I can so see root lying down in the backseat whispering into Harry’s ear ❤️

same to big brother. same to....

I’m 67 and loved every single episode. Very few TV shows have casting as good at this one.

PoI is one of the most thoughtful, reflective, emotional "ACTION" dramas I have come across on TV. And when it delves into the philosophical debates about human nature, the value of paternalism, the autonomy versus order discussions...it reaches levels rarely seen on television.

@@victorpradha9946 well said

Yeah really, they barely scratched the surface of what the Machine is and how it functions. When you stop to consider what it would have to be, and how it has to exist to do what it does...I don't have a problem understanding Harold's fear. Even though we as fans found it tedious and rooted for the Machine, logically he had every right to fear it, just as we all would fear God if he showed up, no matter if we thought he was good or bad. That much power, so easy for it to go against us. But it's a show and I was deeply impressed by how far they did go, and how quite intelligent and thoughtful it was given their limitations.

@@michaelheath2866 especially the deal John made with it in the end.

Me too, the machine was awesome!

Black River

no humans no machine

Root, by virtue of early childhood trauma (knowing who murdered her childhood friend and nobody paying any attention to her and casting aside her eyewitness account, being disregarded etc.), was initially quite ruthless and seemed a bit too willing (arguably eager) to use violence and be willing to harm others. The show dampened this ruthlessness in order to make Root more likable as Root's presence grew on the show, but initially, she unnerved Finch so much that he was hesitant to leave the "security and safety" of the library at first.

@@victorpradha9946 I bet she was able to charge a fortune as a gun for hire, someone with her skills at hacking AND using guns AND with her genius-level mind able to execute targets flawlessly and without being caught. The underworld must have been GUTTED when she gave up on all that to join team Harold+Reese!

The FULL ice9 backstory wouldve been *chefs kiss*

Joel Watson She really did, and I suspect why she adopted her voice.

*"almost"?*

Same! I'm not one to get emotional over a characters death, but Root's really hit me hard.

Eva G yes

@@hakanbaratheon7427 smarter than westworld

Truly a show far ahead of its time.

@@lucacerasuolo6606 So true!

Absolutely

Zholla Mychalis best show ever

At the end, Harold found happiness again He will be ever happy and Shaw found her groove too

I still do

This was one of these shows where every character was unique and you felt for them.

At first she was this hacker for hire who had no compunction about killing people to reach her objectives or to make a point.

root was great, def one of the best

I always found it weird how she was often smiling so joyously as she was kicking the shit out of someone or shooting them, like it was comforting to her! As a character she really did have it all though, quite OP in a way even before she had The Machine also covering her. She had the looks. She was almost as dangerous as Reese or Shaw both hand to hand and with guns. She was almost as smart as Harold and even Harold himself was impressed at her skills at hacking and programming. Definitely someone you want on your side!

@@victorpradha9946 In fairness, it is never stated that she was only a hacker. It was *assumed* she was only a hacker by Finch and Reese. Root had a habit of using men in her schemes and then dumping them, whether she was framing them or using them as added muscle/lackeys, she discards them. You *could* say that they retconned her to be more *badass* by the season 2 finale, but it's not like they hadn't done it with other characters, such as Elias for example. Season 1 Elias is nothing like Elias by the end.

Actually, they made two points: 1) That AI systems would imprint on whoever is the primary teacher/template for the AI decision-making template and ethical framework engineer and 2) AI systems would need to be sorted out to determine which ones would default to violent/destructive means to survive (example: Arthur Claypool said his various iterations at one time tried to kill each other and even kill him. Likewise, Finch said earlier Machine versions tried to kill him.) Finch's ultimate Machine was one that did NOT kill him and did NOT try to escape or employ destructive means. Samaritan was not fully "sentient" until Greer brought it fully on-line, using Claypool's designs. From there, Greer served as Samaritan's teacher and template. Hence, Samaritan viewed pretty much everyone, and anyone as disposable save for itself. Because the Machine was "taught" by Finch to preserve, protect, defend, and save human life (even the Irrelevant ones thanks to Nathan's intervention and strong advocacy for the "Irrelevants" being saved and Harold's insistence upon doing so even at risk to himself and the Machine and later John Reese), it views human life as precious, and like Finch, it views even lives like Fusco, Shaw, Elias worth saving...because the opportunity for "Redemption" is offered to everyone. And Finch, Root, Shaw, Reese, Fusco, Elias, et al demonstrated that human being can be redeemed and can live lives that value the preciousness of all human life! This is what Greer failed to teach Samaritan. Those bodies in the tunnel, the use of a super virus (twice...once attempting to acquire a super virus with the lethality of Ebola and the transmissibility of the most communicable variants of common influenza, and once when it manipulated doctors into administering a human anti-viral to a person infected with Avian flu so as to create a superbug), the Nautilus program, all culminating in the "Great Filter" (which is just a euphemism for a mass purge of any potential obstacles (students, doctors, engineers, police, researchers, programmers, etc..etc)) so that Samaritan would expand unopposed across the globe. Just remember, the bodies Fusco found in the tunnel were the "obstacles" removed by just one Samaritan operative in just NYC. There were likely such "tunnels" all throughout the U.S. And this was just Samaritan's warm up exercise. This is why the Machine said to Harold that failure simply isn't an option!

