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Apparently they are going to ignore that little nugget and flash to right before the Observers invaded. And somehow, judging by the expression on Olivia's face, I think she knew about the future that never happened. I think that the boy allowed himself to be captured so that Olivia would get the cortexiphan and be able to kill Windmark.

I was kinda hoping she was going to burn him to death with pyrokenesis. I feel kinda cheated we only see blood splatter instead of an actual body... I'm mixed on the finale. I am on the record saying this was the weakest of the seasons and to be honest it just became so slow on pacing and so doom and gloom that I almost gave up on the season, but I will still enjoy some of the tender moments b/w the characters and of course the weaponizing of the past fringe cases. Nods to past seasons = win! Some deaths I had to look up because I forgot what they used like the head explosion one. So the end is like white tulip. Very sad ending
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Well the boy was shown in 1 ep of season 1 and never shown again. The cone was used in season4 to show it can transport a person from anywhere. Bell's hand was used to open a warehouse (which was alluded to in season4). So season5 finally did address the loose ends from the other 4 seasons. The only thing about season5 is that when everything reset, you more or less had nothing to add on to the past 4 seasons and to me the season4 finale was the better finale as if september never showed up about warning of the observer invasion.

Walter knew what to do with the boy, because they had planned it years before. HE was supposed to go, not september. September wanted to go to be there fore his son.

One thing I LOVED about the finale, was the august failure was explained. We now know that august, september, (and now december), were not acting out of character..they were flawed because being around humans made them feel emotions. And I love that they drew back to that. I don't think that was a mistake.

Bell wasn't un-ambered because a: there wasn't time, and the technology was broken and b; because he tried to use olivia to destroy the universe.

Sure, it's a little disappointing the show reset to before season 5. However, walter is gone, and leaving the white tulip letter was satisfying..without going overboard. I just wish they had left themselves a little more time to play with by cutting out some clutter episodes from this season.

So, I'm guessing Walter was erased from 2015 onwards and not just erased completely? If so will Peter not wonder where he is?

Confused me a bit to be honest.

And the minute September said he would take the boy, you just knew he was going to get killed so Walter would have to.

I haven't read all the previous messages in this thread, but here's a quick blog post I put up about the ending and the video. More to come later, if there's any demand. I'm spent right now .

Well, that was emotionally so satisfying I can't even begin to analyse the actual plot in any depth. Anyone else complete lost it with Walter's line "That's a beautiful name"?

Firstly, I would like to say that I loved this finale. Thank you to all the wonderful people involved with this show. It has been top of my tv watching pile for the last 3 years.

The emotional impact of this episode on me was quite phenominal. I spent a large portion of it holding back tears and was sobbing by the end. Perhaps I'm a delicate little flower but then again I can recall the talk Peter and Walter had before he stepped into the machine making me lose it too. Oh the acting is just superb.

Usually I like to try and explain the story and give reasons for why I think certains things happened and how they aren't plot holes or whatever but I really see no reason why Walter and Michael would be erased from time 2015.

There is one explanation I can give though- Walter sent the tape back from the future for Peter. The reason I say this is because Walter is also responsible for building The Machine. It makes sense now that he has access to future technologies that he could design and craft the device, then send it backwards to be discovered. Although there is a bit of fudge here as he would also have to create alternate versions as Walternate would not have also travelled forwards in time.

So perhaps thinking about it too hard would ruin it but I do love to ponder these things. It does kinda scrabble your brain. If September never existed then Peter was cured by Walternate, the two universes remained intact, Peter would have stayed on his side and likely never met our Olivia. So how did that outcome occur? Hmm. Well how I like to think of it is that stuff September did was outside of the box. It wasn't supposed to happen so it created a new version of events. If you think further on it then you find that of the Observers never existed then Micheal didn't either and the scientists went on to create the Observers and around we go again. Therefore the is room for small loops of time where the Observers exist so that their denise can be orchestrated. It kind of makes sense. September pops up here and there and Michael and Walter exist in the future. But there is still no real reason why they would be erased in 2015 unless the lack of invasion itself would cause some sort of issue.

Darn it. I promised I wouldn't try to explain plot holes!

Fringe...it's been fantastic. You will not be missed because I have the complete bluray boxset on preorder