In this week's episode, Inner Child, Walter straps his neuro-transmitter onto the Child, and picks up an odd, unintelligible voice. Lots of fans are speculating that the Child thinks/speaks backwards, since he writes upside-down...
I've recorded the transmission and reversed the audio. Take a listen for yourself:
Original:
Edited:
Reverse:
Still sounds unintelligable to me! And anyway, I don't think the Child writes backwards, per se. It looks to me like his spacial reasoning is way beyond that of a normal human, and he just writes so that Olivia can read his handwriting from her perspective across from him.
What do you think?
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It looks to me like his spacial reasoning is way beyond that of a normal human, and he just writes so that Olivia can read his handwriting from her perspective across from him.
That was my thought too actually. I think some times people get so caught up in the idea that this is science fiction so there MUST be some fantastical thing going on - when really sometimes the simple answer is the right one.
To me it sounds like:
"Look there, a hoola hoop, soup in a can."
But for some reason I don't think that's correct...
Cant be certain, but it sounds like the first few seconds are a repeat of each other, like the child was thinking random thoughts to get the machine calibrated, then once the others could hear, actually started what he was going to say.
Sorry for the double post, but in the non reversed samples, I can definetely hear the word "Jones". Could it be a reference to Mr. Jones, and perhaps not be reversed, but in another language?
It sounds like Dr. Hawking a little. But european versions huh?
My guess is that he said "my name is Samuel and". I can't get the rest.
You guys probably are right on the writing upside down.Still he did it pretty well. It would be like if you write upside down while looking in a mirror.Not an easy thing.Is the language also being spoken in a different pattern from our own? Not necessarily reversed. Just a guess.
It kind of sounds like my name is samuel and i am nine, or my name is samuel and i have no hair or something like that.
I have listened to this, I can hear Samuel in the first part... But the second I thought it said a bunch, but am going to go with this:
" ...Clearly excited. In the end I hope you and Jones and I....."
Last part sounds like elope, maybe mean go somewhere together?
The edited one above is the best one.
The kid says the same phrase twice-it sounds like he says "Samuel Nataya" at the end of it. Then there are two other phrases, one contains the word "Jones," and then he repeats the phrase he said twice in a row.
It doesn't sound backward to me, just foreign. What language is it?
i tried listening to reversed and edited version at the same time but nothing happened.
hmm.
it sorta sounds to me like the automated voice that comes up if you type something on the computer and get the computer to read it aloud
IN the edited version right after walter says "STRAWS" the boys thinks/says "There are no straws" thats what i got.(obviously not important but w/e) nd at the end of the edited (lyk 3-4 seconds) he definetely says "Jones".
This doesnt have much to do with the audio clip- but i rewatched this episode uesterday- nd when olivia is in the meat freezer talking to the asian dude- right as we see hear there is a thermometer on the wall- to me it stuck out alot more than as something than just a thermometer- the last thermometer we say said "ZFT" on it- maybe its trying to reference saying "ZFT" will have something in the next eiposde.
(either that or imjust being to notciedable)
After Walter says "STAWS" it sounds to me like the boy/machine says, "voulez-vous straws" or something along those lines. Make be they've simply got a bunch of different languages and stuck them together.
to me it sounds like the first thing you hear on the reverse part is "leave me alone" then something along the lines "and liv" and "i've done you no harm" if you check the next few seconds starting from the end but going forward.
and I could SWEAR i heard the word yellow in there.
he also says something about a color and something about jones at the end and he says voulez-vous in there which in french is please to multiple people you(all)
I think that he is saying "I am Carl Lewis Samuel [Naitaya]" and it repeats. Walter says "There, straws" the boys says "Voulez-vous straws." Then something like "owe diane miller" and then "clear Nick Sajack" something else and "new jones iotope" and then it repeats the "I am Carl Lewis Samuel [Naitaya]"
I checked this out again and I heard the phrase,"it clearly saved him".
Doesn't it occur to anyone that it maybe a different language. It sounds like an asian language, possibly the one the meat packer guy speaks
It is fun not to know the answer!
lol thats true- but sometimes knowing the answer will open up a bunch of crazy theories behind ppl
I could have sworn that parts of the transmission sounded like conversation from "Star Trek."
Perhaps this is a salute to Leonard Nimoy and JJ Abrams upcoming movie?
i hear the samuel nytaya
then something like 'jones and i at home' and 'saved him' i dont know just kinda seemed like his random thoughts to me
i think it was in a different language like romanian or something... or then again maybe just gibberish.
It sounds like latin
has anyone checked his upside down writing with The Observers strange writing system? Or maybe he's speaking in the language The Observer writes in?
I feel bad for the crew but I want them do whatever it takes for Fringe to survive. It's the best show on TV. I just hope they can keep the same feel to it in Canada.
He was saying "I can't believe Carl Lewis wanted $50 for his autograph"
The kid writes upside down, not reversed.... so try to take edited audio,"visually",and turn it upside down and play it....? just a thought.
To clarify: at the end of the show Ghost hunters, if they catch anything in recorders they have the audio visually shown on the screen, so take that, and turn it upside down. if that is possable?
an audio waveform goes up and down around the baseline so flipping it upside down (around the horizontal axis) would give you the same thing...
This sounds a lot like the vocalizations that the robot Kismet at MIT makes. It sounds like speech but isn't, but it's used to encourage people to interact with the robot.
http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/sociable/movies/kismet-and-rich.mov
PS- with stuff like this it's easy to hear things that others have suggested. It's like when you are told the lyric to a song is something, then years later you find out it's completely different.
The voice of the "boy" is one of the Macintosh speech voices "Kathy" or "Junior"
Oops, someone said that. I'm going through a bunch of Latin phrases. The first repeated line is what I'm focusing on.
On the edited recording, midway while walter speaks it sounds like "may lose souls" and then a few seconds after it sounds like "will it save them?"
I think the boy is the same as the observer!!! a younger version and may turn out like him.
Reverse: "Leave me alone I have done you no harm." It's repeated 3 times i think.
I was actually under the impression that the child learned to write from what Olivia was writing--a lot of shots are devoted to him watching her write, and the angle at which she is writing from his perspective--since her writing was upside-down to him, he mimicked what she had done. Makes sense if he's effectively reading her thoughts and translating what she does into ways to communicate with her.
"a knight tale" is heard. check this out http://www.letrasyletras.com/cancion/556383/Tragic-Comic_Night-Tale.html
its a younger observer
With all the reverse themes, not just the writing and the voice but the reversed things going on in the background, kind of like mirror images. I got the feeling that the boy himself was reversed. Think "mirror dimension"
The players dont't work for me...
The player doesnt work. Tried Chrome, Firefox and IE.
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