fringe } { a post in which emily rambles a lot of feelings about the final season

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And unfortunately none of my Fringe icons are active and I don't have time to start deleting them to find them. Whatever, Eliot/Sophie will have to do for now. I'm also posting this here because it was going to wind up too long for plurk and I need to just stream of consciousness type right now.

THIS IS WHERE THE SPOILERS START (through 505: An Origin Story).

Okay.

So here's the thing about Fringe.

From the beginning the story has been always focused on Olivia -- her Cortexiphan abilities, her connection to these kids who can do things, her ability to cross between worlds, her time on the other side, her ability to save the friggin world. All of these things are awesome and things that I love about her but at the same time I think we've been missing one crucial thing.

Peter Bishop.

Peter Bishop has always been an anomaly. From the beginning of the show, while Olivia has been the driving force, he is what she's been driving to. He's the guy who's is part of two parallel universes. He is the guy who was erased from time itself and managed to come scrambling back. He is a brilliant engineer, has an off the charts IQ and the common sense (most of the time) to really know how to use it, and he is also the guy who shoved a piece of Observer tech into his spinal cord at the end of the last episode.

I think it's fairly reasonable to say that Peter Bishop is the origin of the Observers, and here's why:

He has always been the thing that they've been most concerned with. Even though September made it seem like having Peter survive that fall through the ice when he was a boy to be a bad thing, it's just possible that he was just towing the company line on what he had already been told.

This is mostly because the other thing that September said that the thing that was wrong was not that he existed, not that he had had a child, but that he had had a child with the wrong woman. He had a boy with redverse!Olivia named Henry, when he should have had a girl with Olivia Prime named Henrietta aka Etta aka the daughter that Peter just lost.

After the black hole device went off in the wormhole, the posters changed to show Etta's face on them with the word "Resist." Peter was doing what he was doing so that Etta would be remembered.

If Etta was so crucial to the Observers mission, to ensuring that their people would be able to exist, then they would have made damn well sure that Peter had a baby girl with Olivia Prime as oppose to a baby boy with an alternate Olivia.

My theory: When they erased Peter from time, it wasn't to eliminate him for the damage he would do them, it was to reset the timeline so that Peter would have the baby with the right girl, and the right time, and they would be able to live the life they wanted.

Did they realize that was what they were doing at the time? Who knows? They see a lot of different stuff and not all of it manages to make sense on any given day, but do I think that this is highly likely? Yeah.



Granted, I haven't seen 506, and there are still 7 more episodes to go after that, so anything can happen. I also don't like that I concluded these things. You people should not let me shower. Ever.

I think too much.