The implant does not seem to have detached Peter from all of his feelings and emotions; rather, it seems like it has made him determined to stay in his current course of action, however illogical it might be. Using pure logic, is Peter doing the right thing for the resistance movement? Are his actions logical, really? Resorting to acts of terror out of a desire to hurt the Observers is ultimately not going to solve anything.
Peter is wasting time and energy treating the symptoms, and not the cause. He might have killed the top lieutenants and might succeed in killing Windmark, but others will no doubt rise up in their stead. In his drive to win the war against the Observers, Peter is acting like a rogue agent, wasting time, energy and resources without addressing the root cause. Even worse, because all Peter wants is revenge, his actions can be equated to what the Observers are doing, again highly ironic as it is to revenge Etta, who died fighting the Observers because of what they were doing.
Which leads me to wonder, is this what the Observer was warning Peter about in “Through the Looking Glass and What Walter Found There”? Because he has been implanted with the tech without any form of supervision or preparation, or perhaps even at this advanced an age, could it be that Peter has become, in a way, a super villain, controlled by his base impulses but convinced that he is controlled only by logic? This is an even more terrifying thought than Peter becoming “just” an Observer.
Similarities with The Matrix abound; in sharp contrast to the care with which Neo was prepared and trained to use his never-before-used body in the real world, Peter is being thrown into a new world without any sort of preparation. What are the effects of this tech, inserted without any other consideration or training or preparation, on Peter’s brain? We are already seeing some consequences: Peter’s bleeding ear and the “episode’” in the car; is there going to be an overload of his brain? Will it alter and become like an Observers’? Furthermore, what mistakes is Peter going to make? Not having been trained to use this technology, he is a like a little boy, playing with adult toys; what mess is he going to create?
What a parallel to what Walter is going through! Based on a plethora of false premises, the son is consciously losing his humanity, while the father is struggling to keep his. How sad that Peter forgot about being “a better man than [his] father”! How sad that Walter was not able to turn his mistake into a learning moment for Peter! What will the consequences on the timeline be, if the boy who should not have lived becomes an Observer?
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1 - Olivia
If you watch Fringe , you may have noticed that the only 2 chracters fully given a backstory are Walter and Peter, sadly so.
Olivia has so much potential, and she was being set up with a possible Chosen One role in Season 2, but after Firefly her role was reduced more and more to the woman behind Peter, especially from midseason 4.
As blonde Olivia still got to do some FBI thinking, it went unnoticed, and luckily for Anna Torv she had AltLivia(a great charater, created by Anna, not much written for her),
but this season 5 Olivia in the beginning had to be the distant mother, and then do all the grieveing agains the bombast of Peters anger, and has to worry for him. She is not even allowed to think, got 1 line when she met Nina.
I do not like at all how Olivia has been treated by the writers since midseason 3, as the Olivia and Peter stuff is all coming from Olivia (and Anna), and she has to except in S3 that she had to be a lesser version and be lied to by Peter, same in S4, she had to become the Olivia Pter wants her to be,
same can be said in S5, Peter lies, Olivia will have to forgive.
And the men are the loving fathers who do everything for their child.
From what Wyman said in a recent Fearnet interview, it is clear that writing for OLivia was not on the agenda, her storyline for S5 is her emotions, for him as for Pinkner Fringe is about Walter and Pter and Noble and Jackson.
Anna Torv is an awesome actress , she has created a great Olivia, multiple versions, I think it is a disgrace that in 5 seasons she never had a real scene talking about her mother, we do not know her fathers name, and what I find really insulting is that at the end of S4 she had to stand there and be used by Bell and hero Walter shot her through the head, as a thing.
Her being abused by Walter, could have made a great storyline, but instead she cares for him, and Walter is the poor guy we have to feel sorry for.
This season we see Peter actively giving himself powers, and he gets to use them actively for his revenge, he is smarter he can act and fight when he wants.
Olivia was being used by Bell and Walter, could only use her power to save Peter, ot when she was switched on by Bell, no control and no choice.
Sexism on Fringe? yes.