In the twenty-first and penultimate episode of the second season of Person of Interest<\/i>, both Finch and Reese find unexpected partners as they race to discover what happens when Decima\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s virus hits zero. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to watch Person of Interest<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
I really, really love speculative fiction. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s always been something so fun about imagining the stranger possibilities of the world, either through fantastical or scientific elements, or some intriguing combination of the two. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll forever be a tiny, tiny bit sad that my debut novel isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t speculative fiction anymore because it was so much fun to create a world so similar to our own, but then deviate reality in frightening or uncomfortable ways. (I have saved all those drafts from An Insidious Thing<\/i>, though, and I plan on one day figuring out how to bring back all the worldbuilding I did for another story.)<\/p>\n
Person of Interest<\/i> was always science fiction from the start, but \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Zero Day\u00e2\u20ac\u009d felt immense to me. This will forever be the point where this show didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just turn the page into a new chapter; it leapt<\/i> into the realm of speculative fiction, and now, we can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t ever turn back. THERE IS SO MUCH INFORMATION REVEALED ABOUT THE MACHINE, AND I WAS READY FOR NONE OF IT.<\/p>\n
Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s go.<\/p>\n
Irrelevant\u00c2\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
I feel like we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re missing just one major piece from Nathan Ingram\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s history, which is the final twenty-four hours of his life. That story, though, is integral to understanding how Finch became who he was, since this shows us that when presented with Nathan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s secret attempt to save others, Finch rejected Nathan<\/i>. He closed the back door, and he gave the most horrific<\/i> reasoning for it. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fitting that this came after the last episode, since this is in-line with this season\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s greater theme: complicity. Fusco and Reese have been complicit in monstrous things! Finch isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t an exception, either, and his decision to ignore the non-relevant numbers with a bullshit excuse that the greater good is worth the death of countless unimportant people is fucked up<\/i>.<\/p>\n
So what changed? What happened in that last day that got Finch to change his mind???<\/p>\n
Thornhill<\/b><\/p>\n
The machine was alive. It is<\/i> alive.<\/p>\n
I know I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve spoken of escalation before, but LOOK. LOOK WHAT THIS SHOW DID. In one episode, we find out:<\/p>\n
All of this leads to one of the most tense and exciting sequences in the whole series: Root and Finch trying to redirect a phone call inside the main branch of the New York Public Library while Shaw and Reese also try to locate them. That phone call will allow someone to have complete control over the Machine as the admin for twenty-four hours. If that older man (whose name I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t remember) gets control, he will most certainly use the Machine for horrific things.<\/p>\n
Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get: What did Root hear<\/i>? We know that Finch switched the call to route downstairs for Reese, but Finch appeared to talk to someone. Was she pretending? Did she actually hear something or talk to someone? Where is she taking Finch?<\/p>\n
THE MACHINE SPOKE, THOUGH. IT SPOKE IN WORDS. I CAN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T DO THIS.<\/p>\n
Carter<\/b><\/p>\n
I got real<\/i> scared that Carter was about to make her exit, and yet, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not like I feel any better about what happens here. That mothafucka Terney is The Worst, and it was so distressing to watch him set-up a sting that would end in Carter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s murder. After all that she had done and accomplished, they were just going to take her out like that<\/i>. Unsurprising, of course, because HR does exactly that sort of thing all the time.<\/p>\n
Yet somehow, them framing her for shooting an unarmed man is perhaps a million times worse. This is coming from a group of people who regularly conduct acts of police brutality, and they suddenly care<\/i> about it. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wrong that an unarmed man was shot! Of course, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s never the case when they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re doing it, and burying Carter under the scandal of this shooting is almost more effective than killing her.<\/p>\n
I AM SCARED FOR THE FUTURE.<\/p>\n
The video for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Zero Day\u00e2\u20ac\u009d can be downloaded here for $0.99<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the twenty-first and penultimate episode of the second season of Person of Interest, both Finch and Reese find unexpected partners as they race to discover what happens when Decima\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s virus hits zero. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to … Continue reading