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POLL : What did you think of Person of Interest - Deus Ex Machina?

14 May 2014

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80 comments:

  1. Justin Baptista14 May 2014 at 04:00

    Now that is the definition of an Empire Strikes Back cliffhanger. The bad guys win. The good guys live to fight another day. Nothing is ever the same again.

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  2. WAR OF THE GODS is coming..........................................................................next fall.

    What a finale!! What an episode!!! What an ending!!!! EPIC AND AMAZING!!!!

    The whole episode was outstanding and there were so many amazing scenes.

    Scenes between Reese and Hersh. Kicking ass and taking names. So sad that we will never get to see that brief partnership again. RIP Hersh aka Terminator.

    Scenes between Root and Shaw. Beautiful partnership and weird friendship.

    Scenes between Reese and Bear. Loved those scenes where Bear took down enemy fighters and brought a gun to Reese. Made me cheer loudly.

    Every Harold scene -with Control, with Collier, with Greer. Alone in the stand, explaining about the Machine and his motives. Every single scene of Harold was amazing.

    Decima played Vigilance played like a puppet. The realization on Collier's face that he had just been a pawn the entire team - so amazing.. And we the audience were equally left in shock.

    Control - the woman is hardcore. Got to give her credit for that. Respect for her went up considerably when she didn't hand over Harold.

    So many innocent lives lost - the Machine had been predicting a mass casualty event and it came to pass. The Decima fuckers used it perfectly to accelerate the process of a fully cognitive Samaritan.

    We finally learn what the seven servers are for. As Root said, no use in blowing up one Samaritan
    center when there are/ could be hundreds around the world. Tricking Samaritan to disregard the seven numbers when searching for the seven people to be eliminated is quite smart in the end.

    So,the team is disbanded and everyone scattered. What a way to upend the status quo!! What a way to elevate the show to greatness!!!!

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  3. Abdelrahman Osama14 May 2014 at 04:07

    OMG! I'm freaking out right now. Perfect episode! ROOT <3<3<3 I'm really speechless!

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  4. You pretty much summed up my thoughts! Thank you for that!

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  5. That was one of the greatest things I've ever seen.

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  6. Well Decima won all along. Here is the rise of the total tyranny state!

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  7. Simply....WOW...This episode will probably be on the top of my best seasons finales list this year. Too many things to say...

    - Too bad Hersh is gone, I was starting to like him a lot with Reese and Shaw, but they gave him a nice farewell.
    - Oh Finch, I think I stopped breathing for a moment there when he said he built the machine.
    - I felt a bit bad for Collier in the end, I don't justify him but they did a good job in making us understand his reasons.
    - Nice to see a lot of Bear this episode, but more Fusco would have been nice too.
    - Loved Control in this episode.
    - Smart thing Root did, she was right, they can't destroy Samaritan, but now they can walk in the street freely, for now at least.

    Where do we go from here? All I can say is I can't wait to see what they'll do with season 4.

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  8. Now, now. Don't understate it. ;) :)

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  9. Justin Baptista14 May 2014 at 04:26

    Now that is the definition of a Empire Strikes Back cliffhanger.

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  10. SHIELDNCISArrowfan14 May 2014 at 04:36

    how did the nypd know about the library? did someone order them to?

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  11. Person of Interest teaching how to make top note finale, just brilliant, the writers done again. It's to much things to think about it, but the cliffhanger was one of the best a ever see in years.

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  12. Samaritan baby, now he work for the government.

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  13. SHIELDNCISArrowfan14 May 2014 at 04:38

    because nypd see harold and reese as threat that probably why....

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  14. I was going to reply with my own thoughts, but I'll just say this:


    Ditto.

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  15. This was far better than I expected. I thought a trial would be a bit corny, but by the final 10 minutes that had been forgotten about and the stage reset.


    An absolutely excellent conclusion to the best season of television I've ever seen. So many sublime scenes and one-liners. So many series defining moments and turning points. So many excellent acting performances. And a cliffhanger like nothing that's ever been done before.


    Congratulations John Nolan, you've guided your series with a degree of precision that is unprecedented in television. Bring on September 2014.

