Or do a flash-forward/flash-back structure with a constantly-altering future. Like set the last 13 episodes in the future. How will they know what to fight? How will they be able to understand September’s predictions? And how will they (and we) know if they are successful or not? I think the freedom of knowing that the series must end will give the showrunners some freedom, and I hope they’ll do something insane. I am extremely curious about how Fringe will make that work, as we have seen the future but our heroes have not. The future we saw in “ Letters of Transit” has now become the future, if I’m reading September’s final declaration correctly: the evil Observers are coming. As a stepping stone to the final season, this feels like the calm before the storm, the Whedonesque moment of happiness before great tragedy. That would have made for a horribly unsatisfying series finale, because everything feels too neat and tidy. In fact, “problem solved” is the theme of this episode, which saved Astrid, gave Walter a chance to save the world and Olivia, allowed Peter and Olivia to work effectively as a team and find out they’d created a baby, and lead to that greatest of all possible unlikely events: increased funding during a recession.

X from “ Lysergic Acid Diethylamide”: Walter himself. We finally know what September meant when he said Olivia must die, and we finally know the identity of Mr. The necessity of sacrificing Olivia seemed obvious, as did the importance of the regenerative properties of Cortexiphan. Bell’s desire to become a god was fascinating, frightening, and then over. Of course, I am neither a megalomaniac nor a comic-book fan, so universe destruction! doesn’t do much for me. The plan still seems rather silly to me, which may be part of why I was underwhelmed by this episode. The power that has always lurked within her (as Nina cheesily informed us) can be used against her, and against the world. Her increased superpowers are the result of being dosed with more Cortexiphan and jump-started by recent events. The plan to collapse two universes in order to create a third-the plan we had briefly attributed to Jones, but now know is Bell’s-requires a massive energy source: Olivia. It is more interesting to wonder what will happen next than it is to consider what has just happened. This finale was not remarkable, merely good. Fringe finales are usually remarkable works of art: emotionally affecting, scientifically (and delightfully) improbable, mythologically fascinating.

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