Person of Interest 1x1 “Pilot” FULL REACTION
Added 2020-01-29 07:18:50 +0000 UTC
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That’s great, thank you!
Megan Brady
2020-02-05 04:26:37 +0000 UTCYeah I’m uploading it😄
Other Boy Reactions
2020-02-05 02:36:21 +0000 UTCIs a new vampire diaries coming today?
Megan Brady
2020-02-05 00:24:46 +0000 UTCThis show’s one of my favs (along with Doctor Who, of course). One of the things that still fascinates me is how much the show changes over its five year run from this apparent formulaic start. It’s definitely a slow burn, with Reese, Finch, and the Machine’s backstory revealed bit by bit.
Hemdian
2020-01-30 07:33:53 +0000 UTCYeah it didn’t hook me emotionally the way OUAT did, but I also respond more to female main characters too so that’s probably a factor.
Other Boy Reactions
2020-01-29 15:59:17 +0000 UTCThank you so much for reacting to one my all time favorite shows with my all time favorite actor, Jim Caviezel!! I love this show and I absolutely love Reese's character! I can understand why you might be confused about how the Machine might work. It does continue to explain more over time, but in a nutshell... the relevant list consists of information that shows there is going to be a terrorist attack, and the numbers then go to the NSA, FBI, CIA, police, etc... As for the irrelevant list... it consists of information that the Machine finds which will eventually lead to a single person's murder, or sometimes more than one person's kidnapping, or something bad in which the police would be called in afterwards to investigate. And how the Machine finds this information is by it sifting through everyone's emails, listing to everyone's phone calls, etc... in which a violent crime is being planned. At least everyone in New York. Like Finch said, the Machine can't predict crimes when they happen in the spare of the moment, but if they are planned out and there's a paper trail, the Machine will see it. I hope this explanation makes sense. As for the relevance of the beginning scenes with Reese being a bum and being arrested... a part of it is so we can be introduced to Detective Carter, and to show us that Reese is a broken man with nothing to live for. However, there's lots more to his story. Finch states that he knows the government and the world believe that Reese is dead, just like they believe he's dead too. So both men are in hiding and try to keep themselves off of anyone's radar. Yet Reese is also looking to end his life, so before Finch found him, he no longer really cared about getting caught by the police and thrown in jail where he most likely would have found a way to end his life behind bars. Finch knows that Reese was a good man who was let down by the agency he worked for, and we have yet to know why and how. But Finch knows that Reese used to fight to protect innocent people and to stop the bad guys, which is why Finch sees Reese as someone who can help him with the leg work and fights he can't do. Should you ever continue to watch this series, you will see that we learn much more about both Reese and Finch over time, as well as Detectives Carter and Fusco, and more. While Jonathan Nolan as you stated, may not have been good with writing characters in other shows or movies he works on, I feel like he really does phenomenally well with these characters. There's so much more to them than meets the eye. I really love the acting from each of the characters who were introduced in this first episode. Reese, Finch, as well as Detectives Carter and Fusco. The actors are brilliant and their characters really grow on you the further along we get into the series. This episode was most definitely fast paced, but there was a lot of information we needed to know within a single episode, and it is important for us to understand the idea behind this show's main storyline. Reese and Finch fight to save the innocent people involved in crimes before they will occur, while Reese becomes hunted upon becoming who we'll soon come to see will be dubbed, "the man in the suit". I hope that you will continue to enjoy this show in the future, but given that you didn't seem too impressed with this show right out of the gate... for next month, I will offer you two new shows to watch so I can see which of them you like more, then from there I will continue to request whichever other show outside of Once Upon a Time that you feel most drawn to. Person of interest isn't for everyone and I completely respect your feelings towards the show and these actors and their characters. Again, thank you very much! Until next time...
Heidi Elizabeth Marcum
2020-01-29 09:56:33 +0000 UTC
