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

Mar 26, 2014

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23 comments:

  1. CPMarch 26, 2014 at 3:02 AM

    Still laughing at how John just shrugged off his fall onto the car. Badass he is.


    Nice callback to season 2 Bear being after the books. ha


    That ending was pretty tense.

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  2. talkingmoviezMarch 26, 2014 at 3:04 AM

    Finch- She is currently working on reconstruction in third world countries

    Reese- She Digs Wells ?

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  3. magnutudeMarch 26, 2014 at 3:08 AM

    another awesome ep... I loved how everything came together at the end, and liked Root's face off with Greer... was hoping that Bear would get a chance to bite someone... lol great Fusco/Shaw moments as well

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  4. Chandler MarloweMarch 26, 2014 at 3:19 AM

    "But the gun down...or I'll get politicky on your ass!" Fusco.

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  5. JimmyMarch 26, 2014 at 4:04 AM

    As usual, excellent television. A bit more procedural this time, but it's good to have that once in a while, while also entwining Root and Greer into the storyline. POI is never in short supply of one-liners and entertaining flukes, but we got about half a season's worth of both tonight!

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  6. Justin ValdesMarch 26, 2014 at 4:07 AM

    Great episode! Loved how it started out as filler then turned it over to Root and Greer and the end.

    Was anyone else pretty nervous for Bear when he was with Root, Greer, and the two guys with guns in the subway station? I thought something was going to happen there. Thank God nothing did. Love live Bear!

    Greer made some interesting points on the war that is developing and choosing sides.

    Loved the scene where Fusco was showing his enthusiasm towards honking the fire truck horn. Hilarious!

    And woah at Reese jumping out of a 4 story window and act like it never happened. LOL, he's so awesome.

    I also loved the Fusco/Shaw scene at the bar. That was nice.

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  7. disqus_BLvd5NQY3FMarch 26, 2014 at 4:09 AM

    Why has no one told Fusco about the machine you would think he should know what is going on and the dangerous people involve

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  8. László HarsányiMarch 26, 2014 at 7:27 AM

    I wonder whether Greer managed to breach even the improved contact between Root and the Machine? Or how that she wasn't warned about the two goons behind? Decima is becoming an extremely powerful enemy, if they know how to hide themselves from the Machine's "eyes" (like Greer did in the beginning of the episode) while getting info from Samaritan at the same time.

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  9. DarqueModeMarch 26, 2014 at 10:06 AM

    Honestly, I was a little annoyed that Team Machine assumed that Maria Martinez had a bomb or was more prone to be doing terrorist acts that humanitarian acts as they first tracked her.

    I always like Nazeen Contractor and in this episode I really liked her performance as Maria Martinez. Glad to see her on PoI and may I add, Carlos Rota is a lucky man! XD

    - I loved Finch-in-the-field's alias for the episode, Kingfisher.
    - Shaw's fight in the elevator was awesome.
    - Awesome seeing Fusco kick ass instead of clown around!

    Overall I thought this was just a "Good" episode. The COTW was too predictable and it lacked time due to the Root scenes being shoe-horned in . Even if I do not watch POI for realism or unpredictability I still like when the COTW has a little depth and mystery to it.

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  10. disqus_GUpvxldYzXMarch 26, 2014 at 10:17 AM

    This show's jumped the shark.

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  11. Lord NikonMarch 26, 2014 at 5:01 PM

    It was awesome episode. But there is a very bad research that was done by the people making the maps. In the episode there is a map where it says Plodiv and it should say Plovdiv.

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  12. DarqueModeMarch 26, 2014 at 5:22 PM

    I'm not there yet, but adding Bear and Root were major steps toward jumping the shark...

    This season has been a step back and to the side.... Not much worse than it used to be, but just not what it could have been either.

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  13. DarthLocke4March 26, 2014 at 6:44 PM

    Haven't seen the episode yet. I got a major migraine last night and decided I would watch it today instead! Looks like the comments are a little mixed. I'll be back later to see where I will weigh in!

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  14. gladiusMarch 26, 2014 at 7:38 PM

    this show has recently jumped the shark, nuked the fridge (or whatever it is called today) so many times...The first part of this season was great, but the second part, the episode on the plane, everything was so unrealistic, all the events...

    the episode about the good thief whose daughter was held captive...she just jumped like crazy into the cage with that enormous bible but they never bother to explain how did she jumped back with this book...now we had Reese just jumped off that building and nothing happened to him...

    then they just got into UN building and nobody bothered to check if they are really firefighters, and the fact they arrived a few seconds after the smoke appeared surprised nobody...and no secruity tried to stop the fight between the "firefighters" and the bad guys.

    This show was so clever, they always had intelligent ways of solving different issues, now it seems like they got lazy because the fanbase is already established and the viewer number is huge as always. No need to try harder.

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  15. DarthLocke4March 26, 2014 at 10:06 PM

    Although I haven't seen the episode yet, I disagree about completely jumping shark. It seemed inevitable to me that if this show was ever going to open it's scope politically, then it probably would do so philosophically...


    This had been the one and only Bad Robot work to not hit on the metaphysical and/or paranormal backbone the rest of the works tend to have...but the death of Carter marked a game changer so that we can get into a bigger world with harder philosophical questions and more fantastical events (like the airplane episode winked to both LOST and North By Northwest). The last episode in particular brought that debate into the light. This is starting to not just be about playing god, but about a potential fate in the name of playing god.


    The things you say do sound lazy (but this season a lot of stand alones have not been as good as more serialized episodes), but I also think it's good to have a silly-breather in between the heavier complex stuff and this episode, except for the ending, seems like it was one of those episodes, which probably means the last few are going to be heavy doozies...

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  16. DarqueModeMarch 26, 2014 at 10:32 PM

    For me personally it is not the change in theme or direction that makes me think it is getting close to jumping (if not already mid-air), it's the action scenes. Mostly due to Root honestly.


    I can handle a trained operator hitting his mark 99/100 times, but Root hits her mark almost every shot and she does not even look at her target half the time. Walking down a hall way and just moving her arm left or to the right and not bothering to look - just move , shoot and hit a bullseye. It is beyond ridiculous.


    Even the omniscient aspect of Root seems a bit shark-jumpy at times....
    I know the machine can feed her info easily enough and I can accept that, but to give her the exact info at the exact moment she needs it.... Or even worse to give her the info moments before Finch needs it is a bit much. To most people it comes off as bad ass, but to me it is over-the-top and gets to the point of jumping the shark.


    Then add in things like Reese walking into a room of baddies without seeing the fight and then taking us into the room moments later with every baddie incapacitated can be a bit too much as well. One thing if it's one or two men, but a roomful crosses the line for me. In Season 1 we would have seen the fights and recently we jsut see the before and after sicne we are too assume he is so bad ass... Likewise with falling off of a roof and having no aftereffect other than the need to dust himself off.


    Also all the stupid dog jokes....


    The tone changed somewhere in Season 2 I think, but got much worse in Season 3. It went from being a mostly serious (albeit unrealistic at times) show to being a somewhat serious show that alternates between being somewhat serious, often tongue in cheek and just outright unrealistic.


    I still enjoy the show a lot, but not nearly as much as Season 1. The tonal change leaves me disinterested more than I would like.

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  17. DarthLocke4March 27, 2014 at 12:00 AM

    I can appreciate what you're saying, but I actually like what they have done with Root. I like that they use her as this 'rebel with a cause' in a way where her relationship with the machine is SO different from the relationship that Finch has with it, and the implausible nature of what the machine can turn her into (the machine is the eyes and she's just an acting body) is what makes it philosophically interesting for me...The idea of faith in something 'other' to the point where she's almost not human anymore I find a fascinating idea (especially since I no longer know how much longer she'll survive it)... I just think that nature of this reality has to go somewhere bigger and/or more extreme, it doesn't want to be too redundant (and have bigger meaning) and so that kind of implies a more fantastical element. (Obviously you know I like Bad Robot for this, but I also like Jonathan Nolan for this, as I love non Batman films more, because of their Hitchcockian way of going about perception, obsession, and identity)

    I do agree with what you say here though:

    Then add in things like Reese walking into a room of baddies without seeing the fight and then taking us into the room moments later with every baddie incapacitated can be a bit too much as well. One thing if it's one or two men, but a roomful crosses the line for me. In Season 1 we would have seen the fights and recently we jsut see the before and after sicne we are too assume he is so bad ass... Likewise with falling off of a roof and having no aftereffect other than the need to dust himself off.



    I think if they do this too much, it won't be the same, but I can appreciate it as something humorous from time to time...

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  18. DarqueModeMarch 27, 2014 at 12:17 AM

    I agree on a lot of points like the show needed to grow its universe, but I think a show can be fantastical and still be realistic.. I'm not sure the show has tried to do that much this year. So many times they just ignored realism for no reason in addition to ignoring it for comedic reasons like you pointed out,


    I can't agree that the way Root is as dangerous as a trained mercenary and can fire blindly with 100% accuracy is a needed part of that growing of the shows universe.


    A large part of my dislike of Root is her performance as well though...
    I find it too over-the-top to be taken as realistic. It pulls me out of the moment almost every time she is on screen with lines that are too cute by half. More than just the dialog itself, but how she delivers it.


    I thought Root was fun in small doses, but seeing as much of her as we have this year has made me dread every scene with her. Oh well, there are a lot of people who like Root and what she brings to the show... I just never will be one of them.

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  19. gladiusMarch 27, 2014 at 9:12 AM

    I did not say it completly jumped the shark.

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  20. DarthLocke4March 27, 2014 at 1:25 PM

    Voted "Good" as, except for the tie-in at the end with Root and Greer, this was an average episode.


    Think the falling through the window with out a scratch seen may be an allusion to John Locke after last week's introduction to pondering a metaphysical universe. But it also reminded me of some other iconic action scene, but can't remember exactly from what. Something like Die Hard maybe?


    Kind of was wondering if Omar Risha was meant to be an allusion to Omar Sharif?


    I think the episode told us the Machine has "ears" as it was able to calculate a the weight of a person's step or stride (and ears/hearing being a nice theme with Root)


    Love Finch's new bird alias "King Fisher"! Love that Greer actually comments on Root's attempt to pay attention to smell via Bear.


    Like the parallel that Vigilance asks Shaw to join him in last week's episode and that Greer asks Root to join Decima in this week's episode.


    I also wonder if moving the generators was a reference to moving the machine and found it interesting that showed us how Maria could "over load" the security system in the apartment and if that will be foreshadowing anything in these next few episodes???

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  21. DarthLocke4March 27, 2014 at 1:36 PM

    After finally watching it last night, I'm thinking that falling out the window scene was meant to parallel John Locke...Reese has been a character that has been taken aback spiritually since Carter died and now we have Root and Finch contemplating the true nature of the universe and role of the machine(s) in last week's episode through Cyrus Wells (<---which is also a wink to OUATiW, as Cyrus is able to go to The Well of Wonders where magical water in all the relms hold the key to life and life extension. The well itself was in a "octagon" shape winking to LOST).


    I thought I couldn't like Root as much as I do either, because her character turned out to be so so bad on Alias that I was doubtful they could turn the blind zealot into a real team player and because she made such a good villain there, but then again I was doubtful of Shaw too and both have proven to be loyal thus far and have both been written along side each other...I was grateful through that the writers had her meet Finch half way at the end of Root Path, because I think she has become more reasonable and explainable than just not giving a darn, despite that her abilities are becoming out of this world!

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  22. DarthLocke4March 27, 2014 at 1:45 PM

    I know you didn't, I used that word "completely" just to meet you half way by explaining why I think it hasn't or rather that to some degree it has to change if it's going to keep moving forward. I was trying not to deny your opinion.

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  23. Ereth ReetnithMarch 27, 2014 at 7:00 PM

    i liked the pacing and the twists and how the number of the week tied in with the overall story with the Machine vs. Samaritan.
    also, Root randomly calling in with necessary info the Machine wanted to pass on to Finch for the case of the week made me smile each and every time; her go along attitude even when she doesn't know what it's about is... impressive.

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