Person of Interest – The Fifth and Final Season |OT| "Thank you for creating me."

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PayOffWizard said:
Is it just me or has this season been really mehh so far?
Ive loved everything up until this point but its totally not clicking anymore.
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I'd say you're definitely in the minority if you really think "really meh". General consensus seems quite positive, especially for the last few episodes. The Day the World Went Away was easily one of the best episodes of the series and that's pretty much a universal opinion.
 
Alright everyone, we're in the finale now.

".exe"

Reese and Shaw rush to catch up with Finch after he infiltrates a maximum security government facility in a bold and dangerous attempt to destroy Samaritan.
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And we are a go.
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You'd think with these little "glimpses" that Harold would have realized by now that even without him creating the Machine, that the Machine, or Samaritan, or something else like it was already in play. I know they're waiting on that "reveal" for later on, but eh.
 
Wilsongt said:
Punished Finch.
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I bet the final lines of the series will be...

*MGS5 Spoilers*

I haven't forgotten what you've told me, Finch, we have no tomorrow but there's still hope for the future. In our struggle to survive the present we push the future further away. Will I see it in my lifetime? Probably not, which means there's no time to waste. Someday the world will no longer need us, no need for the gun, or the hand to pull the trigger. I have to drive out this demon inside me, build a better future. That's what I, hmm, what "we" will leave as our legacy. Another mission, right, Harold?
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...Or, you know, they could have just fucking shot him in the head and not resorted to this contrived double-death room thing. Why is Samaritan resorting to the mentality of a Bond villain?
 
That episode was good, but it had far too many unnecessary and clumsy setpieces.

Fusco's subplot could be removed and nothing would change. As it stands, it's yet another incredibly cliched scene where Fusco narrowly avoids death at gunpoint (and it's arguably the stupidest one in the franchise)

Greer's death was contrived. Killing Finch after getting the information out of him would have been trivial, which leads me to believe he wanted to give Finch (and himself) a grand death to usher in the new world. Fair. What's not fair is the fact that Greer didn't station a single Samaritan soldier to watch over them after they passed. It just comes across as incredibly cheap to me.

Also Zachary is the biggest jobber in this franchise, lmao.
 
Shit my heart missed a beat when Fusco took those bullets. Also damn this shortened season, I would kill for having a more fleshed out "what if" type episode in the style of this episode.

Also really cool all this happened in this episode, really excited to see what will happen in the finale.
 
PK Gaming said:
That episode was good, but it had far too many unnecessary and clumsy setpieces.

Fusco's subplot could be removed and nothing would change. As it stands, it's yet another incredibly scene where Fusco narrowly avoids death at gunpoint (and it's arguably the stupidest one in the franchise)

Greer's death was contrived. Killing Finch after getting the information out of him would have been trivial, which leads me to believe he wanted to give Finch (and himself) a grand death to usher in the new world. Fair. What's not fair is the fact that Greer didn't station a single soldier to watch over them after they passed. It just comes across as incredible cheap to me.
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Fusco's subplot wasn't needed, but I do think there's a role behind it, and the point isn't necessarily about character death. Back in Devil's Share, Fusco said he won't kill Simmons because he's a changed cop and attributed his positive change to Carter, and as a result he arrests him. 2 seasons later, the problem now is he's at a fork in the road where he can justifiably kill Agent LeRoux as he's a Samaritan asset and will continually target and possibly kill him to fulfill Samaritan's motives. Or, he can keep continuing to be a good guy and risk being killed and losing his family all because he thought letting him go was a good move. Basically, it's trying to see just how far this new Fusco can go before he dirties his hands again.

As for Greer's death, I actually liked the chess metaphor behind it and how it was subverted. He thought he was the queen, and Finch was the pawn to be sacrificed, but in actuality it's the other way around. Turns out Greer's sacrifice was as meaningless as the chess pieces themselves. Moreover, the reason behind killing Finch is much simpler than ushering a new world; he wanted to know if only Finch knew the password. Once Finch revealed his tell, Greer was willing to sacrifice himself to ensure that Ice-9 would never be activated. I don't think it was contrived.
 
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