Reply With Quoteits a 45 minute show, they can't linger too long on every aspect. if they did we would have 100 episodes a season
Excavation
One little problem I had with this episode was that the excavation was very easy. I mean the part of the Machine it was placed there millions of years ago. Think about earthquakes, teutonic plates and stuff like that. It should be very very very deep in the ground after millions of years. But they dig and found it very easy.
its a 45 minute show, they can't linger too long on every aspect. if they did we would have 100 episodes a season
Yeah I understand that. But, for example, they could have "flashfoward" let's say one or two months into the future and show us what has happened after that time in the same episode.Originally Posted by pk198105
They can't loose two months for a discover: what about AltLiv cover!!!??? Two months and they didn't notice nothing??? What about our Liv??? two month in the other universe and they keep her safe??? No way!!
They had to do some choice, and this seems the best!!!
I understand that it's a 45 minute show, but if finding it in the ground like that didn't make sense, they shouldn't have done it that way. Maybe instead of coordinates they could have found some sort of thing to indicate the spots. I don't know, but they shouldn't throw something in and use the excuse "it doesn't make sense, but we didn't have enough time." That's just poor writing.
Actually, while the machine was created millions of years ago, I thought that it was perhaps buried maybe around the time Seamus Wiles (AKA Samuel Weiss) wrote the "First People" book because millions of years ago, the continents did not look as they do today and therefore, the coordinates would not have made any sense.
Hmmm. But then how would the radio have picked up the transmissions of the coordinates before humans learned to transmit things? Unless, the shapeshifter crafted the two broadcasts he sent just so Peter and everyone would be able to dig in the right places.
I am still confused about who is actually transmitting the numbers. I do not think it is the shapeshifters as I thought they were created after William Bell went "Over There" (i.e. after 1985). I think Walternate and Fringe Division knew about the First People before our universe did and when they sent the shapeshifters "Over Here" part of their job was to monitor how closely we were to breaking the code. It does get complicated because of the importance of Peter...meaning that BOlivia wanted Walter, Peter and our Fringe Division to solve the puzzle but no one else.
Someone in another thread theorized that the transmissions were related to the Beacon from "The Arrival".
If the transmitter has the ability to track the locations of the pieces (GPS without satellites), rather than having a record of their original locations, it could account for geological changes. Since the numbers are in modern languages, the ability to translate must be built in, and can logically be extended to the ability to translate locations to lat/long.
There remains the issue of major geological changes, e.g., a burial site being completely eradicated in a subduction zone, or buried thousands of feet deep instead of tens. That may be why Walternate is missing some of the pieces.
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