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From: suzeeq <suzeeq@imbris.com>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-05-19 (Monday)
Date: Wed, 21 May 2025 08:11:19 -0700
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On 5/21/2025 1:46 AM, Rhino wrote:
> On 2025-05-20 11:08 PM, suzeeq wrote:
>> On 5/20/2025 7:06 PM, Rhino wrote:
>>> On 2025-05-20 8:59 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>>>> Fringe S2E18 'White Tulip'.
>>>>
>>>> IMDb sez: "The Fringe team investigate a train full of people who 
>>>> died in a mysterious way. Olivia and the others then meet the 
>>>> astrophysicist who was responsible for the "experiment" and who can 
>>>> reset the time."
>>>> Well, that planes and trains now they just need a mass casualty 
>>>> automobile event.  As well as a credit to 'Groundhog Day'.
>>>>
>>>> The glyphs in this episode spell "Secret".
>>>>
>>>> Dr. Walter Bishop: [to Alistair Peck] I, too, attempted the 
>>>> unimaginable, and I succeeded. I crossed into another universe, and 
>>>> took a son that wasn't mine. And since then, not a day has passed 
>>>> without me feeling the burden of that act. I'm going to tell you 
>>>> something that I have never told another soul. Until I took my son 
>>>> from the other side, I had never believed in God. But it occurred to 
>>>> me... that my actions had betrayed him and that everything that had 
>>>> happened to me since was God punishing me. So now I'm looking for a 
>>>> sign of forgiveness. I've asked God for a sign of forgiveness. A 
>>>> specific one, a white tulip.  (I think that explains the episode 
>>>> title.)
>>>>
>>>> [about Peck]
>>>> Olivia Dunham: Guy kills a train full of people and then stops for a 
>>>> meal?
>>>>
>>>> Guest star Peter Weller plays a scientist who has implanted 
>>>> mechanical and electrical devices in his body that give him special 
>>>> abilities - the dictionary definition of a "cyborg." Weller is most 
>>>> famous for playing the lead role in the RoboCop movies, in which his 
>>>> character is a cyborg police officer.
>>>>
>>>> This episode includes an appearance of the running joke in which 
>>>> Walter can't quite recall Astrid's name correctly. Here he calls her 
>>>> "Astro".
>>>>
>>>> What Did You Watch?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I'm confused. I thought Fringe only ran one season before getting 
>>> cancelled. (I never saw it but I know people who liked it.) Did they 
>>> revive it after a long hiatus? You're talking about Season 2 episodes.
>>
>> It actually ran for 5 seasons.
>>
> My goodness, you're right! Five seasons back to back with only the usual 
> summer hiatus. I wonder how I got the idea that it was cancelled after 1 
> season?
> 
I think there was talk about cancelling it at some point, but the fans 
loved it and it hung on. Or the original network did, and another 
network picked it up.