I've known green beans with far more personality than that.
Michael Emerson is a PERSON OF INTEREST
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I'm usually a really bad judge of acting quality, but even I could tell that Cavezel had no real personality. As a whole, I thought the episode was OK, my main problem was that it really wasn't anything that unique. It's pretty much just another rogue hero going after bad guys.
I enjoyed it for what it is...it has a kind of cinematic quality to it. I do hope it evolves and isn't just a social security number pick of the week. I don't think Jim Cavizel's character IS supposed to have personality. He's "mysterious" and depicted as a cold blooded killer who lost his girlfriend and has buried his emotions. I'm guessing Detective Carter is supposed to his potential love interest/ally character. We shall see how long this show lasts.
It had some good moments, but I wasn't overly impressed. I thought about dropping it, but I think I'll stick around to see if a good arc develops.
The premise feels like it should of had a 2 hour pilot but I felt it got better as the episode went on. I think there is great potential though we are going to need some characater development for Jim's character because everytime he spoke I thought my god he sounds like Batman 
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Good show. A bit too much of the CBS style for my tastes, but Emerson is excellent. I like Caveziel, but he needs to lose the Batman stage whisper. That just comes off as corny, like he saw the movies and is literally trying to imitate the character. I hope they expand beyond the petty-thug type criminal because that's going to get old fast.
I think he's supposed to have a greatly repressed personality.
I think he's supposed to have a greatly repressed personality.
I enjoyed the first episode. It had a gritty look to the cinematography and a good sense of paranoia to it. Also the action scenes were well done.
As for a continuing arc, maybe this is the new Fringe or Lost, as both started out alot less sci-fi than they ended up to be. Though this one is starting out even less than those but here's hoping something big is going on in the background; maybe the supercomp is on the verge of sentience and Emerson's character will become like Forbin.
As for a continuing arc, maybe this is the new Fringe or Lost, as both started out alot less sci-fi than they ended up to be. Though this one is starting out even less than those but here's hoping something big is going on in the background; maybe the supercomp is on the verge of sentience and Emerson's character will become like Forbin.
I really enjoyed it. Good, interesting premise with two even better lead actors. Unlike most of the new shows this season, I can actually see this show lasting more than a season. It seems most shows are built for one good season. Quite frankly, I wish some shows would last only a season and have that planned ahead of time.
Anyway, I like the idea that Caviezel's character doesn't know if he's after the victim or the murderer.
Anyway, I like the idea that Caviezel's character doesn't know if he's after the victim or the murderer.
I think Finch somehow feels responsible for the death of Reese's girlfriend, which is why he took an interest in Reese in the first place. Maybe his company was providing more conventional surveillance for the government at the time and they were observing Reese and/or Jessica, or maybe the government took it a step further and killed her or allowed her to be killed in order to remove Reese's incentive for leaving government service.
Finch seemed to know a lot of intimate details about Jessica and Reese even though immediately following 9/11 his super surveillance system hadn't been constructed yet and couldn't have recorded their conversations. Finch also said that he had been watching Reese for a "very long time." Perhaps Finch observed but was unable to prevent Jessica's death and thus feels responsible, giving him motivation to look out for Reese and save others ((besides the death(s) in his own family he implied)).
It just seemed like there was an awful lot of exposition about her death while still trying to keep it mysterious, which suggests to me that her death will play a role in the future narrative.
I like the way they've limited the information to only social security numbers, which allows for a lot of good twists and turns as the story goes along to keep the audience on their toes.
Finch seemed to know a lot of intimate details about Jessica and Reese even though immediately following 9/11 his super surveillance system hadn't been constructed yet and couldn't have recorded their conversations. Finch also said that he had been watching Reese for a "very long time." Perhaps Finch observed but was unable to prevent Jessica's death and thus feels responsible, giving him motivation to look out for Reese and save others ((besides the death(s) in his own family he implied)).
It just seemed like there was an awful lot of exposition about her death while still trying to keep it mysterious, which suggests to me that her death will play a role in the future narrative.
I like the way they've limited the information to only social security numbers, which allows for a lot of good twists and turns as the story goes along to keep the audience on their toes.
