Further confirmation that John doesn't keep grudges, and he doesn't really do revenge. The second Root wasn't a danger to Harold anymore, he was patching up her wounds and letting her go. I continue to not believe that he killed Jessica's husband, either.
WORD. Except I still kinda like him for Jessica's husband. It was the way he told the guy in Foe that revenge wouldn't work, because what about tomorrow? It makes me think he did kill Arndt and it wrecked him the next day, because he was still a killer and he still had nothing. And then it was *Finch* who made him change, to believe he *could* be better, so when 104 happened he made a different choice.
I'm not married to the idea, though. Either way, I love John's face so hard it hurts. ♥
That said. I still makes LESS THAN ZERO sense that Harold tied the admin power to the machine to whatever random person answers a random unprotected payphone. Okay, it worked out IN THIS CASE, but there were a billion ways this could have gone wrong, and Harold's paranoid enough to have thought of all of them. WHAT.
I had a thought about that! The Decima guy actually says at the end of 2x21 that the *virus* identified the payphone number - what if it was all just a huge bluff on Harold's part to keep people away for the 24 hours that the Machine was vulnerable? (if it was at all by then - it's unclear what the virus-within-a-virus did, if it just told the Machine to move itself, or deleted the midnight protocol, or enabled the Machine to edit itself, or what. The payphone people may have never had admin access at all.)
There's definitely some plotholes lurking (like why the hell he put his *name* on the virus laptop, why why why), but a) still on a roadtrip and can't DL to rewatch :( and b) OMG BEST FEELS DON'T CARE YET. That's what hiatus is for!
Whoops, belay my last: they did definitely have admin access, because there was that graphic when Root's expired. Okay, so probably just a delaying mechanism.
WORD. Except I still kinda like him for Jessica's husband. It was the way he told the guy in Foe that revenge wouldn't work, because what about tomorrow? It makes me think he did kill Arndt and it wrecked him the next day, because he was still a killer and he still had nothing. And then it was *Finch* who made him change, to believe he *could* be better, so when 104 happened he made a different choice.
I'm not married to the idea, though. Either way, I love John's face so hard it hurts. ♥
That said. I still makes LESS THAN ZERO sense that Harold tied the admin power to the machine to whatever random person answers a random unprotected payphone. Okay, it worked out IN THIS CASE, but there were a billion ways this could have gone wrong, and Harold's paranoid enough to have thought of all of them. WHAT.
I had a thought about that! The Decima guy actually says at the end of 2x21 that the *virus* identified the payphone number - what if it was all just a huge bluff on Harold's part to keep people away for the 24 hours that the Machine was vulnerable? (if it was at all by then - it's unclear what the virus-within-a-virus did, if it just told the Machine to move itself, or deleted the midnight protocol, or enabled the Machine to edit itself, or what. The payphone people may have never had admin access at all.)
There's definitely some plotholes lurking (like why the hell he put his *name* on the virus laptop, why why why), but a) still on a roadtrip and can't DL to rewatch :( and b) OMG BEST FEELS DON'T CARE YET. That's what hiatus is for!
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