• 2:45 — So much cheeze.

• 3:00 —

  • Psychokinesis
  • Teleportation
  • Nanotechnology
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Precognition
  • Cybernetics
  • Suspended animation
  • Dark matter
  • Transmogrification is about materials to me, but can be classified as Shapeshifting.

• 3:30 — Whoa, she’s cute.

  • .. and she would become significantly less good looking as this episode progresses.
• 5:00 — She kisses and pulls away, and there’s this huge distance between their faces before returning to view hers.
• 5:15 — Logan International Airport – Boston – United States
• 5:30 — FBI
• 6:30 — Autopilot
• 6:45 — WHY IS HE STILL SHOUTING
• 7:30 — Hazmat suit
• 8:15 — Unnecessary nonsense.
• 8:45 — If they had a legit concern, they would have the whole plane hosed down with some sort of antibacterial foam, and their breach would have an anti-chamber built, which would do the same for the entrance once they close it off, and would do it to them once they exit.
• 9:30 — The floating 3d text is annoying.
• 10:45 — Chelsea, Massachusetts – United States
• 12:45 — No signal.. and where are they exactly, that they can’t get a signal? Does this take place in 1992?
• 13:30 — What? He can call her?
• 14:00 — Well.. I was right? I thought he’d get killed, but I figured he was too good an actor to get snuffed.
• 15:30 — Well, uh.. I guess he’s character motivation.
• 17:45 — Where the government is concerned, and when it’s such a big deal, then every lead will be followed, especially when they haven’t described any other thing being done.
• 18:15 — Immediate family, and the government in cases of extreme urgency like this.
• 18:30 — The Patriot Act
• Baghdad – Iraq
• 20:30 — Farsi

• 23:45 —

  • Mind control
  • Astral projection
  • Invisibility
  • Genetic Mutation
  • Reanimation = Undead / Resurrection
• 24:00 — Doctor Frankenstein = Victor Frankenstein
• 24:15 — Essex County, Massachusetts – United States
• 28:45 — That’s, what, the third or fourth time this sort of off-colour remark has been made.
• 30:00 — Video?

• 31:15 — What the fuck.. is that an assault rifle?

  • Oh yeah, this is a prison.

• 32:30 — That Massive Dynamic logo is a play on the Nintendo 64 logo.
• 32:45 — No, saying it’s made by a synthetic compound is saying that it’s man-made. Man made as in not a pathogen.
• 33:45 — I’m pretty sure him even getting a cold would be a bad thing in his condition. They should still be in suits. He should have been in a damned bubble all this time.
• 37:15 — Harvard University
• 39:00 — Insulin pen (Insulin)

• 40:45 —

  • Vietnam War
  • Viet Cong
• 43:00 — Ketamine, Neurotin(?), Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)
• 44:00 — Wouldn’t they have to insert something into John’s head too? Wouldn’t that require next-of-kin? Or is this whole thing being kept secret from them?
• 45:00 — 50 billion? Only? That’s “one of the biggest corporations in the world” ?
• 57:00 — Boston Marathon
• 57:45 — That’s a small file for one which would include the details from the discourse with the Justice Department.
• 58:30 — SpongeBob SquarePants, or a terrible facsimile.
• 59:15 — For all of that movement, they’d have helicopters and police support. Maybe military. This is a major national security issue.
• 60:00 — They’re taking an awful risk, considering the guy has his workshop rigged to blow.
• 1:02:15 — What is he going to throw himself off of a building?
• 1:05:15 — Bah, I’m not going to write more chemistry.

• 1:06:00 — Haha, random cat.

Overall not bad. It definitely got better later on. Solid acting.

• 4:00 — Okay, this is fucking ridiculously graphic.
• 6:45 — The others? The last we checked, she didn’t have anything to do with any of this.. I feel like I missed an episode.
• 17:00 — Stoughton, Massachusetts – United States
• 17:45 — That’s likely Providence, Rhode Island
• 19:30 — Milking
• 20:45 — I can’t fathom that it’s tires aren’t flat.
• 21:15 — I’m pretty sure he can’t just fiddle with a car to bring it back into use.
• 22:00 — Chemistry and biology.
• 22:45 — Progeria
• 23:15 — Pseudofolliculitis barbae is not the same as Razor burn.
• 24:45 — Boston College
• 28:45 — Condom

• 30:30 —

  • Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea – (1870 book), by Jules Verne
  • The Kip Brothers – (1902 book), by Jules Verne
• 30:45 — Eww, was he touching his lips with that gloved hand?
• 35:00 — Oh fuck off.
• 36:30 — Even with the previous woman, I was wondering when he’d end up picking a fighter.
• 37:30 — Slide projector

• 37:45 — This whole bridge thing is bullshit.

