I have not! I feel kind of weird about him ever since I learned he was a conservation/Republican speechwriter, and then figured out how that actually made total sense, given especially the second half of Winter's Tale, but I still love love love that book. Ah! That New York.
I've been waiting to read this post until I watched this episode. I just finished it a little bit ago. Very clever, indeed. I loved the opening credits this time, too.
I started the book over Christmas break one year in college. I never finished it. The following semester was too busy to do any pleasure reading and then I never went back to it. I was familiar enough to get the joke, or at least the outlines of it. I was really impressed, too. I'm really impressed by so much of what they've done with Fringe this year, really.
as far as I can tell there are 3 levels to the joke
The play on the "Winter's Tale" protagonist's name, Peter Lake, given the context of the episode
The whole alternate New York think
The fact that in the book Peter Late disappears, basically, out of our reality (I don't know if you got as far as the cloud wall), and returns many years later.
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Date: 2011-03-10 03:52 pm (UTC)The play on the "Winter's Tale" protagonist's name, Peter Lake, given the context of the episode
The whole alternate New York think
The fact that in the book Peter Late disappears, basically, out of our reality (I don't know if you got as far as the cloud wall), and returns many years later.
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