Wow. How much does Walter remember of what he was doing at the Jacksonville Daycare with the children? My god. He looks at Olivia everyday. How does he do that knowing what he did to her as a child? I remember him watching the video and him in the Jacksonville episode.
I'm thinking that there's more to the experiments than was in the episode. The conclusion of the experiment likely ended with all the children's minds being wiped or something to that effect. They're fairly easily manipulated.
The episode also explained, for me, more of the reasoning behind Peter growing up to be a con man. Practically his entire life is lies and people pretending to be something they're not. I think anger is easier for him than loneliness.
At the end of the episode when Walter talks to Olivia's stepfather I'm inclined to think his wife's comments from eariler played into it. She reads his notes and his intention to send a child back into a home of abuse. He truly looked ashamed when faced with his wife's disappointment and disbelief that he could think that was acceptable. It has to play on his emotions at least a little to see a little girl staring at you with a black eye that you're about to send home with the person who did it. I think for the episode itself, they added that Olivia herself was abused because they needed to make it a visible abuse to play into emotions. A child whose mother is beaten appears to be in a less high stakes situation than a girl who is being beaten.
To add onto your thoughts on Olivia's relationship with her mother, I think there's a part of Olivia that resents her mother's weakness.
Abrams likes to ruin his shows with epic romance being used as a major plot point over other options.
Orla Brady is fantastic. I wish there was a way to have her on more regularly. It's possible with the other universe, but it would seem odd. Also, I want more actresses from Mistresses on Fringe.
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Date: 2011-02-27 10:43 pm (UTC)I'm thinking that there's more to the experiments than was in the episode. The conclusion of the experiment likely ended with all the children's minds being wiped or something to that effect. They're fairly easily manipulated.
The episode also explained, for me, more of the reasoning behind Peter growing up to be a con man. Practically his entire life is lies and people pretending to be something they're not. I think anger is easier for him than loneliness.
At the end of the episode when Walter talks to Olivia's stepfather I'm inclined to think his wife's comments from eariler played into it. She reads his notes and his intention to send a child back into a home of abuse. He truly looked ashamed when faced with his wife's disappointment and disbelief that he could think that was acceptable. It has to play on his emotions at least a little to see a little girl staring at you with a black eye that you're about to send home with the person who did it. I think for the episode itself, they added that Olivia herself was abused because they needed to make it a visible abuse to play into emotions. A child whose mother is beaten appears to be in a less high stakes situation than a girl who is being beaten.
To add onto your thoughts on Olivia's relationship with her mother, I think there's a part of Olivia that resents her mother's weakness.
Abrams likes to ruin his shows with epic romance being used as a major plot point over other options.
Orla Brady is fantastic. I wish there was a way to have her on more regularly. It's possible with the other universe, but it would seem odd. Also, I want more actresses from Mistresses on Fringe.
I wasn't expecting the ending at all.