Blogging for the heck of it

I'm kinda glad no one reads this, I can post pretty much what's on my mind without someone getting their knickers in a twist about it. Though what I do post shouldn't have anyone getting their knickers anywhere, unless they happen to violently disagree with something I say about Fringe. Even my friend I MSN with all the time doesn't know where this blog is, all she knows is that I have several blogs around the interwebs that I post in from time to time.

Speaking of Fringe, she and I have pretty much waylaid Red pretty good. Now we have her on the mend from it (hey, we're not totally heartless, we'll let her mend, then waylay her again, it's what we do, even to characters we like).

What have we waylaid her with? Well....vampires. A Daywalker owner of a vampire brothel took a liking to her and kidnapped her for his toy. After he got inside her head and figured out what was going on, he had to change his plans for her a bit. I won't go into any details, but suffice to say what happened broke her pretty good, see, he kept her for five days and shared her too, she's now pregnant with a dhampir and can't abort it without fatal consequences for her. See, in our world, we get to decide the physiology of things, and the dhampir cannot be terminated unless it's terminated after birth, doubtful to happen, but also doubtful Red will want to keep and raise it, so we'll just figure out what to do with it.

Also in our version, turns out Red was brainwashed into doing what she did and Vaughn's telepathic manipulation of her over five days screwed all that up, so I guess he did a good thing. Now that they know, she'll probably have more sympathy from them. I'll have to wait and watch Red at home some more before I'll actually have any kind of liking for her myself, we're just making her more likable in our stories. Knowing that she's been manipulated by Walternate will have her getting very angry, because of it, she was now permanently scarred from her encounter with Vaughn and company.

For the moment, Vaughn has gotten away scot-free with what he did, because he cut a deal with Roxy-a vampire working with the FBI. He and his nest will stop their persecution of her in exchange for getting Red back, along with all the information he ripped from her mind. Once that was done, he moved his brothel. Roxy decided to torment Red some more (angel face) by arranging for the safe house to keep Red in so the shapeshifters couldn't find her. She chained her up in a room exactly like the room she'd been held captive in, along with a guard who looked exactly like Vaughn and regular visits from a male, hands-on doctor. Now, the doctor and guard had no idea what was going on and neither did Roxy's superiors, until five weeks later when Red was supposed to be sent home. Once it was discovered that Roxy flouted all protocol concerning prisoners and such, she was bawled out, but it probably didn't do any good-what kind of disciplinary action do you give a vampire? Anyway, Red is too weak from the pregnancy to be sent home and the news of it is highly classified while they hunt down Vaughn's new nest-which they just got quite good intel from Red about it as she told them how they operated-Vaughn thoughtfully boasted about it while he held her prisoner, thinking she'd be executed as a spy before she could impart that knowledge (or maybe hoping they wouldn't believe her if she did).

All in all, I think I've just about satisfied my discontent with the writers allowing Red to escape mass murder charges scot-free while Olivia has to deal with almost being dissected and then coming home to find out Peter unwittingly betrayed her with Red.

Alt-Brandon

Did he get tranquilized or shot dead? My first impression was that he was shot dead because he instantly collapsed and there was a blood drop on his surgical scrubs, but one site said that he had been shot with a tranq gun. I think I'll stick with my original impression because there is no tranq anywhere that works instantly. Broyles needed him incapacitated to be able to get Olivia out of there without interference and Brandon would have been able to slow him down until a tranq took affect. So he shot Brandon dead, he's a soldier, he'll shoot to kill first, not use a tranq gun.

Karma's a bitch, ain't it Brandon? You helped mess up Olivia and now you're dead. Wish Walternate could be made dead too.

But then the show would be without a kickass villain...

I really hate being hard of hearing

I miss a lot when I watch tv, not that I watch it that much, so I don't bother with CC.

Anyway, I decided to stream the last Fringe episode (Entrada) from Hulu and ran it with captions. I picked up a few things I missed when I watched it at first airing-like it was Brandon's idea to dissect Olivia and take out her brain, spine and internal organs for study. Walternate approved, so he still carries blame for it. So alt-Broyles kills him (or sedates him according to Fringepedia, you make the call)-oh well. Dissecting someone while they're still alive and watching is just the height of evilness. I really adore Brandon from the Blue side, but I'm really disliking alt-Brandon. If he's dead, good for him.

So, they were going to harvest Olivia down to a shell, replace the mass and trade her for Red to get her back before she could be interrogated. Well, it didn't work out quite like they wanted, however I'm very upset that they sacrificed alt-Broyles, who was the only one who knew the truth. His parting words to Olivia will likely be her anthem during the rest of the season...."Please, make this count for something."

I'm still highly upset that Red got away scot-free. I even have a couple of screens of her face as she repeated Lincoln's words back to him, giving them an entirely new meaning..."Just like it never happened."

Well, my evil friend and I are going to make her pay for that smug grin by wiping it right off her face, both before and after she gets home. No, the team will not be ignorant of her spying and they will know without a shadow of a doubt that she's been gone for eight weeks doing Walternate's dirty work for him.

Cue evil face and maniacal laughter.

I told you my friend was upset

Over Red getting to go home scot-free. See, I told you that we do fanfiction and she lets me help over MSN by running arcs. She'll then translate them to prose and if she isn't satisfied then we do it again a different way.

