3.8 Entrada With just a few minutes, a secret that’s been privy to the viewers for the previous eight episodes was out in the open, and everyone at Fringe division realised they’d been duped. Is it me, or was this like saving pennies for months and then blowing the whole enchilada on a single horse? But what I didn’t really follow about proceedings was that, if Altivia’s mission was effectively complete, which it appears it was, then why was she still hanging around anyway? Entrada, in the end, started very well and then lost its momentum when it got to the later stages, where Colonel Broyles is convinced to help Olivia escape and the ultimate drastic consequences of this choice. What I did enjoy was the sequence in the train station where a shape-shifter turns up to prepare Altivia for her return trip, with the FBI and Fringe division in hot pursuit. The twist they inserted into this, with the woman stumbling into them in the bathroom was slick, if slightly predictable. And it left me wondering how they’d explain to that young woman that the person she saw shot in the head wasn’t her mother, who presumably was already dead. I’m slightly concerned that Entrada tied up rather too many plot threads in one go, and we’ve got relatively little now to follow other than the rather mysterious machine that Walternate has everyone searching for pieces of. That said, the standard that Fringe has achieved this season has been very high, and maintaining that level was always going to be a challenge for the creative team. I’ll be very surprised if episode 9, Marionette, doesn’t throw us a couple of curve balls to keep the viewers tuning back in when it returns. I’m also hoping that Walter comes back into form, as he’s been quite suppressed (and depressed) his season, and we need him back in full straightjacket-crazy mode as soon as possible. Read our review of episode 7, The Abducted, here. Follow Den Of Geek on Twitter right here.