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20170612032145/www.observersarehere.com/bridge-in-stoughtonreally/2008/10/

• 47:15 — No, it’s a problem of being a mad scientist.

Oh, the episode ended unsolved..

• 4:15 — I don’t know if this is Mount Briar, Maryland – United States
• 9:15 — Tokyo subway sarin attack (1995-03-20)

• 12:30 — Johann Sebastian Bach

  • Mass in B minor exists..
• 19:15 — Hamburg – Germany
• 21:45 — Prague – Germany
• 23:30 — Occam’s razor
• 28:15 — Which definition of “theory” is being used?
• 30:30 — Optical illusion
• 34:15 — Brontosaurus
• 36:00 — Is that a bundle of Christmas lights?
• 46:45 — Vicodin
• 47:45 — That’s not jazz, and I recognize the tune from.. somewhere. Some old black-and-white movie perhaps.

• 0:00 — Brooklyn – New York City – United States
• 0:15 — Crazy – (1961 song), written by Willie Nelson, but this is a cover by an unknown artist.
• 4:45 — Root beer
• 9:00 — Marine Corps Base Quantico or is that Quantico, FBI Academy of U.S. national law-enforcement agency ?
• 12:00 — Even after all that time, wouldn’t that be kept a secret?
• 17:45 — Uh, no. One is a shit photo with obstruction from the fence.
• 23:30 — I wonder if the lack of taste is a nod to Roswell – (1999 show).
• 26:00 — I believe that rabbit description is a reference to Harvey – (1950 movie)
• 34:15 — Why would he need to be careful? The thing burrows up from underground and bursts through pipes and such..

• 41:15 — What about the guy’s super-gun?

The doctor with the ageing son is still missing. I guess that’s a dangling thread to be tied up later?

• 0:30 — Worcester, Massachusetts – United States
• 4:30 — The Observer got off of the elevator.
• 10:30 — It would be obvious that a guy survived and got off. He’d leave lots of traces in the dirt and dust.
• 12:00 — I noticed that pendant right away. I hate when shit like that gets added in, and it stands out to me, and it ends up being used.

• 13:15 — Commie

  • See Anti-communism [ 1 ]
• 14:30 — God this show’s formula is tiring.
• 23:45 — That’s the dumbest way to learn someone got off.
• 24:15 — Mag-Lev
• 30:45 — Multiple exposure
• 32:30 — Tesla coil
• 34:00 — That’s hallucinatory sexual assault.
• 35:30 — That’s six. That’s not two or three dozen.
• 35:45 — That’s more than six.

• 41:15 — No relation to Electro Man[doesn’t exist] – (1992 video game)

So I wonder where electro-man was taken..

• 0:00 — Milford, Massachusetts United States

• 7:45 — Bolemis(?) Nymphosemia(?)

  • Autoimmune disease
• 10:45 — Hyacinth (plant)
• 11:15 — Bondage (BDSM) or maybe Self-bondage
• 17:00 — Strontium-90
• 31:45 — Demonizing writing.
• 32:30 — So she murdered him.
• 42:15 — I know this is fiction, but none of this made sense. She was triggered, so .. she’s triggered. The antidote would have worked beforehand, but I don’t see how it could have worked after.
• 43:45 — His pin has been turned.
• 45:00 — Casual misandry about casual misogyny.. although stereotypes come from somewhere. There is also both experience and biology to back that one up.
• 49:30 — Who is? Some woman who clearly wrote that note with woman’s handwriting?

