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Person of Interest Season 4 |OT| Gods Will Be Watching Tuesdays 10/9c
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*chrm chrm* Fusco and a female minority detective!
Wiktor
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They're sidekicks staying in the dark though.
Still..POI never fails to impress me with Fusco. Even most good shows would turn him into comedic goof, but here he's smart and competent despite being used for laughs from time to time.
I agree. While he isn't as good of a fighter as the skilled ex-government fighters, he has shown a lot of useful skills and common sense. I really loved the scene where he drove Martine against a wall without even knowing about her. Quickly picking out that she is not who she says she is and force her to leave.
I also like his loyalty that holds up even if nobody wants to tell him shit. He is also the one who is working the most reasonable with Shaw's vanishment. While he is often snarky and fast to verbally complain, he is actually the most mentally stable, next to Finch. Even when his son was about to die by HR he tried to calm and comfort him.
Yeah I liked the episode but I actually wish they would have just dropped the storyline with Fusco, it felt like neither of the plots had all the time they needed and they both suffered as a result. Especially in Maple there were parts where it felt kind of rushed to me.
Yeah, thinking the same, she'll turn into Locutus.
Feels a bit odd though showing her alive only two episodes after her "death" considering her pregnancy. Don't know how far along she is but I doubt she'll be back full time before next mid-season or so?
I've got this nagging sense, that Finch has been up to something.
We know he had a talk, and we know he did some sneaky business down in the Philippines (right?).
I'm kind of thinking The Machine (and Finch) knows more about Shaw's location, than they're letting on. I think the infiltration that Finch did during Control-Alt-Delete wasn't a simple clue finder on a truck for Shaw. I think that clue about the town was on purpose to find out more about what Samaritan was doing (Carrow).
I think it's a long con.
Just depends on how far Finch is willing to go with Shaw's life in the balance.
We know he had a talk, and we know he did some sneaky business down in the Philippines (right?).
I'm kind of thinking The Machine (and Finch) knows more about Shaw's location, than they're letting on. I think the infiltration that Finch did during Control-Alt-Delete wasn't a simple clue finder on a truck for Shaw. I think that clue about the town was on purpose to find out more about what Samaritan was doing (Carrow).
I think it's a long con.
Just depends on how far Finch is willing to go with Shaw's life in the balance.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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I agree.
Rewatch some of Finch's chess talk with the machine, especially about the queen piece, and see if it doesn't get you thinking some things differently.
Sax Russel
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Man, I bet that sparse description is a red herring since a) writing credits are Segel and Plageman, b) whatever happens with Claire in the previous eps, and c) there's another one week break after this eps -_-
Gonna be fun!
Gonna be fun!
Jay Shadow
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Grantland writer Rembert Browne is watching CBS shows without knowing anything about them and reviewing them all week. Today he reviewed Person of Interest. It's entertaining.
Well, it was broadcasted last night that there were 4 episodes straight to be aired, so yeah, there's a break after "Blunt." MIA, Guilty, Q&A, Blunt
NotTheGuyYouKill
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Fun read.
Ty for this, real fun to read. So should Reese's new tag be The Building?
Cripplegate
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If I'm remembering this correctly (potential spoilers for ep.16),
this is actually the episode in which Dominic confronts "Detective Riley" that had been hinted at in an earlier interview
RangersFan
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Wait, I'm confused. Didn't we see Shaw in the last episode as a Samaritan agent?
What?
Jay Shadow
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Huh?
RangersFan
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We saw her posing as a delivery person taking out all the students in the house who Samaritan said were Islamist terrorists and had backpack bombs. Control was trying to mange the OP, and she wanted the hard drive from the laptop but the Samaritan liaison kept undermining her.
Lord_Byron28
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Shaw was not in the episode. I'm not sure who you're thinking of.
RangersFan
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watching it now, she's part of "crimson team 6" that control sends to take out the students in the house in Michigan on intel from Samaritan.
Lord_Byron28
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It looks like her but that isn't her for a number of reasons. Her facial structure isn't the same in particular her jaw line. Also how would Control be able to use leverage against The Samaritan agent guy who let Shaw live earlier in the season if she was working alongside him all along. On top of the events in this episode with her just waking up in greers custody.watching it now, she's part of "crimson team 6" that control sends to take out the students in the house in Michigan on intel from Samaritan.
