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Going through S2 right now, at "Critical" at the moment.
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Zaggitz posted:Is it really, though? 
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Sep 12, 2013 07:30
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The numbers jump a little but some categories of predictions for Root include: -Operational Relevance -Violence -Death: Asset -Asset Activation -Death: Carmichael, Ronald W. -Death: Admin -Crisis Averted -Asset Captured -Mass Casualty Event (what) -Aux_Admin -Marriage/Procreation -Global Thermonuclear War  Also like the new design for the "inner" Machine, seems more like a neuron. edit: goddamn it guys
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Sep 25, 2013 06:02
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I would like to point out it is absolutely fascinating that after playing good guy spec ops guy on The Unit for so many years, Max Martini seems to have been typecast as bad guy spec ops guy for a while now. Also I would like POI to complete the set by getting Snake Doc, Cool Breeze, Hammerhead and Red Cap to guest star (okay maybe Whiplash too if you reeeally want). Oh and Robert Patrick, because why the gently caress not?
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Sep 25, 2013 13:56
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Zaggitz posted:Um, apparently the people in charge of the show just put the whole premiere up on youtube with audio commentary?
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Sep 26, 2013 01:57
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ynohtna posted:Reese has replaced Bear with Shaw: same diet & temperament, better at sniping. edit: oh god what did I do
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Sep 26, 2013 14:33
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LorneReams posted:Shaw's an admitted sociopath right? I'm surprised she's actually agreeing not to kill. It must be a pain in the rear end for her.
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Sep 27, 2013 14:58
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Kegslayer posted:We haven't really seen an 'anti Machine' group. Having the machine sponsor anti machine groups and dissent as some sort of counter balance to people who would abuse the machine is a pretty interesting idea. The new group could just be another version of Reese and Finch's team.
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Oct 2, 2013 05:20
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KilGrey posted:Does Shaw seem weird to anyone else? I mean, I understand what they are going for with her character and I'm fine with it but she just seems so different than what was presented to us last season. This season she seems so...feral whereas last season she seemed to have more finesse. I mean, she was a CIA operative, you'd think she'd have a concept of how to go under cover and infiltrate an office building or party without the rest of the crew worried about her not freaking out and killing anyone. Also I think it's mostly Finch that just has issues with her more violent streak.
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Oct 2, 2013 06:37
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I agree it just seems like people who get into this sort of trouble often have tons to lose, hardest to fall and all that. The fact most of these numbers usually are top of their fields, etc. just make them more likely targets and have more enemies. That being said someone like Leon showing up constantly is probably The Machine going "it's a repeat and easily resolved" and more of a coincidence of the writing than anything else that whenever someone like Leon gets rescued he ends up helping the team for the episode.
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Oct 5, 2013 00:34
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And there is much worse, the only way I can erase it from my mind is probably to walk into a sketchy bar and goad everyone into beating me to within an inch of my life.
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Oct 6, 2013 19:04
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Hersh just has the worst luck.
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Oct 9, 2013 05:35
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raditts posted:This makes me realize that if PoI went off the air, it's probably one of the few cases where I'd read a comic book follow-up. 
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Oct 17, 2013 03:05
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I thought the most unintentionally hilarious thing this episode was Simmons describing bath salts as the most  illegal narcotic.
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Oct 24, 2013 20:40
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Kwyndig posted:Well in reality they're trying to save two different people, it just happens to be from the same situation. It really looks like the Machine is trying to work around the restrictions that Team Irrelevant is willing to work under. Isn't the group's name simply Vigilance? They just used that "eternal vigilance" quote from Ben Franklin to exposition their name.
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Oct 30, 2013 04:48
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Kai Tave posted:The icing on the cake is that after he does it Shaw's just got this smirk on her face.
