Person of Interest 5x10

[aragarna]

aka episode 100!


AAAAARRRGH !!! Be still my heart!

Well, I was right it'd be Elias' last episode...
I think Elias enjoyed playing The Man in the Suit for Harold, even if for a short time. :)

but oh boy, Root!! Though with 3 more episodes to go, I wasn't expecting them to kill Root, of all people, so soon. Though, okay, she would argue she just changed shapes. And I guess she'd see this as a perfect end for her. And the Machine chose her. Root's ultimate dream.
Not sure Shaw would feel the same way thought...

Root dead body at the morgue was a little painful...  :'(

A LOT of shootings and explosions in that episode...

Now Greer and Samaritan better be prepared, hurrican Harold is coming their way...

Ok, now we're back to one episode a week. If they're all as intense as this, it's just as well I think...

And now I'm gonna rewind to yesterday happy scene by the bridge.... *snif*

ETA: also Harold and Root's discussion about the Machine's free will to pick up her own name made me smile. The machine actually did choose a name and a face back in what? S2? S1 even, maybe? It was Ernest Thornhill... And all this time, Root has called her "she"... ;)

Comments

[sg-lab.livejournal.com]

I am so mad they killed Root.

[aragarna.livejournal.com]

But is she dead, if she leaves in the machine now?
I think that was their idea for a long time to have Root kinda merge with the Machine, or becoming the Machine, so now Root - as the Machine - will help them fight back (as she said in the intro of the first ep). Root would have liked that.

[sheenianni.livejournal.com]

This was so terrible and heartbreaking.

We've known for a long time that if they should have a chance, then Finch would have to change his mind about the Machine. And we knew the cost would be harsh, but I used to wish he'd finally do it...

And the cost is beyond terrible. To see Harold finally give up on his principles, to forsake everything he believes in - he was the one who gave the Machine morals, their moral compass... and now he lost.

It's been coming for a long time. Everything in this episode has been foreshadowed I don't know how far back.

I remember Elias this season, telling Harold that deep down, he was the worst of all of them. I wonder who Harold can really be when he cast aside his moral code, and suddenly Samaritan is not the scariest person on the show.

Samaritan just created its worst enemy. But I'm no longer sure Harold can be the world's savior. With that cornerstone of Harold's beliefs shattered, I'm not sure of anything anymore.

(Poor guy needs a hug).

I'm worried we're up to finally see an all-out war between the two AIs. And then the world will die in flames.

[aragarna.livejournal.com]

Harold's monologue was chilling.
Given how long he resisted to break his own moral code, if I were Samaritan (or Greer!) I'd be very worried that he is now throwing it away.

I would have thought the gazillions tries in the Faraday cages lost by the Machine would be enough to convince Harold that he should change something, but the fact that even this didn't make him break his rules says how important his rules were to him.

Though given the elusive nature of Samaritan, I'm not sure what the plan could be here...

[treonb.livejournal.com]

When Root was talking to Shaw about being a simulation, I thought somebody was going to die, but I wasn't sure between Root or Shaw. Or even Finch - that would have been quite a major step for the show.

It was nice, though, how they switched it all around at the end, and made Finch a perpetrator (though then why would the machine help him?). Root's been badgering Harold for forever to do what he did now, but it took her death to make him take the plunge. I can't believe they're going to end the show on a dismal note, but I guess we'll see.

[aragarna.livejournal.com]

I think they just wanted to have Root being reborn as the Machine. So we have 3 episodes to explore this idea, which I actually like. I guess Finch won't die until the very end (if he has to die - not that I actually want him, or anyone, to die!).

The Machine's role is to send victims or perp numbers, no matter who it is, so it did, it sent the number to John. But the Machine also helps its assets when they ask, and first and foremost Harold.

I do hope we won't end up on a too bleak note (good can't win, the world is doom and Samaritan is dominating the world forever and ever...)

[leesa_perrie]

I had a feeling when Elias died that his death wasn't going to be the only one - or else, why so soon in the episode? I'm sorry they killed him, and I'm also sorry about Root, as I did like her. But at least they didn't kill Bear! As for Harold, Elias' prediction about him having darkness inside (or something along those lines) from a previous episode have come true - and oh boy, I'm not sure where this is going to lead now!

*is pleased I fell behind as now I don't have to wait* *off to watch the next episode*