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POLL : What did you think of Person of Interest - Foe?

Nov 18, 2011

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17 comments:

  1. SmallvilleSupernaturalCastleNovember 18, 2011 at 3:15 AM

    awsome episode! Very compelling and it made me on the edge of my seat the whole present time story. Cole was played by a great actor and the character himself was interesting. I just liked the episode overall it was great! The only thing was i was a little confused on the past story b part. who was that girl? Does she work for the CIA? Who was the mysterious threat? Will it return in present time possibly? And best of all we learned that mr. reese's name was made up by her. What's his made up first name tho?

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  2. prpleightNovember 18, 2011 at 7:20 AM

    Loved the episode.  We know where Reese got his name.  The annoying unanswered question for me was why did the German agent help?

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  3. EmilyNovember 18, 2011 at 10:07 AM

    John.

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  4. EmilyNovember 18, 2011 at 10:11 AM

    I'm guessing embaressment: Cole was never supposed to have existed, and the whole 'no trial' thing wouldn't go down well at the international level, so an unofficial answer helped to cover tracks.

    Personally I'm wondering how long Mr Reese can really stay secret if this many people see him... and the cops were so close today, too!

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  5. DarthLocke4November 18, 2011 at 1:32 PM

    Loved "Foe"!

    What a really good performance from LOST alumni, Alan Dale! That man does accents so well!

    There were once again riffs between his LOST character, Super 8's character, LOST number, and a nod to Alias.

    Number 108 on Jacob's list (in the Lighthouse) was a person we never met named "Wallace". In Super 8 Kyle Chandler's character, deputy Jackson Lamb steals and weres military personal uniform (the 1979 air force) who's name on the uniform read's "Wallace"...In LOST the 18 yr old version of Charles Widmore also steals and weres a military personal uniform (1954 U.S. Army)...they both pretend to be other people to deal with their situations. Alan Dale's character last night, Cole, went by and alias, "Wallace" Negel.

    Additionally the staged death of his wife Anya's car crash is similar to Alias' Irena DeRevo (Laura Bristow), as both women betray their husbands....

    Another little stretch might be the needle torture kit, similar to method's Sayid Jarrah used on LOST. And the coins reminded me of Peter Bishop...

    To episode itself: I found the parallels between Reese and Cole rather interesting and I think down the road Reese is going to have to take a deeper look at himself. I was rather disturbed that his partner from 2006 wanted him to remove the teeth and the fingernails of the 2 men they killed. It made think of the scenes in both the Pilot when he killed the guy and then a few episodes back when he was left sitting at a table with a man and we don't know if he is alive or dead...what did Reese do to make him 'disappear'. But the darkness in Reese only makes his story more compelling...Is he really doing this for the right reasons???

    As for Finch, I am more suspicious about his identity, since he laid it on thick about not understanding why a person would turn on "their team", because clearly he is paranoid with his own identity and I think non of us would be surprised if things didn't work out with his former colleague...All in all if there is forshaddowment here and that Reese and Finch will come to a cross roads with each other? 

    I like how Carter is just sort of accepting that Reese is leading her to these people, almost like she appreciates it, despite he is also breaking the law. Fesco is also more delightful and he constantly in a comical position. 

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  6. DarkUFONovember 18, 2011 at 1:37 PM

    Yep, good to see Dale back again. Very enjoyable episode.

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  7. DarthLocke4November 18, 2011 at 1:46 PM

    I am curious about that too. One thing I hoped for with Reese' character description given to us prior to the series, was that he might come with some serious baggage and that maybe things (people, places, things) from his past would come back and haunt him.

    I look forward to learning more about his 2006 situation...if he went rougue, is part of a black opps clean-up group, or if he is undercover????

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  8. pauloNovember 18, 2011 at 3:50 PM

    Person of Interest is entering the "Epic" side of the storytelling spectrum.

    PS - for how long will Carter stay unaware of Fusco's constant private phonecalls and tips to find knocked out crooks or still warm bodies?

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  9. pauloNovember 18, 2011 at 8:01 PM

    Basically the german agent saw that Reese was their (Germany's secret services) chance to finally wipe the mess out of the map. If NYPD catched Cole the story would become public.

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  10. CliffNovember 19, 2011 at 12:34 AM

    Didn't catch the 108/Wallace reference at all, but you're so right. This might confirm the lighthouse number for once :D

    And true, Alan Dale was fantastic in that episode. Person of Interest has yet to deliver a not-so-good episode, and I think it will be quite some time until they deliver a bummer. That series is superb.

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  11. João PauloNovember 19, 2011 at 4:19 PM

    Great episode. Alan Dale make awesome job. Jim Caviezel and Michael Emerson rocks to.
    I'm glad more of the Reese past.

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  12. DarthLocke4November 21, 2011 at 5:55 PM

    yeah. It's definately a word I wasn't expecting to see for a third time! 

    But so far I think Kelvin is the biggist repeat that I think shows up in every Bad Robot work:

    Kelvin Hall -"Felicity"
    Kelvin Genetics -"Fringe"
    U.S.S. Kelvin -"Star Trek"
    Kelvin 'Joe' Inman -"LOST"
    James Kelvin (played by Alan Dale) -"Undercovers"
    Kelvin Gas Station -"Super 8"
    Paul Kelvin -"Alias"

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  13. CliffNovember 21, 2011 at 6:03 PM

    Good catch, too!

    You certainly know your business hehe =)

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  14. Lilith HellfireNovember 21, 2011 at 6:35 PM

    I love this show. It's weird. I like Once Upon a Time too. I don't know if it's a Lost connection thing or not. I even started watching Hawaii 5.0 because of Daniel and Terry (seriously no other reason) this season. But this show stands on it's own merits. I haven't even been looking for Easter eggs in this show (like I do with Once Upon a Time) but now I will go back and see if I can find anymore on my own. It was a slow build up but now.. it's on a roll. I have yet to not like an episode. I love things in the grey area. 

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  15. Bruce_FNovember 21, 2011 at 8:21 PM

    I didn't like this episode very much.  Too many problems.  I would have voted "okay" if it weren't for the completely unexplained (and unbelievable) way in which that old Stasi agent kept miraculously finding those former colleagues before Reese and Finch could.  Just as problematic was the scene at the end of the episode in the park.  There's no way it would have taken the cops that long to find Finch, Reese, and the rest after hearing that gunshot.  It stretched believability a little too far for me.

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  16. DarthLocke4November 21, 2011 at 8:31 PM

    Hawaii Five-O is also produced by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, who all long time collaborators with Bad Robot (Alias Execs, Star Trek writers, Fringe Execs/co-creators, MI: III co-writers, ect)....There own production company is "Kurtzman and Orci Paper Products"....Bad Robot is physically disguised as "National Typewriter Co."...

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  17. Locke333November 26, 2011 at 5:52 AM

    I absolutely hated the way this episode ended. The closure to Kohl's character was sad and unsatisfying. He died with his wife thinking that he tried to kill her. If he wanted Reese to shoot him, he could have asked him to or he could have shot himself. I just hate knowing that he KNEW exactly what he was doing and what the result would be. How can you die knowing the only person you love thinking you're a crazy killer? It just didn't satisfy me the slightest. Plus I liked the character and Alan Dale as an actor so I wish he had stuck around a little longer.

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