So I watch Once Upon A Time, but I watch it grudgingly since my sister watches it also and I’m always looking for shows that we can watch together.  I really don’t think that it’s very good since the writing is atrocious (like it was written by a 5-year-old which is surprising since the creators were writers of Lost), the special effects are horrible (again, like they were done by a 5-year-old), and the acting is only occasionally good.  With such a big budget, it’s shocking that the show isn’t better than Fringe, a show that has a drastically lower budget in comparison.  But, then again, very few shows can be on the same level as Fringe and Once Upon A Time’s finale was the really only good quality episode during the whole season. 

So, I was thinking about how Once Upon A Time will have to deal with how Charming and Snow White have their memories back and will have to re-build this relationship with Emma now that they know that she’s their daughter and she’s all grown up while they’ve stayed young due to the curse.  And guess what?  That’s exactly what’s going to happen on Fringe in the Fall (probably).  Peter and Olivia (I hope) will have to navigate the difficulties of getting to re-know their daughter who is now an adult while they haven’t aged a day since they last saw her when she was four.  The difference is that Fringe will probably do this better.  :)  Just my opinion…

So, the following episodes are being submitted by FRINGE for Emmy Consideration are…

…A Short Story About Love, Nothing As It Seems, and Brave New World: Part Two.

If this is for the best drama category…seriously?!  I would actually recommend none of these episodes (except maybe Brave New World: Part Two).  I would recommend the following episodes which I thought showcased the best of Season 4:

One Night In October

And Those We Left Behind

Back to Where You’ve Never Been

Enemy of My Enemy

Welcome to Westfield

The End of All Things

FREAKING LETTERS OF TRANSIT!!!!!

Worlds Apart

Snippet from my review of Fringe Episode 4.19 LETTERS OF TRANSIT

There’s just too much to write about this episode and so I’ll leave a snippet of my review here for you guys…and I’ll post the whole review once it’s ready.

I knew from the second that I saw the behind the scenes photos from this episode, that “Etta”  was Peter and Olivia’s daughter and once I learned that her name was Etta from the press release, I immediately made the connection between Etta and the fuller version of the name, Henrietta.  I thought that it was quite clever for the showrunners to name her Etta since it shows that Peter still has a strong bond with the son that he saw in THE END OF ALL THINGS, such that he would name his daughter after him as a way to honor that son who was cruelly erased due to no fault of his own.  The name Etta also fits nicely with the names Eddie and (especially) Ella, the names of her cousins.  They all start with an “E” and have strong double consonant sounds in the middle of the name. 

Regardless of whether or not you like them individually or together as characters, it’s undeniable that Peter and Olivia are both very important parts of the show and one or the other is always feature prominently in every episode.  They are both very integral to the major mythologies that characterize the series: The Cortexiphan Trials and the Parallel Universes.  So, to have one of them be absent entirely from the episode and to have the other only appear in the episode for a short scene is really a big risk for the show to take.  This has only happened once before, in the episode titled “Subject 13” in season 3 and I think that that episode was so memorable nevertheless because of the fantastic actors who played young Olivia and Peter and who were able to channel their adult counterparts.   Letters of Transit was similarly memorable since Etta (played by Georgina Haig) channeled her parents, Peter and Olivia, very well, but she also rose up to the additional challenge of establishing herself as a character in her own right.  She had Peter’s stillness, Olivia’s determination, Peter’s tendency to do business with shady people, Olivia’s cortexiphan abilities, Peter’s confidence, and Olivia’s amazing vulnerability.  It’s like the writers took the best things about both characters and merged them into one new character.  

She held the episode extremely well and within 45 minutes, I felt deeply invested in her character.  Her determination and dedication to the personal task that she needed to accomplish was evident throughout the episode.  Even when she freed her Walter from the amber, you could immediately tell that although she was pleased to see him again, she was determined to use him to find the rest of the original team consisting of her parents.  The fact that she kept bringing up over and over again Walter’s team provided further evidence that her goal was to find Peter and Olivia.  

Peter and Olivia both were raised in very difficult home environments and part of the pleasure of watching both characters has been to see how they’ve managed to remain warm and kind and rise above everything that has been thrown their way.  Etta was raised in a very harsh world without either of her parents, but it was reassuring to see that she still managed to be kind and warm, just like her parents.  Most people would scowl or frown at most of the things that Walter said in this episode, but whenever he talked, Etta (and Simon) always smiled at him.  You could tell that Etta was very young (she’s 24), but she also had an amazing maturity that reminded me so much of Olivia.  I got the impression that she was a bit of a recluse like her parents since the only people she knew where people in her line of work and people that were involved in her side project (like Rick).  You have to be very determined to continue seeking out your parents after all these years even when everyone around you (like Simon and Rick) is telling you that they died a long time ago.  I definitely expected to like the character, but I ended up liking her so much more than I thought I would.  She was brilliantly acted by Georgina Haig and the end scene with Peter was so well done by both her and Joshua Jackson.  She also had brilliant chemistry with the actor who played Simon Foster, but I’ll get into that later.  I thought that watching an episode without Peter and Olivia would feel like an eternity, but with Georgina Haig at the helm as Etta, I felt like the episode lasted 10 seconds.  She channeled both Peter and Olivia perfectly such that I was fine with not seeing them both very much in the episode.  I hope that Haig will come back for Season 5 since it would be so interesting to see more of her and how she interacts with the old Fringe team.  I especially look forward to the moment when she sees her mother again. 

I will be very pleased if Etta is central to Season 5 since incorporating her character seems like the next logical step for the show and the characters.  Peter and Olivia are defined by what happened to them as children and regarding their relationship with Walter, they have both always fulfilled the “parent” role for Walter.  Having a child will help to bring their story line full circle and also give them the happy ending that they both so richly deserve. 

I would love to hear everyone’s thoughts about this character.  What did you guys think about Etta and her introduction to the Fringe family?

@Desolaaa: Thanks so much for offering your thoughts!  You could definitely be right.  They might want to just dive straight into things and it would save them money if they didn’t have to cast a baby or a toddler to play Etta. 

@Wikiaddicted723: Oh, I didn’t think of that!  That’s a really good idea!  I think that flashbacks would definitely be an effective way to stay in the future while bringing the viewers up to speed on what happened in the past that lead them up to this future.  Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts!

So, I’ve been thinking about how the episodes of FRINGE season 5 will be structured…

…and I think that it will be structured in the following way:

- Episode 5.01 will take place in the year 2015 which means that the show will jump forward a few years.  Episodes 5.01-5.04 will take place in 2015 and will show the events leading up to the purge and will summarize how the team found out about what the observers are planning, how they saved the world once (as Nina said in Letters of Transit), and the machine that they built to get rid of the observers. Also, Etta will be 4 years old. 

- Episode 5.04 (which is usually always a big episode mythology-wise) will end with the purge taking place and with Peter, Olivia and Etta being separated.

- Episodes 5.05 will take place right where Letters of Transit left off.  The remaining episodes of the season will take place in the future.

I know that a lot of people want to see Etta growing up from a baby to a toddler, but I don’t know if the show will have time for that in the span of 13 episodes especially when there’s a lot, mythology-wise, that they have to explain.  These are just my thoughts- I would love to hear what everyone else thinks!  What are your thoughts?

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