Fringe (which has been renewed for another season) takes us Over There once more, where the alternate Olivia labours to protect her child.

Elsewhere:

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The team tries to bring some thieves down to earth, the vortices put a new spin on Walter’s efforts, and Olivia has a Bell in her head.

Comments?

We’ve fallen behind on Fringe, so here’s the place to discuss last week’s episode (“6B”) and this week’s entry, which will return to the 1980s to show Walter’s first meeting with Subject 13, aka Olivia Dunham.

We’re a little late this week.

What did people think of this week’s episode, in which Peter learns a few things about Olivia, and we learn that the war between worlds may be, to a significant degree, a war between Walters?

Several people develop retrograde amnesia, the Fringe Force discovers pieces of a great device, both Olivias find themselves in difficult situations, and the conspiracy theories grow loopier. I only hope the “First People” amounts to a cover fantasy created by Walternate, because otherwise, it pushes the show a little too far into Tinfoil-Hat-Silly. Yeah, even for Fringe.

Still, we’re left with much over which to puzzle– and the writers gave Our Astrid something to do.

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We’re back in the alternate universe, where a case involving identical twins threatens the fabric of reality– and Olivia’s divided sense of her identity. We also learn some terrible truths about the amber quarantine– truths that may turn the loyalties of others on the alternate Fringe Force.

(We also learn that Bogart didn’t play Sam Spade in this world’s version of The Maltese Falcon)

No Dicking around, this was a pretty good Fringe ep. It gave us a closer look at Shapeshifters, raising in the process questions about identity and morality. Torv has been faring much better as Olivia(s) lately, though I found her performance this week lacking in subtlety. Still, if an imposter replaced someone close to us, how would we know? How do we cope when someone we know well changes?

A few more questions after the cut, and (we hope) some discussion.

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This week gives us a look at the alterverse, and a killer who plays with causality.

If a pencil falls in a forest, does the target hear a bus coming?

The tale begins with the discovery of an enigmatic box buried beneath the basement of a house.

We later learn that this year’s story arc will concern, at least in part, a treasure hunt for the hidden components of a Plot Device. We know where at least one other component is, since that component is Peter Bishop.

What did everyone think?

Fringe has gone from a mediocre reinvention of X-Files to a popular show with its own vision. Anna Torv, often questionable as both a female lead and as a depiction of a top FBI agent, has also come a long way.

I still can’t make myself care very much about this show, but “Olivia” gave us a fairly strong season premiere.

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