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Dec. 13th, 2017 10:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grimoriePerson of Interest 5A was so good. It’s when they hit after the 100th episode when things slow down inexplicably.
And the villains became so toothless and they're not even characters but mouthpieces and moving objects for the plot.
potcpoi and I were also chatting (and I think
dealanexmachina mentioned this directly after season 5?) about how they should have at least shown TM’s POV showing Root in the hospital being worked on, and then smiling at the camera.
It won’t give anything away for the reveal that TM chose Root’s voice but it would have helped a lot to provide a missing piece and heart. Then show next episode, from TM’s POV why Root smiled, because she heard TM using her voice which Root would take as the deepest honor from her god.
Then cycle back in 5x13 to that moment but this time The Machine!Root standing over real!Root, and holding her hand as she died, smiling. Just like Ange of Death The Machine!Root for John.
Full circle into the moment, honoring the cyclical nature of the episode and the series finale theme that memory, the act of remembering, and witnessing is love.
That at the moment of their deaths the none of the people died alone. Again, circling back to the main theme of the show.
“Good news is, you’re not alone.”
They honestly needed four things for 5B: one more episode before ‘The Day the World Went Away’, the Root and Machine scene, more active villains, and more time to tighten thing up or at least someone from the outside to say: hey, maybe we should do this.
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Date: 2017-12-13 07:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-13 07:49 pm (UTC)I feel like they were so intent on the reveal that they chose thr twist over the character.
Also, Samaritan slowing down its pursuit of the Team was ridiculous, it should have ramped up and not slow down, and losing Shaw for Samaritan should have been tied together in the final arc. Shaw has a unique insight into Samaritan operations and goals, which they weirdly didn't use.
Plus after the show ended in just a couple of episodes when Harold finally decided on a course of action-- the slow down in 4B after the awesome quadrology in 4A, meant it was all artificial delaying tactics.
The writers answer should have been to make Samaritan more aggressive and smarter and not push the indecision ball on *both* Harold and TM.
Like I don't fully blame the writers because of CBS but they're not fully out of the park too.
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Date: 2017-12-14 09:51 pm (UTC)[as a side note, when I was watching The Dark Knight Rises a few months ago I went 'well that kinda explains where they got Harold's ending']
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Date: 2017-12-14 11:50 pm (UTC)I haven't seen DKR yet but I won't be surprised, especially after watching Westworld that explained the writing's attitude toward AIs, which felt a tiny bit different from other seasons.
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Date: 2017-12-14 07:54 am (UTC)Yes! And the mission episodes were weirdly sloppy and poorly researched, too. It felt rushed, unfinished and determined to hit the few major beats they had already decided on, regardless of whether they still worked or made sense. And the artificial argument between Root wanting to act and Harold using a million delaying tactics was poorly done on both sides and ultimately pointless.
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Date: 2017-12-14 08:22 am (UTC)this frustrated me to no end, and it's not something i can blame the characters because at that point it felt more like the heavy hand of the writers.
also, the thing that frustrated me beyond anything was the Machine's inaction itself, and they set up so many things in the first half and didn't use anything from them, not even using Shaw's unique insight into Samaritan. It's like by 5B they didn't know what to do and meandered until they realized they were cancelled by 5x13.