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Fringe 2.8 FAQ
What’s it called?
“August.”
Who’s responsible?
Teleplay is credited to showrunners Jeff Pinkner (“Lost”) & J.H. Wyman (“Keen Eddie”), who previously teamed on the teleplay for 2.2, “Night of Desirable Objects.”
What says Fox?
“When a peculiar abduction occurs in Boston, the Fringe team uncovers details of the mysterious man known as The Observer. While the bizarre case takes center stage, Walter, Peter and Astrid hit the lab to analyze unusual evidence and deal with Walter's insatiable appetite for a milkshake.”
“Walter's insatiable appetite for a milkshake”?
His favorite ice cream shop shut down the day before and he’s busy trying to recreate something called “The Strawberry Supreme.”
What “unusual evidence” does Walter, Peter and Astrid analyze?
A notebook left by an Observer near the site of a dramatic incident.
Don’t the observers write in some weird right-to-left script?
“I have counted 1,246 characters and not a single one repeats,” points out linguists major Astrid. “Without repeated symbols, language is not possible.” (While the Chinese language utilizes more than 50,000 characters, they do repeat on occasion.)
What else is Fox not telling us?
“Whatever William Bell was warning Olivia about? These people have the answers,” Peter tells Walter. “I can feel it.”
Does Massive Dynamic figure into the story at all?
Peter and Olivia pay Bell’s company a visit this week.
The big news?
An Observer does a lot more than observe this week.
Is this big news? Didn’t an Observer help Walter plug a hole between Earth I and Earth II late last season? And didn’t he save Walter and Peter from drowning decades ago?
This time the action is far more conspicuous.
Is tonight’s episode any good?
It is easily the strongest episode of the season to date. I wouldn’t trust this one to a DVR; watch “Fringe” and record “The Office.”
Did Walter somehow create the Observers?
If he did, we don’t learn this week. But we learn there’s a heretofore undisclosed connection between Walter and the mysterious bald ones.
Do we learn why they appear to be able to read minds?
Theories will form.
What’s good?
August. Donald. Broyles still wearing a sling from last week’s adventures. John Noble generally and his reading of Walter’s account of an encounter with a chili pepper in particular. Peter firing off the last round. “What’s about to happen?” “It will be just a minute now.” “We’ve already seen to it.” “Your friend and I had a deal. An arrangement.” “I suspect that they might be occupied right now.” “You have solved such a matter before.”
What’s not so good?
Another hiatus. Next Thursday is Thanksgiving and Fox is airing “Night at the Museum.” 2.9, titled “Snakehead,” airs Dec. 3, and that could be it for the year. Fox’s description of “Snakehead” is cloaked in spoiler-hiding invisotext. “After a cargo ship runs aground, the shoreline becomes littered with bodies hosting a giant squid-like creature. The Fringe team descends upon the scene to examine the bodies and discovers that the mysterious organisms are actually giant parasites. As the investigation unfolds, Walter heads back to the lab while Olivia, Peter and Broyles race against time when they realize the case has ties to a threatening organization.”
How does it end, spoiler-boy?
Olivia clenches her eyes shut.
9 p.m. Thursday. Fox.
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