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lea_hazelSo I'm all caught up on Fringe and I have some thoughts on Olivia. Yes, I know there are other characters. What of it?
When I started watching the first episode I was all, "Cool, a heroine whose love-life isn't a total disaster, she's actually getting some action." Later that episode I was all like, "He's gonna be dead or evil by the end of the episode." Even though I ended up liking the brain!boyfriend plot line, and I kind of wish they'd continued it, by the end of the first season I was getting worried. By the second season I was starting to think Olivia should demand compensation from Broyles, since her romantic odds went straight to hell when she started answering to him.
I was (and am) intrigued by the sister+niece situation, in a meta sense. As far as I can surmise, it's meant to give the heroine a family life and a softer side, while still leaving her open for romantic entanglements. Or, singular really, since it seemed like a foregone conclusion to pair her with the male lead. If anything, I'm surprised it took them as long as it did. I was actually starting to wonder (hope) whether they could conceive of a man and a woman being in the same room together without it leading to fucking/marriage/babies. Luckily I don't mind the pairing as such, because the two characters in question actually get along, which is good enough for me.
Alternate Olivia: intriguing. Apparently her hair is red? I thought it was supposed to be brown. The bangs: pretty bad, probably a necessity of wigs. What I find interesting is how well (IMO) she pulls off the obvious military slant of the other side. To whit, when she's standing she puts her arms behind her back, there's something about the way she walks that I can't put my finger on, and I'm pretty sure she tucks her pants into her shoes. She has matching tattoos with her mysterious boyfriend. No alternate John Scott? Hmm.
Olivia's brain is like a hostel for lost consciousnesses. It seems there's always someone other than her crashing on the couch and mooching out of the fridge.
When I started watching the first episode I was all, "Cool, a heroine whose love-life isn't a total disaster, she's actually getting some action." Later that episode I was all like, "He's gonna be dead or evil by the end of the episode." Even though I ended up liking the brain!boyfriend plot line, and I kind of wish they'd continued it, by the end of the first season I was getting worried. By the second season I was starting to think Olivia should demand compensation from Broyles, since her romantic odds went straight to hell when she started answering to him.
I was (and am) intrigued by the sister+niece situation, in a meta sense. As far as I can surmise, it's meant to give the heroine a family life and a softer side, while still leaving her open for romantic entanglements. Or, singular really, since it seemed like a foregone conclusion to pair her with the male lead. If anything, I'm surprised it took them as long as it did. I was actually starting to wonder (hope) whether they could conceive of a man and a woman being in the same room together without it leading to fucking/marriage/babies. Luckily I don't mind the pairing as such, because the two characters in question actually get along, which is good enough for me.
Alternate Olivia: intriguing. Apparently her hair is red? I thought it was supposed to be brown. The bangs: pretty bad, probably a necessity of wigs. What I find interesting is how well (IMO) she pulls off the obvious military slant of the other side. To whit, when she's standing she puts her arms behind her back, there's something about the way she walks that I can't put my finger on, and I'm pretty sure she tucks her pants into her shoes. She has matching tattoos with her mysterious boyfriend. No alternate John Scott? Hmm.
Olivia's brain is like a hostel for lost consciousnesses. It seems there's always someone other than her crashing on the couch and mooching out of the fridge.
