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Who's watching FRINGE - Final Season?

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KIAman said:
There was so much focus on Olivia's abilities and now... nothing? What's her role in this season anyways other than the fact she is a main character?
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I've been wondering that since the first season. She's basically the narrator and the story happens around her. She explains everything that's going with "so what you're saying is..." or "so what's happening is..." and never has any insights of her own. I can't figure out what she could have ever accomplished to be so highly regarded as she doesn't contribute anything other than looking confused, helpless, or scared all the time.

Peter is a confusing character as well. He's "too cool" to be a nerd, but is basically a genius and knows everything Walter is doing. Walter is the only real character on the show as he actually has interesting comments and insights into what's going on. Everyone else just stands around looking pretty.
 
ShadowOfMyself said:
Decided to catch up and it was worth it... Season 5 is awesome so far, finally they got rid of useless side stories and just focused on a main plot

Plus, Walter is pretty much the main character now, with the tapes and all, which is great because John Noble is an amazing actor, and I cant get enough of his performance... I think the biggest fringe event is how he hasnt won a ton of awards already

Anyway, I guess we will have a Neo vs Smith ending in this one... aka Peter vs Windmark, though I wonder if Peter will also become emotionless like all observers
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Yea, that's what my thought was too, they just turned him into Neo. I'm hoping they do something unexpected with it though.
 
This season is good but the 30 year jump to the future completely out of the blue still irritates me. I had DVR'd it and went to hulu just to make sure I hadn't missed an episode it was so far out of left field.
 
My guess is that September and Peter are the same person. The season will end with the team executing their plan successfully either forcing the observers back to their time or creating a new parallel timeline which the observers cannot access. The series finale will have Peter completing his transformation to an emotionless observer, becoming September the month of his birth, and traveling back in time to rescue his father and past self when they fall through the ice to conclude the series.
 
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I just saw this thread but I've been watching Fringe since the beginning and I'll be sad to see it go.

I don't have much to contribute other than the confusing bits about the timelines. When Peter disappeared, only to fall butt ass naked into the lake, he was removed then re-entered the same timeline. Only when he re-entered it, he was never supposed to be there, as if September never saved him from the icy lake when Walter brought him over from the other side.

That's why no one knew who he was, because he died in the lake that day as a boy, but for whatever reason, either the machine, September, or Olivia's memory brought him back. I'm leaning more towards Olivia however, because towards the end of last season her memory of Peter before his disappearance was starting to override her current memories (of his non-existence).

I don't know if he had the same effect on the rest of the team, or they just went along with it, but we're here now and it is what it is.

I agree that skipping over how the ended up in amber was really confusing at first. I kept thinking to myself "Did I miss a whole season somewhere?" Apparently not.
 
Buddyd said:
My guess is that September and Peter are the same person. The season will end with the team executing their plan successfully either forcing the observers back to their time or creating a new parallel timeline which the observers cannot access. The series finale will have Peter completing his transformation to an emotionless observer, becoming September the month of his birth, and traveling back in time to rescue his father and past self when they fall through the ice to conclude the series.
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Woah, Im loving this theory... Didnt even cross my mind but it makes so much sense, since September has always been "different"
 
Buddyd said:
My guess is that September and Peter are the same person. The season will end with the team executing their plan successfully either forcing the observers back to their time or creating a new parallel timeline which the observers cannot access. The series finale will have Peter completing his transformation to an emotionless observer, becoming September the month of his birth, and traveling back in time to rescue his father and past self when they fall through the ice to conclude the series.
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That is a very interesting theory!
 
Buddyd said:
My guess is that September and Peter are the same person. The season will end with the team executing their plan successfully either forcing the observers back to their time or creating a new parallel timeline which the observers cannot access. The series finale will have Peter completing his transformation to an emotionless observer, becoming September the month of his birth, and traveling back in time to rescue his father and past self when they fall through the ice to conclude the series.
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I LIKE IT!! Makes a lot of sense.. Also explains a few things in the episode where Peter enters Septembers mind in S4.14 only to find out that the Olivia of the Alt. Timeline is HIS Olivia and gets a glimpse of his son from Other-Olivia (Henry) and it is explained that event would have changed the future in unintended ways. September also goes on to explain only that it was important to him to witness Walternate find the cure for Peter as a boy but how he inadvertantly distracted Walternate and so he could not let Peter die in the lake when our Walter brought him back..

Why was that so important to September to witness that moment and then get involved? Self-preservation? Circumstantially it leads credence to your theory.
 
Buddyd said:
My guess is that September and Peter are the same person. The season will end with the team executing their plan successfully either forcing the observers back to their time or creating a new parallel timeline which the observers cannot access. The series finale will have Peter completing his transformation to an emotionless observer, becoming September the month of his birth, and traveling back in time to rescue his father and past self when they fall through the ice to conclude the series.
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Wow. Nice theory!
 
Buddyd said:
My guess is that September and Peter are the same person. The season will end with the team executing their plan successfully either forcing the observers back to their time or creating a new parallel timeline which the observers cannot access. The series finale will have Peter completing his transformation to an emotionless observer, becoming September the month of his birth, and traveling back in time to rescue his father and past self when they fall through the ice to conclude the series.
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Here's another theory. The young boy we saw living underground in the first season is really September as a child. In the last scene of that episode he is in a car and passes September and they seem to sense a connection.
So Walter was putting the young September into the bubble universe to hide him.
 
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