Entrada, the parallel invasion. A brilliant historical reference to Spanish conquistadors. However Fringe's space cowboys and indians are not all good or evil. As Walternate explained in Amber 31422 nature is not all black or white, it's about balance and imbalance. Therefore most characters are broken and seemed almost extracted from a Picasso painting. It's specially true for Fauxlivia as the shapeshifter told her she would fail because of her human emotions. She cares about Peter, so she can't get the job done. This 8th installment took place right after The Abducted's "Good night sleep" cliffhanger. How would you respond to such a call ? Your partner is someone else. To tell the truth I didn't really like the writers approach, revealing who Fauxlivia is instead of letting Peter and the others find it all by themselves. But in a way it makes sense because it's easy to get blinded by our heart. With such a wicked event I was really wondering how they would develop the parallel arc. An other episodic story ? Far from it ! Entrada's format was quite similar to Lost's The Last Recruit. Fauxlivia and Olivia were both featured and their respective sides were developed in parallel. However the difference is that their universes are linked so their arcs could only collide. The constant switches between both worlds were well rendered and the action never confusing. One minute it's blue, the next it's red. How refreshing and exciting ! The episode was also filled with intense and twisted scenes. One should also shock you and Marionette, the next installment, should decelerate our heartbeat but definitely shaken our minds. Fringe has found its equilibrium. War or peace ? It's coming.
7 Reviews
Retribution
claudio_carvalho11 March 2017
The alternate Olivia feels that has failed to understand the Greek sentence spoken by Peter and she dopes him to flee. She sends a message requesting to return to the alternate universe. Peter, Walter and Broyles chase Olivia and they find the typewriter store in Bronx. They discover that she is going to train station in Newark and Broyles sends the FBI and the police to the station. Meanwhile, in the parallel universe, Broyles feels in debt with Olivia and decides to help her to return to her universe with tragic consequences.
"Entrada" is an engaging and emotional episode of "Fringe". The relationship of Peter and the alternate Olivia has been also special for her since she took the pictures of Peter and her in the purse. The fate of the alternate Broyles is very sad since he was a good man. My vote is nine.
Title (Brazil): "Entrada"
"Entrada" is an engaging and emotional episode of "Fringe". The relationship of Peter and the alternate Olivia has been also special for her since she took the pictures of Peter and her in the purse. The fate of the alternate Broyles is very sad since he was a good man. My vote is nine.
Title (Brazil): "Entrada"
TV at its best
A_Different_Drummer10 October 2015
Warning: Spoilers
To borrow the old sports expression, this one was theirs to lose.
The setup was brilliant. The arc between the two universes among the best ever done. The "trigger" phone call that ended the last episode and started this one -- brilliant.
So many ways they could have botched it but in fact they nailed it. Beyond memorable, iconic.
And an extra bonus contains one of the best 3-second scenes in this history of TV (where alt-Broyles says "DONT THANK ME YET" and tries to administer adrenalin to her heart while real-Olivia who is semi-paralysed and about to be filleted says the most counter-intuitive thing imaginable, NO!)
The setup was brilliant. The arc between the two universes among the best ever done. The "trigger" phone call that ended the last episode and started this one -- brilliant.
So many ways they could have botched it but in fact they nailed it. Beyond memorable, iconic.
And an extra bonus contains one of the best 3-second scenes in this history of TV (where alt-Broyles says "DONT THANK ME YET" and tries to administer adrenalin to her heart while real-Olivia who is semi-paralysed and about to be filleted says the most counter-intuitive thing imaginable, NO!)
Unexplored Territory vs Invasion
XweAponX21 May 2012
Warning: Spoilers
Peter gets a call at midnight from a woman at the Statue of Liberty who has just seen Olivia vanish before her eyes, with the message "I'm trapped in the other universe"
As usual, Peter makes dire mistakes in dealing with this information, he's got the upper hand and drop on Fauxlivia, but he has to "test" it. He should have just gone for the gun and tested her afterward.
Woulda-Shoulda-Coulda! But that is reality, people make mistakes. This one let Fauxlivia get away with a piece of The Machine.
