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POI 2x16 Relevance
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inmyriadbits and I talk about after episodes should visit her post about 2x16, because it is pretty representative. Also, since she's talking about POI vs Batman, I thought I should link to this article: Why Person of Interest is a Superhero Show Done Right
HOLY SHIT THAT WAS GREAT. IT WAS A WHOLE EPISODE OF OUTSIDER POV I AM SO WEAK FOR THAT OMG. They did a fantastic job making you like and respect Shaw and Cole right off the bat, and care for them, so that I actually physically flinched when Cole got shot. :( And I love that you kept expecting Reese to show up whenever Shaw got into peril - and he did, sometimes - but mostly it was her saving her own ass in highly competent, slightly amoral ways.
I wasn't thrilled with the whole personality disorder thing, but I'm thinking it's like Sherlock calling himself a sociopath in the BBC show: not really accurate, but something the character believes. I do think she's less of a bleeding heart than any of the regular gang, but that's not hard.
And then Root got involved (creepiest/best Bechdel-passing ever!), and we learned a shit-ton about the Machine's government side, and Shaw is still out there, and this is all heading to a kickass season finale, I can feel it. This show is weirdly good at being both very episodic and also having some lethal plot arc twists that you somehow never see coming, even though they seeded them nine episodes ago.
Harold's speech about the world becoming a very strange place underneath and there being an invisible struggle was...intriguing. Was he implying there are other Machines out there? Or just the general surveillance tech race? Because if it was the former, that has some tantalizing possibilities related to the whole Ordos laptop things.
(Though, honestly, I was slightly distracted in that scene by Harold being taller than someone for once. Sarah Shahi: teeny and badass! ♥ Also, did anyone notice how Harold was carefully just beyond arm's reach - having to lean over to hand her his card, etc - that whole conversation? I suspect it was actually lighting related, but I'm fanwaving it as him being too smart to make Leon's mistake. *g*)
Reese's "don't shoot me" bit was hilarious and I adore whoever wrote the ep (also, the trail of kneecapped black bag guys outside the ambush earlier, hahaha), but I wanted to point out that he was wearing his I'm really fond of this number tiny-smile expression in that scene, because I love it when he does that.
Still loling that she left them there and stole the ambulance. ♥
Anyone who didn't come out of that episode with the urge to watch/rewatch Life: GO WATCH LIFE. I love Shahi's Dani Reese even more than John Reese, and you can watch Damian Lewis loom over her in a similar albeit far more ginger-and-Zen fashion. And there's a lot of parallel exploration of redemption/vengeance, and difficult slow-build partnership, and surviving trauma but having to live with the broken pieces, which POI fans should enjoy.
I always wish I was more fannish about Life, but the show gave me almost all that I wanted from its ending (best finale ever, still), and I got out the rest I needed with Precession. So now I just kinda sit back and think about it with a warm fuzzy feeling, and go, "yep, I'm good." It's fun, and somewhat unique in my fannish experience.
inmyriadbits and I talk about after episodes should visit her post about 2x16, because it is pretty representative. Also, since she's talking about POI vs Batman, I thought I should link to this article: Why Person of Interest is a Superhero Show Done RightHOLY SHIT THAT WAS GREAT. IT WAS A WHOLE EPISODE OF OUTSIDER POV I AM SO WEAK FOR THAT OMG. They did a fantastic job making you like and respect Shaw and Cole right off the bat, and care for them, so that I actually physically flinched when Cole got shot. :( And I love that you kept expecting Reese to show up whenever Shaw got into peril - and he did, sometimes - but mostly it was her saving her own ass in highly competent, slightly amoral ways.
I wasn't thrilled with the whole personality disorder thing, but I'm thinking it's like Sherlock calling himself a sociopath in the BBC show: not really accurate, but something the character believes. I do think she's less of a bleeding heart than any of the regular gang, but that's not hard.
And then Root got involved (creepiest/best Bechdel-passing ever!), and we learned a shit-ton about the Machine's government side, and Shaw is still out there, and this is all heading to a kickass season finale, I can feel it. This show is weirdly good at being both very episodic and also having some lethal plot arc twists that you somehow never see coming, even though they seeded them nine episodes ago.
Harold's speech about the world becoming a very strange place underneath and there being an invisible struggle was...intriguing. Was he implying there are other Machines out there? Or just the general surveillance tech race? Because if it was the former, that has some tantalizing possibilities related to the whole Ordos laptop things.
(Though, honestly, I was slightly distracted in that scene by Harold being taller than someone for once. Sarah Shahi: teeny and badass! ♥ Also, did anyone notice how Harold was carefully just beyond arm's reach - having to lean over to hand her his card, etc - that whole conversation? I suspect it was actually lighting related, but I'm fanwaving it as him being too smart to make Leon's mistake. *g*)
Reese's "don't shoot me" bit was hilarious and I adore whoever wrote the ep (also, the trail of kneecapped black bag guys outside the ambush earlier, hahaha), but I wanted to point out that he was wearing his I'm really fond of this number tiny-smile expression in that scene, because I love it when he does that.
Still loling that she left them there and stole the ambulance. ♥
Anyone who didn't come out of that episode with the urge to watch/rewatch Life: GO WATCH LIFE. I love Shahi's Dani Reese even more than John Reese, and you can watch Damian Lewis loom over her in a similar albeit far more ginger-and-Zen fashion. And there's a lot of parallel exploration of redemption/vengeance, and difficult slow-build partnership, and surviving trauma but having to live with the broken pieces, which POI fans should enjoy.
I always wish I was more fannish about Life, but the show gave me almost all that I wanted from its ending (best finale ever, still), and I got out the rest I needed with Precession. So now I just kinda sit back and think about it with a warm fuzzy feeling, and go, "yep, I'm good." It's fun, and somewhat unique in my fannish experience.