Comments on: Fringe – Episode 14: “Ability”

By: JOse

JOse — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 02:24:03 +0000

Nice Episode! I think this one was the best ep so far…I’ll try to read the books! greetings from Argentina!

By: Tyler

Tyler — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 03:02:05 +0000

I know this is an old episode, and this isn’t science related, but I just noticed something.. In an earlier episode, Jones draws a picture of Dunham for his team to abduct her. In this episode, a drawing of Olivia is also found in the place where the agent gets his holes plugged, but is very obviously not the same drawing. Not even close. Is it supposed to be the same one, or did I miss someone else doing a different drawing of her?

By: The non-science of Fringe: Ability « weak interactions

The non-science of Fringe: Ability « weak interactions — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:20:56 +0000

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By: E

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:15:53 +0000

I was thinking more along the lines of a quick swipe with a scalpel across the mouth every few seconds

By: the Original Keith

the Original Keith — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:46:12 +0000

A good episode, but I think Olivia could have made a slightly more aggressive effort to keep that poor agent’s breathing tub open! You know, like occasionally poking though the skin with a pencil! Would that have been too much to ask?

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:00:57 +0000

I was wondering if Olivia's "powers" aren't psychic per se, but some sore of anti-technology ability. Thus she could turn out the lights as well as subconsciously affect Nina's arm. Remember, it got better when Olivia wasn't around.

By: Nybbler

Nybbler — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:30:11 +0000

As soon as that manuscript showed up, I figured Walter wrote it. I’m convinced that if you drew one of those crazy connection diagrams of “the pattern”, the only element linking them all together would be Walter.

According to the test rules, Peter was too far from the box to affect it. But my cynical guess would be that the writers left their options open. Want to bet Walter spent some time at Ohio State at the time that Cortexipham was given?

As for Sharp’s cyber-arm… I’m wondering if she’s less cyborg, more robot.

By: SpotWeld

SpotWeld — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:24:17 +0000

Are we sure Dunham has psychic powers?
She wasn’t the only one in proximity to the bomb and it’s been strongly hinted in earlier episodes that peter… rather different.

By: Jeff R.

Jeff R. — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:59:36 +0000

I have to say that it’s because of you that I was berating the members of the team sent to disarm the bomb in this one for not having brought along snorkles (rather than, as would have been my thought a few weeks ago, straws…)

By: Slarti

Slarti — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:43:17 +0000

I liked this ep, but was a bit dismayed by how obvious/telegraphed the Surprise Twists were. Olivia didn’t live where the Cortexiphan trials were! So, of course, there was another set run where she was living. Jones accepts the fake light test results! So, of course, the bomb has the lights so everyone can get that “we’re screwed” feeling. (Granted, this one was in the preview, but I’d forgotten about that already.) Anonymous manuscript of a manifesto about the world being doomed by Science Moving Too Fast! So, of course, Walter’s the one who wrote it.

And, finally, as soon as Walter was all, “What, no, the teleporter doesn’t kill them!” I figured it was fairly likely that we were going to see that getting teleported turns you into some sort of mutated freak. Granted, at least part of this is because they were pounding the drums of “ooh, the multiverse” and traveling between worlds and stuff, I thought of The Bleed in DC/Wildstorm and how direct exposure to it can change people.

The one thing I do, however, have to admit to being puzzled by was the thing about Nina Sharp’s cyber-arm and why it was acting up, because it seemed totally random and irrelevant to the story. I suppose it might be setup for the eps in April, but still, it was kind of jarring.