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Nolan and Plageman have said that the show started out as sci-fi but with the Snowden revelations, the show has become a documentary of sorts.
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Person of Interest Season 3 |OT| The Numbers Keep Coming Tuesdays 10/9c
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Nolan and Plageman have said that the show started out as sci-fi but with the Snowden revelations, the show has become a documentary of sorts.
PRISM is on thing, but Domain Awareness is not even secret. One the contrary, Microsoft ist preparing to sell it globally while NYC get 30% of the profit.
Elias is one of the best villains of all time to me.
Yep! That was the first episode where I thought the show had the potential to be something special. Still one of my overall favorite episodes.
I was pretty bummed out when it wasn't a bird tbh.
Another A from AVclub, I remember them giving weekly C+ and B- when they started covering it (I don't think they covered S1 iirc). Now every week is a gushing review from them. Can't blame them as this season has been phenomenal.
My thoughts on the finale is that something has got to give, either Samaritan breaks free from Decima's control and becomes a fully sentient AI or the Machine stops playing nice since Finch is being threatened and takes matters into its 'digital' hands
. So excited.
I'm definitely not watching the promo for the finale. Couldn't help myself yesterday but next week I'll try to restrain myself.
My thoughts on the finale is that something has got to give, either Samaritan breaks free from Decima's control and becomes a fully sentient AI or the Machine stops playing nice since Finch is being threatened and takes matters into its 'digital' hands
(the blackout)
I'm definitely not watching the promo for the finale. Couldn't help myself yesterday but next week I'll try to restrain myself.
It's great more sites are reviewing the show. It look basically IGN up to season two to review it.
Cripplegate
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That was a much quieter episode than I expected. With the way the show had been going I thought Grace was going to discover Finch was alive at the very least, or that she'd end up being killed by Decima. I'm so glad that wasn't the case. I breathed the biggest fucking sigh of relief when Reese grabbed Grace and brought her back over the bridge. Greer showed Finch some damn respect, keeping his secret. That was interesting.
It still brought the feels, though. The episode was a nice, somber reminder of what Team Machine has sacrificed. The flashback to Finch's memorial, and especially Finch reappearing, sitting alone on Grace's doorstep, had me choking up a bit. Finch saying "kill them all" and the shock on Reese's face, oh wow... but of course Finch gave himself up for her. Of course.
This was just a beta test, a teaser. The whole episode felt like the first act in a much larger play. Are they really going to wrap up the Samaritan storyline in two more episodes? It's starting to feel like that won't be the case.
It still brought the feels, though. The episode was a nice, somber reminder of what Team Machine has sacrificed. The flashback to Finch's memorial, and especially Finch reappearing, sitting alone on Grace's doorstep, had me choking up a bit. Finch saying "kill them all" and the shock on Reese's face, oh wow... but of course Finch gave himself up for her. Of course.
This was just a beta test, a teaser. The whole episode felt like the first act in a much larger play. Are they really going to wrap up the Samaritan storyline in two more episodes? It's starting to feel like that won't be the case.
Lord_Byron28
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The title of the next episode is:
A House Divided
Premise:
When an unknown entity prevents the Machine from seeing the full picture of an impending catastrophic event, it sends the team five separate numbers to help them piece together the bigger picture. Meanwhile, Roots team of hackers arrives in New York.
Sober, oh, yeah, Reese has capped fools (or let them fail into death on their own). He straight up Radiated that guy in the country club who radiation poisoned the POI, last season.
im going to guess the third party is Vigilance. Although who knows I suppose.
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only because I wasn't sure you'd label me as racist or something
Don't worry, I know the correct way to spell Columbia.
Nah, when I wrote that thread, it wasn't because of you haha.
Actually, it was implied that he didn't kill him.
1. There was no body in the scene.
2. The blood was all Reese's who had been shot in Ordos (yes he still had that injury open according to the first flashback of that episode)
3. Carter asks if the Mexican jail has any other American prisoners, and they say "a couple", hinting that Sarah's ex husband is there, and heck even Reese might have taken other people there. After she hangs up, she has a "well, he didn't seem to kill his ex's husband!" face.
Well that's my interpretation of the episode.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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God. That was a good fucking episode. Grace is great... I hope she and Harold meet up again one day.
