A crossover waiting to happen.

[the_grynne]

An omnipresent, near-omniscient machine that watches, diagnoses, and predicts the future?

What is Person of Interest about but Skynet 1.0?

It's a funny, funny show that takes itself way too seriously (kind of like Abrams' other show, Fringe, did in its first season, too). For all the purported "science", what it ultimately comes down to is faith

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[rodlox]

>What is Person of Interest about but Skynet 1.0?
It seems so...particularly with how Mr Finch taught it to decide what is important.

let's hope the show lasts longer than Sarah Connor Chronicles.

[the_grynne]

let's hope the show lasts longer than Sarah Connor Chronicles.

I don't know... I'm not at all convinced that it is a good show, for all that it raises some thought-provoking questions (mostly unintentionally, I suspect).

[daria234]

I definitely see it as a Western fascination - seeing fate and free will as two incommensurably opposite ways of understanding causality. Maybe it's the same thing that makes Western culture so fascinated with Sliding Doors/Butterfly effect types of stories. Just thinking off the top of my head but maybe it's because Western culture conflates having agency with having control/power over; so in that view, fate and free will are inherently antagonists.

[the_grynne]

Just thinking off the top of my head but maybe it's because Western culture conflates having agency with having control/power over; so in that view, fate and free will are inherently antagonists.

I think you might be onto something there...

[alethialia]

What is Person of Interest about but Skynet 1.0?

Heh. This is how I always describe it! Only I tack on: "that description sounds 10 times for interesting than the show actually is."

stories about fate versus free-will.

I would be happier if more stories even had a foundation like this. Since it seems like most are just treading water without even a thought for such things.

[the_grynne]

Best moment of the episode was at the end, when Handsome Boy Modeling School started to play.

I would be happier if more stories even had a foundation like this. Since it seems like most are just treading water without even a thought for such things.

I get that sense from lot of Abrams' shows.

[calculare]

Terra Nova has some sort of thing going with 'control the past to control/affect the future' going on (or at least, hints of a faction that believe that, or a single crazy guy). And Primeval had the same thing going on at some point, didn't it? Edit: Ha! Directionless comment. I just meant that it seems that a large number of the shows that have anything to do with the past and future intersecting (or any foreknowledge that allows for the possibility of some sort of 'control') seem to deal with this issue. Or maybe it's just in fashion, at the moment. :)

[the_grynne]

More than fashion, I think. There's also Doctor Who, Battlestar Galactica, and stories going all the way back to the soothsayers of Greco-Roman mythology.

[calculare]

I meant in a more short-term comparison with the deluge of forensic investigation shows that were all the rage a few years ago (why won't they diiie?).