Fringe Vid: Split Up Six Ways [Walter]

[beccatoria]

Title: Split Up Six Ways
Video: Fringe
Audio: Bullets // Tunng
Summary: How many ways can you split Walter?
Editor's Notes: With thanks to chaila43 and kiki_miserychic!

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Comments

[chaila.livejournal.com]

This is wonderful. As usual, it is such an astute character study, capturing all the different facets of Walter, the weird science bits, the creepy parts, and the tragedy. He's such an ambiguous character and you have kept all that marvelous ambiguity in this. At first, it alternately breaks my heart and makes me smile (and cringe, cause Fringe is gross), and then towards the end it just breaks my heart. He’s forgotten and it’s deeply sad, but the things he’s forgotten are deeply fucked up. There’s a lot of genuinely moving emotion here, especially with Peter and Olivia. I particularly love the parallels of Olivia’s child self and Peter as a child. His love for them and guilt over these absolutely huge things he’s done to them are both clear here, and heartbreaking in a way I still don’t know how the show accomplishes. I love all the "split the secret up six ways" stuff and all the cortexiphan kids, it's beautiful. And those cuts of Olivia and Walter and wee Olive and "you passed” GUH. And Pop Tarts. :((( Infinity divided by Walter!

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

GLEE! I'm really glad that you like it and all the different aspects of Walter come through. He breaks my heart but he's really a terrible human being, and usually that's a recipe for me absolutely hating a character everyone else loves, AND YET. WALTER. MY HEART. And you're right, I have no idea how the show accomplishes it. Perhaps by focusing more on Walter's deep devastation and guilt and also on how, well, lost and tragic and small he's become, rather than on trying to make us feel bad for him about it, and therefore we choose to? But...even that doesn't quite seem to cover it.

I'm very pleased that the parallels between Peter and Olivia as children - the things that Walter did to them - come through. It's one of the motifs in the series I find really interesting.

As always your comment is gleeeee. Infinity divided by Walter!