the thing with feathers
My head is a bit scattered today (see below) but I must at least register the WOW at the Person of Interest finale. Talk about game-changers! I'll need to watch it again (next Tuesday will be the first opportunity, I think) but really: this is the show that hangs "procedural" out in the wind and lets the birds shit on it. When it's good it's very good, and even where things don't quite make sense the aura of drama carries it through. I'm hoping they don't give us a quick resolution back to routine next season; I'm not sure they could, really.
Oh, Hersh. Nothing like going out with a bang? And I love that he is missed and regretted - by Shaw and Control, at least, and probably by Reese, not that he had time to express it.
I feel that I should think the ending was rushed, but really it wasn't, because they took a moment for all those longing looks of farewell. The star-crossed sociopathic romance of Root and Shaw is just as delicious as the bat-cave domestic paradise of Finch and Reese, and even more supported by canon, and the Shaw-Reese and Finch-Root support groups equally powerful. I'm sure they'll find ways to have contact, and I'm sure the summer will be filled with fanfics in which that occurs. Finch walking off with Bear, and Reese with his bag of weapons, ouch: tragically reluctant custody split.
And poor Fusco, left in the dark again, and I'm a bit mystified as to why Decima doesn't know he's part of the team, but whatever. Are Root's boys coming back to play next season?
Ha ha, wounding Finch in the right shoulder (I hope his new identity can safely go to a doctor), and "you're not a free man; you're just a number." I'm sure there were other shout-outs I missed.
I'm predicting they kill Root by the end of next season; there were a few too many hints that the Machine finds her expendable, and although I love Amy Acker's performance and characterization, I'm not sure where else they can go with it - but the show is very capable of surprises, so one can hope. Also for a closer view of the Machine and Samaritan, although not too much anthropomorphism (I think they're walking the line perfectly so far).
The death of the Library was just as poignant as the human deaths, especially with the (temporary please) separation of Finch and Reese immediately following. Just in general, ow.
I also saw the finale of "Once Upon a Time," and there were lots of clever (and viciously painful) things happening, though I am still stuck with that impression of game-changers and near-immediate take-backs (though at least some of the deaths this season seem to have been permanent). I do like that the journey from "ethically challenged" (yes I am rereading the Rivers of London books) to purely good is a rocky one, with lots of temptations to power and revenge to trip over.
Off tomorrow for the long weekend and graduation in Houston, which should be easy enough to pack for and is for me and J, but P's itinerary is slightly more complicated (Houston-Albuquerque-(Denver)-Philadelphia-(London)-Accra, Ghana, over the next week) and he hasn't exactly been home much to organize for it, so I suspect today will be a hair-pulling festival of last-minute searching and shopping. Whee.
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Oh, Hersh. Nothing like going out with a bang? And I love that he is missed and regretted - by Shaw and Control, at least, and probably by Reese, not that he had time to express it.
I feel that I should think the ending was rushed, but really it wasn't, because they took a moment for all those longing looks of farewell. The star-crossed sociopathic romance of Root and Shaw is just as delicious as the bat-cave domestic paradise of Finch and Reese, and even more supported by canon, and the Shaw-Reese and Finch-Root support groups equally powerful. I'm sure they'll find ways to have contact, and I'm sure the summer will be filled with fanfics in which that occurs. Finch walking off with Bear, and Reese with his bag of weapons, ouch: tragically reluctant custody split.
And poor Fusco, left in the dark again, and I'm a bit mystified as to why Decima doesn't know he's part of the team, but whatever. Are Root's boys coming back to play next season?
Ha ha, wounding Finch in the right shoulder (I hope his new identity can safely go to a doctor), and "you're not a free man; you're just a number." I'm sure there were other shout-outs I missed.
I'm predicting they kill Root by the end of next season; there were a few too many hints that the Machine finds her expendable, and although I love Amy Acker's performance and characterization, I'm not sure where else they can go with it - but the show is very capable of surprises, so one can hope. Also for a closer view of the Machine and Samaritan, although not too much anthropomorphism (I think they're walking the line perfectly so far).
The death of the Library was just as poignant as the human deaths, especially with the (temporary please) separation of Finch and Reese immediately following. Just in general, ow.
I also saw the finale of "Once Upon a Time," and there were lots of clever (and viciously painful) things happening, though I am still stuck with that impression of game-changers and near-immediate take-backs (though at least some of the deaths this season seem to have been permanent). I do like that the journey from "ethically challenged" (yes I am rereading the Rivers of London books) to purely good is a rocky one, with lots of temptations to power and revenge to trip over.
Off tomorrow for the long weekend and graduation in Houston, which should be easy enough to pack for and is for me and J, but P's itinerary is slightly more complicated (Houston-Albuquerque-(Denver)-Philadelphia-(London)-Accra, Ghana, over the next week) and he hasn't exactly been home much to organize for it, so I suspect today will be a hair-pulling festival of last-minute searching and shopping. Whee.
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comments there. Comment here or there.