Fringe is handing us a new mystery to unravel as its fourth season winds down: What’s with all the new agents?!Australian actress Georgina Haig, known down under for her roles in The Elephant Princess and Underbelly, has been cast in the potentially recurring role of Etta, a new Fringe agent who turns up in this season’s 19th episode. (Season 4 resumes March 23 with Episode 15.) Etta is the partner of the new male agent to be played by Lost‘s Henry Ian Cusick.
It remains unclear if Haig and Cusick’s alter egos will be working “over here” or “over there.” (The original breakdowns described their characters as “Alternate Universe Agents,” but Cusick’s G-man was later described as an agent of the FBI, an organization that doesn’t exist “over there.” Confused? Join the club!)
Making things more complicated, the buzz is that Haig’s role has more long-term potential than the one filled by Cusick(who is currently attached to ABC’s midseason drama Scandal).
So WTF is Fringe cooking up? Is it merely a coincidence that Haig, like leading lady Anna Torv, is blonde and hails from Australia?! (Probably.) Hit the comments with your thoughts/theories.
Source: TVLine
She is the one labeled young Olivia on that BTS picture? I still have no idea how that would be possible specially if this really is a recurring role. Though they said that about so many characters that we only saw like one or two times after that or not at all...
ReplyDeleteI HAVE NO IDEA whats going on but somehow im so effin interested so her name will be etta? like elisabetta - elizabeth?? [dont mind me looking too much into things]
ReplyDeleteWell, that must be the actress in the set photos with old wheel-chaired Nina. And, I have to say, she's a dead ringer for Maria Sharapova.
ReplyDeleteOkGuys I always thought that Nina was somehow a relative and/or another version of Olivias some how...
ReplyDeleteNina's name is in Pattern with Ella's Two consanent letters (Ella -"L")(Nina -"N") both end in an "a" ad both have
and additional extra vowel (E, I) and both are four letter girls names.
Etta must then also be a varaition on this pattern, and must relate to Olivia and/or the dunhmas in some way. (I would suspect duaghter
at a first glance...
The Bishops also have a name pattern with ERT/TER
rob-ERT, Wal-TER, Pe-TER, and Henry breaks the pattern with He-NRY (although -er is stll there)
Good notice I never noticed the patterns really...
ReplyDeleteIs it possible that "Etta" is a code name.Like they are not giving out her real name to avoid spoilers(like how some shows do with scripts?I've seen it on Grey's anatomy for sure!)
BTW,I didn't know Haig was going to stay around for a while!That's fantastic news !
I'm still thinking Peter/Olivia daughter from the future, though that almost seems too simple for Fringe!
ReplyDeletemaybe the episode will have so many complexity that having a daughter it will be the only simple to me everything seems complex . From the set pics and back.
ReplyDeleteYou make a good point! -But they could have given her any name, why give us busy work for no reason!? :D --I hope they are right about her being in a reoccuring role...I'd like to keep meeting alternate characters from other alternate universes!
ReplyDeleteEverything is possible in the 19th episode of Fringe :)
ReplyDeleteNo, it says her character is Etta. So, someone else plays young Olivia. So many blondes....
ReplyDeleteSomeone else pointed this out. How about Henri"etta".
ReplyDeletePeter and Olivia's daugther is easy to guess...maybe Lincoln and Olivia lol.
ReplyDeletei dont know how i feel about that ...no wonder she uses Etta...
ReplyDeleteIt really looks like her. I guess we were misled by the "Olivia" label. It seems that Etta is one with gray-haired Nina.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Etta is Peter and Olivia's daughter and she falls in love with Ian Cusick and they have a baby who grows up to be Observer September. That's why September wants POlivia to happen. Without Fringe on TV, we just have to guess at things ;)
ReplyDeleteOMG THANK YOU. I always thought Nina might be an Older Altlivia. I thought I was alone.
ReplyDeleteHenrietta is a really interesting guess. I'm going with that.
