"Safe"
I apologize for being late with this post. I’m sorry to say that I have no good excuse. I was at my cottage and the weather was so friggin’ outstanding that I decided to stay a couple of days longer. I know…rough life. So let’s get on with it, shall we.
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The Dreamscape
What did we miss?
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- After watching this episode with a closer eye, I realize that it is one of my least favorite episodes as far as layers go. There just doesn’t seem to be much going on this week. Aside from the ‘mystery’ of John, there are no real breakthroughs or blow-me-away moments. I discovered no new theories and I uncovered no mysteries. All in all, kind of a snoozer. Maybe someone else will have better luck.
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How have the characters developed?
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- This week my eyes were mostly on Walter. This seems to be his pivot episode, he is all over the place with his actions. One minute he’s totally lucid and the next he’s crazy Walter again. He is aware of the fact that he can be quite obsessive, yet he forgets that he didn’t explain anything to Olivia. He forgets that the coffee yogurt was him, yet he’s aware enough to refuse to put Olivia back in the tank.
- I also want to touch on Broyles in this episode. His personality seems to jump around quite a bit on this show. In this episode he seems to be on the team of M.D. He comes to Massive Dynamic and Nina’s defense and bites Olivia’s head off when she accuses Massive Dynamic of being involved in George’s death.
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What questions were never answered?
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- Who is Dr. Peretti? What was the ‘W’ for? There was a tombstone with Casey Peretti on it. Are they related? Is this a family or character that we have yet to meet?
- Who is the North Woods Group? Another bad guy group? Will we come across them in season 2?
- Walter said that he was once a religious man, but not anymore. What happened to cause the change in his feelings on this matter?
- Once again, the question of who is after Peter, has come up. At the end we see Michael reporting to someone that Peter is in Boston. Who is that someone? Could he be ‘Big Eddie’?
- It might be just me, maybe I’m not getting it, but why was the hallucination that killed George Moralis…John Scott? It seemed that George knew and trusted John, and believed that Massive Dynamic killed Mark Young. Why would Massive Dynamic (if it was them) use the image of John to kill him? Irony? Convenience?
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What tie was Broyles wearing?
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- There is a tie missing in this episode. The night scenes at the beginning…we don’t see Broyles until the next day.
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Tune in Sunday, July 19 for “Looking back at 109 - Safe”.
The Equation
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What did we miss?
- I think that I will beat a dead horse today. Remember the yellow-red-blue theory? Remember how I based the entire theory on that tape roll holder with the colored rolls of tape? And remember when I discarded the theory when I discovered that the tape roll holder was in Episode 2? Well, I am here to re-hash it. This week, as Walter talks about the blinking lights he states that when he had experimented with it many years ago, that he had concentrated on the timing and intensity of the flashes not the colors, and that he now feels that the colors are the key. When they pan down to the lights all lined up…you’ll never guess what is right behind it…the tape roll with the colored tape. Coincidence? Perhaps. But I think that I will hold on to my red-yellow-blue theory just a little longer.
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In Which We Meet Mr. Jones
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What did we miss?
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- People have speculated that there are many other companies or bad guy groups out there, other than ZFT, Intrepus and Massive Dynamic. I never put it together before, but Broyles says “What we’ve learned so far is the following: There are cells – we don’t know how many. Privately funded with presence in eighty-three recorded countries. Z.F.T. is among them.” I suppose this would be confirmation that we might yet meet more of these ‘cells’.
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Here is part 4 of the timeline. You can view Part 1 (1900-1969), Part 2 (1970-1979) and Part3 (1980-1989) here.
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"The Cure"
What did we miss?
- David Esterbrook’s assistant was named Elizabeth Sarnoff. That is the name of one of the writers from ‘LOST’. Just a tidbit for anyone who is a fan of all of J.J.’s work.
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"Power Hungry"
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What theories were overlooked?
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- Broyles said that Fischer conducted the experiments on seven others and that they had them all in custody. Was it one of them who crashed the train 9 months ago? It couldn’t have been Joseph, he said he joined the experiment only a few months ago. Was there someone else, possibly from another experiment? Now that we have ZFT, is it possible they also were running similar experiments? Maybe.
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- This theory wasn’t overlooked, but I would like to bring it up again, in case during later ‘Looking Back’ posts, we run into some more evidence. Walter says to Peter: ” You cannot imagine what it’s like For a man like me To not have access to parts of his mind.” And then later in the episode, he knew that Olivia has seen John. Was Walter in the tank with someone at some point? He has definitely gone through something, as is evident in later episodes, but what? And if he has been linked to someone…who?
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- Also, during that conversation with Peter, Walter also says: “Oh, I had trouble sleeping myself. I was thinking about that man. The one who tortured you. Something about him. So familiar. Peter, when I was in St. Claire’s…”. Did he know John Mosely? John seemed to know Robert Bishop, so it would be possible for him to know Walter as well. Did they meet at St. Claires? It seemed like that was going to be Walter’s next sentence. Was John Mosely involved with experimenting on Walter, along with Sumner?
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How have the characters developed?
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- I enjoyed the general feeling that the characters gave during this episode. Everyone seemed to be in good spirits. Humor was displayed by all, with smiles on everyone’s faces, even Olivia. I found that this made it a very feel-good episode.
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What questions were never answered?
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- We know WHAT Dr. Fischer did to Joeseph and seven others, but WHY did he do it? What was the purpose of the experiment? What was the end game?
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- John Scott says “I was not the one who betrayed you” to Olivia. So, who did betray Olivia? Broyles, Nina?
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- When Olivia told Dr. Fischer to put up his hands, he put them up palms in, instead of palms out like a normal person would do. Was it deliberate? Will we be seeing him again?
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What tie was Broyles wearing?
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Two ties
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Tune in Saturday, June 27 for “Looking back at 106 - The Cure”.
"The Arrival"
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What did we miss?
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- This isn’t plot related, but I did notice something strange about Olivia’s apartment. At some point it changed. In the four episodes that I have re-watched so far, her apartment looks like the images on the left and in later episodes it looks like the images on the right. Clearly it is not the same set. At first I thought maybe she moved to be closer to her office, but the view from the outside is the same and there’s never any mention of her moving. I will keep my eyes open this summer and try to pinpoint the exact episode in which the change is made.
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"The Ghost Network"
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Well now that I’ve watched the entire episode, things make much more sense to me. Some of the things here might not be new to most of you, but they’re new to me, so I am including them.
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So, yesterday, I was rewatching “The Ghost Network” taking my notes and preparing my post for “Looking back at 103″, when I realized for the first time that my episode is over 10 minutes shorter than a standard episode. So I open the transcript and start reading it, and that’s when I realize that my copy is missing an entire act. Act II from the transcript - Roy McComb in Custody, Nina’s office at Massive Dynamic, the briefing room…all of it…missing!!
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Anyways, I feel I must watch the episode in it’s entirety before I can accurately write this post, so I will need a few days to get to my parents house and borrow their copy.
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I apologize about this, but I will try to get this done as soon as I can. Thanks for your patience.
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