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Person of Interest (Season 5 - 2016)
By: Chiprocks1 Date: June 25, 2016, 11:49 pm
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I've been a fan of Person of Interest from the get go and
immediately from episode 1, I always speculated how the series
would wrap up and sure enough, the one thing I knew they would
do would be to kill off The Machine, but have it somehow show
signs of life in the last shot and that's what happened. But
everything else was a complete mystery. Over the years my ideas
of what would happen changed as the characters changed. Season 5
was nothing but money shots because the episode was cut down to
13 and that meant they had to ramp up a lot of the loose ends
and because of that, it seemed to be more action packed than
normal and that's saying a lot because it has always had good
action set pieces.
I'm really glad they brought back Shaw because her absence for
most of Season 4 kind of took some of the wind out of the sails.
Not only did she come back, but she had a great arc for few
episodes tracking her torture, brainwashing and escape from
Greer. Everything in these episodes pretty much made Season 5
fantastic. Everything else was an added cherry on top. Her
simulations, although predictable, was interesting to see play
out. I think the biggest thing about this season were the last 4
episodes. Having them kill off Root (Amy Acker) was
disappointing to say the least. But this in turn led to
something great for the swan song. Up until that moment, the
Machine never had a voice. When she passed, the Machine chose to
use Root's voice out of respect and admiration which I thought
was really cool. Even better, it kept Amy on the show. In the
Series Finale. the episode was more about the Machine coming to
grips with her destruction and what it was that she learned
about humanity.
She the Machine was narrating most of the episode, and with
Finch bleeding out, his deuterium made it so that the Machine
manifested into Root and seeing her just whispering into the ear
of Finch and then later Reese was very poetic. The way that
everything wrapped up was good, although I didn't like that they
killed off Reese, but it was pre-ordained and expected since he
lost 2 women that he loved (Detective Carter being one of them)
and losing Root as well. He couldn't have that happy ending. He
was doomed from the start. At least Finch survived and had his
happy ending reuniting with his long lost love. The final shot
with Shaw receiving the phone call did make me smile. Overall,
this series has delivered week in and week out. I'm going to
miss the show and the characters and the actors that played
them.
One last thing I gotta point out before I wrap this up. When
they killed off Root and then brought Amy back in a different
format, I had a mad flashback to Angel. They did the same thing
there as well. She played the lovable Fred and when they killed
her off there, she ended up playing another character called
Illyria. I just wonder if they did this intentionally as a bit
of fan service for Acker fans. I'm sure Amy mentioned if after
the fact that she has already something very similar years ago.
Hey, I'm all for keeping Amy on any show no matter how they do
it. So, when all we were getting was just her voice, I was
happy. But seeing her manifest back into the Root we all loved,
I was beyond ecstatic.
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