To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive

Fringe, you know, I don't even care what you do for the rest of the show's run. I'll love you forever for that scene with Peter and Olivia waking up at sunrise. Olivia running into naked!Walter (how many fanfics have gotten mileage out of that idea?) and handling it with aplomb, considering, and the simultaneous cell phone interruptions were icing on the cake. Oh, those crazy kids. They went through so much to get here. I'm so glad they finally got this moment.

The rest of the episode was good, too. I've come to really, really resent everyone in the altverse for taking time away from the characters I actually like (especially Olivia; between the focus on Fauxlivia, her brainwashing early in the season, and the Bell takeover of the past few episodes, I feel like we haven't seen her at all this season. Which sucks ass, because she's my favorite, and we've basically gotten her as her awesome self for, like, seven episodes total this season, and some of those were shared with the altverse). HOWEVER, I actually did unconditionally like Fauxlivia this time around; I was impressed that she went up against Walternate because she believed there had to be another way, even though it got her stuck in a padded cell. Crossing my fingers that she manages to break herself out. Although if it takes an episode or two to get around to that, I won't cry.

I'm also pleased to see some forward movement of the plot! I felt like the show was just spinning its wheels with the William Bell thing, and while Fauxlivia's pregnancy was plot-instrumental, see above about my animosity towards everyone in the altverse. Sam Weiss showed up again! And Nina! We got a Nina! And the machine turned on! And vortexes showed up in ourverse! I'm very intrigued by the machine's rejection of Peter (OR DID IT? Maybe it just magnetized him or otherwise gave him superpowers).

Heh, Nina's "I thought everything was going to be okay because you and Peter shacked up!" to Olivia....aaaaaawkward.

Walter in the chapel at the end was lovely. And portentious.

What the hell is Sam up to?

Are we ever going to return to Peter's killing of the shapeshifters, and Olivia's reaction to it? And what about Olivia's new lack of fear? What did that even mean, and what is it going to do to her?