Person Of Interest

The Season 4 teaser from Comic-Con is out. UUuuguuugghg I can't wait. Less than two months!

edited 27th Jul '14 6:40:06 AM by Ishindri

YES YES YES.

Heh. We in *Treasure Island have to wait til next year to see season three.

• What every tech and entertainment company in the world call the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Johns Cover ID is a cop and he's Fuscoe's new partner.

Just for poor Lionels face

I have to admit that this show is making the 99.99% of cop-detective-crime fiction stories seem passe to me.

Love how the setup makes a lot of the victims (so far) heroes in their own right. Also feels refreshing to be rooting (so badly) for the victims to survive.

I CAN'T WAIT!!!!

Soon. Soooooon. Well, a bit over two weeks, but hey.

This season, I want (even) more of Bear.

Now that the others have gone underground Bear is taking the machine's calls.

edited 8th Sep '14 5:50:52 PM by tricksterson

Oh...OH!

You know what we need?

Some kind of machine that can translate what Bear says.

We have. Twitter.

No, as in, in-series, not as outside material.

...I can't believe I'm going to say this in a show with A.I.s who spy on everybody, but a talking dog sounds ridiculous.

What if Bear is secretly a third AI who monitors everyone through smell, the forgotten sense ?

B.E.A.R. Bark-Emitting Autonomous Robot.

Bear is actually the CEO of Decima Technologies (remember how Greer is only the "Director of Operations"?). In the fourth season finale he will kill Root and turn to Finch and go "Did you actually believe I ate your books just out of hunger? I ATE THEM BECAUSE I WANTED YOU TO SUFFER!"

Bear will then become one with The Machine, fuse with Samaritan and take control of the world as the One True God as Judas Priest's War plays by in the background.

And then they all turn into Tang, and it turns out that the whole series takes place inside some kid's snowglobe. Also, there's a dance party.

But seriously, since this is one of the Nolan brothers we're talking about, I'm almost expecting there to be an ending that raises more questions in the end than it ever answers.

edited 14th Sep '14 9:31:31 PM by Specialist290

Bear is the hero we deserve, but not the one we need right now. So we'll play fetch with him. Because he can chase it. Because he's not our hero. He's a shepherd guarddog. A watchful predator. A Bark Knight.

Heh, the Bark Knight.

edited 19th Sep '14 12:12:34 PM by dRoy

Comedy gold.

I've been thinking about getting into this show. However, I have a thing about watching a lot of seasons for a TV show that might end soon. Is that a possible future for POI?

Also, do you guys have any recommended watching schedule (skip this, watch that), or should I just sit down and binge through the four seasons?

I say just watch them all. Then again, I'm not a fan of those pick and choose watching type approaches.

And 3 seasons to binge, though season 4 starts Tuesday

edited 20th Sep '14 11:25:47 AM by Prime_of_Perfection

I too vote binge.

Thirding "binge." I started with the second season myself while it was still airing, but I later went back and watched the first season on DVD just to get the full picture.

A fair word of warning, though: The earliest episodes of Season One may have some Early-Installment Weirdness due to playing closer to the "crime-of-the-week" format, as well as some Late Arrival Spoilers (like the mysterious source of the numbers being, well, the Machine) that might take out a little of the "punch" from some episodes compared to when they first aired.

I, only arriving when the start of the latest season started to air, binged everything. The first season is, in my view, the dullest, due to the number of the week format and there are a few episodes where they focus on the crime of the week when the bigger plot is far more interesting (I'm looking at you, start of season 2 !) but they are putting pieces in place and mid-way through the second season, it kicks into gear.

If you have NO time, I'd start with season 2 and move from there but, yeah, it's all good. Season three is just great.

I actually love the crime of the week element. More I personally enjoy it when the crimes are mixed in between or with the main arc. To note, I came in before season 3 aired and so binged 2 seasons last year.

I by no means dislike them, I just hate when all you get of ongoing plot is a brief scene at the end or a mention.

I think I know what you mean about the balance. The HR stuff was really well balanced, especially when you couldn't know if an episode would tie in or not, while the start of season two wasn't handled well, in my opinion.

I'm expecting a few pure crime of the week episodes to start season four which I'm very happy about. I'm curious about how Team Machine handle them with.... everything that's happened.

edited 21st Sep '14 4:07:53 AM by Anteres