“August”

“August” was an episode that as a Fringe fan I was long awaiting. Finally, an episode which delved into the phenomena of the Observer. Or as we discover here, Observers. It was a bit disconcerting though how this all came to be.

For the whole series the Observers were treated as a gigantic mystery and their involvement always signified big things but information about them was very slow in coming.

In this episode much of the curtain is drawn back. Certainly there is a lot of questions left and a lot of mystery but I expected a bit more drawing out of some of these answers.

We learn that there is more than one observer and that they have been around for thousands of years. We know that they only show up at big occurances yet here are a group of them at a diner discussing the actions of one such observer who made the mistake of having love for one he observed.

A young girl whose parents were killed in the 1989 earthquake in San Francisco who is now as we learn later in the episode was destined to die in a plane crash.

But this Observer doesn’t want that to be so he saves her to the chagrin of his fellow observers who tell him that she will have to be corrected despite his reluctance to let things fall as they are supposed to.

We also get a few more hints about how the Observer we knew was involved in Walter’s duplicity involving Peter and the other dimension as Walter believes that when the new Observer contacts Walter for help, that he is there to punish the original observer for what he did to help Walter and Peter.

It is really their episode to shine as the only other plotline is a generic working mom (or in this case aunt) who feels bad about not having time for her daughter (or in this case niece) and at the end of the episode she takes a day off from work to make time for her.

But at the end it is interesting to note that the Observer is observing Olivia and her niece.

Overall it is a fun episode although I almost think it was a bit too much all at once for my taste.

B

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