Cross-posted from Bitches: geek father of the year candidate.

Sorry if someone else has posted this - I've skipped about 450 posts.

Primeval came back! I wonder if they'll get Abby and Connor out of that tree.

I have finally finished watching Fringe, and yeah, y'all were right: it's awesome. Well, Olivia is awesome. And Walter is terrifying. And Peter is kind of ridiculous--I cannot take him seriously as a badass or as a super-genius or even as Olivia's Great Love.

But I don't mind because the show has a great HSQ.

Although I do have logic-based issues with a universe that has so many small (and large) differences and yet the entire cast is duplicated (and in roughly the same roles)--the butterfly effect being what it is, realistically most of them should not exist at all. At least, so I see it.

But hey, I watched SG-1 and Farscape, so I can live with AUs.

Speaking of Farscape, yay Zuisa! It only gets better from here!

Although I do have logic-based issues with a universe that has so many small (and large) differences and yet the entire cast is duplicated (and in roughly the same roles)--the butterfly effect being what it is, realistically most of them should not exist at all.

Not when the universe is powered by handwavium.

In any case, we have no Lincoln, as far as we know. So there's at least one example.

Walter is one of the great characters, a loveable, absent minded-genius with the knowledge of the wrong that he did vs. a cold-blooded, ruthless manipulator who will sacrifice everything for what he believes is right. So similar and so different. They should be inventing awards for John Noble.

And no Humphrey Bogart either.

The world-building would be more solid if the point of divergence had been associate with Peter's childhood, but then you wouldn't have had the cool visuals of the zeppelins, so I guess it works out. And most people are not nearly as anal about AUs as I am.

I don't think the butterfly effect comes into it. Neither universe split off from the other, they're just existing parallel universes (that people can cross between) out of infinite parallel universes (that can't be visited, so far). That's my understanding, anyway.

Maybe the population being particularly similar while history is different is unlikely, but not so much more unlikely than any other possibilities as to beggar belief. IMO.

Yeah, the assumption has to be that there are infinite possible variations, otherwise it doesn't work. And presumably the ones that are the most similar are easiest to get to.

I believe the last episode of Fringe I watched was the first-season one were Walter measured a magnetic field by its effect on a gold necklace. My virtual tomato-throwing got me into an argument with my BFF's then-boyfriend, who insisted that there must be conditions under which gold could be magnetized and loftily called me "close-minded". My eyeballs rolled out of my head and under the stove, whereupon they too were magnetized and I picked them up with a fridge magnet.

Primeval came back! I wonder if they'll get Abby and Connor

Ack. Sorry ita.

Whitefonted response in re: Primeval yes, Cabby is back in S4 primeval.

It is spoilery, unless you've seen it on an US TV promo, so please whitefont.