TV-Reviewed

I can’t believe I’ve fallen this far behind in my Fringe watching. I was keeping up until the MLB playoffs and then I managed to fall behind by four episodes. I don’t know how that happened.

The last time we saw Fringe brought about the death of Charlie Francis. Charlie was a likable character, but the character was fairly one-dimensional. He rarely showed emotion and I don’t consider Kirk Acevedo a particularly good actor. He filled the role and that was about it.

After seeing “Dream Logic”, I can see why Olivia is going to miss Charlie. Her brief story about something Charlie told her when she was a rookie helped audiences understand why Olivia liked him. Charlie was a nice guy, no doubt, but I can’t say I have a strong emotional attachment to the character.

Much of “Dream Logic” was centered around a bizarre case where people were experiencing nightmarish things during the daytime and some of the people were violent against others. The first case simply strange with a man coming into work and beating the hell out of his boss when his boss appeared to be some sort of demon. The level of violence, followed by the bizarre eye twitching was one of the most shocking things I’ve ever seen.

The investigation led the team to a doctor who was conducting sleep studies and was implanting his patients with a device which purportedly monitored their dreams. The doctor in question didn’t seem entirely innocent to me. I suspected the incidents were going to lead back to him and I was proven right.

The devices implanted into the heads of the doctors patients were proven to be there to allow the doctor to experience the patients’ dreams when he got home. There was a certain degree of Jekyll and Hyde going on as the doctor wasn’t entirely good or evil.

Although I enjoyed much of this episode, I felt let down by the reason behind everything. It wasn’t the most convincing, thought out story on Fringe, but the business with Charlie this week was better than I anticipated.

Rating: 7.6