Fringe - One Olive. Shaken, Scared.
Well. That's one cliff hanging winter finale on Fringe. Standing in two universes at once! Little Olivia (Olive) fighting off the fears imposed by a younger and even less ethical Walter! Inter-Universe glimmers! Around Peter!
We have mixed feelings about Olivia's ability. On one hand, we appreciate that there is a tangible non-supernatural explanation for them. On the other hand, waaa? She needs to be scared to see the glimmering. In other words, she needs to be in touch with her inner child, Olive. Who lives in the dark scary woods and wears German expressionist clothes. Uh-huh. Exactly of what was she scared when she was meeting Peter for drinks?
And while we're on this topic, high five to the tension between Peter and Olivia! Oh Fringe, how you tease us. They both really wanted that kiss. Happily they didn't give it to us. We need for that tension to keep us breathless. Seems that when that tension is broken, either something awful happens to one of the parties involved, or everything just goes downhill. So, please continue to have that delicious tension for as long as possible.
What do you think of the tingly almost kiss, and subsequent revelation that Olivia had? Tell us in the comments after the jump!
We heart Olivia so much. We heart little Olive even more, with her vulnerability followed up with her 'turn around bright eyes.' (Did you see those things?) We're with Olivia that it was pretty horrific to subject little defenseless children to this treatment though. That Olivia turned out so well is nothing short of amazing, and she can listen to her own advice and not be merely the vessel for the alternate universe divining rod. Somehow we doubt that she will in fact listen to this though.
X-Files Shout Out of the Week: Olive reminded us of Emily, and please, that tension is SO Fox and Dana. Ewww, did we just call them by their first names? So wrong. But we learned to watch out when those names were used, for sure.
Comments
C'mon. Olivia stands firm in the face of danger, watching all hell break loose. She found the mishapen remains of the first victims of the "clash of the universes (universi?) and doesn't hardly blink. But, when faced with the possibility that a building will disappear killing the people in it she suddenly gets all soupy and runny and "is afraid". That's NOT the Olivia I know. She'd be pissed at herself for not having found the answer that only she could; she'd be pissed at Walter who started the whole mess with Bell, but suddenly all weepy and "wet-noodly"? I think not. Sorry, a weak way to get Oliva to "see the light".
Posted by: Mark | March 9, 2010 3:53 PM