Meanwhile, Olivia is going to be cut up like a haunch of beef, Alt- Brandonerd is going to chop her into little pieces so he can study her, and he's doing this with Walternate's full approval.
But Olivia has made a friend these past few Fringesodes, in Alt-Broyles. he knows her character, and she helped save his family.
So while Fringe Division on this side is acting like a line of ants someone has stepped on, Alt-Broyles has a decision to make: To keep following Walternate or to believe Olivia and trust her. Ultimately he behaves like the honorable man we know from this side.
Fauxlivia is full of tricks even when cornered, but she runs out of them and is captured, but not soon enough to prevent the resonance crystals from being implanted, and that piece of "The Vacuum" is still unaccounted for.
Olivia, however, is jabbed with Adrenaline for the nth time! I always love the little growling scream she makes when this happens. Its like "Olivia has not been jabbed with Adrenaline for a few months, time to write that in"- HaHa! Alt-Broyles gets her to Walternate's old lab at Harvard, but this costs him dearly. Meanwhile, the resonance Crystals succeed in allowing Fauxlivia to escape. The end result is grotesque, because Alt-Broyles mass was not the same as Fauxlivia's.
This episode flops and flips back and forth from Red to Blue to Red to Blue, and sometimes the pace is gut-sickening.
But the word "Entrada" either means, "Exploration of Unknown Territory" or "Invasion by something like The Spanish Armada"-In our history, the Spanish Armada was wiped out like roaches on a toilet lid, and if the title refers to this, it's just the setup for Peter to go on his "Bladerunnering" for Shapeshifters. But this episode is also unknown territory, so we have the benefit of a double-entendre.
The "Two Stories/Worlds in One" format was a novelty used here to its full capacity, and brought back for Season 4 procedural episodes. Where it still worked. The idea of this was to have two separate, different worlds and stories native to each, sometimes crossing over. This is the only episode of the 3rd Season where the story was told on both sides equally, although we did have some of the later episodes have both sides in them.
As usual, Peter makes dire mistakes in dealing with this information, he's got the upper hand and drop on Fauxlivia, but he has to "test" it. He should have just gone for the gun and tested her afterward.
Woulda-Shoulda-Coulda! But that is reality, people make mistakes. This one let Fauxlivia get away with a piece of The Machine.
Meanwhile, Olivia is going to be cut up like a haunch of beef, Alt- Brandonerd is going to chop her into little pieces so he can study her, and he's doing this with Walternate's full approval.
But Olivia has made a friend these past few Fringesodes, in Alt-Broyles. he knows her character, and she helped save his family.
So while Fringe Division on this side is acting like a line of ants someone has stepped on, Alt-Broyles has a decision to make: To keep following Walternate or to believe Olivia and trust her. Ultimately he behaves like the honorable man we know from this side.
Fauxlivia is full of tricks even when cornered, but she runs out of them and is captured, but not soon enough to prevent the resonance crystals from being implanted, and that piece of "The Vacuum" is still unaccounted for.
Olivia, however, is jabbed with Adrenaline for the nth time! I always love the little growling scream she makes when this happens. Its like "Olivia has not been jabbed with Adrenaline for a few months, time to write that in"- HaHa! Alt-Broyles gets her to Walternate's old lab at Harvard, but this costs him dearly. Meanwhile, the resonance Crystals succeed in allowing Fauxlivia to escape. The end result is grotesque, because Alt-Broyles mass was not the same as Fauxlivia's.
This episode flops and flips back and forth from Red to Blue to Red to Blue, and sometimes the pace is gut-sickening.
But the word "Entrada" either means, "Exploration of Unknown Territory" or "Invasion by something like The Spanish Armada"-In our history, the Spanish Armada was wiped out like roaches on a toilet lid, and if the title refers to this, it's just the setup for Peter to go on his "Bladerunnering" for Shapeshifters. But this episode is also unknown territory, so we have the benefit of a double-entendre.
The "Two Stories/Worlds in One" format was a novelty used here to its full capacity, and brought back for Season 4 procedural episodes. Where it still worked. The idea of this was to have two separate, different worlds and stories native to each, sometimes crossing over. This is the only episode of the 3rd Season where the story was told on both sides equally, although we did have some of the later episodes have both sides in them.
