that's better
May. 5th, 2014 06:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kindkitI've now seen POI 3x06, "Mors Praematura," which is the first good episode of this season. Root and Shaw are interesting together as the darker, scarier version of Finch and Reese, and have mad UST to boot. And since Shaw was busy working with Root, the Reese and Finch dynamic was back to normal. Hopefully this will continue. Even the one-off characters got some engaging development, and the plot was good too, although having the EFF with guns Vigilance as the new bad guys comes across slightly as a cheap attempt at "balance" from a show that until now has been pretty uncompromising about its politics.
Hopefully now that Shaw has been brought to a narrative crossroads, POI will cease being the All Shaw All the Time show. I do think Shaw is a good (by which I mean interesting) character, and I like the potential of Shaw-and-Root, and also I'm more glad than I can possibly say that 3x05 didn't show her as excessively softened or "cured" by interacting with an Adorable Child, but I've had two seasons to get attached to Finch and Reese and their epic obsessive stalkery love and, as you'll recall if you read my previous post, I have not been happy to see all that sidelined. I would actually be more than content to see a split into two teams, with Finch and Reese as the X-Men and Root and Shaw as the Brotherhood, if you will, and the two teams often in opposition but sometimes uncomfortably working together.
Hopefully now that Shaw has been brought to a narrative crossroads, POI will cease being the All Shaw All the Time show. I do think Shaw is a good (by which I mean interesting) character, and I like the potential of Shaw-and-Root, and also I'm more glad than I can possibly say that 3x05 didn't show her as excessively softened or "cured" by interacting with an Adorable Child, but I've had two seasons to get attached to Finch and Reese and their epic obsessive stalkery love and, as you'll recall if you read my previous post, I have not been happy to see all that sidelined. I would actually be more than content to see a split into two teams, with Finch and Reese as the X-Men and Root and Shaw as the Brotherhood, if you will, and the two teams often in opposition but sometimes uncomfortably working together.
