Fringe "Nothing As It Seems"

The team investigates a case that Peter recognizes from his world. Olivia deals with the fallout of allowing her memories to take over.


The return of Porcubat. This time less crispy.



"I work in Fringe Division. Weird is a matter of degrees." - Olivia


When Olivia told Nina she was going to let things fall as they may in concern of her memories, it was inevitable there would be fallout from this decision. She was going to start forgetting facts (evident by not knowing about Rachel's marriage and other child), which was going to put her standing with the FBI and Fringe Division in jeopardy.

But I'm having trouble swallowing this story line. While Olivia's recovery of her memories expedited the "what universe is this" story line (thank God), it seems to have opened a possible plot hole.

Why is only Olivia recovering her memories?

The only possible reason coming to mind is how much Olivia loves Peter. But what about everyone else September mentioned as loving Peter so much they couldn't let go of him, even though the Observers tried to erase him from time? Olivia wasn't the only one seeing visions of Peter. Walter thought he was going crazy from the reflections. Shouldn't he at least be affected by this memory anomaly?

I'm not saying I'm immediately convinced the writers are going to screw it up, but other characters need to start regaining memories soon, or this is going to be hard to ignore.

The Episode:

We had numerous biblical allusions this week (specifically Genesis), not to mention the Sumerian tattoo, which is from the same time period.

References were made to "Adam and Eve" (possible allusion to Peter/Olivia?), as well as "Noah's Arc" at the end with all the creepy giant animals. (That was a big fucking spider! I hate spiders!)

Lincoln is having trouble dealing with both Olivia's memory situation and the new (renewed?) relationship between Peter and Olivia.

Eddie the Book Guy was back! And he was usually witty self.

This week's episode is a spin on the first season episode "The Transformation." In that episode, the plane crashes, killing the Porcubat. It was connected to a covert case John Scott was working for the NSA on the Pattern. No mention of Scott or the Pattern in this episode.

"Nothing As It Seems" was written by Jeff Pinkner and Akiva Goldsman. Frederick E. O. Toye directed.

Quotes:

• "You're a good guy." "Yeah ... I'm a good guy." - Peter and Lincoln. Poor Lincoln needs to get himself a girl so he'll stop obsessing over Olivia.

• "Remember when you said all of this would stop being strange? Well, in case you were wondering, it hasn't." - Lincoln. It's still weird for us, too, Lincoln.

• "Did you find his genitals, son?" - Walter. Someone with more time on their hands than I needs to make a Tumblr of Walter gifs and all his crazy ass quotes. 

Next week we get both universes, and someone might die! Well, it's Fringe; someone always dies. This time it might be someone important! Dun dun dun!!

What did everyone else think?

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