Talk:Fringe

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http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/41415.html?thread=188949447#t188949447 - Season four decline in quality? Too much Peter? --Anenko 08:20, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

Deletion of Fringe Fandom Section - Loss of PPOV

Is there a reason large sections of the Fringe fandom section was deleted? Was it moved elsewhere?--MeeDee (talk) 04:54, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

Also this text was removed (http://fanlore.org/w/index.php?title=Fringe&diff=next&oldid=447355) - certainly some fringe fans were unhappy with the last season so the removal of this fact puzzles?--MeeDee (talk) 04:56, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

Edited to note: I'll restore the deleted items tomorrow if we don't hear from the editor. After reading what was deleted it seems the editor may have selectively removed critique of the show which would not be consistent with Fanlore's PPOV policy. --MeeDee (talk) 15:33, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

Have restored the deleted criticism of the show. Editors are asked to address issues on the Talk pages and to be mindful of Fanlore's PPOV policy.--MeeDee (talk) 15:28, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

Delete/Move Section

Could the info in the "characters" section be moved to the pages for the actual characters? --Anenko (talk) 19:49, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

Working on page. Leaving the "characters" section here for now, in case someone wants to reintegrate it. --Anenko (talk) 20:04, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

Characters

Walter Bishop is the archetypal Mad Scientist character, showing both morally questionable and endearing qualities along with disordered thinking and impulsiveness.

Many fans have noted that Peter and Olivia, two of the show's main characters, reverse many of the standard gender role tropes. Olivia is the clam, emotionally reserved and strong, while Peter is the anti-clam. charlieblue writes:

Olivia's a Cortexiphan kid, she was experimented on as a child in ways she is barely beginning to remember. All the Cortexiphan children so far have exhibited superhuman abilities and talents, scientifically-extreme superpowers. Essentially, she's has the origin story of a comic-book superhero, wrapped up in a stoic, unyielding, streamlined FBI agent who is slowly beginning to unwrap those layers and gain the powers locked in her memory.

Meanwhile, Peter's story is all fairytale. Stolen away on a snow-blown night by a man who is his father, but also not, a man who's a boy genius, a prodigy, who travels the world having adventures, building motorcycles from scratch and conning warlords. He's Peter Pan, growing up because he was stolen away from the world in which he never did. He was changeling child, who had a madman for a father and now he's a renaissance man, still operating under all the pretenses of his second world.

So you've got the superhero and the fairytale, working together in a secret lab to save the world..

In a pimping post entitled "Olivia Dunham: Man of the House," beccatoria writes:

One of the things that originally made me sit up and pay attention to the show's treatment of Olivia in terms of her gender was when they had her grab a bad guy by the lapels in a classic Cop Move, but it's just something so male that it was really startling to see a woman do it, succeed at it, and have it pass without comment. Similarly, I love in the Noir musical episode, they had her as a Private Eye, so what did they do? They had her move like one. They had her play it like Humphrey Bogart, not like Lauren Bacall.