I am both ecstatic and saddened that we’re reaching the end of the fantastic third season of Fringe, which was easily better than those that came before it. Still, while we have season four to look forward to, let’s focus on our utter unpreparedness. Given the shocking and confusing final sixty seconds of “The Last Same Weiss,” I think it’s safe to say that not a single one of us knew that THIS is what the finale would be about. Intrigued? Then let’s all blog our hearts out to the season three finale of Fringe.
IT IS HERE.
I’m using an image from the season one finale so that those who wish to go into this episode completely ignorant can. I know some of you did not watch the trailer for tomorrow’s finale and I don’t want to spoil you!
Because we are all on the exact same ground this time around, our spoiler policy for these blogs will be completely different. Anything that has aired in the past is fair game for discussion. Anything that has not publicly aired WILL BE CONSIDERED A SPOILER.
This liveblog will work in relative to when the episode airs for you. So, you may begin your livebloggy commenting down below when the episode starts. To avoid spoilers, I stick to the first page and comment away, and then go back afterwards to add any more
DO. NOT. POST. SPOILERS. This community is not the place for that. You have the rest of the fucking Internet. Go there.
As usual, the review for “The Day We Died” will go up on Saturday afternoon. And then no more Fringe until the fall. omg the tragedy 🙁 🙁 🙁
OH GOD YOU ALL. I AM SO EXCITED.
How was the pre-activation stuff a mission of mercy?
Right? That pesky little fact takes some credibility wind out of your mercy sails, Walternate.
Walternate, your mission was not of peace. Who are you kidding?
Too little, too late. "Oh shit, I'm losing! Uh, let's make a deal!"
So the sun IS dying.
Olivia and Ella. NOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Olivia or Walter? 🙁
Shit! NO OLIVIA!!
RUN RUN RUN
He calls him father…
YOU STINKER
Holographic Walter?! Creepy…
Holo-Walter?
HOLY COW
UM FUCK NO.
WHAT THE SHIT NONONONONOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
N-O-M-O
No more, maybe?
That's what I was thinking. Really ominous.
Just that and the black credits are so dire! Never mind EVERYTHING ELSE.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
WAT. I just screamed IRL.
It took a couple of commercials for me to start breathing again.
My heart is still pounding.
I CALLED IT, I FUCKING CALLED IT!!
that being said, it was in a different way than i would have ever guessed, but i guessed that original olivia would die and turns out i was WICKED RIGHT. BOO YA. half a point to me!
p.s. is it bad that i'm not super sad olivia just got shot in the head? cause i mean, they can't continue the show without olivia. so im not worried about her resurrection in one way or another.
If we all chant together, "This is just a glimpse of the future", it will be true. Right? RIGHT?
APPARENTLY!
Score!
Peter! I am WEEPING for you!
Will Olivia get a viking funeral, too?
Olivia = the Doctor???
Also an Other funeral.
Oh god I was having so many Stranger in a Strange Land flashbacks.
Whoops, The Cost of Living, not Stranger in a Strange Land. I tend to block some of the third season eps of Lost from my mind D:
This is so sad. Can you imagine if they had ended the show here?
Nina, your hat is the last beacon of hope in this episode.
Show, don't make Astrid cry. ;__________;
Tell me I'm not the only crying here…
I'm teary, which pretty much = sobbing for me.
ok, next prediction: walternate killed olivia so that peter would attempt to return to the past so olivia wouldn't be dead, which would mean waternate's universe would still be in tact. BOO YA i am probably so totally wrong.
I really want you to be right.
Me too.
Me too.
Was that canned steak in the freezer? Black universe sucks, y'all.
Gene…
GENE!
GENE.
Gene!
So he will go back! woohoo!
Oh nice! I thought "where it came from" was just gonna be a plot hole!
Peter, it's wibbly wobbly timey wimey. Just go with it.
Time Paradoxes are my number one favorite thing…I love that Fringe is taking advantage of this.
Walter, you beautiful man. You are a mad genius.
You've already torn holes in the universe, how much worse can it get?
The Fringe writers always find a way. Best not to tempt them.
N-O-M-O-R
I think you were right about it saying No More
WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN AHHH
But No More WHAT?
