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If You're Gonna Do Something Wrong, Do It Right.
I'm four episodes into the second season of Person of Interest and still having a wonderful time!
I've been headcanoning that Finch was in love with Ingram so hard I keep forgetting it hasn't actually been explicitly stated. I wouldn't say I'm shipping it, exactly; I have no interest in seeking out Finch/Ingram fanworks. I just take it as a given that Finch was in love with him.
Reese both talks to the absent Finch and talks to himself as Finch when Finch is missing, and I find this deeply endearing.
He's so determined to find him again! Because they're friends, and he doesn't have many friends!
Okay, the flashbacks in 'The Contingency' definitely have me shipping Finch with the Machine.
Reese just clocking a guy off his motorcycle with a fire extinguisher is magical and hilarious and I cannot explain why.
Finch trying to pretend he's not playing with the dog!
Reese can cook; I wasn't expecting that! I also really like that, while posing as Sofia's bodyguard, he cooked his charge a meal to comfort her when she was shaken. I love the extra dimensions that details like this add to his usual 'unstoppable murder robot' demeanour.
I love Reese. He's so lonely and tortured and dangerous and secretly caring and prone to making bad decisions when he's got too many feelings and no good outlet for them. Do I want to kiss him? I certainly can't rule it out.
I'm fascinated by Finch's trauma. I felt he often didn't get much to do in the first season, so I'm glad the first few episodes of the second are digging into his character a bit. I love the subtle ways the show makes it clear that Reese recognises Finch is struggling and wants to help him, too.
At first, I wasn't sure about the concept of 'Masquerade'; if Reese is posing as the person of interest's bodyguard, you don't get that fun moment of bewilderment when they realise he's guarding them. But it was actually a lot of fun to see Reese and Sofia slowly bonding after their initial mutual dislike. Also, Reese grabbing a guy by his throat and shoving him over a balcony: disconcertingly hot?
'Put a dog in the base so Finch can occasionally be stroking or playing with it when the camera cuts to him' is an incredible addition to this show. (And of course Reese loves dogs. 'Reese can cook' was a pleasant surprise; 'Reese loves dogs' was a pleasant inevitability.)
'Triggerman': Reese taking it personally when there are two people in danger and Finch suggests prioritising the protection of the one who isn't a killer! Reese often doesn't have much sympathy when they're asked to protect murderers, but he's identifying hard now that they're protecting a murderer who's trying to do something good.
Finch calling Riley 'bad code', after everything with Root, is fascinating.
What a great concept for a show! It's incredible how much 'the murder hasn't happened yet, but the protagonists know either the victim or the perpetrator in advance' does for the case-of-the-week format; it gives each case its own main character and lets the protagonists get to know them, which you can't really do with all the potential suspects in a standard detective series.
I've been headcanoning that Finch was in love with Ingram so hard I keep forgetting it hasn't actually been explicitly stated. I wouldn't say I'm shipping it, exactly; I have no interest in seeking out Finch/Ingram fanworks. I just take it as a given that Finch was in love with him.
Reese both talks to the absent Finch and talks to himself as Finch when Finch is missing, and I find this deeply endearing.
He's so determined to find him again! Because they're friends, and he doesn't have many friends!
Okay, the flashbacks in 'The Contingency' definitely have me shipping Finch with the Machine.
Reese just clocking a guy off his motorcycle with a fire extinguisher is magical and hilarious and I cannot explain why.
Finch trying to pretend he's not playing with the dog!
Reese can cook; I wasn't expecting that! I also really like that, while posing as Sofia's bodyguard, he cooked his charge a meal to comfort her when she was shaken. I love the extra dimensions that details like this add to his usual 'unstoppable murder robot' demeanour.
I love Reese. He's so lonely and tortured and dangerous and secretly caring and prone to making bad decisions when he's got too many feelings and no good outlet for them. Do I want to kiss him? I certainly can't rule it out.
I'm fascinated by Finch's trauma. I felt he often didn't get much to do in the first season, so I'm glad the first few episodes of the second are digging into his character a bit. I love the subtle ways the show makes it clear that Reese recognises Finch is struggling and wants to help him, too.
