Especially if this restores the show to round-the-clock OLIVIA DUNHAM IS AWESOME status, I am okay with what happened in the finale.
EXACTLY.
I have been having semi-thinky thoughts since Friday about the ways in which the show has, since the very beginning and CERTAINLY since the S1 finale, handled Olivia's and Peter's very different roles in the show. And I don't have time to work through it all right now (hellooooo end of the semester), but the placeholder version goes something like this: Olivia is and has always been the main CHARACTER, and from that point of view Peter is just the plucky sidekick; but Peter has always (literally always, way before it was revealed) been the main PLOT ENGINE (his abduction is the reason for The Pattern), and from that point of view Olivia (in both universes!) is the badass perpetually stuck in the position of trying to clean up a mess that she did not make. Which is to say that the show's wobbling back and forth between focusing on Olivia and focusing on Peter is among other things symptomatic of a larger-scale wobble between character and plot. (Watched all together, I suspect the sense of being occasionally out-of-balance will be somewhat less pronounced.)
Watching so far all in a giant chunk, yeah, that. Or more...I tend to think of Olivia and Peter's stories being so intrinsically intertwined (and I do not mean in the shippy sense) so that the shifts in focus are...um...it's like they shed light on both for me?
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EXACTLY.
I have been having semi-thinky thoughts since Friday about the ways in which the show has, since the very beginning and CERTAINLY since the S1 finale, handled Olivia's and Peter's very different roles in the show. And I don't have time to work through it all right now (hellooooo end of the semester), but the placeholder version goes something like this: Olivia is and has always been the main CHARACTER, and from that point of view Peter is just the plucky sidekick; but Peter has always (literally always, way before it was revealed) been the main PLOT ENGINE (his abduction is the reason for The Pattern), and from that point of view Olivia (in both universes!) is the badass perpetually stuck in the position of trying to clean up a mess that she did not make. Which is to say that the show's wobbling back and forth between focusing on Olivia and focusing on Peter is among other things symptomatic of a larger-scale wobble between character and plot. (Watched all together, I suspect the sense of being occasionally out-of-balance will be somewhat less pronounced.)
Or, uh. Something like that.
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Now I'm not making sense :)