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Heh, I had this weird zombie apocalypse dream last night. Well, it wasn't really an apocalypse, there were actually big pockets of survivors, living in settlements (obviously inspired by the latest Walking Dead). Anyways, what was funny was me and some guy were being sent out into the wild to fix the controls for some generator or other piece of equipment. And I was not nervous about running into zombies, but that I'd have to crawl through a vent that had bugs in it. Like we get to the abandoned shed where the entrance to the controls are. And I was less worried that there would be a zombie inside and more that there might be like a giant wasp nest or something.
TV commentary:
Fringe- Well, that was ill-advised, Peter. I mean, obviously he's grieving in his own way and not thinking straight, but still! So anyways, the team comes up with this plan to collapse a wormhole from the future, which according to Walter would form a black hole on the other side and fuck things up a lot. The resistance had managed to capture an Observer, and Peter uses equipment to read the guy's reactions so he can put some piece of future tech back together.
He thinks it works, because he does manage to put the thing back together without blowing himself up. So they set up their ambush, and I thought the whole point was to get the box to answer the "future call" first to open the portal in an area of their own choosing so they'd be in a more advantageous position to shoot an anti-matter bomb into it and cause a black hole at the other end. But for some reason they wait- was it that they were waiting to see equipment come through, because at that point, they knew where the shipment was going to come from, why not set their sniper point there? It seemed like the whole box thing was pointless. I mean, the way they explained it, the box was like a telephone, and if their box answered the call, the wormhole would be opened up by their box! There was no need to wait for stuff to come through to confirm, the fact that a wormhole opened up means it worked! They didn't open up a wormhole to the future, or rather, they weren't initiating the wormhole and need to confirm it went to the right place. They merely opened the other end of the wormhole that was coming from the place they want.
Whatever. They blow up the wormhole, and are all happy. For about a minute when they see another wormhole open up down the street that equipment starts coming out of. Peter is livid, and goes to ask the observer why it didn't work! He's so livid that he doesn't realize they're not having the same convo. Peter asks why it didn't work, but the Observer basically babbles on about Peter was totally wrong about being able to read his reactions, and Peter was able to put it back together because he was a really smart engineer, and just needed the confidence to think he was doing the right thing.
So, Peter basically rips the Observer tech out of the guy's head (earlier in the ep, we find out their powers aren't inherent in them, they have technology installed in their heads giving them such abilities) and implants it in himself. Yeah, that's smart! Just put a bunch of technology you don't understand INTO YOUR OWN BRAIN!
As for the portal thing, isn't the answer possibly that they're not thinking 4-dimensionally? Yeah, if there plan worked, it would eff things up for a long time. OVER THERE! Let's say the plan worked and it took them 50 years in that future to fix things and be able to send stuff back. It's frickin time travel portals! Its not like because it takes them 50 years to fix things, it will be 50 years in the present before they can start again. No matter how long it took them to recover, they'd still be sending stuff back to that same point!
Degrassi- Ah, I was right about Mo being diabetic. Anyways, what is Cam's deal? He tells Maya that he does find her very pretty, but when she says why doesn't he ever put the moves on her, he's all "I'll try harder!" Obviously she's pissed at this answer, and honestly, its a kinda weird thing for a straight teenage boy to say. But I don't think he's gay. I mean, Degrassi has friggin everything, is he going to end up being asexual?
TV commentary:
Fringe- Well, that was ill-advised, Peter. I mean, obviously he's grieving in his own way and not thinking straight, but still! So anyways, the team comes up with this plan to collapse a wormhole from the future, which according to Walter would form a black hole on the other side and fuck things up a lot. The resistance had managed to capture an Observer, and Peter uses equipment to read the guy's reactions so he can put some piece of future tech back together.
He thinks it works, because he does manage to put the thing back together without blowing himself up. So they set up their ambush, and I thought the whole point was to get the box to answer the "future call" first to open the portal in an area of their own choosing so they'd be in a more advantageous position to shoot an anti-matter bomb into it and cause a black hole at the other end. But for some reason they wait- was it that they were waiting to see equipment come through, because at that point, they knew where the shipment was going to come from, why not set their sniper point there? It seemed like the whole box thing was pointless. I mean, the way they explained it, the box was like a telephone, and if their box answered the call, the wormhole would be opened up by their box! There was no need to wait for stuff to come through to confirm, the fact that a wormhole opened up means it worked! They didn't open up a wormhole to the future, or rather, they weren't initiating the wormhole and need to confirm it went to the right place. They merely opened the other end of the wormhole that was coming from the place they want.
Whatever. They blow up the wormhole, and are all happy. For about a minute when they see another wormhole open up down the street that equipment starts coming out of. Peter is livid, and goes to ask the observer why it didn't work! He's so livid that he doesn't realize they're not having the same convo. Peter asks why it didn't work, but the Observer basically babbles on about Peter was totally wrong about being able to read his reactions, and Peter was able to put it back together because he was a really smart engineer, and just needed the confidence to think he was doing the right thing.
So, Peter basically rips the Observer tech out of the guy's head (earlier in the ep, we find out their powers aren't inherent in them, they have technology installed in their heads giving them such abilities) and implants it in himself. Yeah, that's smart! Just put a bunch of technology you don't understand INTO YOUR OWN BRAIN!
As for the portal thing, isn't the answer possibly that they're not thinking 4-dimensionally? Yeah, if there plan worked, it would eff things up for a long time. OVER THERE! Let's say the plan worked and it took them 50 years in that future to fix things and be able to send stuff back. It's frickin time travel portals! Its not like because it takes them 50 years to fix things, it will be 50 years in the present before they can start again. No matter how long it took them to recover, they'd still be sending stuff back to that same point!
Degrassi- Ah, I was right about Mo being diabetic. Anyways, what is Cam's deal? He tells Maya that he does find her very pretty, but when she says why doesn't he ever put the moves on her, he's all "I'll try harder!" Obviously she's pissed at this answer, and honestly, its a kinda weird thing for a straight teenage boy to say. But I don't think he's gay. I mean, Degrassi has friggin everything, is he going to end up being asexual?