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Score 87/100

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“Unleashed” is what every non plot driven episode of Fringe should strive to be. The episode has good action and an actual monster that Fringe division has to deal with. The episode moves quickly as the team is on the clock to save a character that is actually important to the show, adding to the suspense. I also like the fact that Charlie had a big role in the episode. Charlie is one of those characters that doesn’t have a big role but has a big following and no one want anything bad to happen to. This episode help that cause by showing Charlie’s courageousness and the fact that he is a good man and a good husband. Walter also showed compassion (or guily) as he risked his own life to save Charlie. Walter was one of the pioneers of this episode’s Fringe science “genetic mutations” and he felt that he was somewhat responsible for what happened to Charlie. It is amazing how much knowledge and influence Walter has in the Fringe universe making him almost if not legendary. Not bad for a man living in an insane asylum for 18 years.

Star of the Show – Walter Bishop

I really wanted to give this to Charlie but when Walter is eating old burritos, creating bat/snake creatures, and blasting monsters with giant guns makes it too hard not to give Walter the node

Score: 79/100

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Fringe rounds the corner to the final straight away of the season with “Inner Child,” an interesting but relatively mediocre episode. The strange, bald head, mute kid with outer worldly powers is an interesting character, especially since there is an obvious connection with the observer and the fact that it was insinuated that more of them exist. The episode itself, however dragged, as most of time was spent trying to get the mute kid to talk in hopes that he help them solve another woman snatching case. In my opinion, the character of Olivia is too perfect. It is hard for me to take her character seriously when she seemingly has no weaknesses and no character flaws that would make her interesting. I would like to know more about her inner skeletons and to not he great at everything she does. Walter has been recycling his various devices as of late. The different Fringe sciences and the devices Walter uses to interact with them is one of the best parts of the show. An episode that late any continuation with any of the previous shows could have used something to liven it up. Fringe has left me with so many questions that I don’t know if they will all be answered before the end of the season. I at least hope that the important ones get answered.

Star of the Show: Baby Observer

A little kid that doesn’t talk, reads minds, and can live on rats and little oxygen. What’s not to like.

Score: 97/100

Fringe should go on hiatus every episode because right before every extended break come the best episodes. The angle of other universes and other beings like us causing the events of the pattern and the inevitable destruction of one of those worlds. This answers the question of where the pattern is coming from and maybe where the observer(s) are from. Mr. Jones is a great antagonist with the intellect that rivals Dr. Bishop’s. He is a remorseless killer that will permeate his will to get what he wants. He represents a villian that is truly frightening. I am concerned that his transformation will negate his intellectual aptitude but seeing how the episode ended, my concerns are small. Walter’s connection to the ZFT and the special powers of the Cortexiphan kids have made this new hiatus hard to bear.

Star of the Show: Olivia Dunham/Peter Bishop

I don’t know which one actually stopped the light bomb, but who ever did gets the star of the series because that is an awesome power.

Score: 83/100

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The Transformation was a good episode that seemed out of place. It started with a bang with an excellent airplane scene. That scene was intense and the Fringe science “transformation” was very intriguing. The episode lost it thunder as it went on, however. Olivia and her connection with Agent Scott came back and he leads her to the mastermind behind the transformation virus. Her link with Scott makes her look like a lucky agent than a good agent. If it were to linking happened once, it would be one thing, but three separate incidents where she needed the help of Agent Scott make it look like they killed the wrong agent. Also suspiciously missing from the episode was Sanford Harris. He was breathing down Fringe division’s back hard for two episode straight then all of a sudden he is a no show in this episode. The fact that he along with other seemingly recurring lessens the continuity of the show.

Star of the Show: Agent Scott

He solve the case pretty much single handedly from the dead (or at least a coma). Now if that isn’t a super agent, I don’t know what is.

