It is totally not just you! I love Peter/Olivia, but I love Peter & Walter at least as much if not more, and yes - while I'm totally enjoying Peter with amber!Walter, it is not the same!!!
The lack of emotional catharsis, yes, that's true...if Peter had said his goodbyes at the end of s3 knowing what they actually meant, that he was going to be losing Walter rather than Walter losing him as they thought would happen, if he had mourned for Walter - that might have helped me get over it and accept the amber!Walter we still have. But that never happened, and so it makes it hard to accept that blue!Walter is gone.
It's weird because at the same time, that Peter hasn't mourned, that he apparently moved straight from denial to acceptance - that makes sense for Peter's character, from his past experience of adjusting to a new universe. And really, again, I think Walter would prefer that Peter didn't mourn - I suspect Walter would think he'd gotten what he deserved, and Peter shouldn't suffer for it. But oh, it hurts.
I had wondered the same thing you did about Walter getting his brain cut up in this universe. Although I hadn't noticed him being more focused -- I think it could go either way, really, and it's starting to look like that's something we never will know for sure.
It's been in a couple of scenes - like when Walter finds out that the Cortexiphan Nina is showing him has been stolen & replaced. He channels old!Walter at that point, in a way that I don't recall seeing in blueverse!Walter - and it seems like a deliberate acting choice to me. But yeah, like you said it could also be a result of amber!Walter's different experiences...I don't know! So curious...
Yeah, he's certainly not a bad actor, and he does Peter well. But he's very flat in affect -- it's hard to know what Peter is thinking or feeling, and while I've come to realize that's just how Peter is (and for all I know it's a deliberate acting choice; Josh Jackson is definitely more emotive when he's being him rather than being Peter), it made him hard for me to connect to at first.
I think the flat affect is deliberate - especially since JJ seems to have no trouble emoting in RL! (ahahah I loved how at least according to the bloopers he cannot actually walk without tripping over his legs or knocking something over XD) Really I think it's one of many cues taken from X-files, using underacting to increase dramatic tension and creepiness. Especially given that Olivia's affect is even flatter (it's also a useful trick for covering less than stellar actors, which is why it took me so long to realize that Anna Torv is actually really damn good at her craft!) That being said, I never found Peter that hard to read...which I suspect is partly because I was used to TXF! I actually found all the chars difficult to relate to or like at first (which is funny because going back and rewatching bits of s1 I love all of 'em, and they're the same chars; it just takes a while to get to know them, to understand why they are who and what they are...)
well, okay, maybe a little bit, because seriously, Olivia, STUPID MUCH?! Don't they have condoms in her universe?
The bro (who has been filling in plot holes right and left ;) suggested that in redverse the male pill was developed first and is the standard, so neither of them thought to ask, assuming the other had it covered! XD
...which doesn't excuse the awfulness of the sci-fi pregnancy. Though what bothered me the most wasn't the scifi but the idiocy of the set-up - they wanted their creepy conspiracy so badly that they didn't just do the logical thing and have Walternate *ask* Altlivia if she wouldn't want to try a technique that would likely save her baby? ...not to mention if all they needed was a sample of the kid's blood, they didn't need him born at all for that. ARGH SO DUMB. I am just counting that ep as the one of the season that I pretend never happened (I figure every show is allowed one of those a season, and Fringe hasn't exceeded its count yet, so I call that a win!)
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The lack of emotional catharsis, yes, that's true...if Peter had said his goodbyes at the end of s3 knowing what they actually meant, that he was going to be losing Walter rather than Walter losing him as they thought would happen, if he had mourned for Walter - that might have helped me get over it and accept the amber!Walter we still have. But that never happened, and so it makes it hard to accept that blue!Walter is gone.
It's weird because at the same time, that Peter hasn't mourned, that he apparently moved straight from denial to acceptance - that makes sense for Peter's character, from his past experience of adjusting to a new universe. And really, again, I think Walter would prefer that Peter didn't mourn - I suspect Walter would think he'd gotten what he deserved, and Peter shouldn't suffer for it. But oh, it hurts.
I had wondered the same thing you did about Walter getting his brain cut up in this universe. Although I hadn't noticed him being more focused -- I think it could go either way, really, and it's starting to look like that's something we never will know for sure.
It's been in a couple of scenes - like when Walter finds out that the Cortexiphan Nina is showing him has been stolen & replaced. He channels old!Walter at that point, in a way that I don't recall seeing in blueverse!Walter - and it seems like a deliberate acting choice to me. But yeah, like you said it could also be a result of amber!Walter's different experiences...I don't know! So curious...
Yeah, he's certainly not a bad actor, and he does Peter well. But he's very flat in affect -- it's hard to know what Peter is thinking or feeling, and while I've come to realize that's just how Peter is (and for all I know it's a deliberate acting choice; Josh Jackson is definitely more emotive when he's being him rather than being Peter), it made him hard for me to connect to at first.
I think the flat affect is deliberate - especially since JJ seems to have no trouble emoting in RL! (ahahah I loved how at least according to the bloopers he cannot actually walk without tripping over his legs or knocking something over XD) Really I think it's one of many cues taken from X-files, using underacting to increase dramatic tension and creepiness. Especially given that Olivia's affect is even flatter (it's also a useful trick for covering less than stellar actors, which is why it took me so long to realize that Anna Torv is actually really damn good at her craft!)
That being said, I never found Peter that hard to read...which I suspect is partly because I was used to TXF! I actually found all the chars difficult to relate to or like at first (which is funny because going back and rewatching bits of s1 I love all of 'em, and they're the same chars; it just takes a while to get to know them, to understand why they are who and what they are...)
well, okay, maybe a little bit, because seriously, Olivia, STUPID MUCH?! Don't they have condoms in her universe?
The bro (who has been filling in plot holes right and left ;) suggested that in redverse the male pill was developed first and is the standard, so neither of them thought to ask, assuming the other had it covered! XD
...which doesn't excuse the awfulness of the sci-fi pregnancy. Though what bothered me the most wasn't the scifi but the idiocy of the set-up - they wanted their creepy conspiracy so badly that they didn't just do the logical thing and have Walternate *ask* Altlivia if she wouldn't want to try a technique that would likely save her baby? ...not to mention if all they needed was a sample of the kid's blood, they didn't need him born at all for that. ARGH SO DUMB. I am just counting that ep as the one of the season that I pretend never happened (I figure every show is allowed one of those a season, and Fringe hasn't exceeded its count yet, so I call that a win!)