I was expecting some kind of memory wipe as a way to "help" Peter. Repressed trauma would be easier to buy if they were younger, but younger kids probably couldn't give the performances these kids did. I still think something else is up with the memories of the Cortexiphan kids since only a couple of them seem to remember.
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aurelia - Feb 26, 2011 2:27:25 pm PST #16039 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
DCJensen - Feb 26, 2011 5:40:41 pm PST #16040 of 30001
All is well that ends in pizza.
Over On Mark Watches Fringe [link] for this week, I posted this:
I wonder if forgetting is one of the other kids future abilities. I would really like it if the kids choose to forget, even Peter, wanting to get past the pain of remembering the other side.
Note: Gratuitous link posting to note that Mark Watches is doing Fringe, too, in case anyone wants to expound.
aurelia - Feb 26, 2011 6:01:44 pm PST #16041 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
From the link.
How does Walternate find out where Peter disappeared to?
Because fucking OLIVIA DUNHAM FUCKING TOLD HIM.
Yep. Damn.
aurelia - Feb 26, 2011 6:05:05 pm PST #16042 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I could see Peter choosing to forget. We see him choose to accept this world. Believing and forgetting would complete the mental self-preservation process.
sumi - Feb 27, 2011 8:20:55 am PST #16043 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Has he started to remember? Would new events bring those memories back?
It would be interesting to see if Olivia and Peter start remembering that they'd met before.
sumi - Feb 27, 2011 8:22:09 am PST #16044 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Oh, and given the promises that Mrs. Walter made to Peter - what drove her to suicide? Was the pressure of pretending that she still had her son when really she was mourning his loss too much for her at the end?
le nubian - Feb 27, 2011 8:27:40 am PST #16045 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I think it was probably despair at what her husband had become.
sumi - Feb 27, 2011 8:29:08 am PST #16046 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Does anyone remember (or did they ever say) how old Peter was when that happened?
aurelia - Feb 27, 2011 8:50:08 am PST #16047 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I don't think they've explicitly said an age, but it happened in 1985 and I think they're playing both Peter and Olivia at a current age of 32 (although I could be making that up). Of course that totally doesn't jive with the kids we just saw, but it does come closer to the Cortexiphan trials starting when Olivia was 3.
Oh, we need a screen cap of Peter's headstone! That'll tell us.
smonster - Feb 27, 2011 8:54:48 am PST #16048 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Fringe wiki doesn't seem to know.