1.01 Pilot - Fringe Season 1 Rewatch

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1.01 PILOT
reWATCH DISCUSSION THREAD

Written by JJ. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci

Directed by Alex Graves

When a Flight 627 lands with all the passengers and crew dead, FBI Agent Olivia Dunham is called into investigate. A search for someone to help leads her to Dr. Walter Bishop, our generation's Einstein. There's only one catch: He's been institutionalized for the last 20 years, and the only way to question him requires pulling his estranged son, Peter, into help. Under Agent Phillip Broyles, our trio will discover that what happened on that fatal flight is only a small piece of a larger, more shocking truth.

Feel free to use this thread to post your thoughts, comments and retrospective views and observations (etc) from rewatching or re-analyzing the Fringe Pilot episode.

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You can find out rewatch schedule here. The rewatch thread for ep. 1.02 will be posted on Thursday.

[Elliot]

Check out the debut of green-green-green-red in the sequence at the airport before she gets on the plane. The bus behind the tents:

[D-Roc]

Ah, nice catch!

[EM]

A couple of things caught on the rewatch... When Olivia and John open Steig's storage unit, there is a lab animal with bright blue eyes, a la Midnight. Previously I posted in the Timeline thread that John is kept in the Kennedy wing of the hospital and Kennedy was featured in the newspaper on Bell's desk in the finale. Also when I watched the pilot the first time, Walter's twitchy left hand seemed a byproduct of his nervousness, his personality disorder, but it is reminding me more and more of Nina's trouble with her robotic arm/hand. Maybe Walter is not all natural either. Nina and Walter don't meet up through the whole first season and I always thought it was because they have a history that the writers don't want us to know yet, but perhaps there is more importance to it-- 2 powerful energy cells in the same place could have serious repercussions. *sigh* Theories, theories, theories... Is it September yet?

[D-Roc]

A couple of things caught on the rewatch... When Olivia and John open Steig's storage unit, there is a lab animal with bright blue eyes, a la Midnight. Previously I posted in the Timeline thread that John is kept in the Kennedy wing of the hospital and Kennedy was featured in the newspaper on Bell's desk in the finale. Also when I watched the pilot the first time, Walter's twitchy left hand seemed a byproduct of his nervousness, his personality disorder, but it is reminding me more and more of Nina's trouble with her robotic arm/hand. Maybe Walter is not all natural either. Nina and Walter don't meet up through the whole first season and I always thought it was because they have a history that the writers don't want us to know yet, but perhaps there is more importance to it-- 2 powerful energy cells in the same place could have serious repercussions. *sigh* Theories, theories, theories... Is it September yet?

Good point about Walter and Nina not meeting throughout the season - I had forgotten that fact. I'm not sure it's because they both have energy cells but there's no harm in speculation.

[D-Roc]

I'll just link to my 1.01 rewatch thoughts and observations, which I've posted here.

[eilcon]

There were a few things I noticed rewatching. Peter and Olivia's early dialog seems to be made antagonistic, like the boy meets girl, they hate each other, part of a cookbook romance story.

Walter's tremor while in the institution is similar to the ones that Loeb's men have after traveling through the walls in Safe. Jones had the same tremor in Ability.

[Blue Sunflower]

What struck me most is definitely the ... difference ... between Massive Dynamic and the rest of the show. Those scenes are SO technologically advanced, moreso than what one would expect. It's almost like watching random scenes from I, Robot inserted into the middle of something like The Closer.

Nina and Walter don't meet up through the whole first season and I always thought it was because they have a history that the writers don't want us to know yet, but perhaps there is more importance to it--

I think it's important in terms of Peter, and whatever happened back when he was brought over from the original reality. And I think the William/Walter backstory has been muted due to the same reason, as well as whatever is behind the "war" Bell knows they're fighting.

[Rekka]

There were a ton of 8's in this episode, too...

The door on Olivia's office is 2168. There we have an 8 at the end, and then 2 + 1 + 6 + 8 = 17; 1 + 7 = 8

And the Medical Journal Archives where Olivia was researching for the strange dissolved flesh thing that was happening to John Scott... she found the article about Walter Bishop, Archive 87508. 8's are at the beginning and the end... Omega/Infinity. Eek!

Now...does this really mean anything or are we getting overly obsessive with numbers?