seeing Harry Potter at midnight last night. Moving on, and I know I say this every week, but man was this a great episode, and definitely one of my favorite endings this season. Not to shortchange the beginning though, with the freaking psychopath shaving his head with a straight blade! That made me cringe.
BONDS OF BROYLES
I had heard that this would be a kind-of Broyles centric episode, but I did not realize how well it would dove-tail with Walternate’s own back-story and give them a common bond of both having lost their sons and having them returned not exactly the same.
I had guessed earlier about Broyles coming around to Olivia’s side and eventually helping her (which I’m sure we’ll see more of when she actually needs rescuing from Over There in upcoming episodes), but I love that it’s her dedication to helping the innocent and those in need, which included Broyle’s family, that made him see that she was a good person. I think he realized that even though she had figured out what was going on, she still made the choice to help his Fringe division, and the only reason for her to do that was because she felt it was the right thing to do.
My next hope: I would LOVE to see our Broyles and the Over There Broyles team up at some point in the future to lead their teams against Walternate. That would be awesome.
TAXI-CAB CONFESSIONAL
I was wondering when we’d see Olivia’s cab friend again, though now I kinda worry that he’s done and won’t be coming back, especially as he now thinks Olivia has escaped. I did find it a little odd how easily she found him and his cab, and I wasn’t sure what he thought of Olivia since she just disappeared after their last adventure and he hadn’t heard from her since.
I also wonder now, knowing about this whole “First People” business and how Sam Weiss (another random character that helped Olivia), if perhaps this cab-driver is more than what he seems, and his helping Olivia is more than just him being a good person.., perhaps he too is “older than he looks.”
OLIVIA’S ODYSSEY
I knew it was too easy for her to just jump in the tank and go home. I knew that her getting home was going to be a major task and require a lot of resources, and it all just went way too fast and way too smoothly for that to be her return trip.
However, I do really like how she managed to appear and get the cleaning woman to call Peter, who in all honesty should have figured out the whole Bolivia thing episodes ago, either that or believe that she was getting stupider with all her lack of knowledge about easy things that everyone knows in our world. Ronald Reagan in Casablanca? Honestly? I am very intrigued to see how he handles this new information and what Bolivia does now that she’s been found out.
FINAL THOUGHTS
Toomy was the name of one of the bad guys? A bad guy who stole youth? Was this a Spiderman/Vulture shout-out? (Adrian Toomes) Whatever the explanation, I still thought it was pretty cool.
Stupid Thanksgiving, FRINGE isn’t coming back till December 2nd, but at least it’s only a 2 week wait, and with the quality episodes we’ve been getting, it will be well worth the wait.
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