Oh shit, a pattern emerges.
Employee retention does not exist at Decima Industries.
Oh shit, a pattern emerges.
Employee retention does not exist at Decima Industries.
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There's something else about Decima, they must really think they're doing something for the world or something to give up their lives this easily.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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Maybe Greer just threatens their families.
Or they're like Root! Fanatics.
Or maybe getting killed gets you a golden parachute in the afterlife.
John Nolan is scary.
I think Vigilance members do the same thing, maybe Vigilance and Decima is the same thing.
Is a thought I've had going for awhile, but really pushed to the front when the whole "exposing Northern Lights" thing happened, and Decima just happened to have this ready-to-go machine right afterwards.
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Pretty much what I've been thinking.
There's no way a group like Vigilance would get the money and most importantly information from people wanting privacy.
I mean how the heck do you get information about a CIA transportation if not by Decima?
NotTheGuyYouKill
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Yeah, but his friends are loyal to the freaking end.
His friends are...
an ex-CIA hardcase who will fight for him to the very end
a slowly humanizing ISA agent that likes him
an awesome dog
an insane religious hacker that idolizes him
a regular ol' cop that keeps everybody grounded
Leon!
That's a pretty good group.
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Leon coming back has the same chances of Zoe coming back, with their new shows and all.
EDIT: Now that I think about it, John Nolan looks very familiar to a teacher of mine. Even a bit in the personality. He's a pretty cool teacher.
EDIT: Now that I think about it, John Nolan looks very familiar to a teacher of mine. Even a bit in the personality. He's a pretty cool teacher.
Did he shoot pupils after they run errands for him?
"Here are the copies, Sir."
"Thank you. I very much appreciate it." *shoots him*
edit: I've been thinking about the Vigilance/Decima thing. What if its the other way around? Decima is working for Vigilance. Thinks like Greer saying in the preview, that he doesen't want to control the machine. Maybe this is a person of Vigilance wanting to make a point by building a sick system that they can completely expose afterwards to disgrace the government that allowed that and bringing chaos, a revolution over the United States.
"Look sheeple, after we exposed the first one, they made another one thats even worse. Here are all the data relating and all governent people responsible for this. Its time for another civil war!"
There is the thing wie Decima employes (excluding bank manager) are fine with dying. There are not necessarily after the money. Maybe because they have a higher agenda. Well maybe, Greer threaten their families, but the guys are usually on good terms with Greer, so I think thats not it.
That can't be good, I bet does that scary look on the students and you shit yourselves
NotTheGuyYouKill
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What I meant with personality was that he is quite a gentleman. He even does awesome jokes.
And no I don't think he's killed anyone. But he is a doctor (I'm a med student), so...
And no I don't think he's killed anyone. But he is a doctor (I'm a med student), so...
NotTheGuyYouKill
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Now I'm even more terrified.
Well, at least he is not Shaw.
Don't trust them
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Shipman
My cousin is a doctor in her I trust...just joking
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Now I'm actually terrified.
ratings wise, it won the timeslot again. Not by alot on the "share" stuff, but it technically won, 1.9 over Chicago Fire's 1.8 (11 million to 7 million total viewers. Up something like 6% from the previous original episode, which isn't bad considering the 1 week break, which usually results in lower numbers.
Finch really went overboard with this alias.
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Great to see it went up. RAM only had like 1,3M, right? Went up from that one considerably.
It's only going up for next-week's episode and the finale.
It's only going up for next-week's episode and the finale.
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I have no idea why the 1,3 million figure was in my mind then. Great to see it's not that down. But I do hope that they move it again to a better timeslot.
You are going to have so much fun!
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I still remember that Season 1 finale. Best finale ever.
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S1 is the weakest so you should be pleased.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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I always find it so hard to do the voting for these threads since I love Person of Interest, Arrow, and Hannibal equally... and now True Detective will be tossed there.
But POI will be my number 1 again this year. Then Hannibal, Arrow, and TD.
Funky Papa
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Get ready. Season 2 is going to blow you out of your knickers.
S1 turned great near the end, but S2 is a tremendous ride since the first episode.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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I'm expecting a magnificent end to Season 3.
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I'm expecting to be left wanting a time machine for when Season 4 begins.
In Nolan we trust (Jonathan in this case)
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