Season 5 title screen.
Fringe Executive Producer and Showrunner J.H. Wyman said this about Season 5, “My biggest concern was telling an authentic, honest story that I could stand behind, and that I would feel I was giving the fans the love letter that I think they deserve.”
Well, if the final season was a love letter to the fans, then the final episode was a gigantic fuck you.
General Thoughts
After watching the final moments of the show, a show I have invested years in, I couldn’t help but be furious. I wanted to smash something. Seriously. Wyman took a damn good season, a damn good series, and crushed it in a few confusing, contradictory final moments. He did two things: 1) he fucked up because he insisted on using time travel while failing to understand its logistics, and 2) he fucked up because he doesn’t give a shit.
“What are we supposed to be doing this season?”
Season 5 was never meant to happen. Fringe had been getting shitty rating for years, was moved into the Friday night death-slot, was threatened twice to be cancelled, and somehow managed to persevere. Fans of the series, myself included, rejoiced when we learned our favorite sci-fi TV show was getting renewed for a final 13-episode run in order to bring the story to a conclusion. If I had known where it was going to end, I would have been happy with how Season 4 ended instead.
Let me go ahead and say that for the most part, Season 5 was great. The two universes story, which comprised the bulk of Fringe, was resolved at the end of Season 4. The only big thing left to deal with was the Observers. 13 episodes seemed like it would make for a compact season, but would afford enough time to finish everything. In fact, I was glad it was only going to be 13 episodes. In my Season 4 review I wrote, “Fringe has always worked better with mini-arcs of 4-6 episodes at a time. Some of its best episodes have come out of these mini-arcs… So, with only 13 episodes left, they can do two or three excellent mini-arcs to wrap up the entire series.”
This is one of those family portraits where everyone looks super awkward.
And that’s exactly what they did, three mini-arcs. First, was the Etta Arc where the team gets reassembled, and they begin working on a plan to fight the Observers. Second, was the Peterserver Arc where Peter goes crazy, and uses Observer technology in order to exact vengeance. Third, was The Bitter End Arc where the team discovers the lynchpin in their plan, and execute it, bringing the fight to a close.
The Etta Arc featured two of Fringe’s all-time best episodes, Transilience Thought Unifier Model-11 and The Bullet that Saved the World. Unfortunately, sandwiched between these two great episodes were two dull, pointless episodes. I also throw Season 4 episode Letters of Transit (another great episode) into this arc, as it featured our first look at what the future would hold.
The Peterserver Arc was the best of them all. Each episode brought cool revelations, exciting action, and dynamic character interactions. This four-episode span was by far the highlight of the season. My personal favorite episode from this arc was Five-Twenty-Ten. The best part was that, in the span of a few brief episodes, they managed to believably bring Peter back from the brink, and begin to heal the emotional wounds he and Olivia shared.
The best part of Season 5.
The Bitter End Arc slowed things down. As we were getting into the home stretch, the final five episodes, if anything, I wanted shit to get revved up. Each episode should have been fraught with revelations, action, drama, and a few twists. Unfortunately, we got slow pacing and a lot of exposition. The only amazing episode from this arc was Black Blotter, Walter’s weird acid trip that brought comedy and showed us what happened to his old lab assistant, Carla Warren.
It’s really sad to think that the final five episodes of Fringe were disappointing. They are definitely a slow burn. It seemed narratively strange to go from action-packed to dialogue-stuffed so suddenly. This shift was jarring and put a damper on what could have been so much more. But that’s not to say it was all bad. We discovered what happened to September, we learned about the nature of the Observers, and we even got a brief glimpse at the Red Universe.
I think there were a lot of missed opportunities in Season 5. In Absentia and The Recordist were both disposable episodes. Anomaly XB-6783746 and The Boy Must Live were slow and talky, and could have been combined in a single episode. With those changes, that would have freed up three additional episodes that could have concentrated on several other, more important things. For example, resolving William Bell’s storyline. He was important, and his fate was only mentioned in passing. Such a crucial character deserved more. They could have also brought Donald into the story earlier. He was a fascinating character, and with us since the beginning of Fringe, so he should have been allotted more time at the end. There are countless other characters or themes that could have been fleshed out more instead of devoting time to exposition and tedious assholes with bark growing on their faces.
Those fuckers smelled really bad, too.
