In an evening filled with good television, Person of Interest still stands out.
I like the fact that the show is willing to go to the dark places and explorers the ramifications of the issues it raises.
Prophets starts out as a fairly routine episode with the number of pollster Simon Lee.
But as the episode goes on, you realize that the writers are peeling back another layer of POI Mythology.
The fact that Samaritan is rigging elections is a very scary revelation and another step in it’s taking away free will.
I appreciated the ways the team tried to protect Simon without blowing their covers and the gun battle that Root had with the Operative was great.
And while the team managed to save Simon’s life, they wound up destroying his self confidence.
For someone like Simon, one could argue that could be worse than killing him.
We got more layer peeling though with the characters.
While Reese didn’t have much to do with the number of the week, we did see him talk with the psychiatrist about Carter and her death.
We also found out that Ms. Groves changes identities (and clothes) every few days and not only does that cause a lack of human contact, her contact with the Machine is limited lest Samaritan find out.
The scenes with her and Finch were well done.
The last layer peeling concerned Finch and the genesis of the Machine.
I had often wondered why Finch had an inability to trust the Machine and why he had originally designed it to do the memory dumps and this episode showed us why.
42 previous versions were essentially untrustworthy and Finch was concerned about the “morality” of the 43rd iteration.
And this highlights the difference between the Machine and Samaritan. One has a moral/ethical compass while the other does not.
I do look forward to his conversation with the Machine.
I like the fact that the show is willing to go to the dark places and explorers the ramifications of the issues it raises.
Prophets starts out as a fairly routine episode with the number of pollster Simon Lee.
But as the episode goes on, you realize that the writers are peeling back another layer of POI Mythology.
The fact that Samaritan is rigging elections is a very scary revelation and another step in it’s taking away free will.
I appreciated the ways the team tried to protect Simon without blowing their covers and the gun battle that Root had with the Operative was great.
And while the team managed to save Simon’s life, they wound up destroying his self confidence.
For someone like Simon, one could argue that could be worse than killing him.
We got more layer peeling though with the characters.
While Reese didn’t have much to do with the number of the week, we did see him talk with the psychiatrist about Carter and her death.
We also found out that Ms. Groves changes identities (and clothes) every few days and not only does that cause a lack of human contact, her contact with the Machine is limited lest Samaritan find out.
The scenes with her and Finch were well done.
The last layer peeling concerned Finch and the genesis of the Machine.
I had often wondered why Finch had an inability to trust the Machine and why he had originally designed it to do the memory dumps and this episode showed us why.
42 previous versions were essentially untrustworthy and Finch was concerned about the “morality” of the 43rd iteration.
And this highlights the difference between the Machine and Samaritan. One has a moral/ethical compass while the other does not.
I do look forward to his conversation with the Machine.
Aucun commentaire:
Enregistrer un commentaire