Fringe - Sergio Leone Style
Dec. 8th, 2012 08:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seriousficThe Good - Peter's storyline, where he gets into an expensive-looking brawl with Mega-Observer Windmark and the bastard shows him his daughter's last thoughts before she was killed. For all the Observers lack as villains, they're pretty great as douchebags. That was a legit "oh no you dinnit" moment.
Also, the latter part of Olivia's story, where she MacGyvers her way into killing a bounty hunter with the bullet keepsake that Etta gave her. THE DUNHAM FAMILY IS SO BADASS THAT OLIVIA WILL USE A GIFT FROM HER DAUGHTER TO MURDER YOU.
The Bad - The first part of Olivia's story--yikes. Olivia meets up with a literal Magic Negro who hands her the latest plot coupon and diagnoses that Olivia's problem is a lack of faith and not, say, seemingly being given the run-around by a woman she's known for five minutes and has no reason to trust. Olivia, for her part, says effectively "Look, time travel, alternate dimensions, porcupine monsters--totally real. But religion? C'mon, be serious." This, of course, being the woman who un-erased her lover from time because she really wanted to kiss him.
Look, I know sci-fi usually has the opposite problem, of depicting every religious person as an ignorant savage or a bunch of fundamentalist marauders, but Fringe reducing everything to "religion good, being too smart am evil" is equally bad. Especially since religion ended having smack-all to do with the story. Olivia's problem was dealing with Etta's death, not a crisis of faith.
The Ugly - Olivia gets the perfect opportunity for a kiss-off line when she has a gun on a young Christian Bale. She's already killed his associate, so when he asks "Where's Briggs?" and goes for his gun, she's well within her rights to shoot him and say "Where you're going" or "Go look for him" or "In line for Hell, right in front of you." Instead, she just shoots him. Look, Olivia, you're on Fox and you need the occasional kiss-off line. C'mon, make Jack Bauer proud.
Also, the latter part of Olivia's story, where she MacGyvers her way into killing a bounty hunter with the bullet keepsake that Etta gave her. THE DUNHAM FAMILY IS SO BADASS THAT OLIVIA WILL USE A GIFT FROM HER DAUGHTER TO MURDER YOU.
The Bad - The first part of Olivia's story--yikes. Olivia meets up with a literal Magic Negro who hands her the latest plot coupon and diagnoses that Olivia's problem is a lack of faith and not, say, seemingly being given the run-around by a woman she's known for five minutes and has no reason to trust. Olivia, for her part, says effectively "Look, time travel, alternate dimensions, porcupine monsters--totally real. But religion? C'mon, be serious." This, of course, being the woman who un-erased her lover from time because she really wanted to kiss him.
Look, I know sci-fi usually has the opposite problem, of depicting every religious person as an ignorant savage or a bunch of fundamentalist marauders, but Fringe reducing everything to "religion good, being too smart am evil" is equally bad. Especially since religion ended having smack-all to do with the story. Olivia's problem was dealing with Etta's death, not a crisis of faith.
The Ugly - Olivia gets the perfect opportunity for a kiss-off line when she has a gun on a young Christian Bale. She's already killed his associate, so when he asks "Where's Briggs?" and goes for his gun, she's well within her rights to shoot him and say "Where you're going" or "Go look for him" or "In line for Hell, right in front of you." Instead, she just shoots him. Look, Olivia, you're on Fox and you need the occasional kiss-off line. C'mon, make Jack Bauer proud.
