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rionaleonhart) wrote2023-02-14 09:49 am
rionaleonhart) wrote2023-02-14 09:49 am
How Will I Remember You?
I'm two episodes into season five of Person of Interest! The closer I get to the end of this show, the more nervous I become.
Let's get it out of the way: Reese ruthlessly, one-handedly murdering people while carrying the briefcase at the start of season five is pretty hot. It's also hot when he's being strangled and punched in the face on the dock. I'm sorry I'm so wildly into this fictional character and you've had to hear about it for a solid month.
'Did the Machine ask you out on a date?' Nathan asks Finch, and I appreciate his support of my ship.
'I'm useless there. This, I'm good at' slightly broke my heart for Reese. I promise you can do things other than shoot people, Reese! You can also be extremely attractive, and that's an important skill.
They're going to build a home for the Machine out of PS3s? Incredible. I'm sure this can be worked into a crossover premise for PS3 games somehow. Person of Interest/The Last of Us. Person of Interest/Final Fantasy XIII.
Riona: In my show, they needed a supercomputer to house the Machine, and - okay, I swear what I'm about to say is actually literally true, it's not a joke or an exaggeration and it's not sort of what they did, it's exactly what—
Rei: It's okay. You don't have to stall; just tell me.
Riona: They built the supercomputer out of three hundred PS3s.
Rei: Fuck off. You can't just make things up.
(Apparently, building computers out of PS3s is a real thing, and Rei wasn't any happier to learn that.)
Finch unthinkingly calling the Machine 'she' because of Root's influence is adorable.
'SNAFU': Michael Emerson playing Root is absolutely incredible. He's got her body language down so well!
Also enjoyed Root asking Finch to buy her supplies, kissing him on the cheek and slapping him on the arse. Finch is so entertainingly awkward, and Root is great at bringing that aspect of him out.
I constantly forget that Iris exists and am confused to be reminded.
'Directly responsible for deaths and disappearances of 62 persons' inexplicably had me smiling fondly at the screen. I love Reese. I love how much murder he's done. He's perfect.
('That's a lot of murders,' Tem commented, before pausing to contemplate for a moment. 'He should do seven more.')
'SNAFU' is doing some really interesting things with the Machine. I love that it concludes the protagonists are threats - you can't really blame it! - and it's interesting to see how it deals with threats that are directly trying to interact with it. I'm particularly interested by the way it responds to 'we're the good guys' claims by showing them footage that says otherwise. To challenge them, go 'I don't believe you'? To request an explanation? Or because it thinks they need to be convinced that they're bad people?
I like the way this episode challenges the idea that you can go 'okay, these people are good, these people are bad' and draw clear lines between them, too.
Also, everyone having a picnic is extremely goddamn cute.
Let's get it out of the way: Reese ruthlessly, one-handedly murdering people while carrying the briefcase at the start of season five is pretty hot. It's also hot when he's being strangled and punched in the face on the dock. I'm sorry I'm so wildly into this fictional character and you've had to hear about it for a solid month.
'Did the Machine ask you out on a date?' Nathan asks Finch, and I appreciate his support of my ship.
'I'm useless there. This, I'm good at' slightly broke my heart for Reese. I promise you can do things other than shoot people, Reese! You can also be extremely attractive, and that's an important skill.
They're going to build a home for the Machine out of PS3s? Incredible. I'm sure this can be worked into a crossover premise for PS3 games somehow. Person of Interest/The Last of Us. Person of Interest/Final Fantasy XIII.
Riona: In my show, they needed a supercomputer to house the Machine, and - okay, I swear what I'm about to say is actually literally true, it's not a joke or an exaggeration and it's not sort of what they did, it's exactly what—
Rei: It's okay. You don't have to stall; just tell me.
Riona: They built the supercomputer out of three hundred PS3s.
Rei: Fuck off. You can't just make things up.
(Apparently, building computers out of PS3s is a real thing, and Rei wasn't any happier to learn that.)
Finch unthinkingly calling the Machine 'she' because of Root's influence is adorable.
'SNAFU': Michael Emerson playing Root is absolutely incredible. He's got her body language down so well!
Also enjoyed Root asking Finch to buy her supplies, kissing him on the cheek and slapping him on the arse. Finch is so entertainingly awkward, and Root is great at bringing that aspect of him out.
I constantly forget that Iris exists and am confused to be reminded.
'Directly responsible for deaths and disappearances of 62 persons' inexplicably had me smiling fondly at the screen. I love Reese. I love how much murder he's done. He's perfect.
('That's a lot of murders,' Tem commented, before pausing to contemplate for a moment. 'He should do seven more.')
'SNAFU' is doing some really interesting things with the Machine. I love that it concludes the protagonists are threats - you can't really blame it! - and it's interesting to see how it deals with threats that are directly trying to interact with it. I'm particularly interested by the way it responds to 'we're the good guys' claims by showing them footage that says otherwise. To challenge them, go 'I don't believe you'? To request an explanation? Or because it thinks they need to be convinced that they're bad people?
I like the way this episode challenges the idea that you can go 'okay, these people are good, these people are bad' and draw clear lines between them, too.
Also, everyone having a picnic is extremely goddamn cute.
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Don’t worry, we love this about you!
Yes, but is shooting people part of him being extremely attractive?
Aw!
Nice! Because these are excellent fictional characters, but they’re not exactly making clean or unambiguously good moral choices here.
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True, but he can also do other attractive things! Such as, er, such as being injured, or - or being on either side of a torture scene.
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I love the episode where Root is passing him off as an arms dealer and without even raising his voice he's suddenly the most dangerous person on screen.
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*The producers/audience were so impressed they re-wrote story lines to make him a major character and he won an Emmy for it.
I don't know if they're still posted but there used to be some vids on youtube of him performing monologues that were brilliant.
It's amazing how well Caviezel and Emerson got on considering their politics are so diametrically opposed.
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Haha,I clearly need to hurry up and get to this set of episodes XD (the stuff in "SNAFU" also sounds fascinating!)
('That's a lot of murders,' Tem commented, before pausing to contemplate for a moment. 'He should do seven more.')
LOL!
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Now this is something I want to see! :D (Also the Machine stuff, I want to see that too!) His character wasn't my favorite on Lost, but his acting is SPECTACULAR.
Also I see The Last of Us mentioned and I want to squee about the new show but I don't even know if you've watched it at all, LMAO. xD I need to make a squee post about it on my dw. :D
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I haven't seen the Last of Us adaptation yet, but I'm planning to! I've been keeping up with reactions after each episode, though, so I'm definitely not avoiding show spoilers. It's great to see a non-gaming audience embracing the story of a videogame I love so much!