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  16. unbelievable game changer of an ep! never would've guessed that Decima/Greer was behind Vigilance from the beginning, what a way to flip the script.... great to see Bear back in action and Fusco for a bit.... loved the set up for what promises to be the next chapter in this excellent show that always delivered

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  17. SHIELDNCISArrowfan14 May 2014 at 05:06

    I know but when season 4 come are we expecting a entire season of being chased by every agency.......or will they stop it before it guess worst......Fusco may be the only one who can help them avoid getting arrested

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  18. I don't know for sure, but I think they find way to be more invisible and still working saving people and make plans to stop Samaritan, It to early to think about it, but we will get there soon. Your idea is good, maybe they will be chased in the first episodes and than they find way to stop running.

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  19. Or does the government work for Samaritan? XD
    Feels like a bit of both to me.

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  20. Right? hahahaah I agree with you hahhaahaha

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  21. Does it work for the government, or the government for Samaritan?

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  22. start_wearing_purple14 May 2014 at 05:44

    Soooo called Decima being the creator of Vigillance.


    Overall, I loved it. Though I was kinda hoping they could have found a way to keep Collier alive. But great game changer.

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  23. I really enjoyed it, but I do feel like this a a game changer of 50 megaton proportions.. This season's endgame feels like something I would expect as a series approaches its final season, not what could be the midway point of its run!


    The finale changed everything we know about the show so drastically I wonder where it goes from here.

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  24. Like Darque Mode said, problably both sides.

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  25. start_wearing_purple14 May 2014 at 06:38

    To be fair, losing The Machine at the end of season 2 was also a major game changer. This entire season has been prepping for a kind of retooling. One where team Machine is no longer just protecting people from each other but also protecting them from Samaritan/Decima's fallout. I think the next question is if Greer's plan was to unleash Samaritan as a benevolent dictator, who believes they can control Samaritan.

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  26. OK...expected most of that. As soon as this show's makers admitted that they were being influenced by that old Colossus film, there was really no longer any way for this to play out other than our heroes needing to go underground to fight an attempt at world domination by an AI with a god complex. What I didn't expect was that Greer was always planning to cede world control to Samaritan, rather than to use it as tool for his own greedy purposes. I thought that Samaritan and/or the Machine would seize power of their own accord. Of course, all of this means that the original premise of this show now no longer exists and POI has officially entered "Terminator country."

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  27. SHIELDNCISArrowfan14 May 2014 at 07:06

    I thinking that Samaritan will be in every major city in the US by the season 4 premiere......! and eventually NA and then slowly the entire world.......where will the team hide?

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  28. John Nolan is Greer :P , its Jonah Nolan

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  29. Haha you're right, I forgot about that family connection

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  30. No words to describe this season finale

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  31. I think it already is.

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  32. László Harsányi14 May 2014 at 09:32

    Beside all the things what has already been mentioned and praised, I'd like to note that without saying it out loud we got an explanation of why Fusco was kept relatively in the beckground during this plotline. This way he is the only member of the team who could keep his life (and stay inside the NYPD).


    There were also some concerns how the next season will build up now that the story seemed to be grown too tall above the weekly cases. With this twist IMHO the made an almost reset - first the team has to come together again, then they need to establish a new background, HQ, etc. to fight against Samaritan, so they are back to square one, maybe even before. Losing the library means their only contact with the machine is Root.

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  33. no other series can compare to the awesomeness of POI!!!
    It was soo bloody awesome!!!!

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  34. I hope next season they fight back, I want Harold to embrace his own greatest and Greer to feel it too!!! Also most heartbreaking scene: Harold and Reese going separate ways

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  35. Amazing finale. The only question now is where will they go next.

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  36. And is that even true? I figured (maybe hoped) the new identity thing meant Root had no contact with the Machine anymore. Could be wrong!

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  37. Tomáš Petrík14 May 2014 at 11:05

    That's exactly what I keep asking.

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  38. László Harsányi14 May 2014 at 11:34

    IMHO switching on the Samaritan didn't change the Machine's abilities and access to the government data. So it means that her connection with Root remained as well.

