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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-05-17 (Saturday)
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On 5/18/2025 10:10 AM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:
> On 5/18/2025 9:20 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>> Fringe S2E13 'Johari Window'.  Olivia and Peter are stuck inside a 
>> quarantined building trying to find the origin of the pathogen while 
>> Walter tries to find a cure.  (There is a reason one doesn't trust 
>> bicycle messengers.)
>>
>> The glyphs in this episode spell "Window".
>>
>> We all know the "science" in this show is ... not science, but I have 
>> to say that in this episode it is so much hooey that an entire herd of 
>> incontinent male bovines couldn't keep up.  :)
>>
> 
> Hold up.  Now just wait a minute.  Are you saying, the science in Fringe 
> wasn't 100% scientifically accurate?  Are you sure?
> 
*bronx cheer*
> 
>> Dr. Walter Bishop: When the Victoria, the last surviving ship, return 
>> to its harbor of departure after the first circumnavigation of the 
>> earth, only 18 of the original 237 men were on board.
>> Small Child: What happened to them?
>> Dr. Walter Bishop: They all died, young lady. Horrible and most likely 
>> painful death. You see, when you open new doors, there is a price to 
>> pay. Now imagine... tonight, you look under your bed, and, lo and 
>> behold, you find a monster! And you're immediately eaten. Now, if you 
>> hadn't looked for the monster, you wouldn't have found it and you'd 
>> still be happy in your beds, instead of being slowly digested in the 
>> stomach sack of the creature. But, with any luck, your sister or your 
>> brothers might have heard your screams, and your endeavor will serve 
>> as a valuable lesson to them.
>>
>> [last lines]
>> Astrid Farnsworth: Walter, um, inside, upstairs, when you said I can't 
>> let Peter die again, what did you mean by that?
>> Dr. Walter Bishop: Some things are meant to be left alone, Agent 
>> Farnsworth.
>>
>> Like many episodes of Fringe (2008), this one contains several 
>> affectionate references to The X-Files (1993): the plot concerns a 
>> virus in a black oil that takes over the personality of and eventually 
>> kills its host human, something that was also a long-term plotline on 
>> "The X- Files"; FBI partners Peter and Olivia have a fight in which 
>> Peter (under the influence of the oil) accuses Olivia of betrayal, 
>> something that often happened between "X-Files" FBI partners Mulder 
>> and Scully while one or the other of them was being mentally altered 
>> against their wills; the guest star who plays Steve, Brendan Beiser, 
>> was an "X-Files" regular as Agent Pendrell, and Megan Leitch, who also 
>> guest stars in the episode played Samantha Mulder.
>>
> They said the name out loud?
> 
I don't understand the question.  The trivia item is saying that actors 
who were in X-Files episodes got roles, as different characters, in this 
episode of 'Fringe'.

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I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky 
dirty old man.