The Blight

[Montecito]

What exactly you think it is the Blight that the Leader said it affects the alter/world?

[empty_encounters]

Blight is a real word with a definition that means 'a pathogen that affects plants' so I would guess it was a very contagious disease that has eradicated a large amount of plantlife on the other side. Human engineered, as are all the disasters in Fringe and relevant to the principles of the ZFT document.

[Omniscient_Jay]

It's interesting to note the exchange between Newton and Walter in Cambridge:

Walter: How are tings on your side?

Newton: Worse, I'm told.

It would appear that the shapeshifters have been on our side very a very long time, so even they don't know how worse things have gotten.

This Blight is probably man-made, and has apparently caused some damage to the other side, but the extent as of yet is unknown. Who knows, it might not be that serious compared to other problems their side is facing.

[lettherebelove]

Blight is probably just one of the problems they're facing...i'm sure a 'pathogen that affects plants' wouldn't set building on fire? :P

[King_Nothing]

In the game The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, blight disease can be contracted. Meaning, a disease that affects humans (or elves, apparently). Perhaps the Blight isn't just killing plants? Maybe it's one of those Andromeda-Strain super-viruses that is killing everything.

[jsin623]

My first impression of the Blight in this episode was some sort of plant cancer that has greatly impacted the other side. I would guess more then likely man made. I would bet we will find out more about this in further epsiodes as they felt it important enough to remember.

[Mutsie]

.... perhaps this BLIGHT is indeed caused by human hands and is one of those "slightly different/DejA VU-ish thingie" Belly & Wall-E were talking about.
In the Alter World people simply made a big mistake and that is the reason why the Alter-World is dying, as a matter of speach, and that is also the reason why they are trying to get in our world...
Elimanete all the humans here and take over the world, make some sense, isn't it? Why would they otherwhise even bother to enter our dimension if everything was just fine over there? Everything was just okay, on both sides centuries/ages untill 18 years ago.... I don't think it was only Walter's fault or responsibility when he kidnapped Peter2 and than the time-flux was getting "instable" and the demolition started in the Alter World.

Remember that the Observers are observing TIME and that they are able, for some reason, walk straight through the time-line and well keep on observing stuff/happenings. They may not getting involved but for some reason they did something {perhaps they caused our Peter's dead!} and that is what September was talking about "to correct a mistake" => he helped Walter to get Peter 2...

......:confused0006:

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[Quill]

Blight is a real word with a definition that means 'a pathogen that affects plants' so I would guess it was a very contagious disease that has eradicated a large amount of plantlife on the other side. Human engineered, as are all the disasters in Fringe and relevant to the principles of the ZFT document.
Blight is probably just one of the problems they're facing...i'm sure a 'pathogen that affects plants' wouldn't set building on fire? :P
Don't forget that Boston is also under quarantine in the Other Universe.

[Montecito]

Could this Painting has something to do with the Blight?
There are trees and something that looks like an explosion. (or is just the sunset?)

http://i845.photobucket.com/albums/ab16/Montecito_photos/1-41.jpg

[Mutsie]

I think it is just a sunset painting otherwhise the trees would look more like this {the one in the middle, dead tree}:

http://www.designhouseantiques.com/Dead_Tree1W99.jpg

:tiphat::observer:

[Jabberwock]

After some thinking, I think that the Blight was maybe a weapon built to attack other countries. A bio-weapon that either got out, or was thrown back in our faces. This created a food shortage, which created riots, which sunk their world in a state of complete panic.

Perhaps the reason they're invading is to escape the post-apocalyptic world. Survival.

[pk198105]

my theory is that when Walter went to the other side to get Peter , he might have brought the blight with him and he contaminated the Other side. Now the people from the other side want revenge or a way to fix their side and they need Walter to tell them how to open the Gateway.

Think how when you go to another country the customs officers are always asking you if you brought any food or animals with you. Foreign organisms can be very deadly to established ecosystems. Look at what is happening in some of the States with the uncontrolled wild boar population (boars were imported from Europe for hunting purposes, but got out of control and started cross mating with the North American boars).

[pk198105]

my theory is that when Walter went to the other side to get Peter , he might have brought the blight with him and he contaminated the Other side. Now the people from the other side want revenge or a way to fix their side and they need Walter to tell them how to open the Gateway.

Think how when you go to another country the customs officers are always asking you if you brought any food or animals with you. Foreign organisms can be very deadly to established ecosystems. Look at what is happening in some of the States with the uncontrolled wild boar population (boars were imported from Europe for hunting purposes, but got out of control and started cross mating with the North American boars).

[Quill]

After some thinking, I think that the Blight was maybe a weapon built to attack other countries. A bio-weapon that either got out, or was thrown back in our faces. This created a food shortage, which created riots, which sunk their world in a state of complete panic.

Perhaps the reason they're invading is to escape the post-apocalyptic world. Survival.
The Blight has got to be created by something technological. They made it clear last season that the cause of the Pattern is because of the advances we've made in technology, and it's also pretty clear that the Other Universe is far more tech-advanced than we are. Therefore, it stands to reason that all the problems they're suffering from now are because of that.

[johnyjep]

I got a feeling when "whole Walter" asked them how things were one the other side, in regards to the blight that he might have been the cause of it... and that it might have been on purpose. Maybe covering his tracks from stealing Peter. But it seems that my theory of the Shapeshifters working for alter-Walter was wrong, because they know that Peter was taken and it isn't their job to get him back.

[teknocrat]

Lets suppose that walter created the alternate universe when he went and got peter. Lets also suppose sense he created it is relative to him therefore it is deteriorating or slowly being destroyed so the people there are trying to find a way to our universe to escape there dying universe. We could then also assume the Universe William Bell is in is then yet another creation which seemed rather nice, this could go on forever.

Or alterativly when walter crossed over he sneezed and infected the whole place with an incurable disease because it was not from there universe thus slightly different and immune to everything.

I could go on and on

[Montecito]

Do you think that maybe the Blight will start to spread in our world also? :confused0006:

[Lamestair]

it might not be a disease necessarily, a catastrophy caused by a bio attack makes more sense i guess. a demon invasion is referred with blight in dragons age. Emphasized part with the word is rather rapid expansion, i think.

[-CatarinaBranco]

I think it might happen

[dangerwil]

Author Keith Laumer, who, for me, pretty much invented the multiverse concept in sci-fi wrote about the blight in several of his novels. If I remember correctly it was a grouping of timelines that were in an advanced state of decay. Since these timelines were created by probability, the events that caused these lines to come into existence were of a very low or improbable nature. In the blight timelines could intersect and cross over, making their existence even more improbable and unstable.

I really hope the writers of Fringe are familiar with Laumer and Richard C Meredith's At the narrow passage. These are some great reads if the idea of multiverses intrigue you.

Bill

http://www.webscription.net/chapters/0743499034/0743499034.htm?blurb

[Moviemath]

Author Keith Laumer, who, for me, pretty much invented the multiverse concept in sci-fi wrote about the blight in several of his novels. If I remember correctly it was a grouping of timelines that were in an advanced state of decay. Since these timelines were created by probability, the events that caused these lines to come into existence were of a very low or improbable nature. In the blight timelines could intersect and cross over, making their existence even more improbable and unstable.

I really hope the writers of Fringe are familiar with Laumer and Richard C Meredith's At the narrow passage. These are some great reads if the idea of multiverses intrigue you.

Bill

http://www.webscription.net/chapters/0743499034/0743499034.htm?blurb

Methinks you're on to something here Bill :happy15:.



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[Elliya]

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[FlyingSpaghettiMonster]

Wow, that is not good... reminds me of the Happening, too.