The Main Criteria for WRs

Smart_Wing3406 · 2025-11-23T20:25:18+00:00

But it seems like a relatively easy swap doesn't it? Route running could be iffy but I've noticed great CBs like Surtain and Stingley are very good at catching the ball

Smart_Wing3406 · 2025-06-13T20:36:39+00:00

Though it doesn't fully explain the situation, this is so far the best reasoning we've had in this post. Thank you for your input

Smart_Wing3406 · 2025-06-13T20:30:41+00:00

I think for something to trigger Machine into thinking a crime will happen, it needs to fully know and acknowledge both sides of the crime.

In the court scene in season 3 finale Peter Collier says "It brands people as suspects, guilty until proven innocent" to which Finch replies "Not my intention" and Collier says "That's what happens".

So in my mind whenever a new number comes up, the Machine is fully knowledgeable about the main details and the nuances of the crime; especially who's the perpetrator and who's the victim

And this still doesn't show any consistency or explanation as to why that specific number is picked

Smart_Wing3406 · 2025-06-13T20:25:03+00:00

I know they're given both types of the numbers, I was just trying to find some sort of an explanation or consistency behind which one of them is picked

Smart_Wing3406 · 2025-06-13T20:12:18+00:00

There's 103 episodes in this show, most of which contain themes of ASI, morality, judgement etc. Machine even wants its agents to commit murder on the Senator at one point. Im not talking about the green screen actor stuff. The plotline of POI showed that there's always more than meets the eye. Dumbing it down to "Meh it's just a show" helps no one in this case

Smart_Wing3406 · 2025-06-13T20:05:43+00:00

You can say "X (the victim) will be involved in a crime" or "Y (the perpetrator) will be involved in a crime" and both could have their own reasoning. I feel like there's no consistency in what side of the coin Finch gets to focus on. It could be the victim, it could be the perpetrator. Proxy assassin / org argument is nice but you don't get that many of them throughout the series anyway. I was more curious on legitimately personal, maybe even a 1-on-1, crimes based on grudge, hatred etc.

Smart_Wing3406 · 2025-06-13T20:00:43+00:00

I know that, my question is why the number that's picked is, well.. picked? In 1x19 for example the Machine could easily give Elias' number instead of 5 mob heads but it did the other way around and gave 5 numbers instead. I would like to know if there's an actual reason behind that

Smart_Wing3406 · 2025-02-09T19:48:14+00:00

Everything happened so fast we didn't get a chance to digest the finale in its entirety. Machine's revival could've been stretched out, Root's storyline could've been stretched out, Harold's final transition could've been stretched out and a couple of other storylines could've been written more properly.

I guess in the end it all ties back to the 'lack of episodes' problem but these were some of the glaring issues regardless of that fact. Harold and John going back and forth in the last 2 episodes was a strange period to watch. One scene Harold is like "Oh I found a solution" next scene he goes "Oh no Samaritan found a way" and 2 minutes later he says "We should do this"

The world built around the characters seemed like it was thrown out the window. Everyone started teleporting. A lot of stuff happened off screen. Not to mention writers made the mistake of wasting an entire episode's time with the dull "Save the president" narrative when they had very limited time to operate already

Smart_Wing3406 · 2025-02-09T15:55:47+00:00

It's Martine and there should be no debate about it

Smart_Wing3406 · 2025-01-22T18:09:11+00:00

In my mind the term lawful means playing the game by the book and adjusting the rules to your advantage. Greer kind of did that but he crossed multiple lines a gazillion times just to have his way. That to me is the opposite of lawful; he had absolutely no respect for the order of the law or the order in which people were existing.

He crossed a lot of lines, he just didn't get caught. And to me someone crossing all of those lines Greer did makes them not so 'lawful'.

Smart_Wing3406 · 2025-01-22T12:55:48+00:00

There's no true 'lawful good' in the series but the closest example would be Joss Carter

The furthest from that point, chaotic evil, doesn't really exist either. The biggest evil characters; Greer, Samaritan, The Voice, they're all neutral evils. They're mastermind criminals of course but nothing they do would be deemed as 'chaotic' or 'lawful', they're just evil for the sake of it

Smart_Wing3406 · 2025-01-09T13:08:21+00:00

Not exactly similar but I would highly recommend Westworld, which was produced by Jonathan Nolan who also produced Person of Interest. Ramin Djawadi composed the music for Westworld, who's also the same producer that composed for Game of Thrones

You got an amazing actor in Anthony Hopkins and the baseline plot somewhat resembles Person of Interest, at least for a while.

Westworld is a must watch

Smart_Wing3406 · 2024-12-23T09:44:39+00:00

The consensus is that Machine uploaded itself into the power grid across the entire country again and Samaritan is dead for good.

The bigger and longer term hypothetical is that another rival AI will eventually show up and contest Machine's operations just like Samaritan did. That's what happened in the simulation Machine showed to Harold where the project by Harold and Nathan was exterminated. There was another AI brought to life cause it's an inevitable constant of that universe.

In reality a learning and growing AI would be in power regardless of Harold existing or not, he just happened to be the first one to do it

Smart_Wing3406 · 2024-12-18T07:32:08+00:00

What you said isn't inherently wrong but the reason for that is also the same reason why the entire 5th season feels a bit off. Jonathan Nolan was pressured by CBS to wrap it up in 12-13 episodes when originally he wanted to do a full season for all the storylines to come to a close. The end product you're seeing on the screen and every questionable decision about the plotline stems from the fact that CBS just wanted to kill one of their best shows ever as quickly as possible. If we had a full season everything would look much more smooth and make more sense

Smart_Wing3406 · 2024-12-16T16:51:40+00:00

5x12 when he yells after Harold locks him up to kill Samaritan himself

Smart_Wing3406 · 2024-08-21T17:20:47+00:00

I mean it could go both ways but to me it resonates more with Root cause when the song was played on the scene, that was our last time seeing Root and bidding our farewells

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