belated TV post

[rose_griffes]

No new Person of Interest this evening. Here's what I posted on Tumblr about last week's episode.

1. I love it that they went all-out with their stunt casting for a storyline that didn't connect to anything else. Wikipedia tells me that Karoline Kurkova's screen time took less than two minutes. Which means Kevin Chapman had an easy week as well. From the pics released of the two of them between takes, it looks like he enjoyed it.


2. I'm giggling as I think of set workers putting up that row of pay phones along some street in New York City.


3. Donnelly, why are you telling the woman who worked as a military interrogator how to do her job? And why are you messing it up with your tantrums?!


4. After that first scene, Bear has John's shirt and suit jacket on his bed. Which Harold put there, I assume. *sadface*


5. Rees and Elias meeting that first time in the prison yard. Elias is smiling so big; he looks so pleased. And John has that "I'm not actually smirking, but I'm thinking about it" look.


6. Aryan Blondie must think he's something else to take on Reese. Or he has short-term memory loss from that time Reese tossed him through a window.


7. Riker's has a fine rubble-removal cleaning service, I assume, since John's jacket and trouser looked pristine.


8. Reese thanking Carter at the bridge. "I just want to say thank you. I couldn't have got through this without... a friend to talk to." *sob* And Carter calls him a friend in the SUV.


9. Their faces after Donnelly catches them: Carter looks directly at Reese several times, but he can barely look at her.


10. Harold, you need to make an app for your cell phone, so you can look up those numbers without having to go back to the library. There's at least one website that does that code, so surely you can figure this out.


11. People are saying that Reese picked the lock on his handcuffs, since his left hand was visibly free after the accident. I'm not so sure. In Donnelly's SUV, both Reese and Carter have their hands cuffed separately. (In one brief shot you can see his right hand is cuffed above the window.) I assume that their other hands are in some sort of built-in cuffs in the seat. It would be really difficult to pick the lock with hands separated like that.


12. Not to mention that Reese looked utterly defeated, sitting in the back of that SUV. Probably because Donnelly had caught him because of his connection with Carter. Hard to do anything without running the risk of killing Donnelly. I doubt John wanted to do that, even though the man was a threat.


13. Oh, Donnelly. I didn't want you to join Team Machine, but I did want you to live, and to learn more about what the Man in the Suit does, and to deal with the moral dilemma that would bring.


14. Normally I'd have a ton to say about the Stanton flashbacks, but right now I can't think straight. Who is she gonna take, Reese or Carter or both? What's she gonna do? WHAT IS HER PURPOSE?!!!!????? (My own guess: she takes Reese, leaving Carter to deal with the mess of being handcuffed in the back of dead Donnelly's SUV. But I have NO IDEA what she's gonna do then.)

I logged out of Tumblr this afternoon. It's not exactly a boon to productivity, and I need to get some extra work done on a few things, including job-related stuff. (If I stay logged out long enough, I'm eventually going to have to figure out how to get notices for new episodes of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries. Tumblr always told me before, when I would glance at the show tag and suddenly see pictures of a new scene.)

Comments

[puszysty.livejournal.com]

I would have liked to see Donnelly live too. Having him get shot felt a bit like a cop out on behalf of the writers.

I have to say, Harold with the grenade launcher was pretty priceless.

[rose-griffes.livejournal.com]

Donnelly and Corwin are two characters I regret losing. A lot.

Heh, Harold weaponed up was both funny and really poignant.