What kind of weird stuff you might ask? Well, how about what's being called a "mini Observer". We know, we know. Doesn't sound so great. But don't write horseshit@fox.com just yet.
E! is reporting that Olivia will start to have visions and stuff. OK, fine, whatevs. That's not too lame after all that time spent in the tank and all the things we've learned about her. It's a little disappointing, considering how unless your name is Dale Cooper or Tony Soprano or whatever they call Patricia Arquette on Medium, dream sequences are basically the last resort of the poorly planned story editor, but whatevs. We can live with that one.
Now about this mini Observer?
TVGuide.com: Recently we've seen a softer side of Olivia — in
her scenes with children. Is it difficult, as the old saying goes, to
work with kids?
Anna Torv: Particularly
with Spencer [List, who plays the "mini-Observer"], he was just a dream
to work with. I hate it when people talk down to children, and I just
loved him actually. I think we got on really well, and it shows in that
episode.
OK, well, hear that? Apparently Liv is gonna make out with an underage weirdo or something. Huzzah! No, seriously, this seems like what they call in the biz a bad idea, since from where we're standing, The Observers could spend years being an unknown and we'd be satisfied if, for example, we learned whether Peter was one of his father's experiments. Leave the weirdest mytharc stuff for later, people! But we admire them for taking the bull by the tiny horns and
pre-empting everyone by actually calling it a "mini" anything. Cojones,
gentlemen.
Oh, and William Bell will finally make an appearance. Thank God. In our hearts, we wish he'd played by Charles Nelson Reilly. Alas.
Our biggest concern about this last batch of episodes is that the April 21 episode, called "Bad Dreams," was directed by Akiva Goldsman, a guy who basically won an Oscar for that one scene in A Beautiful Mind after spending his life as a massive hack. As in: he was the guy who typed out "Bat Nipples" in the previous version of the Batman franchise. But hey, if JJ Abrams can be a good influence on the guys who pieced together Transformers, who knows what could happen.
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