Honestly, it's surprising Harold doesn't understand that when he was the one who said the same about morality of Humans and AIs. That AIs will never mirror our moral compass simply because they aren't humans.

I agree. It makes me wonder what an AI would do with the objective of “space travel at lightspeed”

machines are words and numbers .... and repitition .... a hollowdeck in the ear as it werre an aural fantasy if you will .... they will never feel their newborn children for example and that is the magic of human mamalian life they will never replicate regardless of how they "feel" ... a wank orgasm versus a conception copulation if you will excuse my language .

the british occult and jesuit nutcases are using A.I. in Ireland to frame people based on false reports from legacy bigotry - one slight problem they can never break the brehon gaelic code .. its hilarious watching the meltdown actually .

He was also in *"Animal House", with John Belushi!* As well as *"1941", which also started John Belushi!*

You forgot his role National Lampoon's Animal House as Eric "Otter" Stratton. "Mine's bigger than that."

@@WalterDWormack214 "I'm Eric Stratton rush chairman, damned glad to meet you."

The scene where it shows machine finally surrendering to samaritan setting was in the hospital. The machine gave a heartfelt message to finch.

There was a scene harold asks machine why it showed grace to him from time to time. Can't remember which episode though

How about some scenes from older seasons 1. The man in the suit interrogation-Reese and Carter and Donnelly 2. The Daniel Casey episode S03

If you carefully watched the video, you could hear Machine saying "he's a good guy, but isn't too smart". We all know that that's not how traffic stops work, although Machine changed the data which made the officer stay well, thus seeing his picture at computer makes everything okay for him.

No. It is perfect the way it is.

Better a spin off or continuation than a reboot. The original is fine as it is now.

Please, no. It managed to have an apropriated end despite the abrupt cancellation, let's not spoil it.

Original cast was already amazing. Reboot wouldnt do the show justice. Altough everyone did splendid job, I only find Carter, Elias and Root irreplacable.

This show was great except for the police procedural format it took for far too long. Cop shows suck and make cops look good. I don't know if a reboot is a good idea, the cast, the writing, the characters, was so good. However, if they do a reboot, I would like less cops, and more restorative justice and transformative justice. Also, while they deal with so many profound concepts and great questions, I wasn't satisfied with their exploration of digital privacy in season 3.

Same creator

I think this was Jonathan Nolan taking bits of Batman (since he helped his brother Christopher Nolan write The Dark Knight) and melding it with his own fascination with AI and creating Person of Interest. Then he just went full blown into AI with Westworld.

Root would have been beyond honored. She would have seen it as a way of living forever, becoming part of the god she worshipped so religiously.

As the other poster noted, Root would have been over the moon to have the machine emulate her.

@Johnfuse you'd have to have watched the show to understand. there's 5 seasons and this is close to the last episode of the series lol. The voice isn't the car, the voice comes from an Artifical Intelligence that can see through every camera on earth. the A.I is basically like a god in that it can see and hear everything and it tries to save innocent people. Root had a strange relationship with it in that Root obsessively worshipped it. Root even assiagned the machine a gender by calling it a she. Root was a lesbian and didn't like many men. Root was the only one the machine would talk to, otherwise it communicated through coded obscure messages and back then in spoke in a mishmash mono tone computer voice. when Root dies, the machine essentially becomes root by taking her voice and emulating her personality. in a way allowing root to become a god.

@Johnfuse nope, because there was another woman in the show who was her love interest, and she literally referred to the A.I as a god.

@Johnfuse either watch the show or just shut up lol

It went downhill when they brought on "Team Machine" and diluted the key pair's screen time and importance, but it picked up again near the end.

How? People only got interested in this series during season 3 and onwards. Season 4 was their peak, though.

Saṃsāra's Light imo it got ridiculous when the show started focusing only on Shaw and Root. That’s when it went downhill. Reese and finch were the heart of the show.

SAOrules that’s your opinion, yupperz! You should give POI another chance.

Christopher O’Neil I watched POI all the way through. Objectively it got worse as Shaw and Root got more screen time.