Fringe
When smart and beautiful FBI Agent Olivia Dunham is recruited by Homeland Security to
investigate strange happenings on the fringe of science, she’s given free rein to
choose any colleagues she wishes, which leads her to the slightly mad (but kindly)
scientist Walter Bishop and his jaded son Peter.
I didn’t get around to watching this
until it appeared on Amazon Prime after the series finale. It’s a little too violent
for my taste, but the three main characters have become favorites of mine just as much as
Myca, Pete and Artie on that other show; and as I watched into the first half of
season 3, it became more and more addictive. By the time it reached the middle of
season 4, it became my favorite long love story ever.
The first glimpse of time
travel was in Episode 10, when Walter tells of the time travel machine that he built to
save Peter as a boy, although that episode didn’t see any actual traveling.
After all, I was the scientist; and my only son was dying and I couldn’t do anything
about it
. . . I became consumed with saving you, conquering the
disease. In my research, I discovered a doctor, Alfred Gross—Swiss, brillant physician,
he’s the only man that had ever successfully cured a case of heppia. But there was a
problem: he had died in 1936. And so, I designed a device intended to reach back into
time, to cross the time-space continuum, and retrieve Alfred Gross.
