Puf

I expected much, much more from the guy who has so many "Fringe" episodes on his credit list. Fantasy has to make some basic logical sense and it can stretch and imagine many things but it can't directly contradict simple medical facts (how the actual person close to death from consumption looks like) in order to be believable within it's own universe. It can invent it's own illness, but if it mentions well known illness then it has to be true to what it said.

Add the injection of a crime investigation TV episode structure (proverbial mandatory twist for the sake of twist) and infinitely overused cliche (a dying kind) and it all adds up to one big messed up nothing. I suppose this is to some extent another victim of the "follow the book" dogma that always ruins adaptations but I would expect a man who apparently did so much work on "Fringe" to know better.

Jessica Brown Findley was the only bright spot of this thing and one could comfortably finish the movie with her exit. For a while I though maybe they'd "bring her back" in the form of a 2014 yr girl oblivious to the "history" to mess with Peter's head (that would be great entertainment value). There were many imaginative ways things could have been done with a bit of rethinking. What would Walter Bishop do with this kind of temporal anomaly ? :-)

And then the final blow with that preachy, cringe inducing "we are all special and God loves us all and will bend over backwards to save us all" ("God" replaced by "Universe" so that fewer people wouldn't laugh) line that trivializes the whole story. Makes you appreciate the skill of the old, real fairytale writers in all aspects of their writings.

I'm beginning to feel sorry for Jessica Brown Findley that she has to waste her talent on a bunch of half baked movies that just don't give her enough material to work with.