• 1:00 — Weymouth, Massachusetts – United States
• 3:15 — No mask. Brave. He should have a full shield on, so that AIDS-blood doesn’t spatter into his mouth.
• 6:45 — A parasite is named.
• 8:30 — The code-and-book is an old cryptographic system.
• 11:30 — I hope they link her cryptology hobby to her linguistics major.
• 16:00 — Frankfurt – Germany
• 17:00 — I don’t know if Wissenschaft Prison is fictional, but Wissenschaft means systematic scientific research.
• 29:45 — Jimmy Hoffa

• 0:30 — Middletown, Connecticut – United States

• 1:15 — No father would act that way. A father would boldly encourage his son by supplying him not just with encouragement but with all the resources needed.

  • 8:00 — Okay, now this justifies the way the father was acting.

Well this is becoming boring..

I took a very long break from watching this..

• 3:45 — Those windows don’t break that easily..
• 3:45 — Did they all fly out after him?
• 6:15 — Is he handling the body without gloves on?
• 8:30 — “Once we break the encryption..” .. like, as in, never?
• 18:30 — See psychosomatic medicine

• 19:15 — Bufo alvarius

  • 5-MeO-DMT
  • Bufotenin
  • Amygdala
• 21:30 — Repressed memory therapy

• 2:45 — Why do they need so many people? It took time for all of them to get through.. They’d be better off with a winch.
• 3:45 — And right there they do have the equipment for it.
• 5:15 — I think he means to say nothing else left behind.

• 5:45 —

  • Spleen
  • Asplenia
• 7:30 — Marines

• 0:15 — LSD

• 2:00 —

  • PD = Police department?
  • DWP = Los Angeles Department of Water and Power?
  • AAA
• 13:30 — Harvard University
• 14:45 — Boston College

• 18:00 —

  • Simian hemorrhagic fever virus
  • HIV
  • Ebola virus disease
• 21:00 — Boston College
• 22:15 — CDC
• 23:00 — University of Cambridge
• 29:00 — Nasopharyngitis
• 30:45 — Why couldn’t the sister be the main character?
• 36:15 — Why would she reveal her case?
• 37:30 — Ugh, people who keep paper records.

• 40:30 — “Put the gun on the ground.” .. but.. they’re inside.

  • And “get down on the ground”..
• 44:15 — He was supposed to stay in the car.

• 49:00 —

  • That’s book is not What’s That Noise? – (1989 album), by Coldcut
  • I don’t think it’s What’s That Noise? – (book), by Francesca Simon
  • There are other books with that title, but none of them have that cover.

I don’t get the apple ending.

2018-02-17: So it’s some sort of thing that’s just a thing with this show.. use as a chapter break but put in at the endings for reasons unknown..

• 2:15 — God this is stupid.
• 3:30 — Charles Darwin
• 5:45 — Music
• 6:00 — A splash guard doesn’t seem effective from that angle.

• 6:45 —

  • Syphilis
  • Condom – And no they aren’t all that great.
• 7:30 — Data recovery techniques.. I hope she’s a hardware hacker.
• 8:30 — ’93 GT
• 11:15 — Oh, she is a hardware hacker now.
• 11:30 — 657 megabytes. Hehe.
• 15:30 — This is still the CDC‘s area of expertise.
• 47:15 — Dude, go for the upgrade. Oh right, MILF.

• 0:30 — Oh god, people who write all-caps.
• 1:30 — And he checks his teeth..
• 3:15 — So he’s The Hulk?
• 3:30 — If this were something he knew about, maybe he ought to have brought some sedatives with a carry-on.
• 4:45 — Yeah, people who right in all-caps are monsters.

• 8:00 —

  • Flight 718
  • Air traffic control
• 9:45 — So now she has a bullshit plot-superpower that just magically lets her know anything about whatever the fuck..

• 10:15 — Possum

  • .. they have 13 (not 15) nipples, arranged in a circle of 12 with one in the middle (noted on Virginia opossum)
• 12:30 — What the fuck is with that guy? He’s so damned stiff.
• 19:30 — Why wouldn’t he be properly restrained? Right now he can break himself out if he transforms.
• 23:30 — God fucking dammit her “going back into the tank” is such a bunch of utter bullshit.
• 33:00 — So is she some sort of lab plucky sidekick conscience now?
• 33:30 — The pre-monster is still not restrained, and I hope she has a gun trained on him.
• 46:45 — Oh good, maybe she’ll actually lose that John-superpower.
• 49:00 — Will she be wearing the ring in her dreams now?

