About the Author - Lisa Macklem
I do interviews and write articles for the site in addition to reviewing a number of shows, including Supernatural, Arrow, Agents of Shield, The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, Forever, Defiance, Bitten, Glee, and a few others! Highlights of this past year include covering San Diego Comic Con as press and a set visit to Bitten. When I'm not writing about television shows, I'm often writing about entertainment and media law in my capacity as a legal scholar. I also work in theatre when the opportunity arises. I'm an avid runner and rider, currently training in dressage.
The conversation between the machines. Woah.
ReplyDeleteThe conversation between Root and the kid. God.
ReplyDeleteThe conversation between the Gods!
ReplyDeleteConversation between Root and the kid. That kid was fantastic last night,gave me chills watching his facial expressions. Very hard picking just one last nights ep was just great,all of it!
ReplyDeleteI'm torn between Other: 4 people, 3 guns, church scene and :the conversation between AI's" scene And Lisa, I'm sure you recognize this scene! Do you think we could get a black out? ;)
ReplyDeleteOh! Ha cool! Not so torn then :D
ReplyDeletethe 4 ppl, 3 guns scene is covered by Root and Lambert discuss religion... ;)
ReplyDeleteEveryone keeps saying the conversation between the machines, but I have to disagree. I found it very disappointing. Even given that because they were working through their analogue interfaces they could not communicate with the speed and sophistication of which they are capable, none of what they said struck me as sufficiently complex/alien to qualify as what ASI's might be expected to say, and the conversation really didn't add much to the equation. Boilded down to what we've heard before: humans need free will/humans need to be controlled, with no real case for why offered. I think the show would have been much better advised just to show Root approaching the kid, sitting down, the two saying hello, and then not giving us another word of what they said to each other.
ReplyDeleteAnd the conversation between the gods is covered by Samaratin telling the Machine she is a fallen god.
ReplyDeleteOh, I thought there was second scene between those two exclusively where they also talk about it....
ReplyDeleteOn one hand that IS an excellent point, but on the other I think it was meant to humanize the whole situation since this is something that effects humanity.
ReplyDeleteWhat I mean is in terms of Samaritan, having a young boy talk about destruction, a firm hand of God/Religion/Sociology/Ect, --The fact it could somehow "get a real boy" to be it's speaking piece was disturbing both to the audience and to Root, who's story in POI more specifically stems from loss in childhood (same with Shaw and as a young man/teen with Harold). It's showing us it' power and it's hubris---it's twisted repressive notions of truth. (Unlike Revolution were it was meant to invoke a warmer invitation, an intelligence that was still childlike, where Aaron just reacted poorly).
From team machine's point, it tied into the human aspect of "our" machine being Benevolent --always putting a human face on something It speaking the language of our Machine, which is also the language of our main characters -- just to make an emotional point that we all can understand. It might suggest also that Sumatran (just like God or Gods) has human traits too---a need to control, a philosophical belief represented by a choice in actions....