#william bell

[richardgrimes]

FRINGE out of context (part 2/?)

#fringeedit #tvedit #scifiedit #userhella #cinemapix #userbbelcher #dailyflicks #televisiongifs #humorblr #cinematv #useroptional #chewieblog #peter bishop #walter bishop #william bell #fringe #mine #my gifs #* #fringeooc*

[kitsunetsuki]

William Bell - Vogue (June 1960)

#william bell #vogue #photography #fashion photography #vintage fashion #vintage style #vintage #retro #aesthetic #beauty #sixties #60s #60s fashion #60s model #1960s #1960s fashion #editorial

[blueskiesandstarrynights]

I love fringe becuase it's so insane. The science borders on supernatural. Spock plays a mad scientist who fucked around and found out so much that he spends half the series in an alternate dimension or in someone's head. The characters get high on LSD on a regular basis For Science. One of the main characters doesn't exist on five different levels. Every character has an alternate version of themselves that they named via puns. There's so many unsafe and unsanitary science practices. The main character has superpowers sometimes. They're all autistic.

#fringe #olivia dunham #walter bishop #peter bishop #william bell #blue rambles

[hsboo03]

Process of this Rascal doodle. 🌸🌷🏵️

Reference, Sketch, Flat Colors, Rendering.

App: IbisPaint-X

Happy, I'm so happy.

Happy, oh I'm happy. 🍓💫🌸🪼☀️

#robot dreams movie #rascal robot dreams #mi amigo robot #robot dreams #robot #ibispaintdrawing #Rascal #doodle #digital art #sara varon #spotify #flat color #rendering #monday #William Bell

[agelessphotography]

Grand Canyon, Colorado River, Near Paria Creek, Looking West, William Bell, 1872

#photography #vintage photography #vintage #william bell #grand canyon #arizona #1870s #1872 #colorado river #albumen print #sepia

[spockvarietyhour]

Fringe "Over There Pt 2"

Bonus: two hurt old men

#Fringe #Over There Pt 2 #Walter Bishop #William Bell #John Noble #Leonard Nimoy #fringeedit #tvedit #GIF #my gifs #Fringe Rewatch w Renae #Hide and Queue

[xofemeraldstars]

#LOL #walter bishop #astrid farnsworth #olivia dunham #but actually it's #william bell #fringe tv #kya watches stuff

[lisamarie-vee]

#fashion photography #vogue #1950s #floral #william bell

[hauntedbystorytelling]

Visual dialogue · 1870-2010s

Nino Cais, untitled (obliterated self-portrait with perched rock) | src IG

Perched Rock, Rocker Creek, Arizona, 1872. Photograph by William Bell. | src The Met

#visual dialogues #nino cais #collage #photocomposite #photocollage #juxtaposition #self portrait #selfportrait #perched rock #2010s #1870s #william bell #balancing rocks

[celestialmega]

Fringe - Brave New World (Part 2) by Joe Chappelle, J. H. Wyman, Jeff Pinkner, Akiva Goldsman.

#tv series #tv shows #tv show #tv #Joe Chappelle #J. H. Wyman #Jeff Pinkner #Akiva Goldsman #fringe #fringe fox #fringefox #fringe 4X22 #walter bishop #William bell

[henrysglock]

Pulling @krokodilsredimudil'stags from this post

OKAY THIS IS SOMETHING IVE BEEN CHEWING ON FOR A LONG TIME!!

Now, I don't have a full "analysis", but I've got a web of things I've noticed.

Let's start by looking at an Observer (September pictured here):

Bald, grey suit, darker tie. They can both see and move within past, present, and future. They exist outside of time, a new branch of humanity from an alternate future. They're guardians of the timeline, making alterations to ensure that specific ends are reached.

Now, there's a certain character this sounds a whole lot like, who we've discussed before in the context of Vecna/001: Dr. Osterman/Dr. Manhattan.

He can also see past, present, and future all at once, and he can manipulate the universe to get his desired ends.

Particularly, though, what connects him to Vecna/001:

Dr. Manhattan's theme, Prophecies by Phillip Glass, which comes from the documentary Koyaanisqatsi, plays over young Henry/Edward's introduction in 4.07.

As Dr. Osterman becomes a blue, super-powered, pseudo-God "Dr. Manhattan"...so, too, does 001 when he becomes Vecna:

The 001 -> Vecna transformation sequence is beat-for-beat the same as Dr. Osterman's transformation into Dr. Manhattan:

So this all already puts Vecna tangentially into the realm of Observers.

But what makes this paralleling interesting is this:

That man is not Jamie Bower. Period. The man we're told becomes Vecna is not Jamie Bower.

For reference...here's Jamie Bower under similar lighting/injury:

Proto-Vecna? Not the same (as I've detailed here and here).