I think they need to go more sci fi in explaining the Magic Crime Predicting Machine, which operates under fairly absurd rules. Maybe there's no hope for the absurd rules but if it were gaining sentience and playing its own game, that might explain why a) it can predict the people involved in a crime but not what roles they would play and b) spitting out just social security numbers somehow keeps the operation safer from the Feds vs any other type of data because why? The Feds pay less attention to the security of the numbers vs, say, people's names or addresses? That makes me feel really secure about identity theft.
Here's something else they should explain, but won't. If the government had a way of predicting domestic crimes, wouldn't they put that to good use? Lowered crime rates can be very good in an election year, both at the Federal level, and for state and local politicians in your party. There's no benefit to just sitting on your hands when you have the info. For Finch to be the only person who understands what the data is good for is simply absurd.
Also absurd: that Reese can go from homeless drunk to steely-eyed killer overnight. At the very least, he's still an alcoholic, even if he's off the wagon now. I hope the writers remember that he needs to go to AA, fall off the wagon, etc.
^ I'm guessing one doesn't lose their combat training and skills after they've gone on a drinking binge. I suspect that this will be touched upon later in the seasons as they made a big deal about showing his drinking. He was using this obviously to bury his feelings and I'm guessing memories. We've still yet to be shown or told how he lost his lady friend. I agree though the predicting machine is pretty absurd, it reminds me a little bit of the machine from "Wanted". I wonder if Jonathon Nolan watched that film before writing the script for this?
My point is that someone doesn't get in the shape he was in without being an alcoholic, and alcoholism doesn't just magically vanish one day. They need to address that as a lingering problem.
As for his combat skills, it wouldn't have been a bad idea to depict some physical effects of alcoholism on Reese. He's not a young man and he can't just snap back into shape like he's 20. He's got to have screwed himself up to some degree, perhaps permanently if only to a low level that he can strive to overcome.
As for his combat skills, it wouldn't have been a bad idea to depict some physical effects of alcoholism on Reese. He's not a young man and he can't just snap back into shape like he's 20. He's got to have screwed himself up to some degree, perhaps permanently if only to a low level that he can strive to overcome.
I'm not sure if I like it or not. This first episode felt a little rushed. The whole bringing Reese into this crime-fighting partnership thing should have been the story for this entire episode, not just done in the first 15 minutes so that we can quickly move on to the story of the week. I will cut the show some slack since it is the premiere, but next week's episode will probably decide whether or not I continue with the show.
It's not that it was terrible, and I very much enjoyed the actors. I just...was hoping for something more.
It's not that it was terrible, and I very much enjoyed the actors. I just...was hoping for something more.
Proposition 1: Actually thinking through the concept is hard, and writing exposition for it is even harder.
Proposition 2: If it's scifi, it doesn't have to make sense.
Proposition 3: If you take yourself very seriously, it's drama.
Conclusion: Person of Interest, in which the crime predictor can spit out arbitrarily limited information, giving the hero fake obstacles to overcome in the course of resolving simple-minded threats. This will inevitably fascinate the audience, like drawing a chicken's beak along a straight line.
Jim Caviezel is a younger, but less talented, version of Mel Gibson. He's playing a black hole of self-pity cunningly disguised as an affectless chunk of testosterone and this has no interest for adults. In my opinion, of course.
Proposition 2: If it's scifi, it doesn't have to make sense.
Proposition 3: If you take yourself very seriously, it's drama.
Conclusion: Person of Interest, in which the crime predictor can spit out arbitrarily limited information, giving the hero fake obstacles to overcome in the course of resolving simple-minded threats. This will inevitably fascinate the audience, like drawing a chicken's beak along a straight line.
Jim Caviezel is a younger, but less talented, version of Mel Gibson. He's playing a black hole of self-pity cunningly disguised as an affectless chunk of testosterone and this has no interest for adults. In my opinion, of course.
Jim Caviezel is of inherent interest to straight female adults. He's kept his looks too well to be convincing as a drunk, in comparison with Gibson, who's lost his because he is a drunk.
They better complicate the situation interestingly in the next few weeks and not just stick with the cop show routine. I'll give this two or three eps to shape up.
They better complicate the situation interestingly in the next few weeks and not just stick with the cop show routine. I'll give this two or three eps to shape up.