The crossing over to the Red Universe was so short, it was truly a shame. Even though the two universes story had been concluded, glossing over it seemed like another missed opportunity. Four seasons revolved around their conflict with the Blue Universe. The majority of the episode should have taken place “Over There.” It would have been interesting from a thematic point of view and it would have been cool for the fans.
We also learned that the Observers began to have feelings, simply by interacting with humans. This was thrown in rather last minute, and should have progressed more naturally over the course of the season. At least we got a little of it. It certainly helped make the bad guys a bit more three-dimensional, especially with Windmark’s hatred of the Fringe Team.
There were good performances all around. Some things were handled very well, such as Peter and Olivia reconciling, and the emotional moments between Peter and Walter. Those were particularly well written and well acted. John Noble continued to be the acting highlight of the entire season, all the way through to the end. There were plenty of action scenes, which I welcomed, and they were typically exciting and well directed. The call-backs, using the old fringe cases as weapons against the Observers, were fun, too.
Logistical Problems
“They want us to do what?!”
Despite all its problems, I was still totally hooked on Season 5. It was riveting TV. Far better than most of the dreck that passes for “entertainment” these days. The most egregious of all the problems come from the final episode, written and directed by J.H. Wyman.
We spent an entire season on a prolonged scavenger hunt to procure pieces to a device (a time machine) that would defeat the Observers. And then, the device doesn’t work. So what do they do? They steal an Observer device and use one of their time travel shipping lanes, which was seen previously on the show. The problem is that all those earlier episodes were rendered fucking pointless. The shitty episode with the red crystals? Pointless. Finding the schematics? Pointless. The only things that were really needed at this point were the Beacons and Michael. That’s it. Two fucking things. All that other shit was pointless. It was like Wyman was saying, “That other shit you watched? You wasted your time. The characters wasted their time. This whole season is a waste of time.”
Etta wasn’t a waste of time.
But that’s not even the worst part. Apparently, someone needs to take Michael into the future in order to stop the Observers. Walter volunteers, knowing this is the only way he can redeem himself from his past sins. But then Donald steps in and tells him it’s his duty as Michael’s father. Sure, that makes sense, and stays true to the father/son dynamic that has been a current throughout the entirety of Fringe. But then what happens at the end? Donald dies, and Walter ends up taking Michael into the future anyway. So, that whole little diversion was fucking pointless, too. GODDAMMIT! WHAT THE FUCK?!
And here’s the worst of it all: the final minute of the entire series. Time is reset, and we go back to 2015. Peter, Olivia, and Etta play in the park and the Observer invasion never happens. They return home, Peter gets a letter from Walter, the drawing of the White Tulip. He looks perplexed, and — immediately cut to nothing. The end. That’s fucking it. We don’t even get a fade to black. It ends like a cliffhanger episode that will never get resolved.
The abruptness of the ending is off-putting. You are watching it one second, and then it’s over the next. There isn’t a slow fade to prepare you for the credits. Nope, it’s just suddenly fucking over. It’s ripped away without a goddamn warning.
At least the Monty Python episode was cool.
A lot of fans hated Season 4 because the timeline was reset. That meant the events of Seasons 1-3 didn’t happen, which fans interpreted as their three-year investment in the show was meaningless. Apparently, Wyman learned nothing from this, and did another fucking timeline reset. The Observer War never happened, and everyone lived happily ever after because Walter and Michael went into the future to stop it.
But Wyman’s a fucking idiot, because no matter how you look at it, this makes no fucking sense.
According to Fringe, in the original timeline, Timeline A, in the year 2167, a scientist in Oslo, Norway creates a new human that will eventually evolve to become the Observers of 2609. They destroy their environment, and the Earth becomes uninhabitable. So, they go back to 2015 to occupy the Blue Universe of the past to shape it to whatever their needs are.
Got it?
Well, as soon as the Observers go back to 2015, they create Timeline B. In Timeline A they didn’t exist in 2015, but in Timeline B they do. They took over the entire world. Presumably, every event from then on will unfold differently than it did in Timeline A. So, it is a big fucking stretch to think the same scientist from Timeline A will still be experimenting on humans and creating the progenitor Observer. Walter’s plan was to take Michael to that scientist to show him what will happen, and convince him not to do it, causing the Observers to cease to exist. The problem is there is no way this scientist would not have been affected by the Observers. His life would be completely different. He might not even be a scientist any longer. Even if he was, he would be aware of the Observers, and it is doubtful he would go forward on a path that would lead to doom for humanity.