Finally, we're moving forward again... into Bizarro world.
rwk26 December 2010
Warning: Spoilers
I like this season but it was taking a tad long to get anyplace. Particularly the whole Fauxlivia switch. There were numerous clues that she didn't recognize some pop culture references, her meanderings during investigations, her ability to suddenly show up right after everyone else to a crime scene (where people mysteriously died no less), all of this just didn't click. It might snow over Peter since he's romantically involved, but Astrid and Broyles are FBI agents. They should have noticed anything off kilter.
The actual Olivia knocking around the alternate universe was cool for a bit but then it became strained. We got it, they're angry with our side. From their POV that is totally understandable. Moving on. And I'm slightly confused on something. So all she needs to cross over is a hypnotic drug and a tank of water? Does she really need to break into a secure government lab for that? Isn't the drug she takes an extract from her own body anyway? And now that she knows about it can't she go back and forth on missions? This isn't a big sticker for me, just something I kept wondering after the fact.
On the plus side I like that this episode showed us some dissent in the form of Broyles double on the other side and the camaraderie of Fauxlivia's Fringe Division. The ending in the subway station was also tense and cool. (Man, that would suck to see your mom get shot in the head, even if she was being impersonated by a soldier drone from another dimension. I'm seeing a LOT of therapy in that kid's future.) What I don't detest but I don't think is a good move for the show is falling into the trap of the X-Files: explaining everything. The show is becoming a standard sci-fi movie of "us against them." They just happen to be our doubles.
Didn't Seinfeld do this in comedic form a decade or so ago? Bizarro world anyone?
The actual Olivia knocking around the alternate universe was cool for a bit but then it became strained. We got it, they're angry with our side. From their POV that is totally understandable. Moving on. And I'm slightly confused on something. So all she needs to cross over is a hypnotic drug and a tank of water? Does she really need to break into a secure government lab for that? Isn't the drug she takes an extract from her own body anyway? And now that she knows about it can't she go back and forth on missions? This isn't a big sticker for me, just something I kept wondering after the fact.
On the plus side I like that this episode showed us some dissent in the form of Broyles double on the other side and the camaraderie of Fauxlivia's Fringe Division. The ending in the subway station was also tense and cool. (Man, that would suck to see your mom get shot in the head, even if she was being impersonated by a soldier drone from another dimension. I'm seeing a LOT of therapy in that kid's future.) What I don't detest but I don't think is a good move for the show is falling into the trap of the X-Files: explaining everything. The show is becoming a standard sci-fi movie of "us against them." They just happen to be our doubles.
Didn't Seinfeld do this in comedic form a decade or so ago? Bizarro world anyone?
The Trade
Hitchcoc9 November 2023
The two Olivias find themselves back in their universes after a mind blowing set of events. The sad thing is that Broyles 2 must pay the ultimate price in order to repay the woman who saved his son. There is no question about good and evil here. The universe crossed into was dying and stagnating before any of this happened. Of course, thee are still all kinds of problems. Fauxlivia is still able to cross over and she is not going away. There are all kinds of close calls and clever twists that make this impossible to ignore. It's as if we are back to square one as the enemy is a bit more definable. What a show.
This is entertainment?
Jackbv12311 June 2019
Warning: Spoilers
1 I'm very much not a fan of long multi-episode story arcs especially when they involve so much suffering for major characters. Fortunately this episode, at least, climaxes part of that.
2 I really hate mind control, mind stealing or other forms of mind rape. Again, fortunately, this is the end of that arc. but instead of that ...
3 Instead of that we have imminent torture of a helpless woman by cutting out body organs while she was conscious. I also really hate torture.
4 Let's not forget totally defiling any potential of a beautiful love relationship by the imposter's intimate betrayals.
5 While there was one major event worth celebrating, there were several additional negative outcomes.
Was it a good episode? What makes an episode good? Torture, betrayal, cold blooded murder and grisly death? Unfortunately for many if not most people that makes it a brilliant episode. Not for me.
Was it a good episode? What makes an episode good? Torture, betrayal, cold blooded murder and grisly death? Unfortunately for many if not most people that makes it a brilliant episode. Not for me.
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