Feelings of Interest

[aragarna]

Seriously, sometimes Person of Interest just comes out with those big episodes that leave you with sooo much feelings.
And that was sooo brilliant. And oh boy, John...

Funny cause around mid-season, I was becoming skeptical about the whole Samaritan conspiracy thing. This was becoming too big, too crazy. The Machine was difficult to grasp completely at first, but I managed to accepted the idea. Just a big algorithm reading your emails and spying on you (every hour of every day blah blah) and able to detect between the lines what you're up to. Not *so* different from what the NSA is actually trying to do.
But Samaritan and that old wrinkled guy, I find it all a little too much. Samaritan is way too powerful. There's just no way they can realistically beat it at this point. It's an AI. You can't shoot it. It's smart enough to relocate itself, so it's unreachable, unkillable. So, what? It feels to me we're all doomed. Also, I feel like the show isn't clear whether the brain behind "Samaritan" is actually the AI or the wrinkled guy (I'm sorry his name is escaping me now). Cause, it'd seem to me that Samaritan doesn't need any master. So why is it taking orders from that guy? What are his final plans? How in the world is this going to end (without all the "team Machine" dying)?

So at some point this season, I felt tired of this all mayhem that didn't make much sense and was impossible to follow. And then a couple great episodes came along. There was this weird one, when we lost Shaw, that left me with mixed feeling (regarding Samaritan) but I *loved* the Machine going into "simplified mode".

And lately, we've mostly given up on Samaritan, and we're back to great cases of the week, and I fell back in love with my show.

Oh and that shrink... I'm very worried about her, cause this is stil PoI, you know, John is doomed and something is gonna happen. But I love John with her.

And so, for that last episode. Yay Carter!!
And John! Don't you just want to hug him tight? This big guy, former assassing and all, he has so many feelings hidden under that suit... He can look so vulnerable sometimes.
Of course, my mind had to try and figure out how to make all those feelings into a WC story. I do have an idea, though I'm not sure I'd be able to match the brilliance of that episode.


Anyway, long story short, I think they should drop the Samaritan conspiracy story and focus on characters and saving people. *That* is the PoI I love. And make more close-ups on Jim Caviezel.