The Observers are a metaphor for Obama, right?
It’s similar to Back to the Future II. Old Biff gets the alamanac in 2015, and gives it to his 1955 self, who then becomes rich and powerful by the year 1985, creating a new timeline. When Doc Brown and Marty return from 2015 to 1985, everything is different. Marty suggests going back to 2015 to prevent Old Biff from getting the alamanac. Doc Brown tells him they can’t, because they would be going to 2015 of this new timeline. All the events from here on out would be different. The only solution they have is to go back to 1955, which would still be the same.
That’s the same shit here. In Timeline A, the scientist created the Observers. When the Observers invade, they shift off into Timeline B. Going into the future of Timeline B won’t stop the Observers from being created. Everything from 2015 onward is different now. They would have to go to the year 2167 in Timeline A. You see, this is a fundamental flaw in the logic of the plan. And it rests with the incompetence of the writers, namely Wyman.
Now, for arguments sake, let’s say this isn’t a problem. Perhaps the Observers realized the scientist wouldn’t create them after they invaded, so they sent someone to 2167 specifically to force the scientist to create them. Well, the problem then stems from deleting the Observers. If Walter and Michael convince the scientist not to create the Observers, then the entire series suddenly becomes a paradox.
Windmark has been a bad boy.
If there are no Observers, then Red Universe Peter is saved by Walternate. Walter presumably would never cross over to abduct him. If that were the case, as stated by Fringe itself, Peter would marry Fauxlivia, and they would have a son named Henry. The Blue Universe, on the other hand, would continue on whatever trajectory it had been on. Perhaps William Bell and David Robert Jones would have escalated the war between the universes, but we can’t be sure.
Based on what I just stated in the above paragaraph, if there were no Observers, then Red Universe Peter and Blue Universe Olivia would never have met, married, or had a daughter named Etta. If, Walter’s Season 5 plan had been successful, then the final scene could never have happened.
Taking it a step further, Michael comes from the Observers. His presence in 2167 deletes the Observers. With the Observers deleted, Michael is never created. With Michael not existing, he does not prevent their deletion, and the Observers arise. With the Observers now existing, Michael is created. As you can see, this causes an endless paradox loop. None of which is addressed in the show. However, if they had gone this route with the ending, it would have been a pretty ballsy move, and, honestly, would have been a lot cooler.
“THIS ENDING MAKES NO SENSE!”
So clearly, based on those problems, Wyman has no fucking clue how time travel works. Of course, time travel isn’t real, and nobody can say for certain how it works. But if you have half a brain, and think about it for more than a minute, you’ll realize that the final scene just isn’t possible, no matter how you look at it. For a science-fiction show to fail so badly at the science part is a definite problem.
A simple solution to all of this would have been one additional scene. It would show the future, either humans or Michael-based Observers, or perhaps both. They would agree to send someone back in time to somehow get Peter and Walter together, which would allow Peter and Olivia to meet (and have Etta), and lead to the eventual creation of Michael. A scene in less than 5 minutes could have explained all of that. But Wyman didn’t do it, because he was too dense to realize the mistakes he was making. Didn’t anybody else realize this? Are all the writers that fucking dense?
I don’t think so. Wyman has stated for years he always knew how Fringe would end. Presumably, with the image of the White Tulip. I’d bet that someone told him his ending didn’t work, but he didn’t care. He was resolute in his desire to crow-bar that final image in one way or another. He’d rather have an emotional ending than a logical one. You can have both. It can be logical and emotional. But he couldn’t see that, and gave the fans a bullshit ending.
derp
The White Tulip itself doesn’t work either. In 2012, September approached Walter and warned him about the invasion to come. They began to work on a plan together to prevent it from happening. In doing so, Walter created a farewell video tape to Peter and mailed him the White Tulip in 2015. However, with the Observers gone, September would never approach Walter, he would never make the video tape, and he would never mail Peter the White Tulip.
And what about Peter’s final, perplexed look? Someone on a forum posited a great notion. In Season 4, none of the events of Seasons 1-3 came to pass. Neverthless, Olivia and Walter eventually came to remember those events, specifically, remembering Peter. Those events were a palimpsest, meaning the timeline was rewritten, but events from before are there under the surface and bled through. So, this brilliant person stated that when Peter receives the White Tulip, he has an “A-ha!” moment. The palimpsest of the rewritten 2036 time-period (their adventures against the Observers) bled through, and Peter remembered everything.
