Although Fringe got off to a rocky outset last week with the two - hour pilot about uncanny viruses , this week ’s sequence was quicker and more merriment . In many ways it felt like the existent cowcatcher , with all our role being reintroduce along with the show ’s primal conceitedness : There is a “ radiation diagram ” of pseudo - science weirdness going on , and it can all be follow back in some manner to the creepy-crawly corporation Massive Dynamic . What I care about this episode was that Massive Dynamic itself became a much more complicated participant . Plus , there were rogue encephalon OR and grody eyeballs ! Spoilers beforehand . This episode , called “ Same Old , ” address with ( not surprisingly ) Father of the Church - boy dynamics between a scientist and his uncanny creation / son , a man who has to deplete head for prevent himself from growing old in like five minutes . The episode begins with our brain - eater unexpectedly getting a woman meaning , and her freaktastic birth view after the baby get from zygote to dead honest-to-goodness man in about 5 60 minutes . Awesomely disgusting . I make love it ’s a commonplace — everybody does the topnotch - fast babe affair from Species andXTROtoAbraxasand Anne Rice ( those walking babies in Taltos ? WTF ? ) . What I ’m say is yes it ’s a atomic number 5 - flick staple , and I love it every time I see it . Even well was the agency more and more B - movie tropes got larded on to the point where it felt like I was entering schlock stupor . The brain - eater is also a serial killer , and he also has to wipe out pineal gland , and it turn out his “ dad ” ( the scientist ) was involved in the same scary experiments as harebrained scientist pappa Walter Bishop — who then later admits to Vague Agent Olivia that his Kyd Peter also has outer boundary science health issues . It was like a Father of the Church - boy LiveJournal melodrama with concept design by Brian Yuzna . “ Same Old ” also suggest at a pattern in the means every episode is going to be position out in terms of plot of land structure . There will be a fringe science closed book , perhaps part of The Pattern or perhaps not ( last workweek : freaky computer virus ; this week : freaky pregnancy ) . Then Walter Bishop will step in and lock in some form of outskirt experiment to solve the mystery . Last hebdomad it was the telepathy / LSD / sensory deprivation tank thing . This week , Walter used a special lighter gun television camera to take painting of the dead eyeballs belonging to one of the brain eater ’s murder victim . On her eyeball , the gun revealed double of the last thing she saw while live ! And this helped the Scooby Gang use Google maps to feel their manslayer ’s death warehouse . No , really . The orb thing was only slimly creepier than Google maps , actually . The other major throughline we encountered in this episode that I think is likely to get carried through for the whole time of year is Olivia ’s professional web with one of the VPs of Massive Dynamic . you could see the oddly scary scene , above , where the VP offers Olivia a job basically by saying that Massive Dynamic is more powerful than any regime . I like the musical theme that the Big Bad here is a tummy , rather than the government ala X - Files . That , more than anything , marks Fringe as a post - inhuman War , fully contemporary spookfest . Also , I wish how Olivia has workplace dramatic event while Walter and Peter have domesticated family line drama . The ma’am works while the human race quibble over parenting issues . Tune in next week when everyone on a bus becomes wintry in ice . . . cliches from Speed flux with Johnny Snow ! Plus , I hope we get more corporate fascism from Massive Dynamic . I need to see them use those “ private armies ” to bonk SOB up in some made - up country where everybody is psychic .
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