Fringe

I took a trip down memory lane, after thinking about a last interaction I had with furr_a_bruin over on Mastodon. This week, I watched the whole 5th season of Fringe on HBO Max, plus a few other key episodes. Exactly like Firefly (and even with an out-of-sequence episode broadcast date), I didn't much care for this television series on first sight because of its seemingly disjointed story. I stopped watching both series after only a few occasional episodes. Years later, when I could view everything in sequence with online streaming, then I loved both series... even the mysterious glyphs of Fringe.

I don't know if furr_a_bruin created this Fringe fan art (I want to say "yes", but all I remember for certain is them posting it many years ago, perhaps on Google+), or if it came from elsewhere, but everything in the image can be referenced from 3 episodes over the course of the series:

• Season 1, episode 15, "Inner Child". We meet an Observer child, the only one in the whole series.
  
  
• Season 3, episode 16, "Os". In the opening minutes, we see a dead human floating on a rope like a balloon. Some humans are being injected with a combination of osmium and lutetium, giving them lighter-than-air buoyancy that should not exist, except for the fractured physics of a universe in disrepair.
  
  
• Season 5, episode 13, "An Enemy Of Fate". The Fringe team tries to save humanity. They shoot Observers with osmium-alloy bullets to make them float away after they die as often-insane Walter (in one of his many memorable quotes) says, "Because it's cool."

The memories kept coming. I watched an episode with Chadwick Boseman, who died a few years ago. A frequent recurring character on the series was played by Lance Reddick, who died this week. Strange times. It was definitely an appropriate week for "Fringe" episodes.