I suppose that’s a nice enough way for the show to go out, with Peter remembering the rewritten timeline. I have a feeling that Wyman didn’t write it that way. He proved he’s too fucking dense for something as elegant as that. But there’s nothing to contradict it, so I’ll choose to believe it.
Conclusions
One big, happy family.
One final, infuriating aspect about the finale was how nobody ever stopped to think about the consequences of their actions. Throughout Fringe, there has been a theme of cause-and-effect. How far will you go to achieve your goals, and what will be the fallout? The entire reason the events of the series happen is because Walter thought he could play god, and defied the natural order of the universe, bringing on terrible, unforeseen consequences.
In Season 5, the plan is to delete the Observers and write a new future for humanity. Sure, the Fringe Team would be happy, but what about the rest of the planet’s population? Will Timeline B get erased? How will the people of the Red Universe be affected? Will Peter end up dead again? Do we have the right to alter these events just because we don’t like them?
Obviously, for the show to be interesting, they have to go forward with their plan. However, I would have liked someone to at least bring up the idea that this plan would have consequences. That was the whole point of Fringe from the beginning. But it was completely overlooked. Again, Wyman was saying “Fuck you” to the themes of the show, and the fans who paid attention to them.
The Fringe Team. You guys were awesome.
On a more positive note, Season 5 was good. It was kind of like a prolonged Epilogue to the story of Seasons 1-4. Without Season 5, the mystery of the Observers would be left hanging. I like where they went this season, addressing these characters, and doing so in an imaginative way. Although, I can’t shake the feeling that the ending of the season felt like the conclusion of Season 5, rather than the resolution of the entire series. Despite all this, I must say, that the final image of Walter was poignant. Watching him walk into the gateway with Michael in tow, much like had done with Peter decades earlier, created a thoughtful bookend and completion to Walter’s character arc.
Overall, I loved Fringe. I came to the show a little bit late, but I was there to watch it when I did, always looking forward to each new episode. I stuck by the show for three years, and got really emotionally invested in it. The length of this post should tell you that much. As a fan, I am mostly satisfied with what took place in Season 5. But, as a fan, I feel somewhat betrayed by the ultimate ending. The writers dropped the ball, and left us with an emotional but completely illogical, completely impossible ending. That is what I find so frustrating about it.
I will revisit the series in the future, and perhaps I won’t hate the ending quite as much. We’ll see.
Verdicts:
The Season – Good
The Ending – Shitty
Awesomely Shitty 
It would have been great if Peter remembered everything at the end as he’s been the constant/anomaly across the universes and timelines but it was left open to debate unless there will be a comic book series that continues the story.
Thanks for reading my super-long review. Yeah, I agree, Peter remembering everything is the best ending possible. I hadn’t thought of it before you said so, but yeah, he always has been the constant anomaly throughout the series. It only makes sense that Peter would remember, even if no else does.
Being fan of Fringe myself, it’s my pleasure to read your review! I like hearing what fans think of Season 5 … the good, bad and … everything in between.
You know how in those old cartoons you cans see the smell lines from a piece of cheese. Well, I think I FELT some anger hit my face while reading this. Only some.
See, all the logic you’ve used here to talk about the time travel wonkyness of the final season of Fringe – you’re just not meant to use it. I’m not saying play dumb to it. But, no one EVER thinks through time travel properly. Be it TV or film.
Season 5 was far from Fringe’s best, but personally, I thought the ending was good. It wrapped things up. Sure it was sentimental, but that’s what I was crying out for. The Observers, the other universe even got a look in, everything was as it should have been.
Could have gone out with a bigger bang. But, that was never going to happen with Fringe’s uncertainty in the balance, pretty much from day zero.
I will miss it muchly. Where will I go to see a stoned octogenarian?
I suppose getting angry (me about the episode, and you about my review) speaks volumes as to how emotionally engaging Fringe was. Honestly, it was a great series from all angles: human drama, sci-fi, etc.
