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All the stories of the staff writers who haven't written much professionally before but then are working on POI make me feel a lot better about wanting to do what they do as well. I really need to listen to more NWP I think.
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Sep 24, 2014 02:19
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Don't loving spoil or even talk about the Canadian airing. No "oh boy you guys this next scene is killer" because that's annoying as gently caress.
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Humbug next time come to the irc channel and PM me if you wanna talk Canada spoilers.
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Where can I buy a season pass for season 4? Amazon isn't selling them yet. Do I just have to wait until tomorrow or something?
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Sep 24, 2014 03:01
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Person of Interest is back!
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Sep 24, 2014 03:03
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Sep 24, 2014 03:12
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Sep 24, 2014 03:23
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raditts posted:Was that phone made of C4 or what? The "extra battery pack" was actually a small explosive. And yes I know that what was depicted on screen was in no way a "small" explosion but it's TV.
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Sep 24, 2014 03:24
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raditts posted:Was that phone made of C4 or what? Regy Rusty posted:The "extra battery pack" was actually a small explosive. Yes, it clearly was made of several gallons of gasoline.
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Sep 24, 2014 03:27
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Sweet, throwing guys out windows is still a thing.
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Sep 24, 2014 03:30
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Man Cara Buono is so fiiiiiiine. Don Draper is an idiot.
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Sep 24, 2014 03:31
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Ohhhh poo poo Samaritan is onto something.
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Sep 24, 2014 03:52
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I thought the number of the week story was dull and kinda dumb (how did they NOT think of the kid immediately?), but the last 5-10 minutes was pretty sweet. I guess they're turning into the teenage mutant ninja turtles or something.
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Sep 24, 2014 03:58
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New headquarters, new jobs, new secret cell network. Aww yeah I think we're back in business.
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raditts posted:Carter's old desk For a second, I thought the Whale was Shaw setting up her own communications system.
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I loved that ending, and another great music choice for it. Finch uncovering the new Batcave was magical. (Spoilering in case anyone stumbles in here early)
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Regy Rusty posted:New headquarters, new jobs, new secret cell network. Aww yeah I think we're back in business. That's kinda a problem I had with the episode, actually. The big change is supposed to be "these characters now all have day jobs and have to fit in finding the numbers around their new identities," ...But apparently Shaw can go blow off her retail job whenever, John is a detective and can go do whatever, Harold is a professor with 3 students in his class, and now a brand new secret base has been found. Those new jobs tying them down don't really seem to matter already. They have to stay under the radar, but Detective John is using grenade launchers and breaking into drug labs and shooting people with AK-47's while Shaw is sniping guys in the leg (and presumably the caliber of that isn't going to match John's weapon). I guess all his loose procedure handling falls under the "He's a loose cannon, but he gets results" clause. I dunno, it seemed a little too business-as-usual. I hope that they'll at least try to remember that it's not supposed to be.
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Shaw knocked John out during the grenade launcher debacle exactly because he can't be puling that stuff anymore. Then they established that John would be relying on Elias for his more vigilante-esque acts. Shaw was pretty well covered during her sniping and got the hell out as soon as there was potential for her to be seen. The job stuff is kind of tangential outside of John now being partners with Fusco. We still don't know what Root does, though. The general idea, which I do have to admit was somewhat poorly executed, is that the team is supposed to have been split up and with their jobs for at least a few months, if not more. And now stuff is happening that is allowing the Machine to start acting again in order to prepare them for war, in this instance the Brotherhood creating that cell phone network. So they still have to watch and manage the way they operate, but now they can at least communicate freely. Considering how much of a full tilt back to the status quo most shows would pull off in this scenario, I'd say this isn't half bad.
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Sep 24, 2014 04:43
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Sep 24, 2014 04:44
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:That's kinda a problem I had with the episode, actually. The big change is supposed to be "these characters now all have day jobs and have to fit in finding the numbers around their new identities,"
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Except that was kind of a sticking point when they were in DC last season and they interpreted the Machine as telling it to kill Congressman Roger McCourt. Literally following that episode they hadn't received or helped numbers as they were doing; at that point he had already decided to clock out even if Reese and Shaw refused to.
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Sober posted:Except that was kind of a sticking point when they were in DC last season and they interpreted the Machine as telling it to kill Congressman Roger McCourt. Literally following that episode they hadn't received or helped numbers as they were doing; at that point he had already decided to clock out even if Reese and Shaw refused to. But honestly, that's probably just nitpicking and like I said, it was a good episode.
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I was surprised they are back to a number of the week so quick, but I love how it tied into a mesh wifi network invisible to Samaritan that they can do voip over.
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Sep 24, 2014 06:35
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Sep 24, 2014 10:18
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Josh Lyman posted:Did we see what Harold saw underground? New hideout location. New job to keep her busy/happy.
