Anyone noticed they've completely abandoned everything about "The Pattern"?

xauriel · 1 year

They only called it that because they had no freaking clue what was going on.

frid · 1 year

They didn't abandon it, they figured out what it was.

CamoBee · 1 year

Anyone else notice that all the Events in 'The Pattern' were about creating a door between two universes, and centered on Walter's initial attempt, and David Robert Jones' replication of that event?

TubaMike · 1 year

My belief is that our ZFT was Bell's attempt to prepare the Blue Universe to fight back against the Red Universe. The Pattern was a series of events loosely tied to Bell, ZFT, or Fringe Science.

Here's an something I posted in an earlier thread:

In 6B (S3.E14), they mention the amber from S1.E3, The Ghost Network (the one with the bus). ZFT was preparing for a war between our universe and the "Red" Universe, and it is proposed in 6B that the bus amber might have been an experiment to test ZFT's version of amber to stop up cracks on our side. If William Bell was indeed the founder of the ZFT organization on our side, he may have started it after seeing Walternate's efforts to militarize the Red Universe against our own. I think ZFT was Bell's way of equipping an organization on our side with tech he had access to over there. We saw in Subject 13 (S3.E15) that Walternate realized there was an alternate universe. Presumably, that epiphany acted as a catalyst for Walternate to begin plans to take his Peter back and sets the wheels in motion for a war between the two universes. When Bell is "over there," he sees Walternate's determination on destroying our universe and starts funneling information over to ZFT on our side so we could fight back.

When Mitchell Loeb is interrogated by Olivia about ZFT in Bound (S1.E11), he says:

MITCHELL LOEB: Yes! Do you not understand the rules? What we're up against? Who the two sides are? Tell me at least you know that. OLIVIA: Who's we? MITCHELL LOEB: We had a plan here, lady. We had a shot. And you just blew it. OLIVIA: Then why did you kidnap me? MITCHELL LOEB: Kidnap you? Idiot. We saved you. OLIVIA: Saved me from what? MITCHELL LOEB: We were going to let you go. We saved you. You-- you have no idea --- what you've done. Not a clue

TL;DR: ZFT was Bell's attempt to get ready for a war against the Red Universe

xcalibre · 1 year

'twas just a codename

http://fringe.wikia.com/wiki/The_Pattern

DWells55 · 1 year

Yeah, and whatever happened with ZFT?

loneninja · 1 year

I was under the impression that The Pattern was a sign of the weak spots between the two universes, since the amber bus was considered part of The Pattern. Unexplainable events that occur because the laws of science and nature are violated, I think it was something Walter realized in the episode with the "ghosts."

wilsonjunkie · 1 year

I've asked myself a month or two ago. However "the pattern" were inexplicable things happening, which turns out to be deeds of of mostly scientists, ZFT or not. What I didn't get was how did these events all align themselves to the origin of the crack that Walter made. :\

BarelyReal · 1 year

They never totally explained just what the pattern was, as there's a lot of room for interpretation, but it ultimately served its purpose. The Pattern could have been nothing more than the sum of ZFT's planning for the "war" or it could have been the Other side, or a combination of both.

Regardless, the point of The Pattern was to lead to Olivia joining and putting together her Fringe team, which would lead to the revelation of there being many universes and the "war".

It's a little frustrating, but you have to keep in mind that like Lost, this isn't hard scifi or even conventional scifi in the sense everything will have a definite or finite explanation. At this point it just isn't very important, because the plot of the series is able to move on without that detail being explained.

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