Unearthed

Charlie is back, but forget about it. This episode is a stand alone, and should not have been show at this point. This is a about a teenaged girl who slips into a coma and whose mother pulls her from life support. She dies but then when her organs are about to be harvested, comes back to life. The plot then gets pretty thick with her channeling some soldier and exchanging life forces. It gets into religion and faith and that sort of detracts at times. Of course, this would be seen as a controversial episode and needed to be dealt with kid gloves. I'm glad the mother was no more zealous than she could have been. Anyway, the way things end up is pretty hard to fathom and really contrived. It's anything goes.

Agent Charlie Francis was dead, wasn't he? It is another universe? if is it another universe why everything is same except Agent Charlie Francis..........

Creator said here's another mystery: is it an unaired episode from Season One, or is it from an alternate universe? we are waiting for new episode long time, but it is little disappointment.. what ? they need agent Charlie or he have got friend at court :) ?!?! Good guys never die even if another universe.......

bye the way it is a little detail, Observer walk by behind Olivia on the Cathedral steps. this observers observe every universe ?!

still, I found it enjoyable and interesting.

This episode was actually a lost episode from Season 1. They never aired the episode because they feared that it might cause some controversy concerning religion and politics. So, that episode wasn't meant for this season but was given to audiences as a bonus!

This is just a quote for what it seems a strange jump in the story time line, hopefully this will help you understand why strange things happen in this episode that has no continuation with the others!

Apart from this... the episode is quite interesting, but I don't really understand the fear of the controversy. Let's see what happens on the next episode of Fringe.

The episode is pretty much the typical Fringe episode. Something unexplained happens, the crew sets out to figure it out, they figure it out, the end.

Now here are the problems. This episode is not in sync with the episodes preceding and succeeding it. In fact, it has nothing to do with them whatsoever. It does not contribute to the overarching plot of the series one bit. Then comes the major inconsistency of a character that's supposed to be dead reappearing.

If that wasn't enough, a Christian thematic is played up in this episode to the point where the way characters act does not make sense and is not consistent with the rest of the series. It's done in a way that would've worked with The X-Files, which deal with all sorts of paranormal, as opposed to Fringe, whose name itself refers to Fringe SCIENCE.

If you, the reader, are for some reason reading this review before seeing the episode, don't watch it. It's easily the worst of the series, and by watching it all you'll do is waste 40 minutes of your time.

I'm giving this an episode 8 out of 10 for the story and the acting. That being said, I don't understand why Fox decided to play the unaired 21st episode from the first season as episode 11 in season two.

After being off the air for a month our minds are a little foggy to remember all of the details from the previous episode and then we see Charlie alive and well... This was very confusing to me until I researched what happened.

Is it just me or should they have not aired this episode at all? When a character is killed off in a show that should be the last time we see them. Although with Fringe anything is possible, but a little explanation would be nice!

I say "boo" to you Fox for this episode. You shouldn't both airing a 7 month old episode as a new one when everything in the story line is out of sync, but that's just my opinion!