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Fringe: The Cure: My Two Pence
Nov. 9th, 2008 10:29 pm Sunday's episode, "The Cure" ; some random thoughts.
American assumptions about women drive me crazy: all women want kids (when Esteridge threatened Olivia) and all women are scared of rats. I don't and I'm not. Then again I'm not American (nor typical).
Also, why a hairless rat? These poor creatures are actually quite rare and I wouldn't think of them as "lab rats" more as a specialist variety for the home market. The association of Fancy Rat breeders dislikes and refuses to acknowledge them as a breed; they also disapprove of the tail-less rat. The reasoning is that it is cruel to deliberately breed for a genetic disadvantage that causes an animal lack of quality of life or causes discomfort. Tail-less rats can have problems balancing and hairless rats need special skin care; their delicate skin can be harmed by other rat's claws or indeed their own.
Peter's past; does this mean Walter is intimately (I don't mean it in a sexual way though it could be argued for) acquainted with the head of Global Dynamics? And just what favour might Peter have to do in return?
Olivia's birthday; maybe she should pick another day and celebrate it then. That way she could still enjoy quality time with her friends and some sense of normality; surely she would be spitting in the face, metaphorically speaking, of her stepfather by refusing to let him ruin her special day. In the one season crime drama "Killer Instinct" Detective Hale refused to celebrate his birthday since it was the day his father was arrested for murder. Law enforcement agents seem to have had terrible childhoods. I'd like Peter to offer to share his birthday with her; it would be sweet and romantic and seems like the kind of thing he'd do. I may feel a fanfic coming in...
On the subject of the stepfather, 2 thoughts. First is to note that Olivia tried to kill her abusive stepfather while in Abram's "Lost" Kate did kill her abusive stepfather. Another running theme in Abram's work? Two, can't Olivia's FBI friends (Charlie especially, we love Charlie and he likes Olivia a lot) track the stepfather down quietly and give him a working over in order to warn him away from her for good? 40's mob voice:"We're the Feds, see, and we don't like you upsetting one of our own, capice?"
Liked how Olivia laid it out re the "emotional" comment; that's what all men say about women they work with. Does she mean Charlie and John, Peter and Walter too? In face, apart from this episode, she doesn't strike me as emotional. In the pilot she talked about being reluctant to commit, to open up (and given her past history we get a couple of reasons why). Perhaps she uses all her emotions in her work and it was only with John she began to open up.
No sign of the observer this week; bizarre as this case was, it wasn't part of the larger pattern. Another good episode with more great Walter lines (poor Astrid referred to as Asterix) and Walter/Peter interaction (the red toothbrush is Peter's; white for Walter).
American assumptions about women drive me crazy: all women want kids (when Esteridge threatened Olivia) and all women are scared of rats. I don't and I'm not. Then again I'm not American (nor typical).
Also, why a hairless rat? These poor creatures are actually quite rare and I wouldn't think of them as "lab rats" more as a specialist variety for the home market. The association of Fancy Rat breeders dislikes and refuses to acknowledge them as a breed; they also disapprove of the tail-less rat. The reasoning is that it is cruel to deliberately breed for a genetic disadvantage that causes an animal lack of quality of life or causes discomfort. Tail-less rats can have problems balancing and hairless rats need special skin care; their delicate skin can be harmed by other rat's claws or indeed their own.
Peter's past; does this mean Walter is intimately (I don't mean it in a sexual way though it could be argued for) acquainted with the head of Global Dynamics? And just what favour might Peter have to do in return?
Olivia's birthday; maybe she should pick another day and celebrate it then. That way she could still enjoy quality time with her friends and some sense of normality; surely she would be spitting in the face, metaphorically speaking, of her stepfather by refusing to let him ruin her special day. In the one season crime drama "Killer Instinct" Detective Hale refused to celebrate his birthday since it was the day his father was arrested for murder. Law enforcement agents seem to have had terrible childhoods. I'd like Peter to offer to share his birthday with her; it would be sweet and romantic and seems like the kind of thing he'd do. I may feel a fanfic coming in...
On the subject of the stepfather, 2 thoughts. First is to note that Olivia tried to kill her abusive stepfather while in Abram's "Lost" Kate did kill her abusive stepfather. Another running theme in Abram's work? Two, can't Olivia's FBI friends (Charlie especially, we love Charlie and he likes Olivia a lot) track the stepfather down quietly and give him a working over in order to warn him away from her for good? 40's mob voice:"We're the Feds, see, and we don't like you upsetting one of our own, capice?"
Liked how Olivia laid it out re the "emotional" comment; that's what all men say about women they work with. Does she mean Charlie and John, Peter and Walter too? In face, apart from this episode, she doesn't strike me as emotional. In the pilot she talked about being reluctant to commit, to open up (and given her past history we get a couple of reasons why). Perhaps she uses all her emotions in her work and it was only with John she began to open up.
No sign of the observer this week; bizarre as this case was, it wasn't part of the larger pattern. Another good episode with more great Walter lines (poor Astrid referred to as Asterix) and Walter/Peter interaction (the red toothbrush is Peter's; white for Walter).
