Fringe S2E8
Added 2021-08-11 19:00:09 +0000 UTC
Very interesting!
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I’m so sorry this episode confused you. I know it’s inevitable that you will miss something along the way simply because you have to keep talking to us. Our bad lol. This episode is one of my favourite episodes from any series I’ve ever seen. The acting is superb, especially from the players of August* and the lady he saves (I could talk for hours about that one scene in which he asks her if she trusts him. It’s just sublime!), the writing is excellent, the directing, editing, everything is so perfectly designed to hit all the right notes in me. I love this so much! Perfect TV for me 👍 * I think the actor playing August is Peter(?) Woodward, the son of Edward Woodward, a very famous English actor who played the lead role in the original television series, ‘The Equaliser’. Whenever I’m reminded of him I remember hearing somebody, possibly Billy Connelly, saying in a Scottish accent, “Edward Woodward? Why does his name sound like a fart in a bathtub?” Now perhaps you will, too. 🤪
Caradoc Elmet
2022-04-25 13:47:01 +0000 UTCShe was important because she was responsible for the death of one of the observers. He sacrificed himself because he loved her. She should have died in the plane crash and not affected anything after that point in time. The observer’s death occurred because he prevented her “scheduled” death. He came to the realisation that he must die so she could live, after the time she should have died. That’s what made her important: an observer died because of her. If she had simply boarded her flight and died in the crash none of that would have happened. The death of an Observer is a more important event than the death of someone they can find nothing special in. His death, to them, outweighs hers. To August also, her continued existence is more important than his own. Everybody wins I guess. Something else to consider is that August said, “I think it’s what they call, “feelings”,” so we can assume the observers don’t have feelings. They seem to simply observe dispassionately events of importance. August felt love for a little girl who had just lost her parents in a terrible tragedy, but was being brave. She “crossed his mind” and somehow never left. Was he the first Observer to ever have feelings? Does he represent a change in the Observers, an evolution? Or did the Observers have feelings once upon a time but lost the ability in their past evolution? Is August some kind of atavistic throwback, or “devolution” perhaps? Whatever it means, it’s an unexpected development and therefore important. I don’t think he understood until the very end what it meant himself. He didn’t realise he had feelings, which is why he couldn’t explain it to the other Observers, he only knew that she was important to him. Imagine you have no feelings and no empathy. In the grand scheme of things a dying child would have no importance to you. But you try telling that to the mother. [I’m sorry to use such a horrible example but it’s the best fit, I’m afraid] August, in this scenario, is the mother, but a mother trying to explain feelings she doesn’t know she has, to a being that doesn’t know what feelings are either. The only way August can make the others understand that she is important is to show them how far he would go to save her. He sacrifices his life for hers. Now they understand, at least on some level.
Caradoc Elmet
2022-04-25 13:21:41 +0000 UTCHe felt love for her. That doesn’t mean he had romantic or sexual feelings for her. Don’t you love people you don’t want to sleep with?
Caradoc Elmet
2022-04-25 12:56:50 +0000 UTCone of the very best episodes of the show. . .most of the observer episodes are great but this one is tops for me. . opened up whole new avenues for the show too
NWar086
2021-08-11 22:40:17 +0000 UTC