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Nov 6, 2013 06:10
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muscles like this? posted:They're calling the next three episodes collectively Endgame so it sounds like they might be closing out the HR story arc altogether. It's Endgame/The Crossing/The Devil's Share, that might round out the mid-season finale by finishing the HR arc. Fusco  Kai Tave posted:Yeah, British not!Reese. Guess they could bring him back though he was only in the one episode so they'd need to catch people up on him ("Who was that guy again?"). I also don't want to read their fanfiction. edit: Zaggitz how dare you type faster than me
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Nov 6, 2013 06:20
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Zaggitz posted:The one complaint I can get behind is the lack of Fusco in the early season, but this upcoming arc is clearly them fixing this horrendous mistake and Fusco will be fine and around more often than ever!
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Nov 6, 2013 06:24
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Yeah I figured after seeing the Endgame arc preview it was snippets of all three episodes, so instead of OMG FUSCO'S FATE in one and done, they get to twist the knife maybe for as long as the three weeks will allow.
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Nov 12, 2013 02:02
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Regy Rusty posted:Yeah while Reese and Finch I'm pretty comfortable have plot armor, I at least think it's possible for one of the others to die, so this episode definitely sold the possibility of Carter dying. Though that would have been loving Breaking Bad level dark if she'd gotten shot right there.
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Nov 13, 2013 06:47
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Slamhound posted:Yeah, that was my thought as well, but I really hope not. It's probably down to her or Fusco and of the two, I think I'd rather lose Fusco please don't kill Fusco. I could see this arc going either way; she burns her bridges and becomes like Reese and Shaw, or burns HR down and goes out on a high note please don't kill Carter. Though if she does become like Reese and Shaw, they could become redundant and lose their plot armor please don't kill Reese or Shaw. ARRRRGHHHHH Well at least they aren't pulling the bullshit they did last year with the John arrested by the FBI arc where they aired episodes with three week gaps in between.
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Nov 14, 2013 07:13
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Even when they run commercials for "SOMEONE WILL DIE", it usually just ends up being the recurring guest star. I mean I'm sure the showrunners are willing to kill off a main cast member at some point but for it to be Fusco feels a little unearned since the last we touched on his arc was at the end of S2 just before God Mode. And seeing as the next episode is pretty much about John ending up on every thug's hit list and having to deal with it.
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Nov 15, 2013 06:44
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DivisionPost posted:A quick look to the future, if you care. This news got out a week ago but I'm only just getting wind of it. Camryn Manheim and Saul Rubinek will be stepping up for what's being touted as a big, emotional multi-episode arc in early 2014. Rubinek will play a brilliant man who is slowly losing his mind, while Manheim will play his wife. The two of them get caught up in some deep poo poo with Team Irrelevant, and the only way to escape with their lives is for her to get some crucial information out of him.
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Nov 19, 2013 04:46
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raditts posted:She's come a long way since the Lifetime movie where she had to go to Korea to rescue her child from her kidnapper ex-boyfriend with the help of John Locke.
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Nov 19, 2013 22:49
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Fusco seemed like a likely target to be killed off, but it would've been cheap. I can see why Carter got it instead. Kinda pissed that Simmons gets away again, that slimy rat bastard. But Carter dying means John will likely go full homicidal like he was before he met her. God that was a grueling hour of television. Was on edge of my seat more for this than even the BB finale. Stabbey_the_Clown posted:I did think that the kiss thing was a little strange. What really bothered me is that they supposedly sent in all the HR goons to search the morgue. It was made out to be a big unwinnable situation, but Reese takes out two cops and lures a third one out, and then says the building is clear. Just three cops?
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Nov 20, 2013 06:25
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The kiss wasn't romantic or anything, doesn't have to be. Not point in interpreting it that way. Besides, they were trading war stories just before that. Carter is basically the platonic version of Jessica. She gave Reese a reason to live, but you take her away, he is gonna go on the warpath (see: Jessica's husband). With Jessica it was different, he spiraled into his suicidal mindset (this was fairly obvious even during glimpses of his past in S1-S2) after her death. He still has Finch and the Machine but I'm certain this is what will make Reese go unhinged, even if only for a while.
