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Two new episodes this week, and two deaths.
In “Sotto Voce”, a villain from season 3 returns, and fakes out Team Machine. When even Elias is concerned for your safety, it’s really time to be careful, and beware in whom you trust. And finally, Fusco gets the answers he’s been asking for (and, frankly, deserving for quite some time).
In “The Day The World Went Away”, POI’s 100th episode, Finch finds that he is the “Number of the Week”. But after being captured by Greer, and given a “Get Out Of Jail Free” card courtesy of a Root-voiced Machine, is he about to boil over? The deaths of 2 of of the people who have been working with you can do that to someone, even the (formerly) mild-mannered Harold Finch.
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I still think that Root’s death is still all in Finch’s mind.
Greer has Finch.
Greer learned so much about Team Machine when he had Shaw.
Now Greer has Harold on a hospital bed with an IV drip in his arm, wearing tanning-bed goggles and is feeding him Simulation #xxx trying to crack the code to defeat Samaritan’s top rival. In this particular Sim – Root gets scwhacked! — DocH
“The Day The World Went Away” is such an appropriate title for the events of the 100th episode. The alternate titles for “The Day The World Went Away” would be more like “NNNOOO! WHY?!!!!!!” or “NNNOO! NOT ROOT! WHY?! WHY WRITERS, WHY?!” but the aired title again worked too. Ha.
Given the details to the opening credits, I wonder if we’ll see Amy doing the intro speech for the final two episodes given next week is an AU episode…it would be fitting given she’s now MacRoot and definitely speaks for Machine now.
The end park scene wide shot was a nice callback to the pilot. Amy totally stole the stand off scene, “You can’t live with killing me and I can’t live without you! I don’t know what’s going to happen next, but I’m ready if you are.”! Had they gotten a full 22 episode season I wonder if we would have seen more from the Shoot reunion? If this episode and the next are simulations, great – it means we get Root’s body back, if the season is a simulation then okay or maybe even half the series is a simulation then okay but if they say the whole series is a simulation then I’m personally going to feel disappointed. Not that it’s completely unbelievable to this world, but it would just feel disappointing some that the whole thing felt slightly like a waste of time; the show is great, knowing these events ahead of time are critical information that people would love to have, and I’d love seeing characters still alive but there would still be this whole “Really?” vibe to it for me at least on a small level unless it’s just done in some amazing way which with these writers is entirely possible. Again “Person Of Interest” is geared for a possible ending like this and I’m up for some of it being a simulation but the whole thing I don’t know; these writers are good though and if anyone could make it work it’s probably this team.
Root to me isn’t fully dead she’s just become MacRoot, Root believes she’s with Machine so I have to believe she’s with Machine as MacRoot; that would be a up side to the whole series being the answer to a question Harold asked – everyone would be fully alive and the AU episode for next week hints at what they would be doing in the world without Machine. If some of them are still dead that would suck and thus again I would feel “Let’s not make the whole thing an answer, maybe just all of it up until the part where Harold doesn’t give Machine to the government.” that way Machine is still in the world so the team is alive but they’re not all heading yet towards a battle with Samaritan and maybe that will save them. MacRoot is nice but I’d rather have longer with Shoot first and then decades later we see Root and Machine becoming MacRoot when Root dies from old age. The “answer to a question” idea isn’t sounding so bad now. Ha.
Another series ending idea I’ve heard from a fan (credit to EverydayGeek on FanFiction.Net and Archive Of Our Own) is MacRoot’s dialogue from the Comic Con trailer is her talking to Harold who’s going through memory loss so she’s fulling his original plan for Machine in being a memory device. They pointed out Harold has been seeing Grace when she’s not really there, you have a cafe called Dream, and again it’s not an unrealistic jump that Harold would be open to memory loss as his father had it. It would be an interesting callback if this was the case; I’m not sure how completely satisfying it would be on a scale of 1 to 10 but I wouldn’t find it unfitting to the series. What are your thoughts on this as a possible series ending as well? Again credit to EverydayGeek for this idea!
Elias was a good character, but I would have left him dead at the end of S4. That’s one thing POI has always been good with, if you’re going to die on a show then you want it to be POI because they’ll make it fitting for your character. I love what Jon Nolan said about the “Big Gun” scene, he said in an interview he was saving that stunt sequence for a movie, but he felt it was too perfect not to give to Amy in this episode because he knew she’d do it justice so he put in “Person Of Interest” instead of saving it for a movie. Jeff the painter has to go, it was one thing when he was just stealing stuff for Samaritan or trying to protect this girl he knew, but this he did because he was an agent like all the other bad ones and killing Root’s body just makes you unredeemable with that so he has to go; again I’d love to see it be Shaw to callback to the Root and Martine scene near the end of S4, but if it’s another team Machine who kills him that’s okay too.
Root aka Amy Acker is the reason I even started this series so she definitely has a special place in my heart when it comes to this series. “I’m not happy about it, but I’m okay with it.” is a great way to describe Root’s body exit! The writers did reveal in a recent interview that at least Bear survives so there is him; I hope Shaw survives too because I’m not sure how they could make her death more fitting than they had in “If…Then…Else”, even “6,741” was emotional but doing it a third time I don’t think it would the same results, as another listener (sorry I can’t think of their name right now) said previously why bring her back from that if you’re just going to kill her off again?
Another reason they may have killed Root’s body in episode 10 is because we only have 13 episodes and episode 11 is an AU episode so that only leaves 2 episodes to really showcase MacRoot and how she’s this unit but still individuals of Machine and Root also.
I love you two teasing each other over the name placement, so funny!
A good podcast episode.