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Person of Interest season 5
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*squee!*
I hope they give this a good send-off.
I hope they give this a good send-off.
Can't wait. I'm actually glad to see this show going out while it is still good rather than dragging it out for more seasons.
Yessssssss!!! I'm ready!
Count me in!
If anyone is interested in doing a rewatch of the pivotal episodes or like me came in late, IGN has a essential episodes article. I'm working on Daredevil still, so I'm not going to have time to catch up.
Ah man, I don't have access to the episodes so I guess I'll be reading the recaps if there are any or I hope there is some sort of quick summary somewhere I can get the main points.
I finished binge-rewatching the whole series a couple of weeks ago. I'm ready. I was hoping to pace myself and finish closer to the premiere date, but once you get to a certain point in the rewatch, it's hard to slow down.
awesome
IGN has posted the first part of an interview they did with Johnathan Nolan and Greg Plageman about the final season. They will post a second more spoiler part of the interview after ep. 4.
Glad to hear they're finally going to address Fusco being out of the loop. There were some odd moments in season 4, where Fusco was right in the middle of the fight against Samaritan, but it was never explained how much he actually knew about what was happening or why. They pretty much ignored the question in "If-Then-Else," and they brushed it off in "Control-Alt-Delete" with a joke where Harold gave a long explanation about what he was doing on the computer to counter Samaritan and Fusco just said "Were you talking to me?" Not to mention the Machine's-eye-view shots. As we saw with Saul Rubinek's character and with Carter, the Machine uses yellow squares to identify people who are in the loop about her existence and white squares for people who don't know about her. (At least, since her reboot after season 2. Before, she used yellow squares for the "irrelevant" team and blue for the "relevant" agents like Shaw, but from season 3 onward, she used yellow for everyone in the know, including Control and Hersh.) And yet Lionel's square has remained white, meaning that he's still unaware of the Machine. So they've been going with this status quo where Fusco is hearing the others talk about Samaritan and computers and stuff and doesn't seem at all curious about what it all means, which is weird. You'd think that lack of inquisitiveness is a poor trait in a detective. And just what does he think "Samaritan" is? Some kind of evil corporation? Another hacker like Harold? What goes on in his head? So keeping Fusco out of the loop has been very artificial, and I'm glad to hear they're actually going to deal with that issue.
The talk about bringing back characters is interesting. One thing I got to wondering about in my rewatch is whether we'll ever get followup on certain characters that were introduced and then faded away. Zoe Morgan was AWOL for a while but came back a couple of times in season 4; hopefully she'll get at least a swan song appearance in season 5. Then there's Leon from season 2. He was a major player in that season -- the first person that ever got to use Finch's computers other than Finch himself -- but then he totally disappeared without explanation. (The other day I saw a picture of Ken Leung in The Force Awakens and thought, "Hey, it's Leon! That's where he went!")
Then there were a couple of one-shot episodes introducing evil masterminds who were set up as potentially recurring, but then never heard from again. There was Julian Sands as the intelligence agent who blackmailed the doctor in "Critical," and the mysterious, unidentified phone voice who blackmailed the 911 operator in "Last Call." Both threads that were completely dropped. (I wonder if the mysterious voice was originally meant to be Sands's character but he was unavailable. They were both blackmailing good people to do horrible things for them.) I can understand that the Samaritan arc took precedence, but I would've liked a bit of closure on those. (Even if it's just to establish that they both fell victim to "the Correction.")
I also hope Annie Ilonzeh's Harper from season 4 returns. It seemed the Machine was cultivating her as an unknowing asset, and I'd like to know where that was leading. (Plus, she's hot.)
The talk about bringing back characters is interesting. One thing I got to wondering about in my rewatch is whether we'll ever get followup on certain characters that were introduced and then faded away. Zoe Morgan was AWOL for a while but came back a couple of times in season 4; hopefully she'll get at least a swan song appearance in season 5. Then there's Leon from season 2. He was a major player in that season -- the first person that ever got to use Finch's computers other than Finch himself -- but then he totally disappeared without explanation. (The other day I saw a picture of Ken Leung in The Force Awakens and thought, "Hey, it's Leon! That's where he went!")
Then there were a couple of one-shot episodes introducing evil masterminds who were set up as potentially recurring, but then never heard from again. There was Julian Sands as the intelligence agent who blackmailed the doctor in "Critical," and the mysterious, unidentified phone voice who blackmailed the 911 operator in "Last Call." Both threads that were completely dropped. (I wonder if the mysterious voice was originally meant to be Sands's character but he was unavailable. They were both blackmailing good people to do horrible things for them.) I can understand that the Samaritan arc took precedence, but I would've liked a bit of closure on those. (Even if it's just to establish that they both fell victim to "the Correction.")
I also hope Annie Ilonzeh's Harper from season 4 returns. It seemed the Machine was cultivating her as an unknowing asset, and I'd like to know where that was leading. (Plus, she's hot.)
The actress that plays Zoe has been on the 100 only sporadically this season; hopefully that means she had time to fly into New York and film an episode of PoI.
Paige Turco does get around a lot lately, it seems. I still remember her as the second April O'Neill in the '90s Ninja Turtles movies, and as the female lead in American Gothic back in '95-'96.
Very envious. Where people find the time to do rewatches boggles me. I can barely keep up with the TV that is playing now!
I'll have to go back into the show with a half-formed memory of previous seasons and hope it all "clicks".
Nice reel of explosions, bleeding heroes, torrid sex (hot, but likely not dry), doomsaying and one liners. Not enough Bear though.
I just hope it gets aired in the UK sometime in the (vaguely) near future.
Hugo - also hopes they stick the landing and it's not a fustercluck
I'll have to go back into the show with a half-formed memory of previous seasons and hope it all "clicks".
Nice reel of explosions, bleeding heroes, torrid sex (hot, but likely not dry), doomsaying and one liners. Not enough Bear though.
I just hope it gets aired in the UK sometime in the (vaguely) near future.
Hugo - also hopes they stick the landing and it's not a fustercluck
I think Fusco's "nuclear fustercluck" is funnier than the uncensored version would be. The problem with graphic profanity, at least the kind favored in modern vernacular, is that it's just the same few words repeated ad nauseam. Euphemisms can be much more creative.
Only a few more hours to go.
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