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  39. I feel that they've always pushed the boundaries of how far the show could go. Back in season 1, there were a few possible endings to the show. Reese getting caught by the police/FBI/CIA was one of them, and they already ended that storyline in season 2. They've played around with Reese being in mortal peril quite a few times, too, and like start_wearing_purple said, they did a storyline where they had to deal with the loss of the Machine itself.


    This is a game changer for sure, and I'm not sure if this is a storyline that will have resolved itself in 2-3 episodes, or even 10. Either way, there's still PLENTY of story to tell. For instance, the world still believes Reese and Finch are dead. Last week, we were led to believe that Finch's secret would become public knowledge, and it hasn't.


    Edit: That just made me realize... Did all those reporters Collier invited get killed in the explosion? They did, right?

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  40. That was so depressing and defeating. I can't wait. How.. I mean... aaaah!! :(

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  41. Most likely yes.
    Convenient that all witnesses aside from Greer, Decima and Team Machine were killed in the explosion or the cleanup aftermath.

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  42. I guess I never took the Season 2 finale as losing the machine in any permanent way. I always assumed the connection would return fairly soon. And it did.


    This is not a scenario that can be course corrected quickly. It changed the show in a more dramatic way to me. Much, much more dramatic way.

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  43. We shouldn't forget the Machine, though. Greer talked about that war.. and while Samaritan has just woken up, our Machine is still out there. So I think it will fight back, while we don't know what Samaritan will do once it fully developes its higher functions and realizes it is in charge.
    I have a very bad feeling about that.

    Still, this finale was extremely depressing. I feel defeated ._.

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  44. That 'calculating response' looks very much like Matrix or Terminator stuff

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  45. Oh, the Lost series finale was a real letdown, although some of the seasons had great season finales, but this show just keeps upping the ante! No comparison!

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  46. I liked the Lost series finale, for me was a epic emotional closer, of course people like you don't like, but for me was good and Lost always knew how to end seasons and POI is going in the same path.

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  47. Yes, it is my opinion about Lost, (not sure what you mean about "people like me don't like" since you don't know me) but I while I really liked the first few seasons of Lost, I felt like it went off in a way the last couple of seasons that just didn't jibe with the earlier seasons for me. The series ending didn't work or make much sense to me, even though I usually like most everything J.J. Abrams does.

    But comparing these two series, really, is like comparing apples and oranges--they are very different types of series.

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  48. Best finale EVER !!!!
    Please tell me I wasn't the only one not seeing the whole vigilance is decima plot???
    (I know the signs were there when greer was unfazed with the whole trial and vigilance thing)
    and the whole what are we going to do now??
    from the get go this show was different.
    And you know what? even if this was the series finale (which is not THANK GOD/MACHINE/SAMARITAN) it would be the perfect episode for this show!
    Two questions remain:
    1. What in the world should we do to make time go faster so that season 4 will begin??
    2. Like the pilot of the show what's going to happen next??

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  49. I would do this episode and season an injustice by trying to describe how thought provoking and awesome it was. Everything about it was genius. WOW.


    I really didn't like Root, but damn I love her character now. Hersh, Control, Collier all the bad guys yet all we would have felt some compassion for over the last 2 eps. I am blown away how the creative team behind POI can put together a show like this.


    This is how a season finale should be. I hope the team behind The Blacklist were taking notes!

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  50. I didn't like the direction in which this finale is taking the show. Very disappoined!

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  51. I respect your opinion, even though I'm actually happy about PoI. I'm curious, what did you hope for in the finale and what direction would you want PoI to take? :)

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  52. 1. Rewatch! :P I know, it's going to be a looong summer... *sigh* I'll try some other shows and.. you know.. enjoy summer. Hopefully. :)


    2. Well, that is extremely difficult to predict. I would guess that Samaritan will develop its own will and do what Finch was afraid about - being manipulated (possibly) and deciding that humanity is irrelevant. Or at least go off the rails, somehow.

    On the other hand, I think the Machine will not give up and find a way to fight our team back into the game. Greer was talking about a "war", and I'm sure he'll get one.

    There's also plenty of possibilites of how the Machines will interact with each other.. we know a little to nothing of the Machine's personality and Samaritan could be anything.


    So... I have no idea. But there are a lot of roads they could take.