Peter. 🙁
Do not want. 🙁
No more episodes until September.
HOW ARE THERE ONLY TEN MINUTES LEFT? I AM SO GLAD I HAVE CUPCAKES TO COMFORT ME.
Dude, where are the observers in all of this?
They MUST show up at some point (because Michael Cerevereresis's name was in the opening credits.) (I don't know how exactly to spell his last name, in case you couldn't tell.)
Ironic comment is ironic…in retrospect.
LOL, yes.
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OMG WE'RE BACK. I ACTUALLY CAN'T BREATHE RIGHT NOW. I DONT WHAT TO DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
F you douchebag Brandon
Burn, Olivia!
HOLY FUCK THEY MERGED.
"they outsmarted YOU didn't they?" – fauxlivia
hahahahhahaahhahahaha
I know — how about everyone stops building and activating machines based on confusing diagrams.
Peter just BAMFED IT UP
AHH!
Holy shit. He brought them over.
WTF the going on
WALTER THROWDOWN PLEASE.
Walter squared fist fight?
what is going on so confused adksjfa;dfjal;dfkja
Well I'm glad SOMEONE understands.
SHIT
SHIT FUCK WHAT NO
HOLY FUCKING SHIT. WTF. WALTER FIGHT.
oh shit
Aaaand, there's no more Peter. Great.
WHAT HE JUST BROUGHT THE TWO WORLDS TOGETHER… IN ONE ROOM…. WHAT?! (I WISH I COULD MAKE BIGGER CAPITAL LETTERS)
did Peter just vanish??
Oh, there the observers are.
WHAT? NO NO NO NO NO
IT MEANS NO MORE PETER?!!! WHAT! NO!!!
PETER GOT SUCKED INTO THE CRACK.
FOREVER UPVOTE
I'M OKAY WITH THIS IF IT MEANS HE COMES BACK AS A CENTURION.
Glad I'm not the only one who thought of Doctor Who
this episode was all over Doctor Who- time travel, viking funerals, people disappearing from time/memory
And he didn't leave us a little bit of story to bring him back!!!
Buh?
WAIT WHAT
YOU MOTHERFUCKERS
WAIT WHAT
NOOOOOO. NO MORE PETER.
GODAMMIT
Who?
Oh, but Peter wasn't part of our timeline, so I can still remember him because of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff! HA!
ASKJFASDFJAD;SKFJ THEY CAN'T GET RID OF PETER!!! THEY CAN'T!!!
WHAT ABOUT FAUXLIVIA AND PETER'S CHILD?????????!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
THE OBSERVERS
"THEY DON'T REMEMBER PETER???? HE SERVED HIS PURPOSE???"
WTF DOES THAT MEANNNNNN
FRINGE, WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO ME!?
long summer, here we come
What?!!!!!
Okay, I cannot wait until September. I'm gonna need Fringe to come back sooner.
Did they just merge the Universes? WHAT?
Also, quick question: did anyone manage to count the Observers? Were there more than 12?
Ok, I'm still reeling, but two quick things before I just dissolve into pools of emotion:
1. That was fucking BOLD. Kudos, writers.
2. Can you imagine if we still didn't know there was a season 4, or if there was no season 4? That would be a THOUSAND times worse.
This would be an awesome, fucked up ending to a show, NGL. I'm glad it's not though.
Don't mind me, I'm just reading comments way belated.
But that reminds me of the S1 finale of that one show we talk about together. I'm pretty sure the show got renewed AFTER that finale cause I watched in real time and remember thinking that it'd be a helluva way to end the show.
I would've thrown my TV if there was no season 4.
I'VE ALM – hold on i need to turn off my caps lock… i've almost destroyed my computer many times today due to internet issues, but this is even MORE worth destroying possessions. what the EFF kind of cliff hanger is that!??!!! i totally need to watch it again. UGGGGHHHHHHHH
I accidentally flung my laptop off my lap when he disappeared, but it seems to be functioning properly. Accidental destruction counts, right?
I think your laptop understands where you're coming from, and will do you a solid this one time.
Some Fox executive must have seen how the third season ended and went, "Well shit, even we can't be that fucking cruel."