• 0:00 — Shouldn’t they be saying “Previously, on Fringe…” because I honestly thought I had seen this episode before.
• 2:15 — Two weeks later.
• 3:15 — Teleportation, Time travel
• 4:00 — There would have been supplies for him living in there for two weeks.

• 5:30 —

  • Grace Kelly
  • James Stewart
  • Charade (1963 film)
• 8:30 — So now are we working with a prophesy plot?

• 9:00 — Cell changes don’t happen that fast.

  • 10:15 — Oh, sigh.
• 11:15 — Maybe the hole-sealing thing is pathogen that’s now locked inside him.
• 11:30 — See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil
• 12:30 — So is that a new guy, now that the other guy was killed off? Are we getting to know him so we care when he dies?
• 17:00 — It’s really that large a manuscript?
• 20:00 — He ought to be wearing gloves.

• 21:00 — Called it.

  • 21:30 — Why not constantly keep cutting that?
• 28:00 — Oh my, an actual interesting plot.
• 36:45 — Why would what’s-her-face tell the truth?
• 44:15 — It was programmed to do that automatically, to fuck with her. She “doesn’t know” because it was faked.
• 44:45 — Why would that special wall phone ring? The proper phone worked earlier.
• 45:15 — Called it.
• 48:45 — It would be possible for Massive Dynamics to learn these things about Dunham.

• 0:45 — Why wouldn’t they clear the place out long before starting to wire it?
• 3:00 — For there to be leaves down there, there would have to have been direct access from the outside.
• 3:15 — For there to be rats, there would have to currently be access from the outside.
• 3:45 — Gollum
• 9:00 — I would assume the boy was sealed in down there.

• 10:00 — Aww, now we should all feel guilty about him being creepy because he’s in a wheelchair.

  • 10:30 — This wheelchair-lure thing has been done before.. and although I’ve seen it before, I wonder if it was first done earlier, in this show in 2009.

• 16:00 — Feral child:

  • Amala and Kamala, a hoax.
  • Marie-Angélique Memmie Le Blanc might be real, but escaped into the woods.
• 16:00 — See lactose intolerance
• 18:45 — I wonder if certain colours would trigger in kids the same way they trigger in animals. So red would be avoided.
• 23:15 — M&M’s
• 25:30 — Bwahaha, made-up nonsense.

• 26:00 —

  • Shark
  • Pheromone
• 26:15 — I thought they were going to go for an erection joke as he came out of the bathroom.
• 27:45 — Bugs Bunny

• 31:00 — How in the fuck would that guy be allowed to know anything about anything, let alone be lead to that lab.

  • 31:30 — Oh.

• 33:00 — My Very Education Mother Just Served Us Nine Pies:

  • Mercury
  • Venus
  • Earth
  • Mars
  • Jupiter
  • Saturn
  • Uranus
  • Neptune
  • Pluto (It is no longer considered a planet)
• 33:30 — Roadblock (G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero)

• 33:45 — Mnemonic

  • Home: Great Lakes: Huron, etc. Funny how Wikipedia doesn’t just give a fucking list.

• 39:00 — Empath – one of the flavours of extrasensory perception.

  • .. none of that explains whatever precognition or whatever is going on.
• 42:15 — Aha, the apple.. this nonsense is reused.
• 45:30 — So is anyone and everyone being brought over to what ought to be some sort of super-secret batcave lab?

• 46:00 — Bullshit, the CIA can pull whatever strings would be necessary to keep the “boy”. And why are we assuming he’s young?

  • 47:00 — Sigh.. nonsense.
• 49:00 — Were the random bald people in this show? I had taken too long of a break to remember.

• 1:45 — And here is the example of how awful mothers and women are at raising children into adults. When a child begins to doubt, and ask if monsters are real, a weak mother will coddle, and lie to protect them, and a strong father won’t.

  Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed. — G. K. Chesterton

• 2:00 — .. and here we are with the eco-terrorists, killing animals by “setting them “free””.

• 7:15 —

  • Big Bird
  • pterodactyl
  • A lock pick release gun. See Lock picking
• 10:15 — Animal rights movement
• 12:00 — That looks like a porcupine quill.
• 13:00 — Escape – (1979 song), by Rupert Holmes
• 14:30 — Why would animal control list 911 as a number?

