Re-watching Fringe - 4th Season

I've just finished to re-watch the 4th season and now it's time to talk about it with a bunch of spoilers!

It's very different watch the season in sequence, maybe because my memory is not very good, but in this way I can get the details and the conections between the episodes and the seasons, much better.

Well, this season is not the best season from Fringe, but, of course, it's pretty good as well. It starts with no Peter, because he was erased in the season finale from 3rd season, but some fragments from him is still appearing to Walter and Olivia, so September is designate to finish his task and erase him for all. But September doesn't do it, he doesn't erase Peter at all...

Robert David Jones is alive in this season (because Peter doesn't exists to kill him) and he wants to destroy both universes to create another... but he only works to Bell. Jones (more specifically, Shapeshifter!Nina) gives cortexiphan to Olivia and then activates her to Bell uses her as a powerful and massive kind of energy to colapse both universes. In this way he, Bell, would start a new universe where he would control everything (include the life... would be his modificate animals that appears in some episodes - in this season and the first ones).  And this is the main story developed in this season.

I realize in the 3rd season that, mostly, in the first episodes, the cases of the week have a conection with the main story of the season. Here in the 4th season this is happens in the whole season.

In the second episode, A night of october, we see a man who in BlueVerse was a teacher and in the RedVerse was a serial killer and the explanation about this difference is a woman who took care and teached good things to him over here and he didn't know her over there... I connected this with the relationship between Olivia and her stepfather, because in the timeline that she knows Peter when they were kids, in the field of white tulips (episode Subject13), she shots in her stepfather who goes away after that (but remains sending letters in her birthday) and in timeline from 4th season (the timeline where Peter was erased) she killed him. Moreover, I've seen some connection with Lincoln's backstory too, because in the episode Everything in its right place, Lincoln doesn't see where his life and AltLincoln's life have diverge... but one thing that we know is that AltLincoln knew AltLivia a long time, but Lincoln have just known Olivia. All of this stuff lead me to the differences of one person can make to a life to all people around her... like all the diferences that Peter made in Olivia and Walter's lives. Olivia says when she remembers of Peter that that's a better version of herself, and Walter also changes after his relationship with Peter. 

The beautiful episode Alone in the world, when Walter shows his concerns about a kid and, to me, makes a connection with the Peter's condition (in this point, he's only a voice and a image in Walter's mind and a dream for Olivia) and Olivia and her relationship with people... she thought don't have feelings anymore. So, Walter is afraid that he is losing his mind because he sees a man that doesn't exists... and he tries to do a lobotomy in himself, Olivia stops him and she says that her is dreaming with the same man. One day Olivia wakes with a kind of energy on her... to solve this, she and Walter find a cortexikid, the Subject 9 and when he'd destroy the form of energy, Olivia sees the man and stops subject to do it. This make Peter appears in Reiden Lake, but nobody remembers him... he needs to Walter's help to find out a way to fix this, but he doesn't wanna help Peter.

The episode And those we've left behind also connects with the story from this season, because the case is about a man who tries to secure in a time where his wife is not sick (she has Alzheimer and does not remember him), I think it doesn't need explanation, am I right? Nobody remembers Peter!

Wallflower, a invisible man who wants to be seen: I connect this one with Lincoln... he is almost invisible, he doesn't know his place in the world (maybe, cause his place was in the other universe, haha), and it gets worst when the memorys about Peter appears in Olivia's mind

So, Peter asks for help from Walternate, but he can't and AltElizabeth goes to Walter to ask for him help Peter... these scenes between them was beautiful. 

September appears to Olivia and says that in all possible futures she had to die, and so the next case of the week is about a girl that see things that going to happen... this is the most beautiful episode form the 4th season in my opinion, Forced Perspective... it remains in my mind since the first time I saw, and when I re-watched it brought tears in my eyes.

Olivia begins to remember Peter in the episode Welcome to Westfield, but Peter and Walter believes that Peter is making this with her in some way connect with the cortexiphan in her system... but she remembers things that he doesn't know, so the first thought is not possible to be true. So Peter says that when he looks in her eyes, he knows that she is his Olivia (this is the episode A better human being), but in the next episode The End of all things), Olivia is kidnapping by Jones to activate her ability and Peter says this is wrong and he needs to go home... he says this because September says to him that he have to go home what he really have, because this was the way to reach Olivia, but he thinks that the Observer was saying about his our universe too! OMG! I felt so much anger from Peter in the first time that I saw this, September NEVER said it! 

But is ok, A short story about love comes to save the day, haha. Here Walter find out a address in Peter's eye... it was from September's apartment, September can appears again (with Peter's help) and tells that Peter always was where he belongs and Olivia was his Olivia (the final of this episode is so cuuuutie!). And moreover, here are connection between the case and Lincoln's feelings... it's a kind of sad, but Lincoln finds his place in RedVerse with AltLivia (but it's sad in some way, too, because AltLincoln have to die...)

So, when begin quakes that Jones was making to colapse the universes the bridge between the Red and the BlueVerse is closed, what is sad because I think we've never seen Lincoln and AltLivia again... and this is not work, because Bell uses Olivia as power to do it, as I already said in the begining of this post. 

When Walter shots Olivia I couldn't think, I simply paralyze and the sequence of scenes between DeadOlivia, Peter and Walter was so, so sad... but when everything is alright it's beautiful!

Some fantastic things in topics:

- the scenes between Astrid and AltAstrid;

- when AltLincoln says that Lincoln was a good agent;

- the scene between Walter and Walternate;

- the scenes between Olivia and AltLivia in the lab (when AltLivia says about the rainbow) and before the bridge be closed;

these shows me how wonderful this cast and this characters are.

So, to conclude, Bell runs away after Walter shots Olivia, Olivia is pregnant and there's the episode Letters of Transit where Etta, the baby who Olivia carries, appears... and this episode is the basis to 5th season, so I'll comment about it in the next post.

Cheers.