Score: 74/100

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Fringe this week was a barely decent filler episode and I don’t understand why seeing as how it is only two episode in from the break. This episode didn’t touch on any of the unawnsered question from the first 11 episodes with the exception of the woman who wanted to meet with Walter about her daughter that died in the lab explosion that got Walter intitutionalized. This week’s Fringe science “computer human virus,” was a bit campy with the 1980’s computer hand coming out the screen, although I did like the brain goo. Sanford Harris is just just providing a thorn in the side of the Fringe division and is an unnecessary antagonist that the main episode villian would provide on their own. Speaking of vilIians, Brian Dempsey (Chris Bauer) has been the waekest of all of the villians so far. He had the weakest motive for revenge, the lamest way to inflict his revenge, and he didn’t feel like a heartless villian or a tortured soul that needed acceptance or redemtion. I do feel Olivia’s character is stronger with the addition of her sister Rachel and her niece Ella. I also think the subtle romantic tension between Peter and Rachel is a exciting.

Star of the Show: Philip Broyles

Broyles has always been the most consistant of all the characters and in this episode he put Sanford in his place. I wouldn’t step on this guy’s shoes even if he were throwing them at George Bush.

Score 87/100

Fringe is back from it’s winter hiatus beginning where it left off. Agent Dunham is captive and a strange masked man gives her a spinal tap. Olivia notices a white spot on the masked man’s show after the spinal tap. It is later revealed that this man is none other than our favorite double agent Loeb. Agent Dunham is able to escape the facility single handedly using brute force that we have not seen from her up to this point. Before she leaves, she grabs test tubes and then buries them before her rescue raid comes and good thing because the agents sent on the raid apprehend Olivia. Meanwhile, we learn that a man named Sanford Harris (Michael Gaston), who has a past history with Agent Dunham, is assigned to investigate Fringe Division. Olivia is released from hospital care and is put right back to work to investigate this week’s Fringe science, “a super-sized Picornavirus.” The slug like object killed Dr. Miles Kinberg, an immunologist. As Walter, Peter and Astrid experiment on the slug, Olivia secures a possible target of another “slug attack,”  Dr. Russell Simon after learning from Kinberg’s teaching assistant that Kinberg took a job at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Olivia takes Dr. Simon to headquarters. She starts to ask him about his involvement with the (CDC) when she is called out of the room. While she is talking to Peter about what the substance in the samples she grabbed were, Agent Loeb poors a yellow substance from the same sample vile in Dr. Simon’s water and dies in seconds. Everyone is somber in the office. Agent Loeb drops the magic 8-ball that Olivia’s niece gave her and as Olivia picks it up she notices the white spot on his shoes. Olivia now knows that Loeb is a double agent and investigates his residents. While she is trying to pick the lock, Agent Loeb’s wife Samantha comes up. She invites her in for some tea. Olivia lets her know that she knows about Agent Loeb being a double agent as to bait Samantha to giving her some sort of hard evidence that Loeb is a double agent. Olivia excuses herself to the bathroom and Samantha calls her husband to alert him of Olivia’s snooping. Little does she know, Peter has tapped the phone and just catches that Agent Loeb orders his wife to kill Agent Dunham. Peter calls Olivia has just found more evidence against Loeb and warns her about Samantha. Samantha grabs a gun out of the closet and looks for Olivia. Olivia gets the jump on her but Samantha is able to knock the gun out her hands. A tussle in sues that leads to both Samantha and Olivia fire shots. Samantha’s shot hits inches away from Olivia and Olivia’s shot hits Samantha in the forehead. Now the department is after Loeb who had just left the office. Loeb, not knowing his wife is dead, gets a text from his wife to meet him at a phone booth where the agents are waiting to apprehend him. Agent Dunham interrogates Loeb but Loeb isn’t saying a word except that he wasn’t to see his wife. Dunham shows him picks of his dead wife and tells him she did it to intimidate Loeb. Loeb breaks and tell Olivia that she has ruined the plan and that were going to let her go and save her. Olivia is perplexed by this and Peter tries to convince Olivia that he is playing head games with her.