Last night we gave Red a nasty surprise after she so smugly got home (however, she isn't going home undamaged, by the time we're through with her she'll be running home to mommy ;)). See, we read on a Fringe board a theory that Red was possibly brainwashed for her undercover assignment and we went with that-only much farther than the show would ever possibly go. She had an obedience program embedded in her, she had a personality rewrite, and a hatred for Blueverse that rivals Walternate's. When she got home we had already taken Walternate from power, but he slipped through our grasp (naturally) and built himself a basement lab. When Red got back he emailed her to come to him (which she would because of the obedience program, no matter she knew what he was up to). When she did (which was a Friday, so she wasn't missed until that following Monday) he strapped her to a table standing up, kept her awake and dosed her on so much cortexiphan that she was violently ill. He had probes down her back, in her ears and up her nose, a feeding tube down her throat and he even dropped some of the stuff in her eyes, blinding her. She had sensor pads all over her, monitoring her and giving her electric shocks to try to force her to bond with the cortexiphan. By the time she was found she was a wreck, blind, deaf, very weak and very exhausted. As much as she wanted him to stop, she couldn't tell him due to the feeding tube for one thing and because she was programmed to obey him without question for another. Naturally, Lincoln and Astrid were so angry that they shot him when they found her (Broyles wouldn't lose it like that, I don't think, and I control him and Lincoln in these things.).

So, in our version that isn't following canon or the episodes, Walternate is now dead (no big loss). But he does have a daughter by another woman (he was obsessed with genetic perfection) and it was she who saved Olivia from being dissected (which saved Broyles' life as well :p I didn't like him dying one little bit)

Now Peter is helping his half-sister try to reprogram Red. Lucy (sister) is also working with Walter to reprogram the doomsday machine to actually fix the rifts safely instead of annihilating a universe and Peter too, so she's popping over to Blueverse now and then, which lets her and Peter also collaborate on deprogramming/reprogramming Red to her old self.

We're having a lot of fun with it since the writers are going one way with it-letting it look like she never left Redverse-so we're just offering up our version, where everyone has been made aware of the switch and she doesn't just slide back into her old life as if nothing ever happened.

Like I said, she'll be quite badly bent before she goes home too-we're talking vampire trelks (you Farscapians should know what that is) for starters, and maybe I'll think of something to do to her as well. You see, in this trio of people who play-my friend is usually the evil one, wanting to pick on someone till they break and I'm the voice of reason, not generally inclined to as much violence and her alter-ego generally sides with me, but now all three of us are gunning for Red because the the show just wasn't fair to Olivia or Peter.

Different theories

I've read some theories on a BBS dedicated to Fringe and someone put forth that Red could have been brainwashed by Walternate. Also, as to her so (apparently) easily committing murder, they put forth that she may come from a world that doesn't have the same morals that we have, or that she really believes she's in a war and is only acting as any soldier would do in the same situation. However, I go with the opinion that they have almost the same morals we do, since their universe is parallel and is (basically, with few differences) almost identical to ours.

With that in mind, that makes Red a murderer. Soldier or not, she chose to kill totally innocent people to get Peter on track with doing what Walternate wanted him to do. She could see for herself that Blueverse was not preparing for war, and while she expressed reluctance at killing innocent people, she still did it. She tried to tell Peter that while it started out as a mission that it ended up something more, but that didn't quite ring true, even if she was taking the photo booth pictures with her. She had a boyfriend on her side, why would she allow herself to fall for Peter? I'm more inclined to believe that she was taking home a trophy of her accomplishment at being able to fool the genius.

After all, the smug look on her face at the end of Entrada was more telling than anything. *Smug look.* "Like it never really happened."

Yeah, well, I guess the seduction never really happened either, did it Red? Are you even going to care if you find out that your boss was mutilated and sent over in your place to get you home?

The two Olivias

Yeah, sure, more rants about Fringe, but this time it's a real gripe. I'm really not very happy about how Olivia came back home damaged and Red got to go home scot-free without any kind of damage at all. I suppose it would have to be explained that she had to appear as normal as possible to facilitate the illusion that she never really left, but I'm really pissed off.

Olivia was brainwashed and nearly had her spine ripped out before Broyles freed her, that's going to take its toll on her. Peter isn't undamaged either, he's been raped-for all accounts and purposes-and has to deal with the fact that he hasn't been sleeping with his Olivia all this time and that she's been stuck over there having god-knows-what done to her. More or less, now we get to see Peter dealing with his crisis and guilt and Olivia dealing with all the traumatic things that happened to her at Walternate's hand while Red gets off scot-free. Not fair by a long shot.

I can say though-Thank you, God, for fanfiction writers. my best friend is one and she's just as upset as I am over the uneven treatment of both Olivias. In her stories, Red will not only leave Blueverse damaged, she'll also get even more damaged when she gets home.

Cue devil face and maniacal laughing.

New Fringe

I have to say, this was an excellent episode, even though it was quite dizzying when they kept swapping back and forth between universes. If they were trying to get me to see things from Walternate's PoV, or to sympathize with him, they did a piss-poor job of it, because I'd really like to mutilate him for what he's done over the last eight weeks. Although it's not clear how alt-Broyles got mutilated when he was swapped, I'm betting Walternate had something to do with it, rather than it happening during the swap, because his mass was greater than Red's and would have to be adjusted to match hers before swapping-which is a very sick thing to do, even if they actually were at war.

I certainly hope that Olivia is able to keep the promise she made to him when she begged for his help and that he didn't die in vain, it should count for something.

You know, if I was her, I'd have taken every bag with her name on it out of that lab and back across with me...I'd hate to leave all that Cortexiphan in that madman's hands.

Maybe now they'll revert Walter and Peter back to their former level of genius now that they're through dumbing them down so that Red could fool them for 8 weeks.