#and if I remember it correctly walters father was also a scientist??

[lauriel816]

Okay, now after rewatching a few episodes im once again thinking about my bishops’ madness theory. Allow me to elaborate a bit:

Walter once said ‘grief can drive people to extraordinary lengths’ but for Bishops grief drive them to some sort of madness. For walter, it was to open a door to the alternate universe and save his alternate son as a remedy for failing his own. Kinda insane, but sensible in the eye of a mad scientist.

While Peter, despite trying to draw a line from his eccentric mad scientist of a father throughout the series, acted the exact “Walter Bishop” way when his daughter Etta was murdered, implanting the device giving him the power of observer to avenge her, at the cost of his humanity.

The same goes with Etta. Look how she reacted when she found her friend beheaded and taken to the laboratory to be experimented on. Hadn’t she been stopped by Peter, she’d definitely burst in and wreak havoc, without thinking twice.

So basically I think it’s safe to say that the bishops are not the kind who’d easily move on. A great part of them was forever stuck on the day when they experienced the trauma. They grieve the loss in a way that is far too stubborn and desperate. Probably lunatic in the eye of others. But it runs in the family. Although Walter is the only one branded as mad scientist, they all share the same character. And what makes this so striking is that Etta was not even raised by anyone remotely close to a mad scientist while Peter, although growing up with having Walter around, desperately tried to avoid becoming a mad scientist himself. Yet they both on some level ended up being some sort of mad scientist. Charms of the inheritance, ain’t?

#and if I remember it correctly walters father was also a scientist?? #the family got a flair for science #fringe #walter bishop #peter bishop #etta bishop #lauriel blabbering