WHERE IS PETER?! WHY IS HE GONE?! THIS IS NOT OKAY. PETER, COME BACK! AUGH!
Is it September yet?
I can't help but think of the series 5 finale of Doctor Who
SHIT SON TIME-TRAVELLING CONSCIOUSNESS’ MAKE SURE IT’S OSCILLATING AT 2.342 AND 11 Hz
omg late comment but OMG
Fuck, Mark… YOU ARE SO NOT PREPARED. Even more so than in the past. I think I'm going to stick around and hit refresh a million times just to see YOU go through this. My blood pressure is through the roof…
Still thinking this through. If they don't remember Peter, then WHY did Walter do all his shit, which caused Walternate to do his shit, and so on, until they come to the special merged multiverse room?
OH MY GOD I JUST REALIZED
ALTLIVIA/LINCOLN + BB NUGGET CAN BE A FAMILY NOW. RIGHT? If BB Nugget still exists…?
I think he must — the Observers said they wouldn't *remember* Peter, not that he'd never existed. But still, what are the explanations for where the baby came from, or WHY the universes are fucked up?
Even if Walter/Astrid/Ella are the First People, we still can't explain the Observers. Hmmmm.
Unless Peter just assumed they were the first people and was wrong. Not to mention, if I remember correctly, we don't know how the whole Sam Weiss thing started and how he's so knowledgeable, outside of passing it down.
I can't stop thinking about the implications of no-Peter. What does this mean about Henry?
And the fact that they have those drawings of Peter in the machine, and the Walternate battle. Peter was the trigger for that. I wonder if he got sent to another universe, rather than simply not existing at all. THIS SUMMER WILL BE SO LONG.
Oh god, the more I think about it, the more my brain hurts.
Doctor Who and Fringe are tying my brain in knots.
*runs off to google "time travel paradox"* Fringe writers are going to have a hell of a time writing themselves out of this one.
wow i really should have abstained from those 2 beers during dinner… cause reading the posts from right after the cliff hanger ending – ive clearly missed some pretty huge concepts… definitely gonna be multiple re-viewings during the upcoming week.
LOL. I think this means that the crack theory of Astrid being a personified TARDIS, has potential!
I need this crossover right now.
ALSO what about Olivia's premonition about the guy locked in the zeppelin closet that she said would kill her?
Guys, I can't stop thinking about Fringe!
How did this completely slip my mind? OMG MORE FREAKOUTS
you know what? call me a pessimist, but this whole finale seemed like a somewhat B.S. way of postponing answering the questions that were set up for the end of the season, with a scant few exceptions.
exceptions:
-peter not existing? wtf that's different and weird… i need to re-watch tomorrow
-destruction of the alternate universe… and then going back in time… but we don't really SEE peter going back in time, it was just like him sitting somewhere then suddenly he was back in the present… again… i need to re-watch
remaining mysteries:
-zeppelin man who is going to kill olivia
-fauxlivia/peter baby
-observers
that's just the tip of the iceberg. i think i'll be able to let it all go for the summer but you can bet your patooty that i'll be freaking out come season 4 this fall… for heaven's sake!!
GUYS GUYS GUYS. THIS EPISODE. I HAVE SO MANY FEELINGS. AND NONE OF MY FRIENDS WATCH (what. why.) SO I CAN'T VENT THESE FEEELINGSSSS.
I am holding on hope. JJ Abrams has always been big on time and paradoxes and all those rules, so Peter can't just like. Not exist, can he? I mean, if he had never existed, the machine could never have brought the two universes together = paradox? CANNOT HAPPEN, OBSERVERS, I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU SAY.
Also, this season had so many Alias and Lost vibes, augh. <33
Fifteen minutes!!
Oh wait a minute… Phoenix time is same as PDT… but Fringe is on one hour earlier!?!
So I'll be liveblogging alone…
Eee it's starting!!
OMG, ASTRID WITHOUT CURLS?!
So weird.
Fringe Medical? 2028?!?!!
Temporary barcode on her wrist? ELLA?!?!?! WHAT?!?
Wedding rings!!! Married!
YEAH ASTRID, you go tell the truth girl.