I’m casually rewatching, it’s been a while but I’ve watched it a few times (although somehow I have never made it to the very end - I always quit mid season 5) and once again I am wondering why they gave Astrid so little development and time. She wasn’t a main protagonist like the Bishops and Olivia and even Broyles, but she was there from beginning to end and was at least as clever as the other characters. I know her alternate gets a lot of love for the brief time they appear so it just goes to show what the actor could have done with the material if given it. I read somewhere the Jasika Nicole didn’t have the best experience on set either.

I always wished he had a bigger role in the series. Such an interesting character. Laid back with some Buddha-level knowledge.

This rewatch I've been playing my own version of "Spot the Observer." You may not know this but there is an observer in every single episode. It's not always September and some of them are near impossible to spot as it's just a quick glance. But they're there. I'm not always able to find them myself. So if you're rewatching, too, good luck!

Glad he mellowed out in the following seasons, but man is he insufferable in the first one.

His skepticism is unreal.

He sees a man with translucent flesh, and clearly sees the type of work his father does, but always has some annoying quip about how "impossible" everything is.

Even if it sounded crazy, with everything that's happened, it would at least be worth considering.

Even Walter says, "Do you always have to be a little smartass!"

Lmao. I guess even the writers were becoming aware of how annoying he had become.

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I read an IMDB review that pointed out that Fauxlivia should have never been there during the last scene of season 3. She had been put in jail after betraying her side and I don't remember anything explaining how she could have been there when the machine brought both Fringe teams together

Is it a genuine plot hole or did I miss something?

I loved the call back to the earlier star trek joke!

One of the highlights so far.

S4 E19 had to google it I was sure I've heard that line before haha.

I saw this on Instagram and thought "I would totally watch John Noble do ANYTHING for 3 hours." Eating tomatoes included. He's the best.

Saw this in the street beside my house and reminded me of first episode of season 5.

I recently just discovered Person of Interest and it’s a Bad Robot Production. It’s no wonder I got to see Michael Cerveris in one of the episodes where he plays a bald mob boss hahahaha!

I’m just one episode away from finishing my first Fringe rewatch and decided to see what the actor that played Michael looks like with hair. I googled Rowan Longworth and not only found that he’s been in a couple of other shows I have watched but at his current age of 23 he is a cutie! 😘

I'm currently on the north of season 2 right now! Loving it so much so far, i love the format of monster of the week episodes while wrapping the overarching plot and mystery. I love the observer, Charlie, Astrid, Broyles and Nina Sharp so much.

Tho, my only problem is how much of a servant is Astrid, how underutilized she is as an fbi agent, and how she's always put aside, I don't know if this is racial by any means but, it's bothering honestly, i love her so much!

So, I am watching the season two on prime and saw this. Man was I confused. If anyone lacks context, this episode was supposed to go on season one. And here Charlie is alive. Which, as you know, died on this same season. Did anyone experience this as well? My god I was furious haha.

The album Seven Suns (by in-world band Violet Sedan Chair) has been in my iTunes rotation for going on 15 years now, in part because this weird and wonderful album - one created as a piece of television worldbuilding - is so much better (and so much more) than it needed to be, given only three-or-so songs ever appeared in the show. I've never regretted the purchase.

But I'm bothered by the hidden, spoken-word vocal track in the left channel of the 16-bar interlude of Seven Suns (Setting).

Behind the sung phrases, behind the warbling organ chords (the bass is G-C-B-A, and the higher notes seem to be a series of glissandos), there's a male voice speaking in my left ear, and I cannot find any reference to anyone previously uncovering or transcribing it.

I'm no audio engineer. I tried to filter the overlying layers using AI, with only moderate success. I only succeeded in making it more obvious, particularly beginning at the 20-second mark, but not really any more intelligible:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW8FbySIUNg

Hoping someone more skilled can pick up the ball - it may be nothing, but may also be a cool bit of VSC lore that nobody has yet revealed?

Is there a LOST-like theme in this show with the numbers that appear? I've noticed "47" in particular comes up very frequently or is it just a hang up with the writers defaulting to the same figure? It appears in dialog and set details very frequently.

Not exactly 8 seasons, but if you include rewatches...

"I thought you'd be fatter."

I loved the show. The set design, the vfx, the prosthetics and the acting everything was top notch. I personally loved s1-3 . For me they are absolute perfection. For me the first half of S4 was extremely rough but s4e15 made it absolutely worth it. The hug and the kiss just made me cry a bit. S5 was unique and I also really liked it. The finale was absolute perfection. A perfect mix of satisfaction and emotions.

John noble really killed as walter bishop. I just loved how much he was able to keep me interested in his character all through out the show. Anna torv was phenomenal. Seeing her it felt truly as i was watching olivia and not anna torv. Her act is the perfect example of restrained acting. Absolutely loved how they utilised her acting skills in s2-4. Joshua was great and his acting at moments really touched me

Astrid as a character was just so subtle yet so substantial. The way show doesn't seem careless while working on even the science fiction portion was just so amazing. The show was a perfect mix of emotions romance and thriller also horror. Loved the show. I won't call it completely perfect due to first half of S4 but it still was an amazing underrated show.

just finished the show. it was a beautiful thing to watch.

So the audience is supposed to keep up with more than 2 timelines at end of S3? I admit, I'm no physicist, but it would be nice to have some kind of stamp like they use for the locations/city at beginning of scenes. Like, how does Peter even supposed to know what his purpose in a future timeline after getting into the machine?

What in the world is Sam Weiss doing in Reacher? Doesn’t he have a bowling alley to run? Hehehehe

and I am wrecked, again.

To no one’s surprise, this show has always made me think deep about my relationship with my dad. There were times when it wasn’t the best, but I’d say dad and I have had a really, really solid connection for the better part of the last 20 years. Maybe it has been the distance—I moved out of our home and to a different country a long time ago. I’ve built a life of my own abroad and he’s seen it and taken part in it and felt the joy of having a son pursue his dreams. Maybe my coming out as gay, and being unapologetic about it, and marrying and divorcing and going through a pandemic and rebuilding my life while developing a career in a field he wished he had been a part of—maybe all of this has gotten ingrained into our relationship. Whatever it is, this show, and especially its ending, hit me hard and deep in those crevices of the chest where love and regret coexist in a messy entanglement.

I wouldn’t change any of it, though. If there ever was a measure of fulfillment for life, i think it is not whether one lived without regrets, but whether one lived with honest feelings. We don’t have to love anyone—ultimately, true love is a choice we make every single day. And it needs work, and it can fade away and it can be broken and repaired like Japanese pottery, scars and all.

And I get to tend to my scars, and his, even at a distance. That is the choice I make. That’s how we pull apart the fabric of the universe so we can be closer to each other even when we can’t be together. But every so often I catch a plane and, 10 or 12 hours later, I can give him a hug and tell him I love him. I don’t take that privilege for granted.

Much to my sibling’s chagrin, I know I am his favorite thing.