What was written will come to pass

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HOOOOOOOOOLY SHIT SHOW STOP BLOWING MY MIND OMG! The first half I was all "another stand-alone episode? We already had to wait two months after discovering Olivia was given Cortexiphan, ugh" but then it turned into a mythology episode and it was SO GOOD.

The scene in the video was so freaking disturbing. That room Olivia was sitting in was all charred and shit, and with Spock's William Bell's creepy, detached voice in the background made it even scarier. Walter sounded nice, but shiiiit. I guessed he was involved in the Cortexiphan trials (because it would've been deliciously dramatic, and I was right) and I wonder why he and Olivia both forgot about it. Can you imagine how frustrating it must be to be Walter? You have all this information inside of you, possibly a solution to the entire Pattern thing, but you can't reach it.

The ZFT manifesto continues to be interesting. If I have my information correct, the ZFT tells of a war between two parallel worlds, and there are "special" soldiers who are able to travel between the two worlds. Both worlds cannot exist simultaneously (kinda like Harry and Voldemort I guess) so one has to be destroyed. Maybe Massive Dynamics' goal is to prepare our Earth for the inevitable war, which would make them the good guys instead of the bad guys.. I'm also guessing William Bell and Walter Bishop found out together about the parallel worlds and its implications, but at one point they probably had a fall-out and Bell moved on alone. Bishop was institutionalized and probably wrote the ZFT manifesto after him and Bell split up. Obviously this is all speculation on my part, I could be totally off.

criticalmess unknowingly raised an interesting point earlier by comparing The Observer to Uatu, or "The Watcher". Uatu is a Marvel Universe character, member of an extra-terrestial race called The Watchers. Uatu doesn't do much except 'watch' Earth and the Solar System. He only makes himself visible to humans when Big Things© are happening; when Storm and Black Panther got married during Civil War he revealed himself and talked to Dr Strange about the civil war and the consequences the war would have on the world. Uatu has taken an oath to never interfere in Earthly conflicts, he is only there to observe and to monitor. Obviously there are all kinds of parallels with The Observer here, and I wonder if there's a deeper meaning to that or if it's just a typical JJ Abrams homage to comics. One of Uatu's most fascinating abilities is his ability to move between alternate realities and parallel worlds; if The Observer has this same ability he might not be from the parallel world but from a third, seperate one, and he is then probably also observing the world parallel to ours. He is above our conflict with Earth 2; he's just lurking I guess.

The Nick Lane thing was interesting too - but I wonder why, if Olivia and him had some kind of psychic connection, it wasn't brought up earlier. Maybe because her and Walter both had forgotten? Again, how do you forget such a thing?

Anyway, loved the episode. It kinda felt like a finale set-up, no? I hope Fringe is renewed for another season because if I know my JJ Abrams shows correctly, this season will end with a huge cliffhanger D: