@mamahub19 @slack2thefuture @widgetfactoryco 'Deus Ex Machina'
— Amanda Segel (@absegel) March 22, 2014Person of Interest - Episode 3.23 (Season Finale) - Title Revealed
22 Mar 2014
Person of Interest
Thanks to João Paulo for the heads up
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Excellent name for a season finale for POI.
ReplyDeleteLiteral translation is 'God from the machine'. This. Looks. Awesome.
ReplyDeleteThat's an awesome title for a finale
ReplyDeleteFrom Merriam-Webster
A god introduced by means of a crane in ancient Greek and Roman drama to decide the final outcome.
A character or thing that suddenly appears in a story and solves a problem that had previously seemed impossible to solve
The term now denotes something that appears suddenly
and unexpectedly and provides an artificial solution to an apparently
insoluble difficulty.
SAMARITAN IS COMING!!!! HIDE YOUR KIDS!!! HIDE YOUR LOVED ONES!!!
Or maybe, just maybe, Samaritan is already online but at the very end, we get to know that there's a third machine that could be a potential ally to Harold's Machine. (if the creators are going for the relevant Greek mythology that describes the three Fates)
Anyways, super excited about the final run of episodes. And I read somewhere that Root is in all of them.
Hope Finch's kidney doesn't get stolen.
ReplyDelete"HIDE YOUR KIDS!!! HIDE YOUR LOVED ONES!!!"
ReplyDeleteNO POINT. IT CAN FIND YOU WHEREVER YOU HIDE.
It's also the title of one of the book Finch keeps in his library. The one with the picture of him and Nathan in it, in front of the secret safe.
ReplyDeleteIt's the title of one of the book Finch keeps in his library. The one with the picture of him and Nathan in it, in front of the secret safe.
ReplyDeleteRight. "In the beginning ~ NI"
ReplyDeleteForgot about that. Another appearance by Nathan is almost guaranteed then.
ReplyDeleteIt comes from a phrase in ancient Greek theater. When writers couldn't get a character out of an impossible situation they'd lower a chair on the stage and lift the character out symbolizing the Gods saved them. The term has survived to this day as an event in theater or television when a character is saved from an impossible situation by an improbable event.
ReplyDeleteThe irony is in a show about godlike machines, the title makes perfect sense.
Lost :') i know this episode will be epic!
ReplyDeleteHahahaha!
ReplyDeleteCan Terry O' Quinn please guest star on this one! :D
But what a great title, especially since the idea of "Dues Ex Machina" is a writing device used when characters are pinned in the corner. It's often used in plays and the phrase actually comes from a physical machine (crane) that helped Grecian actors play The Gods on stage, which also relates to something "supernatural" happening to "get out of the impossible situation"...
Will be VERY interested to see the characters in an impossible situation and see what it is that gets them out of it...My bets are if we were going into a more science "fiction" direction with something bigger than the characters or the machine (like 2 machines or our machine going out of it's way to save everyone, or Root becoming more fully intergrated into the machine) I would think this would be it!!
Anything but some character coming back from the dead!
ReplyDeleteThat's not only incredibly hokey...it's been over done.
However, in fantasy land a general rule of thumb is that if you Never Found the Body, the character is Not Quite Dead.
So that rules out Carter's return or that of Agent Donnelly. Both shown as very dead.
But Nathan, Stanton, and Snow? No blown apart body bits ever revealed :)
Stanton and Snow's bodies were recovered offscreen & the proof of their deaths was somewhat confirmed by Agent Moss to Carter back in Dead Reckoning.
ReplyDeleteNathan, however, is another story....
My body is ready and mind is read for explosions :)
ReplyDeleteThis title is awesome on so many levels. This show comes up with titles that makes you go, "Of course!" So ingenious and obvious-in-hindsight.
ReplyDeleteReading the comments, most of them are referring to it's literal translation "god from the machine" which makes sense because there is an omnipresent machine and characters that refer to it as god. But what about deus ex machine, as the plot device in literature? That's actually the first thing that came to my mind when I read the title. Is the episode going to have a deus ex machina type ending? Or the opposite of deux ex machina like Breaking Bad season 2 finale (or lucifer ex machina as Vince Gilligan puts it)?
ReplyDeleteThe show's makers admitted that they are being inspired by the movie, "Colossus: The Forbin Project." Because of that, I'll guess that our Machine, after having defeated the threat that Samaritan poses, will explicitly announce its intent to take over the affairs of mankind...since mankind always seems to be making a mess of them anyway. I.e., the Machine actually slips into the role of a god and starts ordering the government around and giving decrees. The cliffhanger will then be the question: What will our friends do about it?
ReplyDeleteThat's a good guess!
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't put that past Samaritan.
ReplyDeleteI'm betting that whatever happens in this finale, Root will be central to the fact that she alone is attached to the machine and this could be her finale. Could she be dying for the machine in this one? Saving it from whatever is happening with Samaritan?
ReplyDeleteDoesn't look like it:
ReplyDelete"Shooting @PersonInterest season finale- it's SO good! I wish we had scripts for S4 now, so we could see what's next!! #cantwaitallsummer"
-Amy Acker's twitter account
Unless your name is Patrick Simmons!
ReplyDeleteOh POI why do u have to go again???
ReplyDeleteBut that book is "Ghost in the Machine". Similar, but different.
ReplyDeleteSERIOUSLY?! WOW!!! That's a perfect (P E R F E C T) title for Person of Interest, but I have to admit - every time I see this phrase, I recall Lost and the fabulous episode about Locke.
ReplyDeleteCarter we saw pseudo-die on the street (it appears like she is "bleeding" out. And you can be confirmed dead and not be dead), but we did not see her body postmortem we saw it as she was dy-"ing". (The writers also choose to shoot the funeral scenes with a "closed casket")...
ReplyDeleteNathan is another one that I think could easily not be dead and is probably a more likely scenario given the episode title and Finch's book...
It's not Hokey "if" it was Finch's/Carter's idea to use Carter as bate to sniff Simon's out, and/or stage her death (I think the whole celebratory attitude while Simmon's was still at large was too stupid for those characters, who are often so smart...), and then put her in witness protection (aka an example of a death benefit) and the machine gets her to come to the rescue. (this also would parallel Alias, as the show often does, in this case it would be in relation to Will Tippin, Sydney Bristow, and/or Michael Vaughn...) Additionally if that's the case, it would be a nice surprise, a way for Reese to have new found hope (and the audience too), and the actress doesn't need to be in the show, but fans don't have to be as angry about her departure either, knowing that she's "out there" and came back for one last great moments...This goes along with this metaphysical aspect we more aptly got into in Root Path as well.
It's overdone on other shows, but POI has yet to do it. (and one reason it's over done, is because it ties well into themes about playing God, survival of fittest, immortality, and the ability dream the impossible--something exclusive to human beings and our identity) along with the fact that there just is a lot of art and entertainment co-existing at the same time, something that didn't exist like this before...