I think I have an issue with the constant changes of direction on TVD making the characters hard to get a handle on. Bonnie's really solid and consistent, and Caroline has settled in, although I'm not sure how she got here from there.

Everyone else? Don't know.

How am I supposed to buy eternal creatures worried about high school dances? Is there Kool Aid I need to drink?

I don't know who Stefan is right now, but, hey, go him!

Huh. I didn't realize this.

Fringe 406 guest-stars Stephen Root and real-life wife Romy Rosemont, together onscreen for the first time.

It was a pretty good episode actually.

But this:

next week will be our last Fringe until January 13th. I’d suggest we savor it.

I do not want.

I know! The silver lining is that there will be time to go back and watch some older episodes since there have been so many callbacks this season. I accidentally ran across a spoiler today that has me wanting to watch a chunk of season 1.

Fringe was really good, but it made me so sad. I'm not used to Stephen Root making me sad, but he did. And the Walter/Peter and Peter/Olivia stuff was almost as heartbreaking.

Yes, it was good and sad. And poor Peter trying to find his home.

I cannot believe that next week is the Fall finale. I mean, we just got it back!

I hadn't realized that these episodes were really arguing that it was a third, new, universe, not just a new timeline created by Peter's evaporation of himself by his use of the machine. ... and wait a minute, doesn't that argument contradict what the Observers said?

I'm confused.

Yeah, I thought Peter had to resplit the universes and this one would go right. Not that he had to go home to a different one.

My god, Walter not loving Peter is heartbreaking. Walter not looking at Peter is heartbreaking.

Man, would the hiatus have been until January 13th even if they hadn't delayed by two weeks? I guess we're lucky, relatively.

Peter's absence changed things for both red and blue so it is a different timeline, not a different universe. I think it is confusing because of the way different universes have been explained. It's hard to define the difference between a alternate timeline and a alternate universe.

I don't think Peter needs to split the universes/break the bridge, but after his trip to the future I could see why he'd see the machine as the solution to his timeline problem. I still wonder how involved the Observers were in his non-existence.

Man, would the hiatus have been until January 13th even if they hadn't delayed by two weeks?

I don't know if the return date has changed, but I do know one episode that was supposed to air this month has been bumped to Jan.

I didn't realize that was Root's real wife -- she was great.

It was a very emotional episode, one of the best they've done for that kind of drama.