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13 years ago
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I'm sitting today watching my recordings of Fringe (I'm a few episodes behind, I admit). The episode is called Black Blotter in which Walter drops acid in the first act and ends up under the influence of it for the rest of the episode. He has plenty of hallucinations (including a lot of sparkly fairies) and a cryptic conversation with someone who seemed to be from his past (also in halluicnary form).
The group ends up on an island trying to find the source of a mysterious coded radio broadcast. And there they are, the goal in sight but between them is a man with a shotgun wanting to know what the password was in the coded message. Nobody was able to decode the message and just when we think all is lost... Walter has a serious flashback...
I just about fell off the couch!
It was a pitch-perfect tribute to Terry Gilliam, instigated by 6 Point Harness and directed by Greg Franklin. The whole thing was knocked out in less than two weeks, so the characters and storyboards were locked in the first week. Then animators analyzed dozens upon dozens of Gilliam's animations from Monty Python. The time and effort shows... they even included 'the foot'!
The other great scene was when Walter was tripping in the back of a taxi and the door opens with a formal server carrying a plate, saying, "Top you off, sir?"
"What have you got?"
"I've got a purple microdot... or black blotter." Walter licks his finger and sticks a black dot, then sets it on his tongue. The server smiles and says, "Excellent choice, sir."
Ah, Fringe. Where else can one of the lead characters drop acid in the name of science?
The group ends up on an island trying to find the source of a mysterious coded radio broadcast. And there they are, the goal in sight but between them is a man with a shotgun wanting to know what the password was in the coded message. Nobody was able to decode the message and just when we think all is lost... Walter has a serious flashback...
I just about fell off the couch!
It was a pitch-perfect tribute to Terry Gilliam, instigated by 6 Point Harness and directed by Greg Franklin. The whole thing was knocked out in less than two weeks, so the characters and storyboards were locked in the first week. Then animators analyzed dozens upon dozens of Gilliam's animations from Monty Python. The time and effort shows... they even included 'the foot'!
The other great scene was when Walter was tripping in the back of a taxi and the door opens with a formal server carrying a plate, saying, "Top you off, sir?"
"What have you got?"
"I've got a purple microdot... or black blotter." Walter licks his finger and sticks a black dot, then sets it on his tongue. The server smiles and says, "Excellent choice, sir."
Ah, Fringe. Where else can one of the lead characters drop acid in the name of science?
I'm pretty sure they just started it over from the beginning on SciFi (I refuse to call it SyFy) but I'm guessing you're a non-cable household. Hopefully it'll be out on Netflix, perhaps once the series wraps this week (as Cetas needed to remind me).