ReplyDeleteWow, Darth. If what you wrote is true, that would be one of the most mind-blowing things I can think of (and I used to watch Lost). Maybe in the 2026 timeline, after Walternate crossed over, Fauxlivia snuck over also.
ReplyDeleteOh, one more thing that I'm somewhat embarrassed to ask, and I really don't mean to be rude: are you a woman? It said so below your profile picture.
I was so happy to see the word FRINGE,then i read it... WOW!!!!
ReplyDeleteI wasn't expecting that..so what is Fringe up to season 5 maybe?
Hey Darth!..We must be having the same dream S5? Haven't been feeling well but i have been checking for Fringe every day.Waiting with baited breath so to speak,ha!
ReplyDeleteAnd again you blow me away with your memory,i forgot about the drawing but i think your right about this,i do remember it. Its almost time for the Paleyfest about to begin,tonight they have the cast of Bones on which i want to check out,if i am not back later i will tomorrow.
Keep dreaming! :)
So she's the one we've being seeing in the pics? The resemblance to Anna Torv can't be a coincidence.
ReplyDeleteLOL! Yes. I am among the female-kind! XD (LOST Fans have to stick together!)
ReplyDeleteI think I was talking with you about this a couple weeks ago, but I think the machine(s) have been used like this many times before (snow globe effect), -along with William Bell's assessment that the soul is just bundles of energy, then perhaps it's been split and rearranged SO many times, with so many methods) that some of the character's are literally living with or come into contact with other parts of their souls that have manifested, despite not appearing to have "blood relations" (perhaps to balance out and/or make up the difference for all the course corrections because the universes themselves are still manifesting in cycles/patterns)...but I also think the blue reality is extra special, sometimes I wonder just how corporeal is really is...
Personally I feel FRINGE gives the answers to what was missing in LOST...that some of the things that were not directly explainable are like "white tulips" where the origins of why some the things occur, or reoccur are missing, because the characters were are filling in roles, roles that have been repeated time and time again (but with small manifestations) from life time/time line to time line. And the only way to truly understand it, would have been to give us point blank parallel time lines, and not just memory transferred fragments...I often say that watching FRINGE is like watching LOST from the perspective of the DI, because the Fringe team is looking for answers, where most of those that "Move on" atr the end of LOST did not (which I find profoundly appropriate for that story).
I am sorry you'r not feeling well--strangely I have not been feeling well either! --I have been hoping for some good FRINGE spoiler all week!
ReplyDeleteI went and checked the transcript before I posted just to make sure that is what Olivia said...I can go get it and post it here just in case anyone is interested...OLIVIA: Amanda from across the street gave it to us. That's you and me and the little baby that we're gonna have that she is planning on babysitting.PETER: Oh... well, I think we should get started on that right away.Here's the pick Amanda drew:
That's GENIUS!!!!!!!!!! Good call!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the clarification. :)
ReplyDeleteInteresting theory about the machine. But, I wonder: If it's been used repeatedly throughout the multiple timelines, then why is it specifically attuned to Peter?Whoever attuned it for only Peter's use is probably the one who's behind Jones' plot. I don't know; something's very fishy with this whole thing. We may have yet to see the ultimate villain of the series.
She got to be either Olivia or Fauxlivia daughter...
ReplyDeleteI've been thinking this for a while, since they brought in David R Jones back into the picture...That Massive Dynamics' Nina (my first thought) or now more accurate, Alt-Amber-Nina and DRJ are working with clones, not only shapeshifters, so maybe this young FBI Olivia is a product from Olivia's DNA, not necessarily her daughter, but more like her clone, and that's why she's younger than Nina and Walter, because they've just created her.....I know this maybe a long shot, but being episode 19, it could be a clone story going back and forth in time to see the "what if"..."once upon a time" kind of thing.
