Did Fringe just serve up one crazy plot twist too many?

William Bell ’s last substance to Walter Bishop , earlier this year , was “ Do n’t be afraid to thwart the ancestry . ” And now it seems like Bell has been taking his own advice , being all too willing to cross some immense ethical bound .

Last dark ’s Fringe sequence was one of my least favorite — but at least it raised a few interesting head , and give us some new insight into the show ’s legendary patriarch .

Spoilers below …

So last night , the main plot line of the episode had to do with William Bell occupy the body of Olivia Dunham . It turned out that Bell had non - consensually picked out Olivia as his watercraft the first time he met her — and at that first merging , he ’d given her some tea hold his “ soul attracter . ” And now he ’s occupy Olivia ’s consistence and seems to have no problems ( other than her constricting bandeau ) with the transcription . ( Even though , as is hint towards the conclusion of the episode , the phantasmal possession may actually not be as harmless as Bellivia in the beginning claims . )

There were a few precious moment in the “ Bellivia ” scenes . In particular , Bellivia ’s incessant toying with Astrid ( as seen above ) is equally cute and creepy . When Walter and Bellivia are talking about putting Bell ’s awareness into Gene , and Bellivia suggests that Astrid might be assigned to milk him , the creep factor sort of tally maximal levels . And it was neat to see some of the old resonance between Walter and his full friend — even as we get more hints that William Bell is / was sort of a creep with even fewer ethics than Walter had before his fond lobotomy .

I do screw the way Astrid starts buttoning up her shirt after Bellivia gives her the watchband in the cartridge clip above , until Astrid is as cover up as she can possibly be . overnice bit of business there .

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Sadly , I have to say that this storyline mostly did n’t work for me though . The whole “ soul magnets ” thing , which had seemed to be a throwaway comment a few instalment ago , is turning out to be sort of a weak plot twist . And the whole bodily - possession storyline is just perhaps one level of wackiness too far for me . I also had the touch that this might in conclusion be the acting challenge that was beyond Anna Torv ’s considerable power , as her Leonard Nimoy impression chop-chop start to grate on my nerves .

I do n’t know why — after already having take over a storyline where Fauxlivia impersonate Olivia , who was brainwashed using DNA to intend that she was Fauxlivia , who was meanwhile impregnated by Peter — I have a problem with a chronicle where Olivia is now being inhabit by the ghost of Leonard Nimoy . Perhaps the whole “ katra ” thing is just thewafer - sparse mintthat makes me explode . Or perhaps it ’s just one coincidence too many . Or possibly it ’s just that it does n’t seem to be going anyplace interesting so far . In any case , I had some misgivings about this plot line when it was set in apparent movement last week — but now that it ’s fully in gesture , those misgivings have blossom .

In any typeface , asunder from helping to solve the pillowcase of the week ( more on that in a instant ) , attain on Astrid and search for a torso , Bellivia mostly take clip to give Peter some weirdly new - agey and mystic advice . In particular , that there is such a thing as destiny , and that you ca n’t always escape it .

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( Although just because Peter is shown in a lottery getting zapped by a machine , why is that mechanically his fate ? Does anything that ’s draw on a part of paper mechanically become someone ’s portion in the Fringe universe ? That must make cartoon a very weighty professing . Sure , I get it on the auto responds to Peter and seems like it was designed for him — but you could design a dud that would go off if one particular individual touch on it , and it would n’t automatically be that person ’s “ circumstances ” to touch it . )

You know how there ’s a sort of rule that when characters protrude aim out how nothing in the floor make sense , that ’s a sign that the story ’s mayhap gone off the track ? There should be a alike rule govern situation where a character reference points out that an installment ’s “ A ” plot has uncanny thematic resonance with its “ B ” plot . This is the umpteenth installment of Fringe in a row where the team just happen to be investigating a random readiness of crimes that thematically jazzercizes in some way with the squad ’s own personal issues . This sentence around , it ’s a blonde cleaning woman who can not pall — while meanwhile , William Bell has come back from the deadened . And just as the zombie madam need to be a “ stowaway ” on the journeying of other dying people , William Bell is a “ stowaway ” in Olivia ’s body .

But having Bellivia point out the uncanny happenstance does n’t make it profound — it just means that even the eccentric are start to remark how formulaic the writing is getting .

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And unfortunately , of all the show ’s infirm “ A ” plots late , the tale about Amanda Graystone trying to buy the farm was probably the weak . Even the first coming into court of our universe ’s reading of Lincoln Lee could n’t liven it up . Amanda Graystone , it transpires , was down in a “ home invasion ” looting along with her household . But she occur back to life story and now she ca n’t die , because of magnetic attraction — sort of like William Bell ’s mortal magnet , but not really . And so she ’s work as a suicide counselor-at-law , giving hoi polloi platitudes about extra raindrops for spur them into kill themselves so she can attempt to become flat with them . Until one of her suicidal people turns out to be a in series sea wolf who ’s fail to botch up a train , because … I ’m not sure why . credibly something to do with raindrops .

But get ’s focalize on the convinced : there are bomb - sniffing dogs . In FBI vests . They calculate so bouncy and eager to do their job . And none of them go or has its body inhabit by William Bell — although actually a few episodes of Scooby Bell might be kind of awful , now that I retrieve of it . Any sequence that has cute wienerwurst in vests ca n’t be all defective .

The near news is , next week ’s sequence looks like it ’s going to take berth entirely “ over there , ” entail we get a break from the Bellivia plot line . And some of the show ’s other storylines are going to move frontward . finger cut across that it ’ll feel a minute more purposeful . Here ’s your first sneaker peek of next calendar week ’s “ Bloodlines ” :

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