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Sep 24, 2014 10:26
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Another Poster posted:This show has perfect music. On that point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFVlgClDsgw
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Sep 24, 2014 10:31
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It's sort of disappointing that they undermined the "they have to do the job while hiding in plain sight" thing so quickly, but Harold digging through his thesis for the clues he needed to find the Finchcave was a nice "aha!" moment. I'm excited for the rest of the season.
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Thought it was great, though it would have been good to have at least a bit more of their new lives and contrast the mundane with the POI stuff. Cara Buono's character looks interesting, threat to Samaritan with 8/9 aliases. No idea at all how they're going to spin out this season, though an army of everyone they've saved coming to help them take down Samaritan should definitely happen sometime (totally ignoring how much that would cost and the impossibility of scheduling all those actors).
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PST posted:Thought it was great, though it would have been good to have at least a bit more of their new lives and contrast the mundane with the POI stuff. Cara Buono's character looks interesting, threat to Samaritan with 8/9 aliases. quote:No idea at all how they're going to spin out this season, though an army of everyone they've saved coming to help them take down Samaritan should definitely happen sometime (totally ignoring how much that would cost and the impossibility of scheduling all those actors).
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This was pretty great, but one thing that bothered me was how the new villain lady arrived at the shootout scene, asked some random cop a trivial question and then went 'welp, my work here is done'. What was that supposed to be? Seemed like a completely pointless scene.
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:That's kinda a problem I had with the episode, actually. The big change is supposed to be "these characters now all have day jobs and have to fit in finding the numbers around their new identities," I got the impression that the team haven't figured out how complex but also how limited Samaritan is. From the feeds, we know that Samaritan has clearly identified where everyone is everytime they step out in public but it's been unable to act on that information because it's been overridden every time. It doesn't matter that Reese and Shaw are using grenade launchers and sniper rifles against gangsters operating in suburbia as long as the team aren't responsible for mass person casualty events or planning to actively take out Samaritan. I think Reese could conceivably shoot someone in the middle of Times Square and Samaritan wouldn't give a gently caress. grate deceiver posted:This was pretty great, but one thing that bothered me was how the new villain lady arrived at the shootout scene, asked some random cop a trivial question and then went 'welp, my work here is done'. What was that supposed to be? Seemed like a completely pointless scene. Watkins/Carla Buono is basically Samaritan's 'Root'. Her job is to take down threats to Samaritan's survival so she presumably gets sent by Samaritan to the crime scene and confirms that Team Irrelevant are still active by figuring out that the shootout was more than just a simple case of gang warfare. Like the others have said, she's going to hunt down the team while equipped with the resources of an all seeing AI but I think she's interesting as a character since she's fully aware of what's going on and what she's actually doing.
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Kegslayer posted:Watkins/Carla Buono is basically Samaritan's 'Root'. Her job is to take down threats to Samaritan's survival so she presumably gets sent by Samaritan to the crime scene and confirms that Team Irrelevant are still active by figuring out that the shootout was more than just a simple case of gang warfare. I get that, but that scene was weird as hell. She steps out of the car, flashes a Homeland Security badge, asks one question and after one look at the truck immediately walks back, throwing the badge in the trashcan in plain view of the cop. And somehow from looking at that truck, she deduced this wasn't a gang war, even though John literally hired another gang to attack the Brotherhood and wasn't directly involved that she would know of (which was the whole point). I kinda see what they were going for, but the execution just seemed off, that's all.
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I was so glad to see Elias and Scarfaced henchman that I didn't care. Every time Elias says, "Hello John." so calmly, is loving terrifying. Also the Carter desk scene killed me.
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grate deceiver posted:And somehow from looking at that truck, she deduced this wasn't a gang war, even though John literally hired another gang to attack the Brotherhood and wasn't directly involved that she would know of (which was the whole point). To be fair, all they'd need to see was the propensity of kneecap shots plus a t-boned car to make the conclusion that, yep, the gang is back. They don't exactly have the subtlest MO.
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Sep 24, 2014 16:43
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Elias having access to the new network means he will be much more prominent this time around. So stoke.
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I'm actually very curious about Samaritan's human agents and what that possibly means going forward. I think in the conversation at the start Senator Garrison was mentioning that Decima had effectively been dismantled as a corporation, so I wonder what exactly happened there, and exactly who Samaritan's agents report to - I can only assume they actually interface directly with Samaritan now. Especially given whatever time has passed it seems to have learned quite a lot and developed a different personality.
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Another Poster posted:Elias having access to the new network means he will be much more prominent this time around. So stoke. Also no Flashpoint or other series to distract Enrico.
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Based solely on the press releases they have shown so far. Elias is definitely going to play a crucial role if not the whole season, then at least for the first half.
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