Fringe - Brown Betty
Jun. 15th, 2010 10:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shipperxStill haven't seen Fringe Season 2 DVDs but Hulu has up the last four episodes of Season 2 and "Brown Betty" is one of them.
Okay, I think that one did it for me. It was just bizarre enough to make me go fannish. What a weird, weird episode.
Peter has disappeared and guilt-ridden Walter is getting high on pot (the aforementioned 'Brown Betty') and Olivia arrives to ask Walter's assistant to babysit her niece while Olivia searches for Walter's sonPaceyPeter. Stoned Walter plays 'Operation' (the old Milton-Bradley game) with the niece and ends up telling the child a very weird but within-the-Fringe-verse meaningful story.
His imagination is one weird collage, isn't it? His story is a Gattica-ish steam punk sci-fi film-noir fairytale musical.
Heh.
In his story he casts Olivia as a hard-bitten, cynical Film Noir private investigator hired to search for Peter because Peter has stolen Walter's glass heart, the only thing keeping Walter alive so that he can 'do good things'.
It's a weird mixture of Film Noir/1930s costuming, cars, and lingo, only with far more multi-culturalism, cell phones, and modern computers still being around (because, honestly, would the seven-year-old that he's telling this story to know the difference?) What a sweet, sad, strange episode flipped-inside out by its being a fairy-tale for a child.
I rather liked that one.
It's on Hulu here
Okay, I think that one did it for me. It was just bizarre enough to make me go fannish. What a weird, weird episode.
Peter has disappeared and guilt-ridden Walter is getting high on pot (the aforementioned 'Brown Betty') and Olivia arrives to ask Walter's assistant to babysit her niece while Olivia searches for Walter's son
His imagination is one weird collage, isn't it? His story is a Gattica-ish steam punk sci-fi film-noir fairytale musical.
Heh.
In his story he casts Olivia as a hard-bitten, cynical Film Noir private investigator hired to search for Peter because Peter has stolen Walter's glass heart, the only thing keeping Walter alive so that he can 'do good things'.
It's a weird mixture of Film Noir/1930s costuming, cars, and lingo, only with far more multi-culturalism, cell phones, and modern computers still being around (because, honestly, would the seven-year-old that he's telling this story to know the difference?) What a sweet, sad, strange episode flipped-inside out by its being a fairy-tale for a child.
I rather liked that one.
It's on Hulu here
