Death is your art. You make it with your hands day after day. That final gasp, that look of peace. And part of you is desperate to know: What's it like? Where does it lead you? And now you see, that's the secret. Not the punch you didn't throw or the kicks you didn't land. She really wanted it. Every Slayer has a death wish. Even you.

Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'


Boxed Set, Vol. V: Just a Hint of Denial and a Dash of Retcon  

A topic for the discussion of Doctor Who, Arrow, and The Flash. Beware possible invasions of iZombie, Sleepy Hollow, or pretty much any other "genre" (read: sci fi, superhero, or fantasy) show that captures our fancy. Expect adult content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.

Marvel superheroes are discussed over at the MCU thread.

Whitefont all unaired in the U.S. ep discussion, identifying it as such, and including the show and ep title in blackfont.

Blackfont is allowed after the show has aired on the east coast.

This is NOT a general TV discussion thread.


aurelia - Feb 10, 2012 8:00:19 pm PST #19324 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Fringe scoobies! [link]


Polter-Cow - Feb 10, 2012 8:17:35 pm PST #19325 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Oh, yeah... I differentiate between timeline and universe. The amber timeline contains the red and blue universes in which both Peters died as children. So we're talking about bleedthrough to the original timeline in which the redverse Peter survived, but grew up in the blueverse. Ha.

Yep. Like le nubian, it's confused me that Peter has to go "back" to his timeline. Which would imply that there are multiple timelines, all with multiple universes, and I don't know how reality can handle it. Yet if this Peter-less timeline is now reverting back to the original timeline, do people disappear and reappear accordingly? I thought what was happening in Westfield was a merging of timelines, not universes, hence Olivia's bleedthrough. And I presumed that one guy was dead in the original timeline, which is why he was immune. But that wouldn't explain the woman who was immune but then went crazy anyway, which could be explained by her doppelganger traveling into Westfield.

I think David Robert Jones is going to try to merge the redverse and blueverse entirely, though. That's obvious, right? And it's going to succeed, and that's the finale, and everyone will have two lifetimes of memories, and the cast will get yet another version of themselves to play.

Still wondering about the timeline issue, though.


Atropa - Feb 10, 2012 8:47:53 pm PST #19326 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Bryan Fuller's Munsters remake not on the table due to difficulties in casting.

Considering how cranky a lot of the target audience was about the rumored story changes, I think that's for the best.


aurelia - Feb 10, 2012 9:34:16 pm PST #19327 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

it's confused me that Peter has to go "back" to his timeline.

He started off thinking he needed to fix the amber timeline before deciding he was in the wrong place altogether. I don't feel bad about being confused when Peter is too. It does seem outrageously complicated for multiple timelines to co-exist and I don't know if they do, but it is clear to me that this is a different concept than the universes.

I thought what was happening in Westfield was a merging of timelines, not universes, hence Olivia's bleedthrough.

I think Westfield was Jones causing merging universes, but Olivia was experiencing merging timelines. She didn't have the same symptoms as the people there. Not the biological ones anyway.

I think David Robert Jones is going to try to merge the redverse and blueverse entirely, though. That's obvious, right?

Maybe? Unless he and Nina have some more specific plan in mind. I still think we'll meet an alt-Nina, so I think there is probably a more specific strategy in place.

And it's going to succeed, and that's the finale, and everyone will have two lifetimes of memories, and the cast will get yet another version of themselves to play.

Oh dear god, I hope not. I'm not opposed to new versions, but I don't want to lose the ones we have.


DCJensen - Feb 11, 2012 5:16:34 am PST #19328 of 30001
All is well that ends in pizza.

I brought up your idea of Peter being in the right place "I read on another site..." and Mark responded. I wish I could link here, but I thought that it would be best to be circumspect for now.


le nubian - Feb 11, 2012 5:33:38 am PST #19329 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

BTW, it isn't just Olivia who is "remembering" things. Rather, I am not sure she is remembering as much as she is becoming the original Olivia.

Walter is doing the same thing. I think they are purposefully trying to indicate that they are becoming different people (perhaps along with remembering their original lives).


DCJensen - Feb 11, 2012 6:25:56 am PST #19330 of 30001
All is well that ends in pizza.

Someone just replied that, "When he was gone the evil queen placed a spell on this universe and now they don't remember who they are."


DCJensen - Feb 11, 2012 6:26:46 am PST #19331 of 30001
All is well that ends in pizza.

Grimm:

Amy Acker!

Also, the opening was very Buffy.


Theodosia - Feb 11, 2012 6:36:09 am PST #19332 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

I have to catch up with Grimm online. Why the Forces of Evil have conspired to put three of my favorite shows on at the same time on the same night is frustrating.


§ ita § - Feb 11, 2012 6:45:35 am PST #19333 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'm not opposed to new versions, but I don't want to lose the ones we have.

I do. I had the same assumptions many of you did, that what Peter needed to do was to fix where he was, not leave it. But I shifted my opinions when the show did, and now I really want the other versions back, and for these people not to get subsumed into what we were familiar with. I'd like for them to be their own thing, even if they stop existing.