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Date Posted: Saturday, April 21, 07:59:54am
Author: Chani *just watched FRINGE*
Author Host/IP: 87-231-7-227.rev.numericable.fr / 87.231.7.227
Subject: I'd rather keep Simon and leave Peter!

I know, I know, that wouldn't have the biblical touch that the episode had when Simon sacrificed himself to get Peter out of the amber but still...

The episode wasn't as original or as original as the other 19th episodes from the previous seasons, and it was obvious from the first scene that Etta was Olivia's daughter – and it was so telegraphed that I didn't find the reunion scene between father/daughter moving at all...I was more touched by harsh Walter still calling Astrid "Astro"–, but I enjoyed the nods to many films/series (Blade Runner, Terminator, Casablanca, The Matrix, Star Wars, The Prisoner...)and Henry Ian Cusick made it special enough. Isn't he just talented and adorable?

Is it me or did the show nod at Justified too with Simon borrowing Boyd's tademark "Fire in the hole"?

Noel Murray's review is spot on:

http://www.avclub.com/articles/letters-of-transit,72572/

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[> It was pretty good. and the blueprint for a season 5 should that occur.... -- Lij, Saturday, April 21, 06:37:44pm (adsl-99-50-227-175.dsl.bltnin.sbcglobal.net/99.50.227.175)


And just like Desmond I think he might return.


There were other films/comics mentioned as given nods also, some of which I had never heard about.

I would suggest that Letter's of Transit was exactly analogous to what happened in "The Day We Died." We got a glimpse of the future which would transpire unless the team in 2012/2013 is not alerted to the developing menace of the Observers. I have a feeling an S5 might start up with an episode (or more likely have concurrent episodes between the past and future) in which those in 2036 are attempting to develop Walter's tech and then find a way via Observer-Tech(?) to return Walter's Observer-exclusionary tech to the past (pre-2015) to save the world prior to the invasion. My guess is that Etta will be the carrier and we'll see Walter, Peter, and Astrid die in 2036. Desmond... er, Simon will be removed from Amber. And should a Mr X appear to kill Olivia (thus also stopping her daughter from ever freeing Walter) that Etta will be the one to give her life to save her mother and her unborn self.

Convoluted?

Yep...

. . .


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