Comments on: Fringe — Episode 14 (Season 2): “Jacksonville”

By: Tyler

Tyler — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:00:27 +0000

Walter said towards the beginning of the episode that “objects that are about to go to the other side glimmer”

the same way objects from the other side glimmer when they are on this side.

just thought i’d throw in my 2c (albeit very late) as i see people are trying to explain why the building on our side glimmered, when walter explained it at the beginning of the episode.

By: Monnaie

Monnaie — Mon, 17 May 2010 00:54:25 +0000

Tricky was on the DOLLAR coin, not a half. Only the top spot for him in that other universe!

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

The non-science of Fringe: Jacksonville « weak interactions — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:16:35 +0000

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By: FC

FC — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 04:44:59 +0000

Scott, I have to agree with the other folks. The opening scene spelling was done on purpose. You really should strike or amend that in your recap.

By: Alan Lauderdale

Alan Lauderdale — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:32:08 +0000

The season one Kennedy could’ve been one of the other brothers…

As for the apparent requirement of trading oranges for oranges between the universes and not apples for oranges even if the mass is the same, the mass balance explanation is clearly an oversimplification. The balancing has a space-time component so that the return has to be from nearby and it probably also recognizes the moles of intermolecular bonds such that something recognizably similar is going to get grabbed. And, since they got away with removing all the people from that hotel, “life-energy” (whatever that means) is not significant to achieving the balance.

In summary, then, It’s magic! (And c.f. what Arthur C. Clarke had to say about magic…)

By: M

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:08:47 +0000

Maybe Peter came with the car?

By: Jeff R.

Jeff R. — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:07:46 +0000

I think that Nixon in 1960 changes things far too much, to the point where the timelines can’t possibly stay close enough to simultaneously elect Obama in ‘08. (In particular, Nixon would have been deeply unlikely to follow Kennedy’s particular route through Cuba policy, and most of the off-ramps on that route lead to WWIII).

Anyhow, one of the headlines in the newspaper at the end of season one was “Former Pres Kennedy to address UN”, which rules out the never-president theory.

By: Robin

Robin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:54:20 +0000

How about the arm-thing?

Walter made a pretty big deal about which arm to put the IV in. Could it really make a difference?

By: Dean

Dean — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:02:19 +0000

The bodies aren’t normal, however, but each seems to be two separate people fused together.

Warren Ellis used this exact same thing in Planetary/Batman

By: Wishful Thinking

Wishful Thinking — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:47:38 +0000

Oh some of you are disappointing me.
Of COURSE it was on purpose. That was not our Manhattan, it was their Manhatan. Just listen to the discussion. Real Coffee, New Pentagon Plans, White House attacked on 911. Come on people put on your thinking caps!

Walter talks about how the MIT prank had a CD player in the car which was no available at the time. It was from the other universe he said.
This explains the Ice Age stuff.
I agree that the Nixon coins mean that Kennedy never was president, not a mediocre one as was suggested.