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shallownessDecided to catch up with Person of Interest and watched a double bill last night.
1.16 Risk
I have seen Margin Call, but that doesn’t mean that I understood what was going on with the financial stuff at the outset. I just needed some idea of whether the Number of the Week was doing good or not! I appreciate that Vertanin was the company Reese and Zoe helped to bring down, I thought that how they brought in Carter to help with the case was a stretch (but I’m glad the show had fun with Reese’s suits, even if I basically thought ‘fan service’ for the whole of the tailor!Finch scene. Clearly, Finch had fun playing taxi driver too.) And then we had her being the only investigating cop in The City.
I did think they should look into Adam’s upbringing, and lo they did, and it explained some stuff. I was glad that Sydney (older lover! Looked a bit like Zoe) wasn’t involved like it was half-suggested she was, although the text didn’t seem like it would be her, but then she was fridged. But then, given that Adam had DADDY ISSUES, that narrative developing shouldn’t have been a surprise.
More interesting was Reese taking him to the underground people, or however to describe them. Yes, an obvious reversal – they’d prepared for that by talking about ‘occupying a tent down below’ – but it was certainly interesting to learn that Reese had stayed there for a good long while. And that they didn’t give us a flashback, but had him just thank the lady and refer to Finch looking after him had such an emotional punch. Because restraint. (They could do a flashback in a future episode, maybe.) And, again, echoes of the Batman movies.
Ooh, that police officer with the face! CONSPIRACY!!
So, in conclusion, a mix of bits that left me feeling ignorant, some entertaining and even emotional bits, a NOTW I had ambivalent feelings about until he got a pretty conventional narrative. Plus a few nods to the larger story.
Oh and, every time Scott Cohen guest starts and plays someone evil, I think ‘Lorelai Gilmore really did a number on you, Max.’
1.17 Baby Blue
All I wanted from this ep was John carrying the baby. How adorable was little Leila? So adorable that Finch couldn’t resist kidnapping her! So the episode might as well have been called Two Men and a Baby. The comedy of a baby taking over their lives, grabbing whatever came her way from expensive tie to tear gas grenade built up nicely to what Reese was ready to do for her. To think that at the start of the ep, I was all ‘nice contrast of a truly innocent number with Moretti’. Should have seen the two storylines converging coming, because of course Elias saw that the baby was the perfect leverage. In my defence, John Reese holding baby shorted my brain, OKAY?
Beyond the actors’ colds, I was almost starting to see the John/Carter chemistry in their opening interaction of an episode that ended with Carter drawing the line and breaking up with the vigilantes because of the impossible conundrum Reese and Finch kept putting her in.
And also Fusco’s involvement with the bent cops at Reese’s insistence set him up against Carter. She did the right thing in not trusting him and he probably knows it and respects her for it, BUT...I wondered again how did this show get to give me so many FEELS about Fuscoe of all people.
Reese (of Im Cavaziel's stuntman) did an amazing flying leap that made me squee in one fight scene.
In further knowing the actor from elsewhere, it was so nice to see Keith Mars!!!!
P.S. The Veronica Mars movie news is so exciting!
1.16 Risk
I have seen Margin Call, but that doesn’t mean that I understood what was going on with the financial stuff at the outset. I just needed some idea of whether the Number of the Week was doing good or not! I appreciate that Vertanin was the company Reese and Zoe helped to bring down, I thought that how they brought in Carter to help with the case was a stretch (but I’m glad the show had fun with Reese’s suits, even if I basically thought ‘fan service’ for the whole of the tailor!Finch scene. Clearly, Finch had fun playing taxi driver too.) And then we had her being the only investigating cop in The City.
I did think they should look into Adam’s upbringing, and lo they did, and it explained some stuff. I was glad that Sydney (older lover! Looked a bit like Zoe) wasn’t involved like it was half-suggested she was, although the text didn’t seem like it would be her, but then she was fridged. But then, given that Adam had DADDY ISSUES, that narrative developing shouldn’t have been a surprise.
More interesting was Reese taking him to the underground people, or however to describe them. Yes, an obvious reversal – they’d prepared for that by talking about ‘occupying a tent down below’ – but it was certainly interesting to learn that Reese had stayed there for a good long while. And that they didn’t give us a flashback, but had him just thank the lady and refer to Finch looking after him had such an emotional punch. Because restraint. (They could do a flashback in a future episode, maybe.) And, again, echoes of the Batman movies.
Ooh, that police officer with the face! CONSPIRACY!!
So, in conclusion, a mix of bits that left me feeling ignorant, some entertaining and even emotional bits, a NOTW I had ambivalent feelings about until he got a pretty conventional narrative. Plus a few nods to the larger story.
Oh and, every time Scott Cohen guest starts and plays someone evil, I think ‘Lorelai Gilmore really did a number on you, Max.’
1.17 Baby Blue
All I wanted from this ep was John carrying the baby. How adorable was little Leila? So adorable that Finch couldn’t resist kidnapping her! So the episode might as well have been called Two Men and a Baby. The comedy of a baby taking over their lives, grabbing whatever came her way from expensive tie to tear gas grenade built up nicely to what Reese was ready to do for her. To think that at the start of the ep, I was all ‘nice contrast of a truly innocent number with Moretti’. Should have seen the two storylines converging coming, because of course Elias saw that the baby was the perfect leverage. In my defence, John Reese holding baby shorted my brain, OKAY?
Beyond the actors’ colds, I was almost starting to see the John/Carter chemistry in their opening interaction of an episode that ended with Carter drawing the line and breaking up with the vigilantes because of the impossible conundrum Reese and Finch kept putting her in.
And also Fusco’s involvement with the bent cops at Reese’s insistence set him up against Carter. She did the right thing in not trusting him and he probably knows it and respects her for it, BUT...I wondered again how did this show get to give me so many FEELS about Fuscoe of all people.
Reese (of Im Cavaziel's stuntman) did an amazing flying leap that made me squee in one fight scene.
In further knowing the actor from elsewhere, it was so nice to see Keith Mars!!!!
P.S. The Veronica Mars movie news is so exciting!
