Pretty sure that showing the regenerating Cortexiphan-dosed lemon-and-brain-cake is setting up Astrid getting healed... which could lead to an enhanced Astrid for the last season.
@Flecky How did you like Homeland's ending? I'd watch another season. Anything with Inigo Montoya is entertainement, and I found myself actually liking Claire Danes. Especially after her Temple Grandin performance, I found myself really liking her again.
I *hated* Claire Danes' performance for the first half of the season. Then at the end I realized...oh, she's deliberately playing her with flattened affect, because she's holding back the damn crazy train. Then it made complete sense.
My first instinct was that Jones was going for Astrid to destabilize Walter. Particularly because of the specific attention paid to the "mother hen" stuff. So when the bit with Jones was resolved I breathed a sigh of relief. What a fool I was. Of course as I'm sniffling about Astrid, Nimoy shows up, and drops the "old friend" line. Love/Hate.
@Finagle: I took the flattened affect to be Danes playing up the effects of her medication.
@government spy: I really enjoyed the end of Homeland, and found all the lead performances brilliant. I can't remember when I watched a show with such a tense final. Glad you've been enjoying Six Feet Under.
@DJ Stawes - It's worth checking out. I finished watching all of season 1 of Homeland. I liked it. It's pretty much an update of "The Manchurian Candidate". Claire Danes surprised me with her performance. Never found her interesting before.
King of Retcons will Retcon. Fringe doesn't exactly cringe away from bringing characters back from the dead. Also, we didn't even really see her die. Astrid will be fine, mark my words. MARK THEM
For anyone that didn't see it, I recommend Cardinal Burns.
I went in with low expectations and laughed my puerile arse off. Saying that, it's not all puerile and some of it - Switch & the acting audition - are spot on.