anyway, it wasn’t overly clear to me why “they” (the people of the alternate universe) did send an entire building to “our” universe. Walter and William Bell did the same thing with a car 25 years ago and i assume that was a test to see if it is possible to pass objects through the “gateway” between the two universes… well, from what we have learned so far it is very well possible (i guess the car was just an ethical test subject) since we know Peter (the current version of him) is from the alternate universe and Olivia herself paid a visit to Mr Bell in the alternate universe and returned.

it does make sense though that if you send an object/person/whatever to the other universe, something of “equal mass” will return since both universes are in balance. i assume there is a certain time frame until balance will restored (the car of the original experiment returned within 35 hours) and that explains why Olivia could briefly visit Mr Bell in the alternate universe. my assumption would be that the corpse of “our” Peter is buried in the alternate universe to maintain equilibrium.

i love it when Walter concocts weird drug cocktails but i was surprised to see Cortexiphan being administered intravenously. guess that speeds up or amplifies the effects of the drug. and i knew the moment when Walter mentioned that Olivia will be able to identify objects from the alternate universe by seeing them having a “glow” that Peter will glow sooner or later. however, the hotel from our world that was eventually pulled into the other universe shouldn’t have had a glow unless Cortexiphan made Olivia detect anything related to the alternate universe…

all in all a very enjoyable episode that did answer some questions and created even more questions. if there is a war coming between the two universes, why don’t “they” just send an invasion force over? why swap two buildings? to test the procedure of crossing universes further? granted, the special effects with the man who survived the first swap and ended up with two heads, four arms and four legs was kind of impressive but still… it was never really answered why?

what happened in the latest Fringe episode then? well, some 100 year old Nazi scientist (bear with me, this is Fringe and sci fi after all) shows up at a Jewish wedding. one elderly woman (who is a holocaust survivor as it turns out later) gets agitated when she sees the Nazi and appears to know him from somewhere. a few moments later half of the wedding guests choke to death. the Fringe team is called in and they find out that the Nazi used a scented candle to disperse a poison gas that killed every jewish person at the wedding.

as the episode progresses it is revealed that this Nazi scientist was involved with gruesome experiments (that apparently stopped him from aging) and is using a poison that can be tailored to kill very specific people like for example people with brown eyes or dark hair or whatever. so when the Nazi sees Walter Bishop at another crime scene he recognizes him mysteriously. it turns out that Walter’s father used to work undercover with those Nazi scientists and did smuggle research results out of Germany. in the end Walter concocts a poison specifically tailored to kill the Nazi before he can release the poison gas at a “tolerance conference”.

the underlying subplot with former Nazi scientists migrating to the US is hardly new; it was used in several X-Files episodes as well and it really did not bother me. what bothered me tho was that the Nazi used a Jewish wedding as a science experiment to test his poison gas. i found this quite tasteless and it made me feel really uneasy. yes it is television and sci fi and it wouldn’t work in real life because there is no DNA string or whatever that denotes that you are Jewish but still… it just was not right.

also, the “artist” who bought the German books that Walter’s father used to smuggle the research out of Germany… his obsession with swastikas and Hitler images was unsettling. considering that the public display of a swastika (unless its for educational purposes) is a crime here it it wouldn’t surprise me if that episode got censored for German/Austrian television.

i wish Fringe would start using Massive Dynamic as the “evil entity” again, i really miss Nina Sharp. or more “Observer” involvement and more “Pattern” related events please!