Person of Interest 5x04 "6,741"
May. 16th, 2016 11:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
enemyofperfectpossibly unpopular (& MASSIVELY SPOILERY) fannish opinion:
If all of that had been real right up to the moment before Shaw shot herself, I would have been cool with that, I think.
I mean, I'm also cool with this surprisingly fanfic thing the show is doing where it has its feels and eats them too, but Shaw shooting Reese in the back and begging him under her breath not to reach for his gun and make her shoot him again? Finch freaking out over the line because that's not how it's supposed to go? Root shrugging off Shaw's confession that she killed Reese and saying they can work through this, because her love for Shaw is Just That Extreme?
I don't know, I could have worked with that, is all I'm saying.
Less hypothetically, I feel like Shaw's expressiveness throughout the episode makes more sense if it was all literally inside her head -- not that she's ever been affectless, but that's infinitely more vulnerability that she has ever openly shown, including when she was a child and her dad had just died -- but one thing I loved the whole way through was the bullshit explanations she made up for the stuff the conditioning made her do, and how palpably disoriented she was every time. That rings so true for me, somehow.
And I loved her fury with Root, both because she didn't believe in her, and then later because she did.
If all of that had been real right up to the moment before Shaw shot herself, I would have been cool with that, I think.
I mean, I'm also cool with this surprisingly fanfic thing the show is doing where it has its feels and eats them too, but Shaw shooting Reese in the back and begging him under her breath not to reach for his gun and make her shoot him again? Finch freaking out over the line because that's not how it's supposed to go? Root shrugging off Shaw's confession that she killed Reese and saying they can work through this, because her love for Shaw is Just That Extreme?
I don't know, I could have worked with that, is all I'm saying.
Less hypothetically, I feel like Shaw's expressiveness throughout the episode makes more sense if it was all literally inside her head -- not that she's ever been affectless, but that's infinitely more vulnerability that she has ever openly shown, including when she was a child and her dad had just died -- but one thing I loved the whole way through was the bullshit explanations she made up for the stuff the conditioning made her do, and how palpably disoriented she was every time. That rings so true for me, somehow.
And I loved her fury with Root, both because she didn't believe in her, and then later because she did.
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Date: 2016-05-18 08:13 pm (UTC)I only dipped briefly into the general tag myself, but there seems to be a split between unhappiness that the sex scene didn't happen and that it looked for a minute like Shaw had died, yeah, and just delight that Shaw lives and fights on and that Root's feelings for her are requited.
And it is a weird feeling, isn't it? My investment in this show is probably never going to be what it once was, but I appreciate that it's giving me things to appreciate, you know?