Any interest in Person of Interest?

Writing seems to be stock fare but acting makes this fun. Caveizel sometimes breaks tough-guy character (and I hope he continues to) and Emerson is a professional.

we've discussed it a bit here, although i can't say there's been much enthusiasm: 2011 fall TV thread

Can anyone confirm whether the scene where Harold takes ecstasy is realistic?

Quite like this. Hope it follows a good story arc and ends before I hate it.

My current favourite of those Channel 5 shows ... though that's not really saying much.

so i guess this is one of those shows where outsiders/outcasts covertly save decent people.

i've been wondering about the lineage of similar shows lately. stuff like 'the pretender' or 'highway to heaven' or 'the a-team' or maybe 'kung fu', i guess. with lots of related shows that lack the covert-outsider element, like anything with lawyers helping the downtrodden.

this is good!

the long-term plotting more or less takes over the victim(/perp)-of-the-week stuff even though they always keep up the format. and in the long-term plotting they've got some factions, some mysteries, some backstory for the leads.

and annie parisse is in it

really strong character actor casting too, basically everyone who's had steady work from the last 10 years has a recurring role somewhere. and miles from lost!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Leap

The premise for Quantum Leap was inspired by movies like Heaven Can Wait (1978), a remake of the 1941 film Here Comes Mr. Jordan. Donald Bellisario, the show's frontrunner, felt that the concept of a person living in the body of another person to make change for the better, would work well in a science fiction setting, creating the tone for the series.[6]

feel like these 'helping the helpless' plots are often connected to 'second chance' stories or characters. it seems the words 'second chance' have come out of the characters' mouths more than once on 'person of interest' even though it hardly seems like the central element of the leads' motivations.

Good this.

Preposterous, ponderous, rote, generic, pre-lapsarianly formulaic pabulum.

well aren't you just the end all be all

x-post. Yes, I can see all of that. But still enjoy.

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i don't know if i caught the first time around that the premise was overloaded so that not only was reese hating himself because his lover was dead, he'd done terrible things in the service, etc., but they had him quitting the service just before 9/11 so he could commit to her, only to feel called back to service because in some sense he wasn't there for his country when it happened. (also finch's reason for building the machine for the government.)

and fusco says he went bad when he realized he was just guarding wall-street crooks.

Can't believe I ever said this was "good" or even "quite good". It's everything jim in Glasgow says it is.

sure, artificial intelligences fighting each other by commanding their human minions, seen it, yawn

the thing they do with h.r. is good, how the command structure doesn't line up quite right with the straight-world structure of authority and power, so that occasionally they have officers giving orders to detectives, judges calling in tips, etc.

mostly down to the simmons character, i suppose, but it's nice, a touch defamiliarizing.

there is a steady stream of good character actors in the "victim of the week" parts to make this show worth watching

fusco is classic from the start

Some horror stories about working with Caviezel on POI. Lines taped to faces, Hitler impressions, method driving and more.

https://soundcloud.com/qanonanonymous/episode-143-jim-caviezel-enter-the-cavortex-feat-dave-anthony