Review of Marionette

Fringe: Marionette (2010)
Season 3, Episode 9
10/10
Re-Animator: "I'm Not Vomiting"
12 June 2012
Warning: Spoilers
Roland David Barrett ("Russian" Actor Mark Ivanir) is a very ingenious but depressed individual who is attempting to correct a wrong: His friend Amanda Walsh ("Possibly Russian" Actress Anja Savcic) had taken her life, and all he wants to do is give it back to her.

Which he may have been able to do much more easily, except for the fact that Amanda's body parts had been transplanted into several other people- And Barrett must get all the pieces back before he tries to "turn her back on."

This Episode begins with Barrett harvesting Amanda's Heart from the person in which it is now beating: Barret is a Genius, he knows how to prevent tissue from decaying. He applies this to the gentleman he had taken Amanda's Heart from, who was alive without a heart! And Fringe Division is called in. Meanwhile Barrett has Amanda's Body at his house and he's been piecing it together for the last year.

As Walter Autopsies the corpse of the victim, he asks Pater if he notices anything about the body: Peter says "I'm Not Vomiting." Barrett had used a chemical that had kept the victim alive, preventing tissue decay.

Amanda was very much interested in Ballet: And so Barrett exercises Amanda's Body by attaching it to a huge apparatus that he controls, making her "Dance" along to Ballet Music: His "Marionette" - He moves Amanda around like a huge puppet! Which is fairly disgusting and disturbing: Typical Fringe Fare.

Barrett gives the initial impression he is a kind of Mad Scientist, Like Walter: In fact there is a relationship between Barrett's work and Walter's, Walter never knew how far along the experiments down this avenue had gone, he was in St Claire's (The Place where he Lived for 17...). But as we go along we see that Barrett has true remorse for harming the people he is taking Amanda's organ's from, apologizing to them as he kills some of them.

Fringe Division tracks down Barrett as they investigate the bizarre murders and organ removals: One poor bloke lived, but Barrett had removed his Corneas, leaving the poor bleeders Eye Goop running down his face.

But mainly, this episode is about Olivia dealing with Fauxlivia's invasion of her Personal and Private life, as well as the damage she had done to her work space, Fringe Division. At first she claims she is OK with Peter, after Peter tells her had had a relationship with Fauxlivia: Who he thought was Olivia.

But when Barrett finally gets all of Amanda's parts back, he "Re-Animates" her, and the person looking back at him, is not Amanda: He can tell by Looking in her Eyes: Barrett tells this to Olivia and she immediately applies this to herself and Peter: blaming Peter for not figuring out that "Olivia" was really "Fauxlivia"-she was very unfair to Peter in this.

The question is, if the person who Barrett brought back was not Amanda, who then was it? This Episode homages the X-Files episodes where they talk about "the Walk-Ins" - People who have died and have come back in other people's bodies, this was dealt with in Season 7 of The X-Files, and mentioned once or twice before that- And also, in "The Ghost Whisperer."

If it was not Amanda, was it Amanda from The Other Side, if she also had taken her life? But whoever it is, Barrett KNOWS it is not "His" Amanda, and Olivia feels that Peter would have known that Fauxlivia was not "His" Olivia.

But in the end, Fauxlivia was not another totally different person than Olivia, she *is* Olivia, and it would have been much more difficult for Peter to figure out that Fauxlivia was not "His" Olivia: Because we have seen Peter and "His" Olivia later in the series, and the way they are together, is just like how Fauxlivia and Peter were when they were together.

On the other hand, I do not blame Olivia for being upset about Peter, but she should have been upset with him from the start, instead of pretending she was OK with it.
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