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I dedicate this to my friend, Agee. She loves Fringe. Love would actually be an understatement. 

After catching up with my weekly series I kind of had nothing else to watch or do. So I went to my cousin's place and I saw that she was watching Fringe. She said it's about parallel universes and deja vu and other fringe theories. I kind of was like 'Okay.' She insisted that I watch a single episode or the part where something epic happens.
So to prove that it was awesome (to prove that she was right actually) she showed me the episode where, (Fringe fans will remember this) a man sleeps with this woman and then she started screaming with pain saying she has a stomach ache. She has no clue about what was happening to her. She apparently got through her nine months of pregnancy  in just minutes. She got pregnant then her water broke, she went into labor the man drove her to the hospital and left. The doctors and nurses in the labor room were shocked when the baby was born because he started to grow, age and finally grew really old and died. In this picture you can see the umbilical cord still attached to this old man. (who is the baby born just a few minutes earlier.)

 This happened in less than 5 minutes, give or take. If this doesn't make you want to watch Fringe then there are plenty of more from where these came from. You need to watch Fringe if you don't watch it now. Period.

Moving on, the main aim/complain/subject of this post its...Fringe ended. I watched the series Finale weeks ago. Even though I wasn't that happy with this season and kind of lost interest in the show I just couldn't resist the urge to take a quick look on the whole show.

For those who don't know the meaning of fringe or for those who thinks fringe is related with only hair fringe science is also called questionable science. It is very different from the current thought of the majority. It is scientifically true but it cannot be reliably tested and so lacks evidence. For instance déjà vu. Sometimes when you across a situation you feel like you've already been there. Seen it, done it. There's this theory regarding déjà vu. Some scientists say that you get the whole déjà vu because the other you, in the parallel universe (another fringe theory) has done that. This is also mentioned in one of the episodes of Fringe.  I'm sure all of you are familiar with the whole parallel universe theory. This is actually, if you think about it scientifically it's true because for every matter there's and there should be an antimatter. (Eg: Electron-positron, proton-antiproton, up quark-down quark. charm-strange, top-bottom ....).

I'm gonna start with the intros. Yes it's intro with an s. Of course you noticed the different intros but I just have to mention it because it's actually very clever and shows how much attention is paid to the little details.
The normal intro from season 1 to season 3 looks like this. This was the original timeline and prime universe's intro.




The episodes which take place in the parallel universe, the intro is red in color.


There was an episode which showed us a flashback? I don't know. It was about Walter's discoveries and how he reacted when his son, Peter got sick. In that episode the intro was 'old' fashioned. The word 'Fringe' in the intro was in 2D and not in 3D. This makes sense because science is changing every day. Back in those days they did not have the equipment which are available now. (See what I mean about paying attention to details?)

This picture is actually a comparison between science years ago and science today.

Amber would not be a fringe word to those who watch fringe. Amber was first seen in the parallel universe. Amber is released in gaseous form, which later solidifies. It was invented by Secretary Bishop  in the parallel universe to control micro-black hole events which can cause devastating damages to his universe. Anyone who is trapped in the amber was declared legally dead but they are actually in a state of suspended animation. So those who are trapped in the amber do not age. Here are some pictures of amber as shown in fringe.

This is William Bell trapped in amber in season 5. William Bell is Walter's ex-partner and the owner and founder of Massive Dynamic. William Bell+Walter Bishop=Boom! Mother of all sciences. He was actually more selfish than Walter but I don't really hate him. He is a genius. But Walter is 'more-genius'. lol

The intro of the episode which first showed us amber looks like this.
Season 5 is about saving the world from observers who took over humans. So the intro shows a jail and trying to get free/


At the commercial breaks something called Fringe Glyph appeared on the screen. I think you will have a clear image if you actually see the 'Fringe Glyph.'

These are some of the Glyph.

Remember? They are not just images. This is what makes Fringe different from other shows. Each Glyph and see that yellow dot? the position of yellow dot indicate a different letter. An editor called Julian Sanchez cracked the code while piggybacking on a Ars Tenchnia article. (This article explains the various clues, puzzles hidden through out Fringe. Kind of like an Easter egg hunt.)

The question marks have not been aired.

Each episode actually displayed a clue. Here are some of the 'clues' shown through out the 5 seasons.

Season 5, The recordist

Season 5, In Absentia

Season 5, The boy must live

Season 5, Five-twenty-ten

I spelled my name using this code. It looks like this. What does your name look like?



Since Walter and September's plan to defeat the observers was travelling through time and sending the mute Michael (referred to as a child observer, anomaly XB-6783746. He is the son of September.) to the scientists who fathered the observer technology someone has to go with him. Walter thought he should 'sacrifice' himself and go with Michael. He thought it was for the best because of the damages he had done to the universes and so he thought this as a debt he had to pay. But September decided he should go with his son.
Now, in the final battle Olivia and Peter wore gas masks and other protection to protect themselves and entered the building where the observers and the loyalists work. They released gases which contain initiation for different kinds of stuff. The stuff which they previously solved while they were working for the Fringe. Like, do you remember the episode where a person's eyes, nose, mouth, ears and all the other openings closed due to accelerated cell growth? and the person suffered to death?

This and other cases were used to kill most of the observers. Wow! It was epic.
and Olivia killed Windmark, who is god! I hate him. "Humans are useless." "I believe you people call it hate." "It consumes me." and the way she killed him is wow. I am literally getting goosebumps right now. I got goosebumps thrice while watching that scene.
She was injected with Cortexiphan in the episode. So she turned off all of the lights in the city. (In the parallel universe) She was just standing in front of Windmark and he was puzzled and watching her. She looked fearless. and then she moved a car using her mind and smashed it against Windmark who was taken by surprise and so sandwiched between two cars. It happened so fast that he had no time to react.

I already mentioned this once. Beautiful movies are the ones in which a main character dies. This applies to tv series as well. September fell down while he was running with Michael in order to reach the time machine. So Walter stepped into the machine with Michael. Walter cannot return to Olivia and Peter after he step into the machine.

The next scene was the scene at the beginning of episode 1 of season 5. Olivia and Peter were in the park while Etta was playing. Previously, when we saw the scene Peter ask Etta to come to them because it was time to go home the observers start to appear and they were separated from Etta. But this time, since they defeated the observers she came running to them.

The ending scene of Fringe was when Peter opens a mail. He opened it and saw the white tulip which was revealed in the episode earlier that Walter asked September to get it for him.

When September asked what Walter did with it he could not remember. This tulip was sent to Walter by the time traveler in one of the seasons when Walter asked god for a sign of forgiveness. He specifically asked for a white tulip. I was so amazed by the ending. It's kind of sad that Walter would not be able to see Olivia, Peter and his grand daughter Etta and Astrid, Gene (His pet cow.) and others. But isn't the ending just beautiful? I think it was very beautiful.