Person of Interest Season 4
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Wow, that was a great finale. It is a shame to see Dominic and Elias go.
I really hope this isn't the last we've seen of Control, she was a pretty cool character.
I though the end with The Machine leaving her (or should that be Her) fate in Finch's hands was pretty great.
Samaritan's "Correction" kind of reminded me of Hydra's plan in The Winter Soldier, although Samaritan's actually worked out for them.
Next season's early episodes should be very interesting indeed.
IGN has a post finale interview with EPs Johnathan Nolan and Greg Plageman.
I really hope this isn't the last we've seen of Control, she was a pretty cool character.
I though the end with The Machine leaving her (or should that be Her) fate in Finch's hands was pretty great.
Samaritan's "Correction" kind of reminded me of Hydra's plan in The Winter Soldier, although Samaritan's actually worked out for them.
Next season's early episodes should be very interesting indeed.
IGN has a post finale interview with EPs Johnathan Nolan and Greg Plageman.
It looked to me like Elias was still breathing when we last saw him. There's enough ambiguity there that they could say he survived.
I never much liked her, and her fatal flaw was evident in how easily she fell for Greer's obvious misdirect. She should've known the "evidence" for the bombing fell into place too easily, that it was a smokescreen. But her whole character is defined by post-9/11 paranoia, the fear of another massive terrorist attack. Everything she did was motivated by that fixation, and so it was her blind spot. Greer handed her exactly the scenario she feared most, and she couldn't see past her monomania and recognize how she was being manipulated. Her fanaticism made her mentally inflexible and therefore ridiculously easy to outsmart.
Come to think of it, though, maybe that's an optimistic thought. Greer is a fanatic too, in his way, so if that was Control's downfall, maybe it'll be his too.
I guess you could say the same for Dominic -- he was too narrowly focused on gaining power and it blinded him to what was really going on. But his killing seemed to be a rather arbitrary way of cutting off his arc. What was the point in even having him and his gang in the show if the storyline was just going to dead-end like this?
Good call, since Zola's predictive algorithm there always reminded me of what the Machine and Samaritan do. The difference is that Project Insight targeted a huge number of people just in the Eastern US alone, including President Ellis and Tony Stark. Samaritan limited itself to a few hundred key "outliers," apparently. Although I'm sure that number will increase over time as it identifies more "outliers" who disrupt its vision of perfect control.
Fusco has pretty much proven to be a threat to Samartian in the past. Even Dominic was going to have him killed for his connection to Finch.
Honestly, I always find it a bit annoying when shows or movies use rock songs whose lyrics fit what's happening onscreen. It's just so unsubtle and literal -- telling rather than showing.
The white boxes did have the Machine in them, more or less. She'd distributed herself throughout the nation's electrical grid, using the boxes as cloud components (processors/servers/memory) and the wiring as the network that connected them. Samaritan triggered the nationwide brownouts to blow out the boxes and force the Machine to retreat into a smaller and smaller portion of the grid, until eventually nothing was left.
I have to wonder, though, why Samaritan tried "herding" her like that instead of just browning out the whole grid at once, and why it happened to save Brooklyn for last. Why not start in New York and trap the Machine in, say, central Nevada, where the Machine Gang would have a harder time getting there to rescue her? That was awfully convenient.
I don't see any way the Machine could've uploaded herself into Harold's brain. The technology for that kind of interface is probably decades away, and it would probably require surgery to implant computer chips in the brain itself. And I don't think there really is "empty space" in the brain in that sense. The whole "We use 10 percent of our brains" is a total myth; every part of the brain is used, even if it isn't all at once. And if too many portions of the brain are active at the same time, that's pretty much an epileptic seizure. It's just not evolved to work that way.
Thank God we don't share the same opinion!
As it was playing back in multichannel glory on my rather well appointed sound system, I was thoroughly enjoying it. Vivre les differences, n'est-ce pas?
YAY!
TVLine is reporting that the new season will only be 13 episodes.
Based on this information, it looks like PoI will be ending next season. Disappointing news, but at least the creators will be able to give the series a proper conclusion.
Based on this information, it looks like PoI will be ending next season. Disappointing news, but at least the creators will be able to give the series a proper conclusion.
Well, the show's producers already said that they (at least as of a week ago) weren't looking at season five as the final season. Albeit, this could be CBS pulling a Mentalist again. But hopefully there are other options if CBS decides to end the show on their network after this upcoming run of episodes. One of the POI websites is starting a hashtag on Twitter: #13isnotenough.
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