{"id":6688,"date":"2017-12-22T13:00:36","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T21:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/?p=6688"},"modified":"2017-12-12T08:54:29","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T16:54:29","slug":"mark-watches-person-of-interest-s05e03-truth-be-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/2017\/12\/mark-watches-person-of-interest-s05e03-truth-be-told\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Watches ‘Person of Interest’: S05E03 – Truth Be Told"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the third episode of the fifth season of Person of Interest<\/i>, the Machine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s newest number sends John on a collision course with an old superior. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to watch Person of Interest<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Oh god, the Machine is still probably steps ahead of the team, so I have lingering questions that NEED to be answered. SOON.<\/p>\n

Unfinished Business<\/b><\/p>\n

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hard not<\/i> to assign meaning to what the Machine does because we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen, time and time again, how intentional it has been with its assignments. It finds ways for the Team to be in the right place at the right time. It has used numbers to help teach lessons or to remind people of the purpose of what they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re doing. (And it is, of course, incredibly creepy that Greer\/Samaritan exploits this very desire. UGH THEY TRULY ARE THE WORST.)<\/p>\n

So there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s practically no way I can think about the events of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Truth Be Told\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in another light. Somehow, the Machine knew, right? It can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have been a coincidence that the number John was sent was of the younger brother of a man he killed five years earlier. So why this? Was there a greater lesson to be learned, or was it all one huge coincidence? I think you could argue for both, to be honest. Alex Duncan had no idea what he was unleashing when he began to use his job to look into his brother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s death. Yet it was John who was able to give him the closure he needed to move on. So, the Machine helps save a life\u00e2\u20ac\u201dAlex\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, since John\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s old boss, Beale, would have had him killed\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand betters<\/i> that person\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life, too.<\/p>\n

But is that enough? Alex gets closure, but his closure is a lie<\/i>. So was that the right move? Or was that more of a chance for John to spare himself Alex\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s anger and heartbreak? It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a messy situation. Alex\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s brother really had<\/i> committed treason, but was killing him warranted? The John of that time certainly thought so, but now<\/i>? Not anymore. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s even a line where John says that regardless of what Alex might have done, he deserves due process, which Beale would not have provided. Still, I think there would have been some value in Alex knowing the truth and, most importantly, for John to tell<\/i> it. Regardless, I saw this as John\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s brush with his violent past and the compromises he made in order to keep his present predicament from spilling into disaster. He might be a different man, sure, but he doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t live in a world where he can do what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ideal. He had to get Alex to stop snooping and<\/i> he had to placate Beale. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a lot to balance, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all!<\/p>\n

So it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s unsurprising that after all this, he ends things with Iris. It sucks to view her as yet another thing to balance, but how can the man do what he does and<\/i> be honest about it? He couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t tell Alex the truth, and he certainly can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t tell Iris the truth. And more than ever before, that actually bothers<\/i> him. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s changed, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all.<\/p>\n

Metamorphosis<\/b><\/p>\n

And I feel like that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s already becoming the greater theme of season 5: this is a time of change. The Machine is open now, rather than closed off and restricted. The team had to adapt to many things: shifting identities, the loss of Elias and Dominic, the presence of the Machine in their headquarters. The truth is that we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know what the future will look like once the Machine has worked out all of its bugs, when it is fully functioning. But it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s easy to imagine how much the world will change, especially since it already has<\/i>. So what metamorphosis awaits these people? The Machine? Samaritan? What does that malware change a computer into<\/i>? And how will Team Machine have to change in the wake of what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s coming?<\/p>\n

The video for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Truth Be Told\u00e2\u20ac\u009d can be downloaded here for $0.99<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mark Links Stuff<\/b><\/p>\n

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