• 17:15 — Transgene

  • See also Dark Angel – (2000 show)
• 17:45 — The “franken-” is a reference to Frankenstein – (1818 book), by Mary Shelley
• 20:45 — So is this another filler-episode with no story arc?
• 22:15 — Oh, I was wondering about egg-laying..
• 26:15 — Radiation?
• 26:45 — Maybe wear gloves?

• 35:00 —

  • Gila monster
  • Parasitoid wasp
  • Common vampire bat
• 35:45 — Maybe use magic to modify his immune system?
• 36:45 — What.. bats might be able to use magic to detect their young from miles away.. but maybe not if they’re moved.. but larvae.. no.
• 41:30 — Night terror
• 41:45 — I tried to find that song but didn’t try hard enough..
• 45:45 — I was hoping I’d never seen that.

• 6:15 — Nightmare
• 6:45 — Astral projection
• 7:30 — Pippin (musical)
• 7:45 — The Jackson 5
• 17:45 — Caffeine
• 19:15 — It’s so much bullshit that she magically knows about him..
• 26:00 — Hyper emotive appears to be fictional.

• 28:30 —

  • Carlos Castaneda
  • Aldous Huxley
  • Werner Heisenberg
• 28:45 — Malleable reality is a thing throughout many traditions. I can’t remember the most recent new age name for it..
• 30:15 — Buddy system
• 38:00 — Maybe it should have been arranged but her being kept out of the loop to not tip him off, but I suppose they didn’t think like that.

• 5:15 — A guy who randomly wants to have kids. How odd.
• 7:45 — Shrimp, Shrimp cocktail

• 8:45 —

  • Dracula is from Dracula – (1897 book), by Bram Stoker
  • Vampire

• 11:00 — Syphilis

  • Oh, this standard plot line.
• 12:30 — RUD390 appears to be fictional.
• 19:45 — Are they doing a role-reversal thing here? Because this is such utter nonsense.
• 31:30 — Is he going to use the stuff on himself to treat his disability?
• 34:45 — Injecting that much material.. are they squirting it into its lungs?
• 36:45 — Is she going to snatch a lesbian next?
• 44:00 — Maybe stop the car? Sigh.
• 44:15 — I guess the others who did the takedown weren’t driving alongside them.
• 49:15 — How could he have said he had never heard of David Robert Jones, if that was a pre-recorded message and not an interview?

• 2:30 — Spontaneous human combustion
• 5:15 — The “If there’s something strange in your neighborhood” and “who do you call” are references to Ghostbusters – (1984 movie)

• 14:15 —

  • Franken Berry (which is still made occasionally)
  • Corn flakes

• 15:00 —

  • Pyrokinesis
  • Firestarter – (1984 movie)
  • Drew Barrymore
  • Firestarter – (1980 book), by Stephen King
  • Telekinesis

• 21:00 — Déjà vu

  • .. and the multiple path thing is explained really badly and comes across as utter nonsense.
• 24:30 — Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – (1982 movie)
• 28:45 — Why would there be a gun out in the open like that?
• 36:00 — This is so much bullshit.
• 37:00 — Doesn’t Harris have caller ID?
• 41:00 — Shoot the pyrokinetic.

• 42:15 — Well that was a fast wind up and tear down to get rid of that character.

.. and more

I guess they’re all “oh fuck, we forgot to have a story arc!”..

• 2:00 — Magic voice recognition..
• 2:15 — Oh. He would definitely be on a short list. But I thought he had died.. I can’t remember that episode.
• 3:00 — I fucking hate her face. She’s all smiley while acting like that.
• 3:30 — What about the death of the other guy?
• 5:00 — Rocky road (ice cream)
• 31:00 — Bermuda Triangle
• 31:30 — Scientific progress advancing technology doesn’t meddle with the laws of nature. Oh god, this show has gone off the deep end.
• 32:30 — If he has the patch, and he knows where the hole is, then why didn’t he already patch it?
• 36:30 — Just shoot them..

• 45:30 — Spock!

Were this done in 2017, I don’t think this show would have been renewed for another season.

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