Comments on: Fringe – Episode 3 (Season 2): “Fracture”

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

The non-science of Fringe: Fracture « weak interactions — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:01:29 +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: Neil

Neil — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:43:51 +0000

Hmm doesn’t anyone think what Walter did in the lab with the watermelon is dangerous? They had eyewear but the crystals could have easily cut n killed them as in the first incident. What the hell was Walter and Astrid thinking standing cooly watching the watermelon explode!

By: Alt-Rio

Alt-Rio — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:04:59 +0000

Human body can produce large amount of energy.
THAT was whole point of Matrix XD
So if you could use this energy at will then you could be like Electro and Magneto and all.. =)
So i find whole serum-that-turns-human-body-in-the-bomb thing sounds plausable. Even more i think it’s possible to turn human into bomb. But it is a bad thing =|

But here is something abnormal. Observer is seriously de-powered.
Before that during the first season, we saw that Observer was at every scene, that he was hard to deal with, he was like G-man from Half-life minus hair and charisma XD
But now he need a few photos of Walter taken by High-tech binocular? Why? Can’t he like shadow him or something?
Is he afraid to get caught?

Also – erm… That woman with prostetic arm – what world is she from? Could it be that she also from Alternative world and Bell is employed her there? It’s just this is high-tech prostetic arm – and ONLY she has it – sounds fishy to me.

By: e

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 15:47:23 +0000

I still want to know where they get their secret inter-city portal transportation from. Boston to NY, Philadelphia, and DC in just a few minutes

By: Karl Withakay

Karl Withakay — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:11:12 +0000

“why destroy a chance to find out?”

Maybe he’s tried hundreds of times over the years and always failed and has finally given up and just resorted to striking out in an impotent gesture of futility

By: Karl Withakay

Karl Withakay — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:09:26 +0000

I didn’t say it was a good or logical plan that made any sense, but it did seem to me that he was sending a message, possibly out of frustration from not being able to accomplish anything else to date.

Of course if that’s the way he thinks & plans, it would be no wonder he hasn’t accomplished anything so far.

Perhaps getting the attention of the Fringe division was more than just a secondary objective. Maybe just like Mr Jones was, the Colonel is exactly where he wants to be right now.

Then again, maybe the writers don’t think about this all nearly as much as we do. We already know they don’t use Wikipedia enough when writing.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:51:23 +0000

I don’t know, Karl. I see what your getting at, but it still seems bass ackwards to me. The Colonel even admits that he doesn’t know who “they”are — so why destroy a chance to find out?

By: Karl Withakay

Karl Withakay — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:11:49 +0000

By by using the methods he did, the Colonel sent an unmistakable message to the Observers that he knows they are out there, that he has tools and weapons available to him that are roughly equal to their own, and that he’s going to fight them with everything he’s got, no matter what.

His comments to the FBI interviewers at the end seem to confirm that primary goal seems to have been to send that message, rather than find answers.

It’s also possible he had the secondary intention of attracting the Fringe division’s attention, much as Mr. Jones did. He may have been looking for future allies, or maybe he was testing the waters to see if Fringe was a credible threat to future operations.

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:58:50 +0000

I thought that the “crystallize a person, release a big ‘ol bag of energy” sounded like the gorgonism/SCORPION STARE McGuffin from Charles Stross’ “The Concrete Jungle”.

http://www.goldengryphon.com/Stross-Concrete.html

It would require nuclear reactions, not chemical reactions, to do this though.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:20:36 +0000

I thought about that too. The Colonel's method limits him to only four attempts -- hop their aren't more than four couriers. And with his method, he'll never learn what's actually in the briefcases.