this episode really sucked big time and so does your blog.

is it me or is Olivia's Sister and her stepford child annoying as hell! Anytime their on I want their brain's to melt or just implode! I hate it when shows add kids just for the sickeningly sweet cuteness factor!! BLAH!!
It was good to see Nina and M.D again! all in all a good episode, it kept me entertained. It wouldn't rank it as my top 5 so far but it didn't disappoint!

not everything has to do with the Pattern. That would be too convenient for everything around Boston to be related to the Pattern, you need episodes like this to show that there's other sick crap and people doing that sick crap.

However, I do miss Nina Sharp and Massive Dynamics this portion of the season. I hope they get back to that soon. Harris is not nearly the foil for the Fringe division that Nina is, but maybe the show is trying to show some backstory for Olivia that isn't connected to John Scott. That would also explain the sister and niece that I think will play into learning more about Olivia too and make her more human and multi-dimensional.

Otherwise, I think this was an fairly good episode that had some decent character development for all the main characters (even some for Broyles). Plus, it had a plot we could all relate to, some funny lines, and a strange way these people died that needed investigation.

The Dempseys lived on Braddock Avenue. Some "Fringe" writer finally got around to Netflixing Cinderella Man.

One more thing. Did it bother anyone that they were able to pull data off of a charred and torched hard drive when "even a speck of dust can render them inoperable." Has anyone ever seen a hard drives insides and know how they work? That speck of dust comment is fairly accurate, though it would render some advanced equipment from pulling data off. But burned and charred to a crisp!!! And all Peter's "wizard" did was plug it in and go. Hilarious!

Walter says, "Be sure to check his floppy disks, as well." (That was one of the favorite quotes, really??) And the response comes back (and I'm paraphrasing) we're way beyond that now. Yes we are indeed.

Why didn't they question if Rachel knew Dempsey? He was killing people against whom he had a grudge.

We already know that she's up to something.

(Posted this at TvGuide.com in reply to an interview with the "Mr Jones" character)
Fringe has revealed itself as "X-Files: Next Generation". This show is following the same formula and it's pissing alot of us off, especially with these one-off eps like "No Brainer" which does nothing to address The Pattern and its players like Nina, Massive Dynamics, and Mr Jones. This is a pathetic waste of creative talent and fan involvement to just rehash the X-Files.

This show is running very uneven, hot and cold. This one was cold ... was the old washout guy behind the popup a lone wolf or connected to MassDyn ? Why didn't our guys slo-mo the video to analyze its images ? Ditto with the audio ? Sanford Harris is just a joke of a character, an obvious plot device just to hassle Olivia, and continues to draw this show closer to "The X-Files" than differentiate itself from it. Introducing the Jessica Warren character just seemed like an add-on, didn't develop organically. I'm missing Nina, MassDyn, Mr Jones, and the whole underlying conspiracy thing -- yet another jerk-the-viewers-around thing that X-Files used to do.

This poor ep was written by Goodman and Kane who had (separately) done prior brain/head explosion episodes. But John Polson didn't help the cause as a first time director to this series. With 12 eps under our belt now, I think we can see what's happening with this series and I'm VERY disappointed with its '90s-era X-Files formula.

Everyone is in the lab talking and the wall phone rings... They look at each other and try to figure out what the noise is. "I didn't think that even worked."

Fun-knee

I believe there was a line Peter said to Olivia in the car, which I can't recall.