Fringe: Season 3, Episode 19

Lysergic Acid Diethylamide

The episode started slow.

They are starting to get on my nerves, so much moaning and self-involvement. I liked it better when they were solving strange cases and investigating interesting stuffs.

Anyhow. We watched so may episodes so far, we cannot give up now, when we are so close to finishing series 3.

Uncertain if we will watch series 4 though as it has gotten so uninteresting.

In this episode they need to find urgently a way of bringing back Olivia’s consciousness as when Bell took over her brain/body it disappeared and there is a possibility it will disappear for ever.

They decide to go inside Olivia’s mind and look for her consciousness.

Walter, Peter and Bell all take LSD and connected to some magnets/electrodes they go into Olivia’s mind.

I liked the fact that apparently her mind is populated by people wearing the same type of clothes as her. That is a nice idea, to have a world full of people dressed like you. They would have a field day in my wardrobe!

They do some stuffs there and following Peter’s hunches and knowledge of Olivia they find where she is.

She is not actually disappearing she is hiding. She is hiding from all the people in her mind that are trying to get her. Nice concept.

Peter and Bell find her in her childhood house in the form of her little girl self. When they want to leave the people in her world start chasing them and they run. Peter dies and she is left with Bell.

When the mean people are about to get her she stops and facing them asserts herself, refusing to be afraid in a way. This is when she turns into the grown up Olivia.

She has set herself free by no longer allowing the ghosts of the past to control her.

That rung so true to me, and I found myself in her at that moment.

I also need to take back power from the ghosts in my mind.

It was worth to watch all that episode just for this realization.

Broyles on LSD was funny too.

I assume when we are ready to hear a message it can come from the unlikeliest of sources, even a fading tv series.

Maybe it is time to overcome my fears … just maybe.