Comments on: Fringe – Episode 15: “Inner Child”

By: Just guessing...

Just guessing... — Tue, 10 May 2011 03:37:00 +0000

I’m just about certain the kid was a juvenile Observer, or (having not yet been “sworn in” to their organization), maybe just “of the race of the Observers”.

I’ll take one HUGE LEAP further, and suggest that he’s the SAME Observer who has been helping Walter for so many years.

Since Observers can move through space and time at will, what if it takes them a while to master the ability? What if they face a danger of becoming “lost in time” before they perfect their abilities? What if Lex got lost in time, and knows that only through the kindness of Olivia & co, was he spared dissection in some govt lab? What if THIS POOR EPI is the motivation for the Observer helping Walter & Olivia & co. later in his life? What if the break he got allowed the other Observers to find him and bring him back to his time? What if the break he got in this epi is THE EVENT that upset the natural order and led to the quantum entanglement of two parallel universes, by ALLOWING this Observer to live on and continue interfering with the space-time continuum?

I know, TONS of assumptions here. Just sayin’, what if?

By: Synth

Synth — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 22:43:52 +0000

Watching this in retrospective after the season 2 finale: Peter mentions that he remembers the scar being on the other side of the figurine’s face

By: The non-science of Fringe: Inner Child « weak interactions

The non-science of Fringe: Inner Child « weak interactions — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:27:06 +0000

[...] episode is debunked at Popular Mechanics and Polite Dissent, and you can read more about it at Fox, IMDb and the A.V. [...]

By: FC

FC — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:50:08 +0000

the child being a junior observer makes a good case for excusing a lot of bad science. The kid might not be susceptible to many typical diseases or conditions. Basically Fringe pulled a fast one because if the kid is not human all normal biological rules just get thrown out the window. “rickets?” what’s that? oxygen deprivation? par for the course…

By: Mark Temporis

Mark Temporis — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 02:40:39 +0000

The ep all but screamed that he’s a baby Observer, so one could plausibly attribute all sorts of crap. Is The Observer even human?

By: Lex

Lex — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:01:37 +0000

I was also perplexed by the child’s eyes. In the scene where he’s discovered by the demo workers, he’s got very light blue eyes. Later on he’s shown with very dark brown eyes.

How would his eyes acquire pigment like that so quickly?

By: Dr Archeville

Dr Archeville — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:39:18 +0000

John Noble isn’t compelling?

I hear Leonard Nimoy’s going to be joining the show, as William Bell, Walter Bishop’s former lab partner-turned-millionaire founder of Massive Dynamic.

By: arkonbey

arkonbey — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:50:44 +0000

I was willing to accept crap like this from Torchwood and the X Files. At least those shows had a compelling cast and characters I could give a crap about.

By: Carl

Carl — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:51:59 +0000

To get less than 21% O2, you would dilute it with nitrogen. Of course, I doubt hospitals keep medical-grade nitrogen cylinders lying around in case kids with nonexistent medical problems appear.

By: OBserver

OBserver — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:26:32 +0000

Very glad to see that Fringe is back. This episode was a little slow and there wasn’t much revelations other than the kid being a kinda junior observer, but I guess they are trying to smoothly ease viewers back in. Peter didn’t have much of a role tonight, but Walter had a lot of funny moments during this episode. Seems like he was a little more eccentric than usual.

“I’m sure Agent Dunham knows what a PENIS looks like. Don’t you, Agent Dunham?”

LOL freakin hilarious. Anyways, if you missed this episode, I just watched it online here at…

http://watch-fringe.com/season-1-episode-15-inner-child/