Deconstruction Review of Fringe, Episode 1 Season 5 Transilience Thought Unifier Model-11
Posted by Karl Withakay on September 29, 2012
A Dreary Blue Episode
As always, an episode synopsis will be found over at Scott’s Polite Dissent
Scrabble Knock Off Notes
The words in Astrid’s Scrabble-like game before she attempted to play NAUGAHYDE were:
TILE
PART
FLEET
HOPE
GALIUM*
And off by itself, not connected to any other word: NA
(This variation of Scrabble must have rules that allow at lest one word to be off by itself.)
Walter Has a Hard Drive in His Head?
At one point Peter said, “The plan was fragmented and hidden on Walter’s hard drive by September.”
Was Peter using hard drive as a colloquial term for brain, like noggin, or did Walter actually get a hard drive installed in his head?
Something to Think About
If Walter and September were really cunning & devious, then the plan in Walter’s head is a trap intended to lead the Observers to their own defeat, and the capture of Walter and the extraction of the plan were both intentional.
Stuff to Look Forward to in the Year 2036
Naugahyde has been out of use for so long, the word is no longer in Scrabble dictionaries.
They are still using paper money, the bills still looks like current U.S. Federal Reserve Notes, and they still haven’t gotten rid of the one dollar bill.
Inflation can’t have been a particularly out of control problem between now and 2036, as they still have a one dollar bill, and $3000 is still a lot of money.
They still have tea to drink as a beverage.
People eat eggs in the form of egg sticks.
Walnuts are rare and extremely valuable, literally worth their weight in gold. (At least in today’s gold prices.)
Merry go rounds are distant memories.
Some time in the not too distant future, both battery and music CD &/or CD player technology are radically improved such that a dusty CD can be wiped off and played in the CD player of an abandoned cab that has been sitting idle for many years.
Amber Gypsies have some sort of camp where people can visit their loved ones encased in amber, much like visiting a cemetery, but on a pay per view basis.
For the right price, really disturbed individuals can purchase someone encased in amber to use as a coffee table.
* Gallium is apparently spelled with only one L, at least when playing Astrid’s Scrabble like game.
Cordial Deconstruction 
Cindy said
I just realize this.
Drinking coffee is a thing of the past, but tea is still around. It’s just like the alternate universe.