At first, I wasn't sure about the concept of 'Masquerade'; if Reese is posing as the person of interest's bodyguard, you don't get that fun moment of bewilderment when they realise he's guarding them. But it was actually a lot of fun to see Reese and Sofia slowly bonding after their initial mutual dislike. Also, Reese grabbing a guy by his throat and shoving him over a balcony: disconcertingly hot?
'Put a dog in the base so Finch can occasionally be stroking or playing with it when the camera cuts to him' is an incredible addition to this show. (And of course Reese loves dogs. 'Reese can cook' was a pleasant surprise; 'Reese loves dogs' was a pleasant inevitability.)
'Triggerman': Reese taking it personally when there are two people in danger and Finch suggests prioritising the protection of the one who isn't a killer! Reese often doesn't have much sympathy when they're asked to protect murderers, but he's identifying hard now that they're protecting a murderer who's trying to do something good.
Finch calling Riley 'bad code', after everything with Root, is fascinating.
What a great concept for a show! It's incredible how much 'the murder hasn't happened yet, but the protagonists know either the victim or the perpetrator in advance' does for the case-of-the-week format; it gives each case its own main character and lets the protagonists get to know them, which you can't really do with all the potential suspects in a standard detective series.
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I have to get to that bit!
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Yep. Totally. And Nathan had no idea at all IMO.
Reese can cook; I wasn't expecting that! I also really like that, while posing as Sofia's bodyguard, he cooked his charge a meal to comfort her when she was shaken. I love the extra dimensions that details like this add to his usual 'unstoppable murder robot' demeanour.
Yeah. I've been kind of holding myself back from mentioning this before, because spoilers obviously, but one of the things that I've always loved most about Reese is how much he isn't your standard stoic ex-assassin macho guy. He is that of course, and gets all those OTT badass action scenes, BUT. There are so many scenes, even in the first season, where he is shown to actively care for the numbers, where he brings them food, or reassures them with touch, or emotionally connects to and opens up to them, etc - it's often pretty subtle, but it's there. And the way he deals with Finch's PTSD after the kidnapping is just the icing on the cake, because honestly, he is good at this stuff, in his own fucked-up way, and it isn't even really hidden or secret.
And if you look at it carefully, Finch is much more emotionally closed off than Reese, who just comes out and tells everyone and their grandmother that he was lost and someone found him and is taking care of him and he is grateful. Reese also keeps prodding at Finch, trying to get him out into the world and make connections, too - and not just because he is curious about him, although that is of course how it starts. Harold gives Reese inner guidance, a better purpose to follow that re-connects him to the world, and Reese brings Harold out of his paranoid inner isolation, teaches him all the "outside" skills like lock-picking and exercise and connecting with people (Harold would never have talked to Carter if not for Reese for example).
And Bear! Bear is the best. And one more thing to show that Reese cares: collecting another attack dog for Harold to take care of and to protect him, just in case Reese himself isn't around.
Finch calling Riley 'bad code', after everything with Root, is fascinating.-
Agreed. The aftereffects of the kidnapping were fascinating, on both sides: John understanding, trying to mitigate via Bear, and knowing when to back off and when to push, plus letting Finch hear his words to Sophia. And then, after this immediate emotional response from Finch, there is, as you point out, also the cognitive one, Root's "bad code" comments obviously occupying Harold's mind and slipping out, and only then being explicitly rejected again. For Root, "caring about people" is a fatal flaw in Harold, ready to be exploited, whereas Reese, of all people, represents exactly that, the connection to humanity that Root lacks in Harold's eyes, even if he understands it and was perhaps at some point fascinated himself by the idea of leaving humanity behind.
But as long as he keeps falling in love with his partners, there's no chance he'll give into that route. :Pno subject
Reese, who just comes out and tells everyone and their grandmother that he was lost and someone found him and is taking care of him and he is grateful.
This in particular hit me straight in the heart. He really does, and I love that he's still willing to say it even when he knows Finch is going to hear it.
There are so many scenes, even in the first season, where he is shown to actively care for the numbers, where he brings them food, or reassures them with touch, or emotionally connects to and opens up to them, etc - it's often pretty subtle, but it's there.
Absolutely true, and I love every one of these moments. Reese is so much more than the gruff, manly, violent action guy he seems to be at first glance. He's definitely still a gruff, manly, violent action guy, but there are a lot of interesting contrasts underneath that!
Thank you for taking the time to write this comment; I really enjoyed reading it!
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