I like the action in this episode. Olivia finally showed why she is a super agent worthy of praise, although I would have like to see more team play. After the explosive beginning, the episode became very cliche. I would have liked to see a full continuation to the previous episode. Although Agent Loeb was the main villain it didn’t seem like there was any correlation to the previous episode. I’m not sure I I feel about Sanford. His character doesn’t bother me, but if he is just there to bother Olivia and has not ties to Massive Dynamic or Mr. Jones, he will be a wasted character. I do want to know what was injected in Olivia and what side of the equation Agent Loeb and Mr. Jones are on.

Star of the Show: Olivia Dunham

Olivia strutted her stuff finally. She show how vicious and cold she could be in a physical manner and she flexed muscles I didn’t know she had. Here is to more of this Olivia. Kudos.

Fringe is only hours away. I can’t wait. Here is something to look forward to in the meantime.

Score: 95/100

Fringe takes its winter hiatus on a very strong note. Agent Loeb has gathered a team of ex-military men to rob specific banks around the north east. Using the wall phasing science cracked from episode 8 (the Equation), the men are stealing a specific safety deposit box from each bank. In their latest attempt, one of the men gets stuck in the wall while phasing through. Agent Loeb shoots the man half stuck in the wall and retreat. This puts our team on the job. Olivia happens know the suspect from the Marine academy so she goes to see his wife for questioning while Peter and Walter bond while sawing limbs off the man in the wall. During Olivia’s conversation with Raul Lugo’s wife, she finds out and that she doesn’t know Raul and that her memories of Raul are the property of John Scott and that Raul has a friend that works at a bar.

Olivia and Peter go to the bar where Raul’s friend works to find out more about Mr. Lugo. They find out that he stayed at a VA hospital in Washington. Peter and Olivia bond at the bar after they were done working and Peter find out that Olivia has a knack for remembering numbers most notably the numbers of the safe from the previous three robberies… 233, 377, 610. Peter recognizes these numbers as Walter recited them in his sleep. So the two book it to Peter’s apartment and wake Walter (best line ever in this scene by the way) and tell him the safe numbers and what they were. Walter is surprised that Peter doesn’t know that it is the Fibonacci numbers but is more shocked when he realizes that the safes being knocked off are his very own.

Olivia investigates the VA while Peter tries to jog Walter’s memory of the location of the final safe deposit box. During this time, we find Nina Brown is having trouble with her experiment Agent Scott. It seems that they can not access part of his memories and the scientist find out it is because of the shared brain wave echoes of Agent Dunham. Back at the lab Peter finds out the location of the next bank after Olivia finds out that one of the suspects has just landed in Providence. Dunham and Agent Francis give chase to the escaping criminals and apprehends one of them. Peter wants to interrogate the suspect in custody because he realizes that the suspect is suffering from radiation poisoning. He gets that the plan leads to a map of Westford, Massachusetts. Little Hill field is in Westford, Massachusetts.

Mr. Jones back in Germany, has been having his lawyer run errands for him one of which is to acquire one Olivia Dunham. On they’re last visit, Jones snaps the lawyer’s neck, takes his suit, and stands in the corner of the room. Agent Loeb and his two remaining recruits are setting up the equipment found in the deposit boxes. Agent Francis leads a fleet of agents toward Little Hill with Olivia intercepting from the other side. Olivia gets cut off by unknown assailants and kidnapped. Mr. Jones is being beamed Star Trek style from the jail in Germany to the field in Westford, Massachusetts which happens to be the Fringe science of the day: Teleportation

This was the best episode so far of Fringe and by far the best in a long time. When Mr. Jones was first introduced, he was a very intriguing character that I hoped that they would use more in the future and I was not disappointed. He is a seedy, intelligent villain that has unknown intentions that I can’t what to find out. The main characters were written better than in any of the previous episodes. Walter is great comic relief while still maintaining the fact the he is a genius, Peter is fast becoming a great character, Broyles is always strong, and Olivia still needs work but she is getting better as a likable character. I like how this episode intertwined with previous episodes and what a find at the end with the teleporter.

Star of the Show: Mr. Jones

I know that he is a Hannibal Lecter doppelganger but last I checked, there is nothing wrong with that. He is an enigma, his intentions unknown and his past concealed. He killed his employee with one twist of the neck and stole his suit so he could look good on his grand arrival. Hardcore