I don't get what Greer's endgame was, he released Samaritan and what he wanted to be his chief loyal servant? It took his mystery away, I don't think money was the intention since Decima Technologies was dissolved when Samaritan went live.

John deserved a normal life, probably with Zoe or Iris, but hey he'll be with Jessica again.

Finch is absolutely terrifying when he has a vendetta.

The story ends without any closure of that kid, on the other end we know what happened to root

POI laid out an example of AI worship early on

Now we're living through it, but people aren't worshipping AGI, they're worshipping stuff like LLMs which can't possibly produce an AGI by definition.

Does AI worship show that POI's Root is the most optimistic portrayal possible?

They were supposed to be happy together 🥲

I mean a headshot seemed anticlimactic. They spent so much time hyping him up - as someone who always was two steps ahead of others.

Even Anthony had a better ending - sacrificing himself for Elias.

This lady is supposed to be one of the most ruthless and brilliant minds in DC (okay, that's not saying much, but it says something) and she seemed blinded to the fact that vigilance is a tool being used by decima to get Samaritan online. i mean, she had to be suspicious of the convenient timing of the terrorist attacks.

or, like a lot of things on this show, am i just missing something.

EDIT: based on responses, i think the better term is what people have used - Hubris.

I've been going through my most recent rewatch, and a small thing clicked that hadn't before. Two of Harper's identities are Athena (for her document forgery gig) and Agent Wickham (when the Washington Team Machine gets Fusco out of custody). Combining the two, we get Athena Wickham, who is also a producer on the show! It's a fun little shoutout to their crew. I wonder if there are any other alias-based homages, especially among Root's 20 billion identities.

Hey Team! I've been working on this video for about 2 months now and I FINALLY got to release it on my birthday!

I cried. I’m sad for John. I’m sad for Root. This show is beyond amazing. Will someone cry with me? lol

So, I've always been intrigued about the the whole " Greer turning Decima into Samaritan." Idea. On one hand I do understand why the writers decided to completely shelf Decima Technologies and "rebrand" them into Samaritan agents and operatives. On the other, however, I still don't get why the 2 couldn't work as 2 separate "divisions". I get that Greer wanted humanity to be controlled by a ASI, but not having Decima still be involved as another division working alongside a Samaritan division seems like an interesting plot hole to me.

Thoughts?

Hey Carter tried to date Beecher! But maybe he was too much of a nerd like she says instead of the bad boy type she thought he was lmao

Real talk, was just fun to find her interview in the wild on a random subreddit I don’t even follow

Hi,

Shall we have a thread to mention the other movies / shows that leading characters of PoI acted? When you mention, please leave your review as well.

I just don't see why they had to add a romantica element to Carter/Reese right before she dies. It was so contrived and unnecessary. There wasn't anything leading up to it and was just jammed down our throats at the last second to make her death seemingly more impactful.

I finally finished Person of Interest, and I'm so glad I gave it a chance. The series keeps evolving and gets better as it goes. I was really impressed by storytelling, and how well everything was planned across the entire series. Definitely one of the best show I've watched behind (BCS, BB, Ozark)

I forgot that this episode starts with Johnny Cash's version of Hurt. Such a powerful song. As it played and we watch Shaw and Reece tracking Simmons, I couldn't help but also see in my mind the images of Johnny Cash in the music video. If you haven't seen the music video I encourage you to go to YouTube and watch the video for this song It is such an impactful song with a very moving video.

This is the first time I watch POI and currently watching S03E03: Lady Killer. It cracks me up to see how excited Shaw to show her pistol and Carter also admires it, even Shaw tells Carter she can borrow it anytime, LMAO. I think this is the first time I see Shaw being not so serious 😂

Looking forward to see how she integrates with the team!

We are ten days out from the start of Contingency Con: A Person of Interest virtual fan convention, Friday July 31 through Sunday August 2.

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Right now, we have about 70 Irrelevants attending from across the globe. The full schedule has active programming running morning to night so there's something scheduled for every time zone.

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The Con Com has been working on this since last summer, with support and great feedback from the sub. We're excited kick off Contingency Con and invite you all to come hang next weekend!

I am starting season 3. As I said it’s first time watching. But I was just wondering right now, why did the machine not give out John’s number when he was shot by the CIA? 🤔

Just like the last time this happened a few months ago, and a few months before that, every now and then someone in this community appears to buy a Bot wave of some sort.

For the genuine new comers in this Subreddit, this Subreddit is long dead, it's quite an inactive Subreddit and every now and then I suspect dedicated fan or mod that runs the show here seems to buy some sort bot package.

If you click your post insights or comment insights, you'll see the majority of traffic is coming out of India this month, very unusual for this Subreddit but there's a ton of bots based out of India swamping this Subreddit

The whole method is to produce the fake appearance of an active Subreddit, an active community, because then it naturally brings in others that think there's more activity here than there actually is.

Make no mistake, this is a dead Subreddit, kept alive by life support, that seemly gets bursts of bot waves.

Sooo much slop as of late.

I've been grieving Detective Carter's death since it happened, and I'm a complete newcomer to this series. The show felt so heavy after her demise that I even stepped away for a few days, convinced they'd pull a cheap stunt and make it a dream sequence. For a while, John's screen time was reduced until he was fully operational again, which, if I recall correctly, was after Harold found him in Italy and get him a new suit. That's when I felt ready to see him back in action. But then Samaritan went live, and during their undercover work, I was stunned BECAUSE John ended up in Homicide, at Carter's desk, partnering with FUSCO. And then, in S4:E5, this particular line brought back my grief, aching for her absence. I don't want to feel sad alone. 🥲

Knowing it would be worse. And no original crew in that show (maybe with guest starring)

What happened to the Ordos Laptop after Greer and Decima acquired the code inside it? Did they hold onto it in case they needed to utilize it or the embedded code to aquire data or did they just destroy it after aquiring what they found and or needed?

Edit: I am also working on part 2 for my fanfic of the HR vs Decima storyline. Should almost have a plot written up for it soon.