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3x11 ‘Reciprocity’

• My main reaction to this Peter focused episode was to wonder when we’re going to get back to Olivia’s powers/abilities. I just really want to know more about that and I want her to start to develop them.

• I liked the Olivia/Peter moment just before he began his test. I liked the Olivia/Astrid conversation.

• I liked getting to see more of Nina but I want more Nina/Olivia scenes. In the first season they had a very interesting relationship and that has fallen by the wayside over the last couple seasons.

• I was irritated with Olivia apologising to Peter. I agree – he’s been going through a horrible time too and I like her being able to empathise with that and acknowledge that he was hurt as well – but... I guess I’m still feeling very protective/defensive about Olivia and I didn’t like her apologising for any reason.

• So are the changes in Peter because of the device as Walter supposes or could it actually be the result of the tainted milk of Walter’s Peter drink? Personally I think Walter is wrong and that the latter theory makes more sense. This is the first episode that we have seen Peter acting differently. All season he has been the same Peter as always and that implies it was something that happened in the last episode that caused the change.

• Peter's line about the shape-shifters not being human and so it’s okay to kill them was – interesting. Especially since we have seen that they do have feelings and are people.

3x12 ‘Concentrate and Ask Again’

I am really not pleased with the direction that the show’s mythology has suddenly gone in.

• I've watched the Sam/Nina scene multiple times and I’m getting less happy each time.

- So – everything is all about Peter than, not Olivia? He’s the one that matters? It’s not her abilities that are important but who he is? Wait, what? Seriously, what the hell show?

- Olivia’s big role in this whole tale is... as a love interest?! Are you fucking kidding me? I could be reading this wrong but honestly this really reads to me as him saying Olivia is important because of her relationship with Peter. Both Olivia’s in fact and it’s through Peter and him choosing one of them that they become important. ... I am not pleased of that’s correct.

- Are they trying to imply/state pre-destination here? I mean we have kind of seen it before with the Observers but for whatever reason... no I know the reason and it’s ‘Peter must choose an Olivia to determine the fates of the universes’... I am a lot more irritated with the idea here.

Arg. This is just making me very annoyed and upset. With the final scenes of this episode they have made a story that is about Olivia as a hero and suddenly made Peter the hero and her simply the love interest and that pisses me off. She is the one who’s supposed to be important and who is supposed to save the universe (with the Bishops’ help of course) but not because of getting someone to fall in love with her. That’s not what this show has been about and frankly I don’t want that to be what it’s about. I do love this show and I did trust TPTB but this is just... I really don’t know about this. I’m worried.

• Who the hell is Sam Weiss? How does he know anything and how does Nina know him? Why wasn’t she pressing harder for answers? Did he in fact write the books, and thus is he immortal or a time traveller? I found myself somewhat annoyed. I like him being brought back into play but I do not like how.

• Olivia looked fabulous all dressed up and completely kicked ass. I watched the moment when she shot the last guy through the throat several times. I liked that we got an Olivia/Nina scene.

• “She’s like me but better.” Ouch. Oh, Olivia.

• I liked the conversation between Peter and Olivia where she confronts him about the coffee and he tells her “I thought it was because of me. Because of us. I thought I was bringing out a different side in you. But it was never because I wanted to be with her more. I don’t.” That makes sense to me. But it also makes sense that he would have feelings for Red Olivia still. He may have thought she was his Olivia while they were together but he also noticed and liked the changes in her and it made their relationship, even beyond the new romance, a completely separate one from what he and Blue Olivia had before. I do like that they are going to deal with that.

• I couldn’t believe that Peter got Olivia’s coffee wrong. How does several months time overcome two years?

• It seems to me that Olivia was missing something major about Simon’s ability. The thing about it is that he’s clearly in pain when around other people and any significant number of people completely incapacitates him – so how exactly does she image that he is supposed to live any other life? I was pretty surprised that there was no talk about Walter trying to help Simon. I am choosing to believe that Olivia is going to visit him every now and then instead of just abandoning him.