3x22 "The Day We Died" - Episode Discussion

Yellow Peter!

As long as he and Olivia and Walter can take up where they left off, (oooh Peter and Olivia still married! or at least close!)........ I won't worry about what color background he's had.

Brown Betty sure had a lot of parallels with the day we died; Olivia sent off in a box in the sea, Peter rescuing her; Peter diverting the heart into another purpose so he and Walter could share it; him cooking for Olivia; Ella and happy endings/no happy endings ( :( ), Walter not being responsible for all the bad things, etc.

No Sam in Brown Betty though! Hmmm.

Peter in Brown Betty was NOT happy to see the Observers and their cylinder; wonder if that means anything going forward?

Maybe in Walter's head the observers were enemies because he has always been worried that they'd took peter one day. What if peter's destiny wasn't necessary the machine but something to do with the observers?

Oh, I like that! Both ideas are very good.
I think Peter and Olivia and Walter are meant to be together, and they also have a destiny (and you know how I hate that concept! but within the framework of the story BR are telling).

While they are apart from their boy, I wonder what frame of mind they will be in? And what wreckage there will be without him? He saved a lot of people while he was with them (starting with the young Olivia!)

ohhh...how will olivia be able to use her cortexipowers without peter?

Good question! I don't think she will. And think of all the things that made them who they are now, from interactions with him; "What Lies Beneath", "Peter", "Fracture", "Safe", "Bound" "Jacksonville".......... they would be completely different people without him.

A re-tread of "It's a Wonderful Life." And, if it goes on longer than one episode, bleh. But they worked so hard to give us those three, to develop them, I cannot see BR just trashing all that.

And Wyman says she won't forget!!

Well maybe there will be episodes where she won't remember peter, or maybe projection peter will come back and at the same time we'll see what happened to Peter.
You're right, without peter the dopplanghers will be completely different!

I think too, after this season with only half the eps having Peter (really; Astral Peter counts, but he was only a few minutes out of the eps), and now to have gotten rid of him entirely, to have too many eps without Peter in them will put the ratings firmly in the toilet. And Bad Robot surely knows that, and won't do it.

(Timer went off while I was typing! )

Plus, I think they feel their investment in the characters the way we do; so while that was a terribly sad ending, I don't believe it will stick.

Aftermath: