5.1 Transilience Thought Unifier Model-11 In Transilence Thought Unifier Model-11 we go into the future where the Observers take over and the Fringe team hop over the twenty years to the year 2036. What this story brings us is the certainty that Letters Of Transit wasn’t just a twist in the Fringe timeline, but the model for a post-alternate world narrative. With only 13 episodes in this final Fringe outing, clearly it will mostly involve fighting the once-benign Observers, and maybe putting a few things back to how they once were. Where things start to become bogged down is all the emotional reunion scenes, which dragged on for this reviewer. It also struck me that some of these meetings seem less dramatic when you consider that in Olivia’s experience, she only left Peter an hour previously, even if twenty years have elapsed since. I’m also of the opinion that you’d have difficulty connecting with an adult person who you once knew as a child having skipped most of their development. Then we have the interrogation sequence after Walter is captured by the Orwellian Observers special police, which seems to draw much from a similar one in the original The Matrix. The effects which saw Walter develop haemorrhages was most effective, and conveyed that he wasn’t really built to withstand the assault wrought on him. In the end, somewhat predictably, victory isn’t victory, and salvation isn’t at hand to truncate the whole season into just one show. So, given what we’ve been handed here, what can we deduce about the rest of the season? I suspect that the information that September put in Walter’s head, that’s now gone missing might be something of a red herring, because he knew Walter would be interrogated. And, that the true knowledge to destroy the Observers can only be revealed by that process and the deletion of things from Walter’s mind. Or is this too clever? What I’d really like to see them do is bring all the threads of Fringe over the previous four seasons together in this one, using the Alternate universe again to attack the Observers in a way they’d never predict, and bringing back William Bell and Nina along the way. Don’t get me wrong, it’s good to have Fringe back, I’d just prefer these final episodes are part of the greater Fringe adventure rather than an addendum to a story we’ve already seen. This coming week having lost something (parts of his mind to be precise) Walter does the obvious thing and retraces his steps, taking him back to the Harvard Lab. I just hope someone milked the cow in the past twenty years, or there’s going to be a mess waiting for him.
