I saw fringe those days in 2009 and then again recently.

And I'm sure to remember 2 episodes that I find nowhere on the internet or anywhere else.

One was where Peter was in an alternate universe but somehow his body was disintegrating because the universe was rejecting him.

Eventually he found a way by replacing all his body fluids with fluids from that universe

The other one is where Peter and Olivia have a child and Broyles is running for president. They are attending one of his campaigns. The slogan of his campaign is "Live Brave"

Why am I not finding any of this anywhere?

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[+] -16 points 3 days ago (1 child)

Ask a chatbot? Maybe something like ChatGPT might be able to help.

I'm kind of loathe to recommend AI, but this might be a place where it could help.

Years ago, I remembered an episode I saw at a friend's house. Not of Fringe. I didn't know what the show was. We were just watching it while other things were going on. I asked all over Reddit and no one seemed to know what it was. Years later I was watching Justified with my wife and we just happened upon the episode (season 2, episode 1). I had described it nearly perfectly, with a couple minor things slightly off. The funny thing was, it was/is cool to say you liked Justified, but none of the people trying to sell the show to others could identify that episode. Maybe they stopped with the first season? It was weird.

Humans are a flawed bunch. It has been documented that people are afraid to answer a question they don't know they answer to. Like "I don't know" is worse than dropping the N word or the R word. Cunningham's Law is an actual thing where it's been proven that if you don't know the answer to a question, asking it will get far fewer responses than stating the incorrect answer confidently. Almost as much as people are afraid to admit what they do not know, people love "getting one over" on someone, even if it's a total stranger. Just like, "I know this thing, and rather than answer your question asked in good faith, I'm going to ignore that and come over to where you confidently stated the wrong thing, and I'm going to prove you wrong, and other people I don't know are going to see that I am better than you." Both people could have saved half their energy by the "smarter" person just answering the question in the first place. But again, state the wrong thing confidently and people will come out of the woodwork to "take you down a peg".

An AI isn't going to have any of those problems. It's gonna look at what you said and scan a metric fuck ton of synopses and it's going to get you an answer. And some jackass is going to tell you "you're the reason RAM and SSDs cost so much now," but that same person wasn't trying to help you solve your problem, because helping you isn't the goal, taking you down, is. So, remove the human from the equation. Get your answer, and keep it moving.

...As for me, I watched Fringe, but I don't remember jack shit about it. It was enjoyable to watch though. There's another one people liked about as much, with that guy from LOST, who played Ben Linus up there. Nerdy guy with the glasses. I think it also dealt with other worlds. Then there were shows like The 4400. Many others I don't remember. I think The Leftovers was the best of these, by far. I wish I could help. What I will tell you is that I don't know. Because the neat thing about a logical fallacy is, once you see how it works, it's piss easy to navigate around it.

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