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[I just realized that the DW crossposter doesn't seem to work right now, so now I'm belatedly manually reposting my recent posts. I hope this isn't going to cause stuff to doublepost by accident, but sorry if it does!]

A few months ago, cesperanza made a post about Person of Interest where she talked about how usually, in TV shows, you get the emotionally

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[aurora_84]

and the fact that the next episode won't be for three weeks, and then I have to take a few deeps breaths until the urge to scream has passed.
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat? I didn't know that.

Also, yes, this show is amazing. Thank you, Michael Emerson, for being awesome and thus forcing me to give all your projects a go.

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I think it's not quite three weeks anymore - that was when I looked it up a few days ago - but yes, no new POI for a while. It is KILLING ME.

I actually haven't seen anything else with Michael Emerson, but maybe I should! Anything you'd rec in particular?

[aurora_84]

Still, it's way too much time!!

He was amazing in LOST. You should totally see LOST even though it's cracked out.

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You know, I've seen the internet talk about LOST for like a decade now, and I still don't know anything about it beyond "People on an island!" I guess I should check it out at some point, although I've never really heard anything about it that made it sound like my kind of series.

[sarren]

You're writing PoI fic \o/ This makes me VERY HAPPY.

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Will you still be happy if I make you beta that thing? ;) I've reached the almost-done-oh-wait stage of writing where I'm second-guessing everything about the fic and wondering why I ever thought that plot was a good idea, but hopefully it'll be ready for a second opinion soonish.

[sarren]

Absolutely. I won't even make you wait while I finish an assignment *G* because I am on semester break, wheeeeeeee!!!!

[neery]

Yay! I'll try to hurry up, then.

(Come to Germany soooon! We can talk PoI in Real Life!)

[dorinda]

Oh my goodness, Reese just keeps doing that, doesn't he. He goes on to someone else about Finch--telling the other person how Finch saved him, how Finch looks after him, how Finch is so good to him--making sure Finch can hear him saying these things. And Finch smiles, or does the Glasses Adjustment Of Emotion. And then I fall down and kick my feet at the sky. They are like the most sublimationy-demonstrative sometimes, where they can actually crack the clamshells open the teeniest bit if they're on the other end of the earpiece, or looking at the dog instead of at him, or pretending to say these things to someone else.

and written 6000 words of what was originally supposed to be a tiny little sexpollen snippet

THIS IS RELEVANT TO MY INTERESTS. :D

(And oh, hey--I don't think I realized you have a DW! Would you mind if I friended you over there instead? I prefer to read things over there when I can, plus I have more icons there, including a few POI.)

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Yesssssss, I was so gleeful when Reese told Carter that bit about "I was lost, but then a good man found me and gave me a purpose!" in the most recent ep, especially because it is so obviously intended as a secret message to Carter and Finch. I mean, for the sake of the cover, he could have just said "And then I found a job I liked", but no, he can't pass up the opportunity to talk about how great Finch is. (Also, it always kind of makes my heart ache when he calls Finch "a good man" like that, because it makes it so obvious that he doesn't really think that he himself is a good man

[dorinda]

he could have just said "And then I found a job I liked", but no, he can't pass up the opportunity to talk about how great Finch is

Yes! And so often, as you say, he describes it not as "I took an action, I made a choice that saved me". He paints it as if he was drowning and Finch took the action, did the saving. I think that gives us not just a sense of his regard/admiration/gratitude for Finch (extreeeeemely high), but also of his internal state before Finch found him (extreeeemely low). I mean, we know he was on the streets and whatnot, so yes, we know he was low, but I think this gives us a glimpse inside homeless-John, that he could only feel himself going in one direction and that was downward, as if he would never have recovered or been able to make any positive choices on his own.

it somehow turned into more of a casefic where people have a lot of feelings they don't talk about and no one even has any sex

But the great thing is, this is ALSO relevant to my interests! I love people not talking about deep feelings. \o/

you

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I mean, we know he was on the streets and whatnot, so yes, we know he was low, but I think this gives us a glimpse inside homeless-John, that he could only feel himself going in one direction and that was downward, as if he would never have recovered or been able to make any positive choices on his own.

There's a bit in the pilot where Finch says something like "For months you've been trying to drink yourself to death, and now you're looking for quicker methods" and Reese doesn't even deny it. I really think Reese didn't see any way out at that point, and more importantly, didn't think he deserved a way out.

[tinnny]

So of course your post motivated me to watch it last night. I was pretty ... not bored, more sceptical... all episode long, and really couldn't see why I would be watching this. And then they smiled at each other through the phone at the end and it was all good. I don't know if it's going to be enough to put myself through all the seriousness and the knee-shooting while already seeing the main plot arc coming from miles away (and not caring particularly much about it). But it's something, and I'll keep at it for a while, I think.

And even if I give up, I already know enough to read the fic. Win/win. ;)

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Okay, this is weird, I know for sure that I answered this comment already, and now my reply is gone. >:( Okay, trying to remember what I wrote:

If you want, we could do a best-of-POI run-through. There's a few eps, especially in the first season, that are really mostly "John runs around shooting people in the knee", but there's some really great eps, like for example the one where they take care of a baby, and the one where John gets shot, and several of the Carter eps, and the beginning of season two, where Finch gets kidnapped by a psychopath and John spends two eps getting more and more crazy. Until he's standing in the middle of the street, yelling at the machine through a traffic camera, in front of the number he's supposed to protect, because the machine has to help him find Finch, don't you understand, he's my only friend and I can't do this without him.In general, the show takes a few eps to find its feet, as they usually do

[tinnny]

Glad you noticed, because I definitely didn't get a comment before this one.

If you want, we could do a best-of-POI run-through.

That's fine, just tell me which eps I can skip where I won't miss anything good/important.

I'd actually be curious what you think the main plot arc is going to be.

Well, I have only seen the one episode beside the pilot, and there is references to
- Finch's partner dying
- Finch hiding within his own company (i.e. being hunted by someone)
- Finch not having had a bad leg 4 years ago

I am mostly referring to the revelations about their backstory, I guess. So you can stop spoiling me now. ;)

I very much like Carter, btw. As long as she doesn't catch them, it's pretty standard fare. But I hope they're doing good stuff with it. Apart from that, I'll just see what comes my way.

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That's fine, just tell me which eps I can skip where I won't miss anything good/important.

I'll make you a list.

Well, I have only seen the one episode beside the pilot, and there is references to
- Finch's partner dying
- Finch hiding within his own company (i.e. being hunted by someone)
- Finch not having had a bad leg 4 years ago

I am mostly referring to the revelations about their backstory, I guess.

Oh, that is not the main plot arc AT ALL, so if you don't care about that stuff, don't worry, you won't have to sit through much of it. ;)

So you can stop spoiling me now. ;)

Sorry. /o\

Carter is AWESOME, and I thought that what they did with her character arc was really great.