I realize nobody gets time travel right, it’s just impossible. But Fringe has always had a sort of internal logic about things. They set up the “rules” of their series, and until the final episode they followed them. The ending contradicts the rules they had previously established. I think the reason is that the co-showrunner (Jeff Pinkner) departed at the end of Season 4. He probably had a hand in keeping the show on track from the logistical side of things. With him gone, Wyman was free to throw out an emotional ending without worry too much about the logic of it. Because of all that, I don’t think it’s fair to be expected to “not use” logic to understand the finale.
Anyway, thanks for the comment, Jaina. I appreciate you reading my long-winded post.
I will miss the show, too. Especially Walter.
I really will miss Walter:
Walter: I just pissed myself.
Peter: Excellent.
Walter: Just a squirt.
LOL!
Walter was the best mad scientist ever.
I had a dream the other night in which there were more episodes of Fringe following on from the corrected timeline involving storylines about massive dynamic and Peter and the machine. I think Walter was in them too, but don’t ask me how that works.
Sufficed to say I woke up and was disappointed that we do not and will not have those episodes.
Good article… just umm, didn’t have anything to add for a while.
Thanks for the compliment. I wish we could have more Fringe too, but obviously it’s over. There are, however, going to be three prequel novels coming out, which will hopefully be good.
That’s the other thing I was going to mention – the prequel novels! There’s also the ‘September’s Notebook’ that comes out next week, from what I saw on the site it looks like it would be worth checking out but I doubt I’d buy it right away.
I agree with you about the finale being a fuckup with the time travel and all, but I don’t agree with you about season 5 being good. It had some good moments, sure, but overall, it sucked. Fringe pretty much died for me in season 4 when they threw out three seasons worth of plot and character development for the screwy new timeline. Oh sure, Olivia, Peter, and Walter (eventually) retain their memories of it, since they’re the main characters, but everyone else is screwed over.
And don’t even get me started on how they handled the Observers and their nonsensical reason for “invading” in the first place. If you can time travel, why don’t you just prevent yourselves from screwing up the planet to begin with instead of trying to take over another era? Makes no bloody sense. Oh, and apparently all you need to do to become an Observer or at least have the powers of one is to shove a tiny device into the back of your neck. Don’t even worry about getting anyone to help you, just cut a decent sized hole and shove it in, it’ll attach itself. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
So yeah, in my opinion, Fringe was great for three seasons, and sucked for two, although even the sucky seasons had their moments.
All the points you make are definitely valid. Season 4 was the worst in my opinion, for many of the reasons you said. I feel like they did step up their game for Season 5, though. There were a lot of good moments, enough for me to give it a decent rating. The Observer stuff, no matter how you look at it, just doesn’t work. The Observers going back in time in invade another era would lead to their non-existence. Also, the Observers going back in time to fix the corruption of the Earth would also lead to their non-existence. No matter how you look at it, it doesn’t work. The writers would have been better off going with a William Bell storyline for the final season. Anyway, thanks for leaving your thoughts.
I’m five or six episodes into season 5, and frankly I think the show has fallen apart so much I came here when I Googled “fringe season 5 sucks”. This website and blog post do not suck, however. I’m ridiculously thrilled at your synopsis, because it’s spared me sitting through eight more hours of the show. I forced my way through season four because the first three were so good, but it began reminding me way too much of Lost- drastic shifts in the core summary of the show because they didn’t actually have a plan for it. Fuck you, J.J. Abrams. Fuck you very much.
This blog however, just gained a new follower. 😉
Thanks for taking the time to write such an in-depth review. I’m glad someone else was so bothered by the breaking of the time-travel rules they themselves had established. Also, I should mention, Olivia’s end-battle with Windmark was awful. I mean, the guy can teleport, but he just stood there and got crushed. Don’t get me wrong, I loved seeing him get crushed, but that fight just should’ve been more cleverly done. Also, September dying at the last possible second was lame to me, but I understand the writers wanting Walter to atone for what he had done. I feel like Season 5 was still great, but like you, I feel like the two-part ending was so rushed. I agree that if some of the Season 5 filler was cut out, they could have easily resolved things in a much better way. Specific time travel complaint: If you send Walter to the past, and let’s just say he does change the path of the future, and the observers cease to exist, in that new timeline that is created, then either Peter and Olivia are stranded in the crappy timeline they’re in, or they are erased from Walter’s new timeline he creates. Either way, they are screwed. I don’t mind the idea of a reset, but if they were going to reset the current timeline, they needed to come up with a logically based way of convincing us it could be done, but they didn’t. Like you said, they just got lazy. All this being said, Fringe is my favorite show of all time, and I realized they were certainly on borrowed time, and fortunate to get a half season to tie things up, and I feel they did a great job, minus the last few minutes of the last episode. Amazing show. Again, thanks for all the thought you put into the review.
