Back on the wagon! New Vid: God's Gonna Cut You Down (Person of Interest)
I fell off the wagon both with LJ posts and Ten In Ten this weekend, but I am giving myself a pass as I had my entire family over for the holiday and a small child to feed ("No, sweetheart, I can't eat the grape, I'm fasting") and entertain
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I very much love how the video begins with the idea of a God-like (I think the capital G is needed here :P) Harold saving John and sending him to do his will punishing evil-doers, and ends with John and Harold being targeted by the perhaps a tiny bit more literally God-like Machine. After all, they are criminals, and the Machine has proven to be able to evolve its criteria, so what if it decides rogue vigilantes like them have to be stopped? Damn, I love the dystopian future 'verse you suggest here... (And I think we're all thankful for the lack of Bear, there's only so much heartbreak I can deal with, but what about Leon?) The logic is the same (the beat is the same), and then you realize you might have worked for God's purposes, but you're but human...
And you know, that could happen so easily even within current parameters... If someone finds and targets Grace in some way the Machine cannot see as important enough (and god, the Machine doesn't care about so many many things), Harold would kill them if it came to protect her, the Machine would want him stopped even if it mean Grace gets hurt, and of course John would side with Harold, and then they are both targets and we now the Machine has learned to recruit agents as it needs to, so.
I'm reminded of Joseph Campbell's quote: I have bought this wonderful machine- a computer. Now I am rather an authority on gods, so I identified the machine- it seems to me to be an Old Testament god with a lot of rules and no mercy.
Er, sorry. Got overenthusiastic there.
In conclusion: Awesome vid! And more thought provoking as time goes on, which is but another manifestation of its awesome.
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