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  53. God I hope not!
    I know I'm in the minority, but I much preferred The Blacklist finale personally....


    I actually think POI went downhill this season. Not necessarily in overall quality, but in the aspects of the series I like. I simply do not enjoy it as much on average this year as the previous two years.

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  54. I couldn't disagree more. I thought The Blacklist finale was terrible. This though, was fantastic. The show needed a major game change. Sure, the season 2 finale seemed like a game change, but they still got numbers, still saving people from the comfort of the library. Even Carter's death - they're still doing the same. Now, they can't. Everything that we know has just been thrown into the air.

    This has been a fantastic season (sailors and con men aside). Sure, the number of the week thing was great, and I loved seeing that for the majority of the first two seasons. But this has become a very serialised show this season, and I think it's all the better for it.

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  55. Person of Interest's 'Deus Ex Machina' > LOST's 'Deus Ex Machina'.

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  56. Yep a lot of people feel the same way as you... but not me.


    I thought The Blacklist finale was awesome. It filled the season perfectly while building the show's mythology. It answered questions and provided new questions in their place. To me the biggest question was always who is Red's nemesis and they provided a answer (albeit partial) to that.Loved it.


    As far as POI goes, Season 2 was becoming more serialized already. This season will not make it a completely serialized show I doubt. I wager NBC will keep it a hybrid just like Season 3.


    But more than that, I love serialized shows. That is not the aspect I dislike. I dislike the complete thematic change in only three seasons. that doesn't mean the finale wasn't good or the show will not be great next year. It just means It will not be as good for me. I have much less interest in it because of how the season ended compared to when the season started.

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  57. Really? I didn't see many questions being answered. I just saw a lot of people dying (or not), imposters, Red going solo and many, many stories about Berlin that ended with Berlin looking at the same picture that Red took from The Stewmaker. Oh, and the scars on his back. This tells us absolutely nothing.

    Fair enough.

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  58. It could work like the ending of the 3rd season from LOST, which also had a gamechanger ad this could be the half-way point for the series as well.

    Definitely this will be very interesting next season and we should be open minded to see where they take Person of Interest now.

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  59. For a second there, when Fusco ran to the killed vigilance member, I feared that Decima got him as well.

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  60. I am intrigued, but not excited.
    Just because I did not like the direction this year took does not mean I will not like the next season.


    I loved the game changer in LOST, but I know many didn't like the focus taken away from the original cast. Oh well.


    I am hopeful they will surprise me and I will love Season 4 as much as Seasons 1 and 2.

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  61. so shaw got on a bike to jersey? and that scene with the map when they found where the courthouse was..."you are here and the courthouse is here", "no, the chouse is there",,,please...

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  62. 4.01 - "Brave New World" (or "Nineteen Eighty-Four")

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  63. I found the season finale to be depressing. Not entertaining at all. Now there's essentially no functional team, and everyone on the team has to hide out under a false identity somewhere. Essentially, the show I once knew (and liked) is said to be facing "big changes" (according to Michael Emerson) next season. I want them together and getting numbers to deal with as before all this mess happened. I don't want the "big changes".

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  64. Yes, there is that possibility, but I think you're underestimating the original machine/POI team's collaboration. This show is never routine to me. They always twist things in a way I'm not usually expecting, and I'm not simpleminded. ;o)

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  65. POI is CBS....

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  66. Ditto!!! : ) Awesome episode! I loved it when Reese came in at the last second to save Harold's life. I actually screamed at the TV screen (with joy).

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  67. I had been wondering what would happen when/if Harold Finch's former fiancee (Grace?) saw Finch on live TV from her new home in Italy. Then I found out that the program was not worldwide, that it was only televised on one local station in Manhattan. I sighed with relief. I didn't want her to find out that Finch is still alive.

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  68. I wish they could have found a way to keep Collier alive and to keep Hersh alive. But that's okay.

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  69. I didn't see the whole Vigilance Decima plot either. What I am wondering is: Will we have to call Root-Reese-Finch-Shaw all new names now, since they had to all assume new identities? I don't know if they will have to be renamed. That would be confusing! And (this is weird) - I kept thinking - if they are reassigned new lives and are supposed to be more clandestine - how can Harold and/or John still manage to have a dog? The logistics must be difficult of trying to get around NYC anonymously with a dog. (The strange technicalities that I'm thinking about, the small things rather than whole world domination by Samaritan).