You’re welcome. Glad you liked the post. Always great to hear from a fellow fan of Fringe.
Thank you for creating this blog! You make valid points. I also came across your blog when I was searching for “fringe 5 bad”.
I really like the series and the acting and after a lot of time invested in it I was hoping for a satisfying end.
Unfortunately it was a bit of a disappointment. Not that I didn’t enjoy watching but they could have done so much better. Apart from the timeline issues I had some other frustrating moments I want to share..
They are building a time machine because setptember was not capable to travel to time anymore. Then the machine does not work and he asks a fellow observer to get a component from the future. Why doesn’t he ask to get him and the boy to the point he wants to be.
At one moment they use a device which can turn solid concrete etc into gas. But they have to watch out because it is monitored at a molecular level or something. And the power used from a out of order lab is not noticed? Also if I had a renagade fringe devicion from wich I know the lab was their former base. I would certainly set survailance there. They should have going into more trouble of hiding the lab and themselves.
When peter is becoming one of them and puts a piece of tech into is brain. And quickly he is evolving and getting extra abilities. The machine alters his brain. But when the device is out he is normal again before the scars disappear from his face. So was the effect not permanent? Then later on you see several more of these devices laying around. This looks to me like a very good opportunity for the resistance. Plug it in for a few days go wild and then eject the device.Even more Olivia has a certain way with controlling technology. Just pump her up with Cortexiphan and destroy or control all those devices. Or at least the ones around her. She was strong enough to help creating a new universe… And why does september not think about acquiring one for himself?
Then you have the tapes. Which contain the different parts of the plan. Go collect rocks etc. Go to a pocket universe get a boy. Oh no there is only a radio. Use the signal to locate the boy. Use the boy to locate “donald”. And donalds reveals the whole plan. And he has been there the whole time!? I thought he was in danger? And also was he not motivated to continue on his own? The signal should have been directed to him. Not the boy. The boy was more important to the plan and also his son.
My idea is the boy should have been the key. His superior intellect and emotional dept should have contained the key for the future of men. He is the example of human a millions of year’s evolved balanced brain. If Olivia can do all that with corexiphan. Imagine what he would capable of. And what could he do with a cortexiphan treatement…Also with his insight he would be able to think of the best possible plan to safe the future.
Just finished the season so I needed to do this. If I made false assumptions please correct me. Maybe you can take away some of my frustration 😉
Season 5 did have its problems. But it was nice to have a proper resolution to the story. I guess you could find a million problems with time travel stories if you sit down at analyze it. In the time since I’ve watched the final episodes, I’ve mellowed out a bit. Now, I just try to enjoy it for what it is. But you are right, the ending is frustrating.
Overall i think the season 5 was pretty decent in a way that it kept me (or perhaps others) engaged in what’s gonna happen yet. But i have to agree that the ending was somewhat disappointing. Perhaps the proper culmination of the series should have been extermination of all the observers everywhere using some sort of technology or device or whatever. I also feel that Etta should not have been killed at all. Its because of her that the whole concept shifted to resetting the timeline because Peter and Olivia could not come to terms with the loss of their child. Had Etta been alive till the end and all observers exterminated, time would have continued as it was supposed to be and all these flaws that are now arising due to resetting of time, would actually not be there. Yes, the observers invaded, but they were also defeated and wiped out. Life would have gone in 2036 as usual. This i think would have been a better ending and Walter wouldn’t have to sacrifice and travel to future and everyone would have lived happily.
I like the ending you came up with. The “reset the world” ending they did is seen a lot in anime, and it’s always a bit of a cop out. I wish they would have done something else in Fringe.
dam that ending sucked
and season 4 as a whole
and i could never get over the whole Saturday morning cartoon style scientist
that was a genius in every single field rather
than just one
like the real world
and i thought of the whole back to the future/biff thing as soon as they revealed
time travel was there grand plan
made no sense
Glad you agree with me. I actually didn’t hate Season 4 as much as some people. I thought that move to rewrite the timeline took a lot of balls. Otherwise, though, I still think Fringe was a brilliant show. The ending could have been better, but as a whole, the show was very entertaining.