21/31 Person of Interest

[darkemeralds]

I'm impressed with how this show has started foregrounding all its kickass women and girls, and the two ostensibly leading males have become supporting characters.



Shaw has interested me only marginally until tonight. Her backstory made her wonderfully creepy and sad, and now I sort of love her. Apart from the lethal force and the beauty, I can relate to her. That absence of affect and that socially inappropriate detachment are...not unknown to me. And how could you not love her for managing to plant a bug in Finch's office?

The episode could have gone in a very sappy direction with young Gen at the end of the episode; I approve of the way they walked that line without crossing it. They left open the possibility of having Gen return, and I honestly wouldn't mind seeing her again.

I don't love what Carter's becoming, but I have to admit I'm really interested in it--and in her (though I do wonder what's become of her son. Did they ever say? Or has she conveniently become a non-parent?).



I've enjoyed PoI all along, but I was riveted on tonight's ep.

Comments

[lyr]

I love Shaw! She's so unapologetically non-affective (and also legitimately badass), and, like Reese, adorably gung ho about letting Finch be her sensitive moral compass. And I love that one of her rare soft spots is for Bear. PoI is one of my happy places.

[darkemeralds]

Well said. And of course, I love Finch for being the moral compass. And wearing plaid All The Time.

[tehomet]

I loved the episode where Carter, Shaw, and that Morgan lady (sorry, I suck at remembering names) were the central characters, and especially the before-the-nightclub scene where they compared weaponry - wasn't Shaw adorable? - and the trend in general.

[darkemeralds]

That was the turning point of the series for me--it was awesome.

[tehomet]

Yes!

Razgovor (episode 5 of the current season) was even better - it was the first piece of TV to make my jaw drop since I was watching a Joss Whedon show eleventy billion years ago, and then it did it again in the same episode!

[darkemeralds]

Was that where Carter turned completely badass on the rookie and Root appeared in Shaw's bedroom?

Yeah, that was pretty jawdropping all right.

[tehomet]

Indeed.