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When Brandon the MD lab rat was explaining the Observers experience of time with his blue-water analogy, was anybody else thinking, "chrono-synclastic infundibulum"?
And: I don't think that September saved Walter and Peter from the lake. The creepy way that story keeps popping up, and especially considering this week's episode, I think September saved Walter... and not Peter. Walter is telling us the story of Peter's death.
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..and I was thinking they were testing Will in some strange ARG at first. The "you are suppose to replace her" line was the trigger.
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Looks like next episode is the James Bond/Die Hard cool one.
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I liked season 1, but I couldn't get through 20 minutes of season 2. I already get plenty of light and fun from Eureka and Warehouse 13.
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"lets kill it"
"oh the monster is humanity"
"we shouldnt kill that"
the end
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One thing I'd like to note is that I don't think so many sightings of Observers means the most important moment in human history is coming (though that is certainly one interpretation) but that our culture is actually speeding up. More people and an information superhighway means that any single event could prove much more important. Long ago, genocide or some other major event in another part of the world may not have concerned humanity as a whole because we were easily separated by cultural and physical boundaries and thus it was not Observed. Now that we are becoming so interconnected, however, I think the Observers are seeing that what may have once been minor is now very important.
Or maybe I'm stuck in sociology mode from studying for my exam. I'm just saying.
Also, I'm kind of wondering how August will be replaced, if at all.
EDIT: The more I read this post, the less sense I feel I make. Is anybody getting this or am I having a Walter Moment?
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There are most likely Observers in the alternative universe since they were able to bring Peter over as well as give Walter a coin from the other side. Meaning that they are neutral in the war.
The color pattern green, green, green, green and red means something to them since that pattern has appeared hidden throughout past episodes as well as on their technology.
They do not kill, nor do they travel randomly. No side trips for a Slush-O. They have their assignments and stick to those places until it is over. Which is why they "hire" other people to be assassins and couriers.
They are not "The Strangers". Richard O'Brien in not an Observer.
Not only do they have a dull sense of taste, they also don't feel like we do. In the hottest day and the coldest ones, they only wear their suits. No coats. No shorts. Just the suit.
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1)I think they are extra terrestrials.
2) I don't think the writing is taken from other civilations- if they have 1200 characters without repeating one, then eventually there would have to be a coincidental squggle of lines that looks like something we already have on earth- there are only so many ways to mark a piece of paper with ink.
2a) not impossible that one of their alphabetic characters got picked up by an ancient civilaztion and was borrowed.
3) They have very insensitive taste buds and need serious heat to taste anything.
4) I don't think there ever was a frozen lake- Walter made up a story to explain who this strange man was. September is responsible for Walter crossing to the other side to steal Peter, making Walter's story tangentially true- the observer is responsible for Walter not losing his son, just not in the way Walter says... OR, he was responsible for peter's death and the correction was getting other peter for Walter here.
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As for the Observers, I'm wondering if the one we've seen up until this point is assigned (or "fond of", in a sense) Peter -- because he was there to save Peter and Walter -- or Olivia -- because she's pretty obviously special in some major ways -- or both.
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= Observers?
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