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  • Fringe S1E07

    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…

  • Fringe S1E06

    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…

  • Fringe S1E05

    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…

  • Fringe S1E04

    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…

  • Fringe S1E03

    Notes for Fringe season 1, episode 3, “The Ghost Network“ 01:04 The camcorder being used by a bus passenger is a Panasonic SDR-H40 (2008) 01:44 The female passenger is carrying a blue Jansport T2650307 backpack 07:20 I assume that when Walter describes the drugs he’s taking, there’s some network TV liability thing that prevents the names…

  • Fringe S1E02

    Notes for Fringe season 1, episode 2, “The Same Old Story“ 01:00 Loraine Daisy is an early role for Betty Gilpin, who went on to star in, among other things, Mrs Davis (which is also streaming on itvx). 03:07 In the oddly dramatically lit operating room, a brief shot of the medical display monitor (Drägar…

  • Fringe S1E01

    Following my Person of Interest rewatch, over the course of 2023, I’ve decided to rewatch the sci-fi series Fringe (2008-2013) over the course of 2025 (two episodes a week). While Person of Interest deals with questions of surveillance and AI, Fringe is sort of a mad science Doomwatch meets X-Files. I’ve bought the boxset on…

  • Person of Interest S5E13

    Notes for season 5, episode 13, “return 0“ 08:26 Even with HR removed, it’s apparently not hard to find a bunch of cops at the precinct that would execute fellow officers for “a nice fat bonus”. 11:27 The music playing as Finch waits on the room is “Bunsen Burner” which previously appeared on the soundtrack…

  • Person of Interest S5E12

    Notes for season 5 episode 12, “.exe“ 10:15 Even in the alternate Machine-less timeline, Carter has a Dell 2009W on her desk. 18:52 The HAL-looking prop for the iris/retina scanner at the NSA is an actual biometric access device, an LG IrisAccess 3000. 19:30 As Finch enters the server room, there is actually some suggestion…

  • Person of Interest S5E11

    Notes for season 5 episode 11, “Synecdoche“ 01:05 Root’s grave is marked as “050313”. A note on reddit suggests this it the date in mm/dd/yy that Root was nominated as the Machine’s analog interface. (Although this is the air date, and I think the episode was supposed to be set in April?) 09:30 The TV…