Fringe is funny because they have this super special top secret division of the FBI under Homeland Security, but then Peter is just Some Guy and they let him do so much. Like, officially he's just there to take care of Walter and to assist in Walter's lab. But unofficially they're like 'sure! run the crime scene, interrogate this suspect, grab a gun. who even cares? you seem competent.'
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FRINGE, 4.21 — “Brave New World: Part 1”
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peter and olivia in FRINGE (2008-2013)
1.13 "The Transformation"
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Fringe is not about the FBI or the parallel universes or theoretical sciences or bizarre scientific events, it’s about people going to great lengths for the people they love. It’s about people traveling across universes just for the chance to see their child again. It’s about people sacrificing universes for the people they love. It’s about people rewriting the very timeline just to ensure the people they love are safe. It’s about people endangering themselves for the sake of a better world that so many have given up on. It’s about people doing what was previously perceived as impossible just to save the people they love, even if it makes them the villain.
Fringe isn’t about science or investigation, it’s about love in all its forms and extremes.
Thank you for hearing my TED Talk.
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Peter, Peter, Peter, Peter, Peter, Peter, it’s okay! Calm down, son! Walter! Walter, she’s here. I found her! She’s here! I gotta go back, Walter. Shhh, shh. I gotta go back, they’re gonna get her! Come on, breathe. In and out, hey… hey…. Oh, I lost her. I lost her.
FRINGE
3.19 - “Lysergic Acid Diethylamide”
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Absolutely nothing would sadden me more than being transported to my favorite fictional universes and having my favorite characters not like me. I’d be crushed. Like you don’t love me? How devastating.
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There's a direct line from seven-year-old Peter crying and saying "I know I sound crazy, but I'm not" when he talks about being kidnapped from "the other world at the bottom of the lake" and then being subsequently gaslit into repressing all the memories of his childhood, to adult Peter's anger at Walter because-- in his words-- "being crazy was something he did to us" and his bitter sarcasm early in the series in response to every fringe event or theory that sounds weird or crazy.
There's a deep-seated fear of being disbelieved or seen as crazy, and that anger and sarcasm come as a defense mechanism. It's probably also what led to his time as a drifter and (essentially) con-man.
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