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Fringe Season 5 Episode 3

The Recordist

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AIRED: Oct 12, 2012

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The Fringe team meets with a group of humans who have taken refuge in the forest and seek to preserve humanity's history any way they can.

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Fringe "The Recordist" Review: Time to Get Proactiv

A hero was made this week but I could barely bring myself care during a shockingly dull episode of Fringe.

By Tim Surette, Oct 15, 2012

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The worst episode of Fringe ever

2.0

By mobilehead, Jan 21, 2013

It was bad. Dull, slow and strange. Not fringy strange but just strange. It wasn't Fringe like, it had no action, there was nothing apart from red rocks that made the plot any farther. It becomes clearer why the show was about to be canceled last season. The lack of ideas was on the horizon and now it just reaches the shore...
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We miss the Fringe events and the Oliv Action!

6.5

By altaleh, Oct 15, 2012

I'm very sad to say that Season 5 of Fringe is so below the level of the previous two seasons. The show become full of drama and details that made it a little bit boring. I think the writers should consider to add more action and weird events with the invaders and we need to see Olivia in action with her daughter, that would be awesome!

This is episode show exactly what I mean. The tapes thing remind of the final season of Prison Break and what happen to that show. I think the writes should end this tapes this in the next episode.moreless
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Falling in love all over again

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By RuanHuman, Oct 14, 2012

Seriously, dont be a fool and star bringing logic into Fringe! This is a world where anything is possible - and if people with freaky diseases are recording history on crystal cubes, in the woods, you'd better believe it!

Great character episode... Season 5 is making me fall in love with Fringe all over again.
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5x03 "The Recordist"

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By lucianoabc, Oct 14, 2012

Not the best episode. Too slow and nothing really important happened. But even though it was a bad of episode of Fringe, it was still streets ahead (notice the Community reference) than other shows.
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Obviously the lack of ideas starts to show

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By d-phrag, Oct 13, 2012

it was like a bad episode of X Files from 15 years ago. And all the violins and epic, dramatic music. The only thing that surprised me was that the crystals were RED and not green and glowing in the dark. And how in the world these people living in the woods have the technology for recording to those glass cubes? C'mon...
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Cast & Crew: STARS

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Anna Torv	Olivia Dunham
Joshua Jackson	Peter Bishop
Jasika Nicole	Astrid Farnsworth
John Noble	Dr. Walter Bishop

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Cast & Crew: RECURRING AND GUESTS

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Connor Beardmore	River Massey	Guest Star
Paul McGillion	Edwin Massey	Guest Star
Gaelan Beatty	Loyalist Scout	Guest Star
Georgina Haig	Henrietta "Etta" Bishop	Recurring Role
Michael Kopsa	Captain Windmark	Recurring Role
Shaun Smyth	Alin	Recurring Role

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TRIVIA (2)
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- In Olivia's flashback to 2015, the missing persons board has a flyer dated June 12, 2033.
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- Trivia: The glyph code for this episode is ANGER.
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QUOTES (6)
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- River: I wish I was around during your time. When there were real heroes.
  Peter: Well, kiddo, you're my hero for giving me a nice, strong jawline.
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- Astrid: Walter, is there a mine where you are?
  Walter: Mime. The only mime that I know of is Marcel Marceau. What's he got to do with any of this?
  Astrid: No, a mine.
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- Walter: (exploring a mine) In 1923, a mine collapsed in Peru. The trapped survivors were forced to nourish themselves on the dead.
  Peter: Thanks for that, Walter.
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- Edwin: You're not a coward if you're frightened. That's not what it means. You're a coward if you know what needs to be done and you don't do it.
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- Edwin: There's a time for recording history, and there's a time for making it.
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- River: A hero died. Sacrificing himself in order to get the Fringe team resources they need to save our world. Edwin Massey, the recorder of history, made history. He will be greatly missed. Like other great men before him, he gave his life selflessly in pursuit of freedom... and a better future.
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NOTES (1)
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- International Airdates:
  Canada: October 12, 2012 on Citytv
  UK: November 7, 2012 on Sky1
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