http://watching-tv.ew.com/2010/12/10/fringe-season-3-episode-9/
Ken Tucker's review of last night's Fringe: Knowing that this was the first
Fringe after the alternating alternate-universes and the last before a winter break placed quite a burden on this week’s episode, entitled “Marionette.” But by now, the series is so sure of its tone and its surging story-telling power, that it more than met its challenges. The fringe-science case was a resonant dilly: A man is harvesting the donated organs of a dead woman he loved/loves, hoping to put her together,
Franken-style, and reanimate her. In the same way as this harvester
[me:which worked beautifully as a metaphor for the situation that Olivia has found herself in] ,
Fringe has become exhilaratingly fearless about snatching up bits from literature, movies, pop and high culture, brazenly acknowledging their provenance, and putting them together in a unique way. [...]
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