Person of Interest thoughts on last 3 episodes

[astolat]

I've been way happier with the last three episodes, man!

Spoilers for Razgovor, Mors Praematura, The Perfect Mark, and next week's promo below!

Comments

[nausicaa83]

I have to agree with you on every single point. Wish I had a more interesting comment to make, but I just completely agree with everything.

[percysowner]

I too am bothered by the suddenly sympathetic view on characters I found basically unsympathetic. The con man this week being allowed to go con people as long as he's in another town. The Romeo with pictures of murdered women who wasn't stalking women, he was just looking into every detail of their lives, just so he could be a better boyfriend and then the team supports him blowing into his son's life and blowing it to smithereens by telling the kid your parents aren't your parents; I'm your dad; I'm going to get custody because I'm da man! We never had one single hint that the kids parents were treating him badly, or didn't love him or any reason for his father to sail into his life and disrupt it. And yes, Lasky's I didn't think HR would be about KILLING people. Really! I mean I'm a little old lady whose only brush with the mob is on TV and I know that dirty cops and the mob do not sadly shake their heads at people and tell them they've disappointed them. I love the show, but some of the resolutions of the plots have been odd to

[astrumporta]

Awesome analysis, thank you so much. I think I liked the A-plot more than you did, but probably because it was so interwoven with Carter's B-plot. I thought that was quite clever. The Number kept my interest more than those earlier in the season, perhaps because I was curious if he was even sincere about being in love at all. At first I felt like it was another boring 'case-of-the-week' but then it became engaging. I even had a feeling the girlfriend was a con-artist herself -- it was something about how she hung up after agreeing to meet him to hear him out. So the cons within cons made it sort of a "The Sting" homage

[astolat]

Oh, I wouldn't worry about Carter at all. I don't believe they'd kill her for a second. Even Joss Whedon never killed off one of his core Scoobies or Giles, and Carter is totally one of the core characters.

I think the question is whether they have the combination of guts and network freedom to kill off Fusco or not, and IMO even that's up in the air, even though they really should get rid of him from a practical standpoint.

[amnisias]

I wish they had morally shady PoIs more often, and would explore that tension a bit more. Because, realistically, a good proportion of people that are about to get killed are likely to be criminals of sorts themselves - and Herold's codec seems to be that they save the person without judging how they got themself into the mess in the first place. The show has been largly circumventing the issue by either making the POI a victim, or an innocent/redeemed character or playing it for laughs (Leon Tau). I'd love for the show to explore that dilemma in more detail.

[astolat]

Oh, I'd also love it if they had the shady POIs and actually dealt with them in a serious way, even to the extent they did with the mafia dons in s1, or Triggerman last year. I am all for the idea of redemption, that everyone deserves a second chance, and I quite like them grudgingly deciding yes, they're going to save even this complete asshole, etc., and then dealing with the consequences.

The part that I can't take is when they first make the POI incredibly shady, then don't bother actually dealing with the implications. If that's how they're going to do it, I'd rather they stuck to the narrower palette of characters.

[mahaliem]

the fan who really cares but could never afford it ends up with the ball! SIGH.

I just wanted the kid to have conned them all. Your ending is much better.

One thing I loved was the John and Carter fist bump.