He may not look like Jamie, but he does look like Modine/Brenner:

(as I've detailed here)

Meaning if we hand-wave and mumble a little to tie Brenner and Vecna together, we get a true Dr. Manhattan-type character. A doctor who fucked around and found out and ended up a fucked up blue pseudo-God.

Which becomes even more interesting when we consider that, from a certain point pre-Gate, Brenner does not change outfits. He always wears a dark grey suit and a darker tie...just like an Observer.

(This exact costuming detail has been driving me batty because it makes it impossible to put Brenner's scenes in chronological order. He's always wearing the same thing, meaning I have to rely on the outfits of those around him to try and piece it together, which is...insanity-inducing)

This becomes even more interesting when we consider that William Bell had plans to create a brand new universe out of the decimation of the existing two and act as the God of that universe.

Which, initially that makes you go:

"Okay, that's a 001 thing"

Except...

However, he does so with just a shit ton of chess references, much akin to how Henry describes Brenner in NINA:

While also being heavily Brenner paralleled in shot choices and character design:

And here's Bell's New Universe plus its inhabitants, as compared to demodogs:

However, after having his plans thwarted, Bell then pairs up with the Observers, selling the Fringe team out to them in Season 5, which leads them into the final timeline reset.

We also know, from season 5 of Fringe, that "normal" humans can become observers by co-opting their technology:

(peep the Bowie reference)

And we have a Brenner who is a) in direct connection with William Bell and the cortexiphan trials and b) is not located by the end of Fringe.

So like...I have nothing but questions, honestly! I wonder if Brenner is somehow tied to that Brenner, and if he has Observer-like abilities the way Peter does when he co-opts the Observers' technology. Our Brenner predates cortexiphan, and he predates Walter/Bell's discovery of the alternate timelines...

So who's to say he's not tied to Fringe's Brenner? Our Brenner is known for his LSD trials in pursuit of pushing the limits of human ability.

I mean, the Duffers even go so far as to say that Brenner was looking for Henry to show him "other worlds about how our universe works".

That's textbook Fringe. That's textbook Bell and Bishop. Were Stranger Things to be something of an offshoot, Brenner would be in exactly the same line of work as Bell and Bishop. Hell, Richard Brenner in ST could very well be meant to be tied to Fringe's Brenner. We just don't know, and we won't until Season 5.

I just... [REDACTED] Brenner, William Bell, Walter Bishop, Peter "Test Subject 01" Bishop, Olivia "Subject 13" Dunham, Henry Dunham, Henrietta Bishop, Ella and Eddie Blake (named for his grandfather, Eddie Dunham). Martin Brenner, Richard Brenner, Peter Ballard, Peter Owens, William Byers, William Hargrove, Henry/Edward "001" Creel, El "011" [REDACTED], Eddie Munson...etc., etc. into eternity.

Bell, Bishop, Brenner.

Anyway, I do have a working graphic for this web of connections, though:

#martin brenner #william bell #henry/vecna/001 #timeline theory #stranger things #fringe x stranger things

[agent-troi]

so do walter bishop and william bell have the same initials on purpose or what

#fringe #walter bishop #william bell

[agelessphotography]

Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, Mouth of Kanab Wash, looking West, William Bell, 1872

#photography #vintage #vintage photography #william bell #grand canyon #colorado river #arizona #nature #1870s #1972 #american #100 notes

[eirene]

Vogue, February 15th, 1959

Photographer: William Bell

#William Bell #fashion #photography #colors #vogue #magazine #editorial #1950s #fashion history #fashion photography

[spockvarietyhour]

Walter told me what you two did to me when I was just a girl. How you conducted drug trials on young children.

Fringe S02E04 “Momentum Deferred”

#Fringe #Momentum Deferred #William Bell #Olivia Dunham #Leonard Nimoy #Anna Torv #fringeedit #GIF #my gifs #It's not a Stargate Rewatch Rewatch #Hide and Queue

[cbjustmusic]

Melissa Etheridge and Celisse performing “Born Under A Bad Sign”. _____________________ Born Under A Bad Sign Songwriters: Booker T. Jones and William Bell

Born under a bad sign Been down since I begin to crawl If it wasn't for bad luck You know I wouldn't have no luck at all

Hard luck and trouble been my only friend I been on my own ever since I was ten

Born under a bad sign Been down since I begin to crawl If it wasn't for bad luck You know I wouldn't have no luck at all

I can't read, I didn't learn how to write My whole life has been one big fight

Born under a bad sign I been down since I begin to crawl If it wasn't for bad luck I said, I wouldn't have no luck at all That ain't no lie

You if it wasn't for bad luck I wouldn't have no kind-a luck If it wasn't for real bad luck I wouldn't have no luck at all

You know wine and women is all I crave A big legged woman is gonna carry me to my grave

Born under a bad sign I been down since I begin to crawl If it wasn't for bad luck I tell ya I wouldn't have no luck at all

Yeah, my bad luck boy Been havin' bad luck all of my days, yes

#melissa etheridge #celisse henderson #booker t jones #william bell