The premiere focused on Olivia in the alternate universe trying to escape and get home. The note it ended on was absolutely chilling. One of the things I loved about this episode was its focus on Olivia Dunham, who is my new favorite female hero on TV. I love Anna Torv's performance as Olivia because she's quiet and humble but strong, determined and utterly kickass. And while beautiful, she's not some hot actress in that she's unbelievable as an FBI agent. Olivia Dunham seems like a real person.The nefarious government from the alternate universe found a way to implant Fauxlivia's memories into our Olivia, in an effort to make her their own agent. This development was so disturbing and I never expected them to take it as far as they did. I thought she would somehow get back home and then little memories would creep in from Fauxlivia. I didn't expect the full-on memory switch that happened and caused her to 'reunite' with the alternate Fringe division. My only question is how she isn't having a massive psychotic breakdown now. They said they were implanting Fauxlivia's memories, but they didn't say anything about taking away the preexisting memories. Or perhaps they were replacing her memories wholesale with Fauxlivia's memories? In which case I am curious as hell to figure out how they are going to get her out of this. I'm sure they can come up with some sciency mumbo jumbo but how on earth are they going to make it believable that they can just switch her back? It's going to be even more difficult to tell the two Olivias apart now that they tattooed our Olivia. I guess they'll just have to wait until her natural blonde hair roots appear through her dye job.
Meanwhile, Fauxlivia is back in our universe hanging with Walter and kissing Peter. Speaking of hair, how is she explaining not coloring her hair back to its normal color? Maybe she just likes it? Or doesn't have the time? Because I'd think our Olivia would want to be back to herself as soon as possible. But that's a minor detail. I want to know when Walter, Astrid, Broyles, or Peter will start noticing she's different. Peter noticed Fauxlivia's differences before, he should notice again, even if she puts on an act. She is in an alternate universe, after all. I'm also still dying to know how she's coping being on our side. She's meant to be an undercover agent infiltrating our side, but she has to notice more and more that we're not evil creatures bent on the destruction of the alternate universe. It's merely ignorance on our part that our actions in this universe have consequences in another. There is no war, as Walternate claims. Just ignorance. It's dilemmas like this that make me love "Fringe."
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