In the preview for Fringe Episode 104 - The Arrival, the bald man is seen writing some strange text. Anyone know what it is?
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In the preview for Fringe Episode 104 - The Arrival, the bald man is seen writing some strange text. Anyone know what it is?
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Writing backwards... strange spacing... Woah, my first guess is Egyptian or Sanskrit? possibly Malayalam?
Looks like a Hebrew text possibly mixed with something else?
I wonder if it's Aremic(middle east)....not many know how to read it since it is an ancient language.
sorry typo..it's aramaic
Doesn't look like any real language.
I suspect an alternate universe. Or the future. Or something similar.
the characters don't add up it must be a combination of characters...some sort of code?
Definitely a code.. What does it mean? I looked at several ancient languages last night. The symbols don't match much of anything.
Writing reminds me of a combination between Hiragana-Katakana and Hebrew-Samaritan
i know this has nothing to do with this post but i couldn't find anywhere to post it. did anyone else notice that at the end of episode 3 they were downloading information from agent whatever's brain.... and they said "we've made a connection and we've started retrival from the disk".... is he a cyborg????????????????????????
ancient minoan!! (OK, it looks nothing like ancient minoan, but it's what shows tend to go for)
Yes it does look alot like minoan...good job anon.
Here's background info. Check out linear A and linear B forms...very similar.
http://www.goddessmystic.com/PathActivities/MatricentricCultures/crete-language.shtml
Hi what_music: I'm not sure that there is a "best" place to post your theory, but for what it's worth, we hold an episode specific discussion over at Episodes. As to your theory, maybe they're growing a replacement clone for Agent John Scott, and they're downloading his memories for later upload into the matured clone?
@Edward: That could be what they're doing. I mean, why would they have him hooked up to a computer? Wouldn't he be really dead? Is he being preserved it a state that keeps him from being over 6 hours dead?
It kind of looks like he's writing backwards.
Okay, that's a bit lame, but some of the characters do look like backwards letters.
I think what anon said it's Minoan language.See post above.
It reminds me of the description of the writing found on the Roswell debris (by the son of the guy who found it). Anyone else remember that?
Not so much on the language, but has anyone else noticed "The Bald Man" seems to operate very low tech? As indicated by the old school opera glasses, notepad and perhaps even his style of dress(including the fedora if he is indeed the man outside of MD in the pilot)
I mean, in a show about science and technology, it seems a sharp contrast.
Thoughts?
I think everything he sees and hears goes in that notebook.
I think everything he sees and hears goes in that notebook.
It's the wingdings font : )
LOL!
What's wing ding? LOL
Since people are saying maybe the writing is Minoan, and that's a language that was spoken around the island of Crete. Anyone think it may have something to do with Atlantis type stuff?
Here's an idea. Since The Observer is writing backwards on his notepad, has anyone thought to reflect his writing on a mirror? Maybe then it will appear the "right" way. Hmmm...
Well it looks to be shorthand of some kind as posted elsewhere here.
Mycenaean would make perfect sense in my theory.
Compare the text to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:NAMA_Tablette_7671.jpg and see there are similarities.
The reason I connected this to Fringe is because of a book called "Artifact" by Gregory Benford. In it, there's a mysterious box that's discovered in a Mycaenaen tomb. Within the box is a singularity, a microscopic black hole. This allows the artifact to tunnel through the earth, just like the object in this episode.
It really doesn't look like Linear A or B to me (I took a seminar on the latter as part of my Classics degree in which my main language was Ancient Greek), but that doesn't necessarily mean anything. I doubt that people writing for tv would really research it that intensely. So, while it's possible that it's based off either script somehow, there would have to be significant poetic license involved to say that it's Linear A or B.
Honestly, it looks like gibberish to me. I would say that someone just wrote something that looked vaguely mysterious and left it at that.
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