ReplyDeleteShe's the perfect clone to play the gorgeous Anna Torv
That's a good point, but it's possible that there are just a series of time lines that relate to each other and have 'the Peters' and/or Bishops use/create the machine, but it could be possible that outside the realm of the time lines that are more relative to "us" that this isn't/wasn't always the case....but The First People as suggested by Peter in both the Day We Died and Peter and the Machine are thought to be other versions of themselves, but if this time line is any consolation, then we see not everything happens exactly the same way, or at exactly the same time...
ReplyDeleteWhat's interesting though is that I caught in Welcome to Westfield (I think) that Peter has to create a prototype interface for the machine(s) of this time line, almost suggesting that there is no interface on this machine, or it's Peter's attempt to crowbar it himself...but I am not sure what this really means.
That's a cool idea. i really like it and it would be totally unexpected! (:
ReplyDeleteEtta = Ella.
ReplyDeleteit's a great hypothesis that September is a descendant of Polivia, and I can say more - all the other observers couldn't find their ancestors, therefore they don't act emotionally like September does, and that's why he is the only one who is "breakig the rules".
ReplyDeleteWhat makes you so certain, besides the similarity of their names?
ReplyDeleteAugust also broke the rules when he fell in love with Christine Hollis, so he had to die. Thanks. I had forgotten about the rules against feelings.
ReplyDeletelike I said above --Nina, Ella, and Etta all have name pattern. I always felt that Nina was related to the Olivias/Dunhams in some way...whether another version of the characters, a split soul manifested, or a relative from another time...there are HUGE parallels between the Olivias and herselves...
ReplyDeleteAs TVnut014 said, it's probably short for something, because Etta is such a strange name and Henri-etta is probably the BEST possibility also because In The Day we Died, the girl across the street, Amanda drew a picture of Olivia, Peter, and a little girl that they had yet to have...
Amanda, like Henry is also a reoccurring name...and a name like Henri-etta makes me also think about "Marion-ette", as the women brought back to life in the Frankestein manner was also another character named Amanda! --Additionally Dana Grey's played by Paula Malcomson is notorious for her Caprica character (which BSG is referenced a few times in FRINGE), "Amanda" Greystone, Dana Grey's name fits into amANDA GREYstone's name...The episode, "Stowaway" is unique because not only Olivia is not Olivia again, leading to "LSD", but Amanda Grey's episode offered a more limited kind of course correction, because she couldn't die/move on and "be with her family", including her husband HENRY GREY, until she fulfilled her role of saving the people on the train....I think that episode is very reflective of deaths of Olivias and how Peter has to deal with it...
Also the Bishop family has ERT/TER name pattern and Henry is where the pattern breaks, but if we would have a Henri-etta, then even though not all together, those letters would still at least be in the name and provide a nice convergence on both name patterns...
Not certain just guessing. But I like the other ideas I have read on this post too.
ReplyDeleteI really dig your name analysis. Very interesting, "Do not mistake coincidence for fate" (Mr Eko)
ReplyDeleteSomething worth thinking about.Nice going!
ReplyDeleteGreat, I had forgotten about the love story of Christine & August... :)
ReplyDeleteI have also a theory of why September said he's a fan of Walter and why are the observers are so bold... but it's hard for me to write it down (because i'm not an english speaker)...
This might be a bit of a stretch, but it's curious that Henry basically is missing the "T" in the Bishop male lineage name pattern, and September suggest that Henry is not favored to exist...Some theororise that INtREPUS might be more of a harrbringer of death than Massive Dynamic....It's curious because the company's name is all capitalized except for the lower case "t"...if you would turn the lower case t a quarter in either direction, you could read it as an "x", which one then could speculate that either INtREPUS might relate to the death(s) of Olivia(s), or maybe now with Henry being perceived by this not so good entity in the future(s) of the Universes.
ReplyDeleteI thought of another sanario that would be weird...(probably not, but thought I'd throw it out there!)
ReplyDeleteWhat if Nina and Walter are married in this episode's reality and they had adopted one of the two main guest leads....
Probably not, but it's kind of interesting that we see Walter and Nina "outside" together in the same scene. It's something we haven't seen...