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Notes for Fringe season 1, episode 12, “The No-Brainer“ 0:11 A few identifiable items on the desk of the first victim. A Logitech E3560 webcam, Apple iPod 4th Gen, a Palm Treo 700. 03:25 The microscope Walter using, is similar to a ones sold as BMT-404D-LED 07:30 A reference to floppy disks being knowingly outdated in…

Notes for Fringe season 1, episode 11, “Bound“ 04:50 The microscope we see in the (we assume) ZFT hideout is a Nikon Diaphot 300 Inverted Phase Contrast Microscope 04:20 Michael Gaston, who plays Sanford Harris, has a long career playing generals and politicians – but for me he’ll always be the Secret Service agent that…

Notes for Fringe season 1, episode 10, “Safe“ 06:42 I love that the show is at the point where Walter can say something inappropriate and cut to Olivia and Peter with almost no reaction. 08:30 James Frain would go on to play Sarek in Star Trek Discovery 11:43 Jones’s lawyer gives his suit size as…

Notes for Fringe season 1, “Unearthed“ This was the season one episode that was unaired. I think it’s probably supposed to take place before season 1, episode 10 – but it was shown after season 2, episode 10. Thus episode numbering for season 2 is all messed up. 00:55 The ventilator that gets switched off…

Notes for Fringe season 1, episode 9, “The Dreamscape“ 0:50 “Wall Street’s recent financial difficulties.” I think this is the only direct reference in the season to the background reality of the 2008 financial crisis. It’s a bit like watching the shows set in the early 2020s that don’t acknowledge the pandemic. 3:48 For all…

Notes for Fringe season 1, episode 8, “The Equation“ 02:43 A pre-Community Gillian Jacobs plays Joanne Ostler 03:50 A light-emitting gun that produces a sense of time loss appears in the movie Looker (1981) 09:56 The bench lamp Walter is using is a Dentalfarm A7001  14:48 Broyles mentions Kim is “1027” which I think is a specific reference…

Notes for Fringe season 1, episode 7, “In Which We Meet Mr Jones“ 05:29 There are two patient vitals monitors in the OT, a Stryker Vision Elect Monitor and an unused GE Datex Ohmeda S5. 09:51 The vitals monitor in the lab is a Siemens SC 9000. (This show really getting through patient monitors.) 10:07…

Notes for Fringe season 1, episode 6, “The Cure“ 06:10 Olivia pokes at what I think is a Dell Latitude XFR D630 ruggedised notebook computer 08:34 Walter jams a Candy/Deep Fryer Thermometer into the dead cop’s brain 13:25 I can’t confirm this, but apparently the flip-down two-card FBI ID wallet is just an invention of…

Notes for Fringe season 1, episode 5, “Power Hungry“ 00:30 Ebon Moss-Bachrach will be be playing Ben Grimm in the 2025 Fantastic Four movie 01:00 Joe records his temperature with a BD Rapid Digital Thermometer. I remember recording my temperature every morning for a few weeks in 2020, the pandemic quantified self. 01:55 Joe’s phone…

Notes for Fringe season 1, episode 4, “The Arrival“ 01:20 The Observer looks through his retro-futuristic binoculars and superimposed on the image is (what appears to be) a bash script for rotating log files on a webserver database. (Implying that the Observer is from some mysterious group of Unix sysadmins?) 03:40 That J. J. Abrams…