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  70. "I hope the team behind The Blacklist were taking notes!" I hope so, too. I try to watch The Blacklist but POI is superior - Black list needs to take notes!

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  71. I wonder if they will all start to be called different names now, since they all have to assume new identities. It's sad that they have to (temporarily) go their different ways and hopefully will find a way to get together soon.

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  72. I do love it when a show continues to delight and surprise me. This could so easily have fallen into the same cycle week in week out. But they always come up with a new approach, a new angle. This finale opens up a whole new ball game for next season. Well done guys.

    Hersh (baddie as he was) will be missed. I wish my friend would hurry up and catch up. She doesn't even know that Carter is dead yet. And its killing me having to bite my tounge everytime she brings up the show.

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  73. I'm not saying that I expect to be disappointed. I'm just saying that that risk has increased with the current storyline. After having slept on it a couple of times since my original comment, however, I've come to the conclusion that this season's ending might actually help POI return more to the original character of the show: Anonymous heros, swooping in from nowhere to save people in trouble. Only this time, most of the trouble will prove to have originated with Samaritan and Decima.

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  74. This was the best finale I've seen this season. The writing, from the storyline, to the dialogue, to the character progression, were all superb. The action sequences are always film quality. The directing and camera work are all I want them to be. Of course, the acting is hands down, among the best in television. The hour went by really fast.

    I really liked Control a lot after the last couple episodes. She's tough, and she's patriotic. I liked when Control took the stand in court, and didn't even flinch at a possible execution, while still protecting Finch. I've got mad respect for both her and Hersh now.

    All the scenes with Harold had impact. I think Harold's scenes were my favorite. Michael Emerson conveys so much with his facial expressions. I feel like the heart of show is oftentimes solely expressed by Harold.

    Hersh was so badass and funny at the same time. Sad that he died. But what a way to go. I don't think a character like him could die any other way, and make it still as gratifying.


    I was thoroughly entertained by this season finale, and really, this season as a whole (plot holes be damned!). Even if it's a bleak future so far, on the show, for our beloved characters, I'm still left with that last surviving virtue from Pandora's Box...hope.

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  75. D'oh! My bad! XD
    I went from thinking of The Blacklist back to POI and wrote down the wrong network... Ooops :)

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  76. Panos Nestoras16 May 2014 at 21:05

    Now that's an epic finale!! PoI and Arrow are by far the best network TV shows right now and they both had excellent season finales...

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  77. - Shoo away everybody who thinks Person of Interest is no longer about the “Person of Interest of the week” and hence sucks. If you don’t like it, simply don’t watch it. While PoI was a good/great show when it dealt with a ‘case of the week’ theme in the first two seasons, it has elevated into a truly great show in Season 3, a show that can now be spoken of in the same breath as the likes of Breaking Bad. ‘Devil’s Crossing’ and now ‘Deus Ex Machina’ have been two of the best hours on TV the past season.
    – The closest comparison to PoI’s evolution would be Arrow, a show that was good in it’s first season dealing with a baddie of the week but has now elevated into a great show with a season-long-baddie in Season 2.
    - I honestly thought that there would not be a show in a long time that could match the grandeur & scale of ‘Lost’…such was the enormity & complexity of Lost that it’s creators themselves couldn't understand where the show was heading. Now I can happily tick that item off my list of TV worries now that Person of Interest is here to keep me company in it’s ‘machina’ arms! Besides the PoI writers actually seem to know where the show is heading, unlike the ones at Lost

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  78. I though the same.

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  79. Honest I don't see how the show can go forward with very Wagnerian Götterdämmerung
    style ending. Another bad robot crash and burn thrid season? Lost
    became completely incoherent and unwatchable after season the third
    season. I hope they quick rejoin the scooby team because having whole
    season with team scatter over gods green earth will be a massive drag.
    Its the interaction between the desperately different personalities of
    the team that make the show so much fun to watch. I hope the can pull it
    off because it would suck if it another show that the wheels fell off at season three.

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