I watched the series back then when it aired, and I found it to be a perfect episode. "Shock" was my state after watching this.
10 years later, I'm rewatching the whole series because It'll always have a place in my hearth and wanted to revive good times. The show is GREAT, but this episode just confuses me and there's some plotholes in this I don't get.
In hindsight everything is easier to see. The whole thing started ironically with the best rated episode of the series, "Peter".
So...Walter and Belly started the Jacksonville drug trials to defend the world from the other side. Olivia was there, she was a child and she didn't remember a thing. That's fine. Then there was "Peter" where we are shown that Walter crossed to the other side to save Peter when he was about 10, starting the decay of the other world, Walternate seeking revenge and wanting his son back and stuff. That episode is a masterpiece in my mind, but it creates plotholes I don't remember being answered ( luckily I have the worst memory and I'm enjoying the show almost like it's the first time watching maybe they're fixed in the future but I gladly don't remember ).
The plothole would be hardly noticed but there's "Subject 13" that adds to the plotholes. And if you waited 2 years to see the episode you might not remember. But I've watched 3 and a Half seasons in like a week and it's all fresh in my mind. So...Peter and Olivia are about the same age. In theory Olivia is getting cortexiphan since a 3, 4 years old girl as shown in "Jacksonville"...but then "Peter" came and the whole age thing doesn't make sense...If Olivia and Peter are about the same age, and Walter is doing the trials to protect the world and to take Peter to the other side, why the trials started when Olivia was a child? If Peter was a smallchild in Peter that would make sense, but he was like 9, or 10. Also neither Peter nor Olivia remember a thing...the dude was traumatized in this episode KNOWING this was not his world, . Yeah, I hardly remember thing from my childhood but I think I'd remember knowing I'm not from this world. Also I'd remember my father beating me and crossing to the other universe. Maybe it's fixed in the future I don't remember...I just remember loving this episode but on second watch it just profundice the plotholes Peter created. It was a 9/10 episode when it aired. Now it's a 5/10.
Still a great show and these plotholes doesn't affect my enjoyment of the series.
In hindsight everything is easier to see. The whole thing started ironically with the best rated episode of the series, "Peter".
So...Walter and Belly started the Jacksonville drug trials to defend the world from the other side. Olivia was there, she was a child and she didn't remember a thing. That's fine. Then there was "Peter" where we are shown that Walter crossed to the other side to save Peter when he was about 10, starting the decay of the other world, Walternate seeking revenge and wanting his son back and stuff. That episode is a masterpiece in my mind, but it creates plotholes I don't remember being answered ( luckily I have the worst memory and I'm enjoying the show almost like it's the first time watching maybe they're fixed in the future but I gladly don't remember ).
The plothole would be hardly noticed but there's "Subject 13" that adds to the plotholes. And if you waited 2 years to see the episode you might not remember. But I've watched 3 and a Half seasons in like a week and it's all fresh in my mind. So...Peter and Olivia are about the same age. In theory Olivia is getting cortexiphan since a 3, 4 years old girl as shown in "Jacksonville"...but then "Peter" came and the whole age thing doesn't make sense...If Olivia and Peter are about the same age, and Walter is doing the trials to protect the world and to take Peter to the other side, why the trials started when Olivia was a child? If Peter was a smallchild in Peter that would make sense, but he was like 9, or 10. Also neither Peter nor Olivia remember a thing...the dude was traumatized in this episode KNOWING this was not his world, . Yeah, I hardly remember thing from my childhood but I think I'd remember knowing I'm not from this world. Also I'd remember my father beating me and crossing to the other universe. Maybe it's fixed in the future I don't remember...I just remember loving this episode but on second watch it just profundice the plotholes Peter created. It was a 9/10 episode when it aired. Now it's a 5/10.
Still a great show and these plotholes doesn't affect my enjoyment of the series.