Fringe (serie televisiva): differenze tra le versioni

Dall'infanzia alla giovinezza, si creò gradualmente una rottura tra Peter e Walter. Quando Walter fu poi internato al manicomio, Peter cambiò casa e andò ad Allston insieme alla madre perché lei non aveva modo di pagare il mutuo sulla casa di Cambridge. Non parlarono per i prossimi 17 anni, per tutto il tempo che Walter stava nel manicomio, finché non gli venne praticamente forzata la mano dall'agente del FBI [[fringe:Olivia Dunham|Olivia Dunham]], la quale aveva bisogno del suo aiuto per entrare in contatto con Walter visto che solo lui poteva assisterla per le sue investigazioni su dei casi della scienza di confine. Walter fu rilasciato dal manicomio e affidato in custodia al figlio, ed il laboratorio di Walter che si trovava presso l'Università di Harvard, e che era stato chiuso nel frattempo, è stato riaperto affinché Walter lo potesse utilizzare.

Tuttavia dopo un incidente su un ponte in cui Peter vede "un uomo dell'Altro Universo", Peter si rende conto di non appartenere al Primo Universo. Walter è rattristato dall'ira di Peter e cerca di supplicare il perdono, ma Peter glielo rifiuta. (Season 2 Episode 19 "[[fringe:Brown Betty|Brown Betty]]")  

The Observers are able to predict future events, and they are able to [[wikipedia:time travel|travel in time]] and across universes without difficulty because of their advanced technology. In "[[wikipedia:The End of All Things|The End of All Things]]" (Season 4 Episode 14), it is revealed that the group of Observers seen in the first four seasons are a team of scientists from the far future, or at least from one of humanity's many possible futures. This group of Observers traveled to their past to observe the events that led to their creation.

The episode "[[wikipedia:Letters of Transit|Letters of Transit]]" ([[fringe:Letters of Transit|Season 4 Episode 19]]) reveals that by the year 2609, the Observers had wreaked environmental havoc on the Earth - to the point that they decided to simply travel back in time to the early 21st century and colonize the planet before the environmental destruction occurred.  In the year 2015, the Observers invaded from the future, instituting "The Purge" and killing many humans. Although humans continued to resist well into the year 2036, the Observers largely succeeded in conquering the planet. The fifth season focuses on events in this future, where the Observers, run by Captain Windmark, maintain control on the remaining humans through their own abilities and the assistance of human Loyalists. A rogue group of humans, the Resistance, fight against the Observers, and have come to learn much about the Observers' abilities, including that many extend from an implant in the back of their neck that expands their mental processing power at the cost of emotions.  Due to coming from a much more polluted Earth from six centuries in the future, the unpolluted atmosphere of 21st century Earth is too "clean" for Observers to live in for prolonged periods of time (or perhaps, simply uncomfortable):  thus after conquering present-day Earth, the Observers set up terraforming factories to increase the level of carbon monoxide in the atmosphere, which will cut short the life expectancy of regular humans by decades.