Observers Are Here Blog for fans of J.J. Abrams’ show Fringe

Last week I noticed that the color yellow seemed to be very dominant in the episode (”Inner Child”).

I figured it to be a reference to the possibility that the medicine Olivia was getting as a child was yellow…

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But then this week I noticed that the magic color seemed to be red…really, really, really red…

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OK…so that’s a lot of red, right?  I thought so too.  But it wasn’t until I noticed the close-up of the toast in Walter’s lab, that I began to wonder if there isn’t a bigger pattern here than I originally thought.

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The four colors line themselves up again at the frat house, although they are not in the same order…

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If last week’s episode was dominated by yellow and this week’s episode was over-run by red, do you think next week will be littered with blue?  It seems like a possibility, but what does it mean?  Red, Yellow and Blue are the primary colors.  But what possible insight does that give us?  And that doesn’t account for the clear/gray.  Maybe it has something to do with the meaning of the colors…

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YELLOW:  Like the energy of a bright sunny day, yellow brings clarity and awareness.  Clean light yellow clears the mind, making it active and alert.  It is full of creative and intellectual energy, and is the color associated with the Solar Plexus Chakra. This chakra deals with identity.

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RED:  Red is the color most chosen by extroverts and one of the top picks of males. On the negative side red can mean temper or anger. It is associated with fiery heat and warmth. It can also mean danger (burning).  Red is the color of blood, and as such has strong symbolism as life and vitality. It brings focus to the essence of life and living with emphasis on survival.  Red is the color associated with the Root Chakra.  This chakra deals with the protection of individual integrity.

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BLUE:  Blue is the color of inspiration, sincerity and spirituality.  It gives a feeling of distance which  allows us to look beyond and increase our perspective outward.  The vibration of blue can be used to open energy flow where it is blocked.  Blue is the color associated with the Throat Chakra.  This chakra deals with creativity, self-expression and the search for truth.

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GRAY:  Gray is the true neutral color. Its energy imparts void, emptiness, lack of movement, emotion, warmth and identifying characteristics. Because of this, gray can be restful. It has a detached and isolated feeling.  Gray is also the color of sorrow. People who favor gray can be the lone wolf type or narrow-minded.

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CRYSTAL:  (The closest I could find)  Crystal brings harmony to the life force.  Used for healing, meditation, chakra balancing, protection, and changing bad vibrations.  Crystal is used in expanding the mind to touch the spirit world, and enhance the beneficial life force.  Crystal and gemstone balls have been used for divination since at least medieval times. They are a traditional symbol of the occult and hidden wisdom, and much more.

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So, what does it all mean?

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‘Yellow clears the mind, making it active and alert‘ could be in reference to the child and/or Olivia.  They both seem to have a more advanced mind than average.  Being able to shut lights off simply by thinking about it or knowing the thoughts of a serial killer would certainly fall under the category of ‘intellectual energy‘.

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Red ‘can also mean danger’seems pretty self explanatory to me…murder, death, kill!!  But perhaps it is more of a reference to Walter’s struggle to correct the mistakes he made 20 years ago.  Mistakes that are costing people their lives… ‘the protection of individual integrity‘.

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Where does that leave us for Blue… ‘spirituality‘?  And is the final color meant to be Gray or Crystal?  It is just another in a long line of mysteries that keeps me glued to the set every Tuesday.  I wait anxiously to see if next weeks episode confirms my color pattern theory.

This may be an Easter Egg, the Next Episode Clue, or maybe nothing at all.  You be the judge…

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The name of this book is “Burlap Bear Goes to the Woods” by Tomas Christensen.

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I did a lot of Googling and could not find a book by this title, or anything even close.  That means it’s fake, so it must have some sort of meaning or inference.burlap bear

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It’s possible the reference here has nothing to do with the front of the book, but the inner pages instead…

look familiar…well it did to me…it reminds me of the claws of the hybrid creature…

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…perhaps the monster is not up ahead, after all…but right here with us.

update:

UPDATE:

UPDATE

Tomas Christensen is an actual author of children’s books who was commissioned to Illustrate a cover and inside spread of a made up children’s book “Burlap Bear Goes to the Woods”, that ties into the plot of the Fringe Episode “Unleashed”.  He was also the author of the book “What’s that Noise?” seen in Episode 111 “Bound”.

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Here are the original illustrations for “Burlap Bear Goes to the Woods”…click thumbnail to see full image…

O.K. - So I played with this for hours, and I can not get the third piece (Unleashed)to fit with the other two (Ability and Inner Child)…

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I thought, because of the difference in the grain size, that maybe making the piece larger would work, but I still had no luck…

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Is it possible that this piece is a start of a new puzzle?  If anyone has any ideas, please let me know.

As Sonia is watching the New’s report on the television, you can see the Observer walk by the reporter on the sidewalk…

Here is this weeks commercial break glyph code…

The Griffin tattoo of the first victim’s arm and on the monitor in “Inner Child”…

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was foreshadowing the transgenic creature that is killing people in “Unleashed”…

I had to watch very closely for this clue…it wasn’t as obvious as some of the others have been.  At the beginning, just before they zoom in on the newspaper stand you can see the yellow symbol at the very top of the screen…

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This is foreshadowing the yellow pine tree air freshener hanging in the “Artist’s” car…

Here are some shots from this week’s episode that may be Easter Eggs, Next Episode Clue’s, or mean nothing at all…you be the judge.

J.J. Abrams used his birthday (6/27) in the show…does this number perhaps have meaning for him as well?

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This might simply be where Olivia went to school.  She brings it to mini-Observer, so he will have something to wear, very nice of her.  But if I was going to do that, I would grab something clean for him, not something from the laundry bin, so maybe there is something more to it.

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The griffin is a fantasy creature with the body of a lion and the head and often wings of an eagle.  If you check out the Spoiler section, you will understand my thought that this is the next episode clue for 116.  But My question is…what about the other tattoo…does it have any meaning?

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We have seen these words before.  In “The Arrival”  A ‘beacon‘ came out of the ground, and in “Safe” Mr. Jones teleports to ‘Little Hill‘.  There is an actual town in Massachusetts called Beacon Hill…so it may have no meaning at all.

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I might not have thought much about this, if the phone number wasn’t fake.  In the television series ‘True Colors‘ it was the phone number for ‘Capitol Cap Co.‘, but I don’t see the connection here. Anybody have any ideas?

Thanks to this weeks commercial break glyphs…

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…we now know the glyph for ‘W’.  Here is the revised Glyph Code Key…

Thanks to Di for suggesting that the blurry photos in Walter’s lab notes might fit together like a puzzle.  After a little manipulation, you can clearly see that they do fit together.  Good eye Di !!

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I have inverted it so we can see the possible shapes that this might be turning into.  I have no doubt that there will be more pieces to this puzzle.  Anybody have any theories as to what it might be?