I don't even think it looks like her lol. But yes, that was not her.
RangersFan
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Yes just googled it, it's Nitasha Bhambree her stunt double.
Come on, it looks like her some what otherwise she wouldn't be her stunt double lol.
Jay Shadow
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Yeah, but her face and the context made it quite clear that she wasn't.
Now, it would be hilarious if she joined Team Machine as ersatz for Shaw. And her name should be Sammy Samson.
Cripplegate
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Can I just say though:
I liked the ambiguity of Shaw's death, and the messy frustration of non-closure; but actually confirming that she is indeed alive - and doing so as an echo of Kara Stanton (waking up to see Greer in the "afterlife") - is legit worse than not knowing, and has probably made my head spin harder than POI ever has before. goddamn this writing team, that was NOT COOL
Lord_Byron28
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Given Fusco's line about her reminding him of a group of friends; that sounded like tv code for Shaw's replacement.
Personally, I'm undecided about her right now. Shaw from the get go was fairly interesting and only continued to be more amazing as a character. This girl so far hasn't stuck out much to me in terms of personality, other than being serious and a rookie. Usually when we get the more procedural episodes there may be a character that I'd like to see return but I can't really say she was on the list.
However this show hasn't really let me down before (other than killing Carter) so I'm optimistic. Fusco said she reminded him of a friend. Initially I thought he was referring to Shaw but upon further reflection I think he was referring to Carter.
Regardless I think the descriptions are being purposefully vague about the upcoming episodes. I doubt they are just gonna put out 4 procedural episodes in a row especially when it looks like they are gonna dial down the Samaritan/Shaw plotline and they have the Dominic plotline still dangling. I suspect Root will be mia for a few episodes and we'll see more Finch, Harold and Fusco handling PoIs in NYC that somehow tie into the Dominic plotline. We'll probably also see more of Reese's therapist and the IA and how Reese and Finch handle their double lives.
It's strange PoI's formula feels like a mish mash of many different tv genre influences. There's your typical procedural CSI drama, then there is the kinda Sci-Fi AI stuff (although it's not too far from reality), then the international spy stuff and yet all the characters on this show have such a huge Super Hero/Comic Book influence. That episode earlier this season with Reese saving that one guy who later realized that Reese was the man in the suit was a pretty standard super hero plot. Also the constant moral debates about killing someone is a big super hero trope that the DC universe in particular uses with a lot of its characters.
Hotel staffed almost entirely by robots to open in Japan
We certainly need an episode where Samaritan has an Antfarm like Maple - only without humans. Just a lot of individual AIs. To see and test if it can reproduce and tweak humans.
We certainly need an episode where Samaritan has an Antfarm like Maple - only without humans. Just a lot of individual AIs. To see and test if it can reproduce and tweak humans.
Can't wait to get back to the main Samaritan story line.
Episode title for 4x19:
Episode title for 4x19:
Episode 14: Guilty
Sneak Peak 1
Sneak Peak 2 - Some have been looking forward to going back to the roots of the show, so to speak. Well...
Hey, you can see what day it roughly is, as well as someone's home address and date of birth
Not Bad, Not Bad.
When the Machine arranges for Finch to sit on the jury of a murder trial, he begins to suspect that a fellow juror is set to rig the proceedings. Meanwhile, Reese begins to open up to the department’s therapist.
Sneak Peak 1
Sneak Peak 2 - Some have been looking forward to going back to the roots of the show, so to speak. Well...
Hey, you can see what day it roughly is, as well as someone's home address and date of birth
Not Bad, Not Bad.
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I'm sad we're approaching season finale and this thread is dying. I'M DISAPPOINTED POI BROTHERS.
Jay Shadow
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Approaching the season finale? Season finale is 3 months from now.
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Jay Shadow
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There will be plenty of discussion in March when college basketball takes over and everyone bitches that CBS is killing the show with scheduling 
Aw, poor Fusco feeling that cold shoulder. You'd think they would have realized by now that they've had him in too deep to just cut him off by now. I'm surprised more wasn't made of the fact that he was there at the stock exchange during the whole shootout, even if Samaritan couldn't see into the building at the time.
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