I am concerned about the fact that Walter, whom a guard at a checkpoint listed as to apprehend in the episode “The Bullet that Saved the World”, is walking the streets so freely. While the Observers are not superhuman, fact is, they are humanoids enhanced by tech, one of which is, well, technology to observe. I don’t think Fringe writers would have been so sloppy as to leave such an obvious plot line open; it leads me to believe that Walter has not been apprehended purposefully, and that he is being watched. For what reason, I don’t know.
It is hard to say what is in store. At the centre of Fringe is the relationship between three people: Olivia, Peter and Walter. While one has, for all intents and purposes, been cast aside (which I hope will be remedied shortly), the relationship between the father and the son is being explored to new levels. It is interesting to see the experience of the son, losing his own child, through the eyes of the father, and sad that the latter is too busy with his own self to see anything. As discussed above, this implies that although he is not as arrogant as before, he is still as self-consumed. Despite a rocky beginning, Peter became a favourite of fans and of Olivia because of his humanity. How much of it will be left, either with or without the implant? He has also been the center of big moments in Fringe, and has managed to survive them all. But ultimately, he was not meant to live; does it make his death inevitable?
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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.