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grimorieSo endeth the three parter episode.
Since Death Benefit, and actually long before that the plot has never stopped moving, PoI is paying off an arc that began in season 1 all the way to this current season.
It starts with Vigilance's trial against the United Sates government for violating the rights of the American people. As its been stated over and over in the show and even by the main characters Peter Collier's cause is just, but his methods have a lot left to be desired. And, as I've suspected since the previous episode Vigilance was something that was created by Greer all along.
When Decima and Greer was first introduced it seemed like he was another villain in the Team's Rogue's Gallery but as it turns out he's been the puppet master all along. He is also the most terrifying kind of all: the patient kind. He's been working to bring an Artificial Intelligence to this level of power all along, all in the service of giving it the ultimate power.
The moment Greer's minions said that Samaritan was online, the moment, the VERY moment Greer said: What can we do for *you*, and Samaritan's response was : CALCULATING RESPONSE.
I had chills. This was the SkyNet Sarah Connor feared. An Artificial Intelligence with power and no morals, the kind of AI Harold feared, and worked so hard against with his own Machine. A Machine with its own conscience.
The battle of the Machine gods has started, and for now the protectors of the Machine are scattered in the wind.
This show does plot and character right. It's been a while since I've had a show like this. Orphan Black is the other show, but its still kind of niche, Person of Interest is very much sneaked its way into the general audiences, and that's fantastic.
I loved how the characters have grown and changed through the course of the show, hell, through the course of the season. Just look at the development on Root, who had such a bitter and cynical outlook on people. She didn't care for people, its a different kind of indifference Shaw had. Shaw's indifference was disconnection but she still had a moral compass.
Root just didn't care until this season, until the Machine showed her the same ethics and morality Harold taught her (The Machine).
It would be so interesting to know how our characters fared with their new identities. Identities they have to become in order to survive. I'm curious what those identities are, and how they can come together when Samaritan is such a clear and present and omniscient danger.
Since Death Benefit, and actually long before that the plot has never stopped moving, PoI is paying off an arc that began in season 1 all the way to this current season.
It starts with Vigilance's trial against the United Sates government for violating the rights of the American people. As its been stated over and over in the show and even by the main characters Peter Collier's cause is just, but his methods have a lot left to be desired. And, as I've suspected since the previous episode Vigilance was something that was created by Greer all along.
When Decima and Greer was first introduced it seemed like he was another villain in the Team's Rogue's Gallery but as it turns out he's been the puppet master all along. He is also the most terrifying kind of all: the patient kind. He's been working to bring an Artificial Intelligence to this level of power all along, all in the service of giving it the ultimate power.
The moment Greer's minions said that Samaritan was online, the moment, the VERY moment Greer said: What can we do for *you*, and Samaritan's response was : CALCULATING RESPONSE.
I had chills. This was the SkyNet Sarah Connor feared. An Artificial Intelligence with power and no morals, the kind of AI Harold feared, and worked so hard against with his own Machine. A Machine with its own conscience.
The battle of the Machine gods has started, and for now the protectors of the Machine are scattered in the wind.
This show does plot and character right. It's been a while since I've had a show like this. Orphan Black is the other show, but its still kind of niche, Person of Interest is very much sneaked its way into the general audiences, and that's fantastic.
I loved how the characters have grown and changed through the course of the show, hell, through the course of the season. Just look at the development on Root, who had such a bitter and cynical outlook on people. She didn't care for people, its a different kind of indifference Shaw had. Shaw's indifference was disconnection but she still had a moral compass.
Root just didn't care until this season, until the Machine showed her the same ethics and morality Harold taught her (The Machine).
It would be so interesting to know how our characters fared with their new identities. Identities they have to become in order to survive. I'm curious what those identities are, and how they can come together when Samaritan is such a clear and present and omniscient danger.