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Nov 20, 2013 06:41
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Alkanos posted:Now, the real question is why did the machine wait so long before making Carter's call?
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Nov 20, 2013 07:45
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Yeah I loved that pilot callback, smiled when I immediately recognized it. Then Nolan and crew ripped out our hearts.Kegslayer posted:I wonder if Carter's death would cause Finch to reconsider his relationship with the Machine. If he had Root's 'intimacy', he could have easily prevented her death and that of several others.
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Nov 20, 2013 08:50
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Well from the interviews I've read she didn't want out but the showrunners pretty much told the cast they aren't always safe and she was fine with not having to sit on the show until it poo poo the bed but kept going. Although I doubt we'd ever see someone bite it during a 'routine' episode, which would be shocking.
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Nov 22, 2013 01:52
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Remember also with flashbacks that just because we 'resolve' their past (i.e. we see the big plot points) doesn't necessarily mean it isn't ripe to go back to. If the NYCC(?) teaser for S3 was any indication don't we see Finch when he is a kid on a farm or something? I could swear that would be him. Not sure where they'd go with that necessarily.
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Nov 22, 2013 06:41
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Kegslayer posted:I hadn't thought of that and I wonder where the characters would go from here. Carter saved both Fusco and Reese but Reese was willing to let everything he had gained go in order to satisfy his desire for revenge. It's interesting to find that Fusco has had more growth than Reese.
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Nov 27, 2013 23:41
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JossiRossi posted:Before last night I think I would have said otherwise, but yeah that rear end in a top hat's rotting in a hole somewhere.
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Nov 28, 2013 00:51
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Elias and his crew aren't people to stick their necks out, so the only way they become a threat is because Elias does something huge, which is not really his style. And Marconi (Scarface) has never been shown to be anything but loyal as hell. Would be interesting to see but they would have to start the fuse now seeing as it was never lit in the first place.
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Dec 1, 2013 02:52
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Kai Tave posted:I first saw him in Flashpoint which is a Canadian police procedural-type show about (essentially) a SWAT team.
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Dec 6, 2013 03:42
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Zaggitz posted:I like how the Machine had PRISM listed as ACTIVE, DECOY along with a few others.
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Dec 18, 2013 06:39
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SirMonkeyButt posted:Quick question for the sharp-eyed viewers-
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Dec 18, 2013 18:43
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Sub Rosa posted:But it also partly begs the question why John did take so long to check on Jessica after Ordos. This is definitely something the showrunners and writers didn't overlook; but I assumed the gunshot wound on the bus at New Rochelle was about the same spot Stanton shot him in Ordos, and John just sucks at tending to his wounds. Or I dunno, because the interpretation I got from him getting the call from Jessica just before he's sent to Ordos is that "I would move heaven and earth to see her again". fake edit: The best I can offer is this page on the POI Wiki, (which is surprisingly good and not Wookiepedia levels of bad) but Jessica seems to die a few months before John arrives but she makes the phone call long in advance. But you are right, the gap between May 2010 and February 2011 is pretty drat big. Sub Rosa posted:So could Reese be referring to a different job he "quit"? Should we be expecting the show to go back that time in John's life? Zaggitz was suggesting (I think) that our knowledge of John's backstory was at least thematically complete, but I didn't agee. So should we expect something shocking from this year, or mostly just a filler story explanation of John hiding in China and eventually making it back to the US to try to find Jessica in a way that doesn't really change how we think about John's character? Sober fucked around with this message at 00:16 on Dec 20, 2013 |
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So yeah here is the promo for the next episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrU8l7Bi1j4 OH GOD IT RETURNS ON JANUARY 7TH.
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Jan 2, 2014 05:43
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God you think the drives are destroyed and the arc is finished. Lesser shows would've saved the reveal for the finale, even lesser shows would've ended the arc right there and presumably gone back to case-of-the-week-what-season-long-story-arc? mode. Oh and I'm sure Reese isn't gone but drat, even after all that he just wants to be done with it.
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DivisionPost posted:This is a CBS procedural.
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