Thing I’ll pretend never happened:
Jones opening that hole in the wall that will never be explained, or any of the unthinkable consequences of using the teleportation machine we’ll never see again.
Favorite foreshadowing moment:
I did not remember they talked about other universes so early on!
Walter saying, “the way to travel between them has already been discovered by beings much like us” over a shot of Olivia driving.
And considering later we find out Walter and Bell wrote it...
Well done, everyone involded, well done!
The Markam scene. The guy has one scene in the whole first season and is able to do so much with it that they have to bring him back again at least one time every season.
Did I spot the Observer on my own?
Yep. This time they made it very easy for us.
This use of color had to be intentional:
It’s foreshadowing and use of color all at once, because while Walter is reading the part of the manifesto that talks about both universes and how it is possible to cross between them, there is a shot of Olivia where on her right-hand side there is a blue structure (no idea what to call that type of thing) and on her left-hand side a red Ferris wheel. She is in the middle of the blue and the red!
If anyone understood this / has a theory, please help:
Walter reads from the manifesto that the way to travel between universes had already been discovered by beings much like us. Were they just lying to create fear or being paranoid? Or is it just a plot hole?
Because based on what we will see later on, although more advanced, the redverse didn’t know how to travel between universes yet. When they send Walternate at the end of season 2, it is the first time they manage to do that with a human being. They were only able to send the shapeshifters before.
In the redverse, Walternate writes the ZFT only after Subject 13, which is when he learns about the alternate universe. So if in this universe the ZFT was written before Subject 13, the red verse didn’t even know about the existence of the blue one. If it was written after Subject 13, the redverse was still not able to cross over, so they could just being paranoid.
Your Alt-Livia is showing:
Her smirk after Markam says, “Well, he also says that you're just a friend, so...”
Also, the “To get a massage.”
And I need to mention that in S04E01, “I always button my jacket” Olivia clearly forgot about this era, because I’m straight and even I noticed how unbuttoned your shirt was, Ms. Dunham. That’s how redverse Olivia wears her shirts.
I’m glad this time they put subtitles for the German part.
For a moment I was confused if I remembered that scene because it had already happened in season 1 or because my brain was just remembering it from a few months ago.
Chekhov’s FBI agent. If they have a longer talk with a random agent, it’s very likely that person will die.
“The United States does not negotiate with terrorists.”
Those lines that are serious for the US audience and a really funny joke for everybody else.
Nothing ever rings a Bell to Nina, then she reads something for 10 seconds and drops a Wikipedia page worth of information. Just like the teleportation from Boston to NY, I’ve decided this is funny and I’m not going to complain about it.
Anna Torv is an excellent actress. But Olivia pretending to turn off that light box was really bad, no surprise Jones was not fooled.
Last episode I said I thought it was the first and only time we’d see Peter in a beanie. I was wrong.
Jones saying that he has faith in Olivia, something she does not have in herself, relatable for all of us for 5 seasons.
The bad part about really paying attention to colors is that I noticed that in the scene where Olivia is reading Jones’ instructions she is wearing a wine-red shirt, then when she sits in front of the light box she is back to the blue one with white stripes she was wearing in the rest of the episode up until that moment. Then when Jones is waking up, she is back in the wine-red one and stays in it until the end.
And by the way, this was the same continuity mistake that happened in S01E11 – Bound, even with the same shirts. Starting to think that they shot scenes from different episodes on the same day, or Alt-Livia was already here in season 1 and we did not notice before hehe.
As @wizardofahz said, this is an Olivia-centric episode. And those are usually my favorites. Especially because the only thing better than Olivia is Olivia with superpowers!
Not taking into consideration things that might be changed/forgotten later as the show progresses, and looking at it as an isolated episode, this is one of the best of season 1, and for sure one of the most important ones for the whole show.
For me, the only problem with this episode is that it made every standalone case-of-the-week episode seem more annoying, because so much is hinted at in this one that I remember being really anxious for the show to leave the procedural case-of-the-week format and go full-on sci-fi.
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