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    S04.E01: Panopticon

    in Person Of Interest [V]

    · Edited by ABay

    Google doesn't even have to do that for dissertations: that's what UMI does. Now theses and dissertations are submitted electronically and in print, but in ye olde days, UMI scanned them onto microfiche and could print out copies for those willing to pay. Many of these have been converted to digital format and are available in full text through several methods*: you can request through interlibrary loan (even if you don't know who owns a copy, a librarian will find out), you can buy a copy from UMI, or if your library subscribes to the database, you can look up the diss or thesis and download it to your PC, or print it out (if you are ink and paper rich).

     

    There are limits. Some universities and individual writers choose not to make full text available online. Nonetheless, UMI will have a copy somewhere and you will most likely be able to buy a copy. Also, universities are not eager to lend dissertations thorough ILL.

     

    As for the subway book. The book, the pictures, quotes from its discussion of unused mostly forgotten underground places in NYC, whatever could be cited in a work that is available online, even if the content of the first book hasn't been scanned. If it's been cited enough (Google Scholar is a marvel), it would become obvious that it's the classic on the topic. From there, the Machine can find the call number etc. and whether the book is in the university library with WorldCat or because college catalogs are online and anyone can search them.

     

    All of which is stunningly convoluted but, you know: The Machine.

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    S04.E01: Panopticon

    in Person Of Interest [V]

    I'm worried that they're making Samaritan omnipotent. It's not satisfying, for me anyway, when the deck is so stacked.

     

    With regard to the dissertation: *Obviously*, the Machine runs UMI and input a dissertation it wrote, with typos, so it could be retrieved via Digital Dissertations & Theses by the typo-hunting chair/dean/provost, whoever that was.

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    S04.E01: Panopticon

    in Person Of Interest [V]

    · Edited by ABay

    There's no 15/15 here, right?

     

    OMG, they killed Fred Weller. You bastards! After that, it was meh until very near the end.

     

    Finally, the Library of Congress classification system.

     

    Harold and others to be gathered or recalled should be working on a virus to take out Samaritan, like the one used on the Machine. Maybe Artie...sorry, Arthur...left something behind. It would be even better to find a way to graph the Machine onto Samaritan so no one notices the difference. But not before Samaritan kills Greer, as it is clearly going to do, probably through the Woman in a Suit.

     

    Since I always thought the Man in a Suit was the most ridiculous identifier in the history of identifiers--they're in NYC which is full of men in suits, including the detectives and FBI agents investigating the Man in Suit--I was happy to see John ditch the suit jacket for most of the episode. OTOH, he looked weird without a jacket.

     

     

    They set that up in the last season finale.  Shaw and Root had infiltrated Samaritan and planted the cover IDs and made it so Samaritan would not recognize the 4 of them.

    And the 3 guys who helped Root.

     

     

    I've decided that Detective Crockett (is that his cover name? I really want it to be)

    That was Fusco making a joke. Riley as the name John was using. He's used it before when playing cop.

    Party of One: Unpopular TV Opinions

    in Everything Else TV

    Actually, it didn't make sense set in NYC. Manchester in the 70s = a place like Cleveland or Detroit. They fell into the trap of LA or NYC on tv and that's it. The other thing about whether Sam UK was in a 'real' place or not was that he was every scene. You just can't do that for 22 episodes. The poor actor would keel over.
    I was hoping for Buffalo or Pittsburgh for the Manchester equivalent, that rust belt feel. The NYC setting was definitely all wrong. In addition to that and the having to be in every scene thing, I thought the other major failing was how they screwed up the Sam & Gene relationship. It was essence of the original and what they did was just not going to work.

    PTV Sleepy Hollow Rewatch

    in Sleepy Hollow [V]

    I just started rewatching this morning and had to stop halfway through episode 3 to come to work. I'd forgotten 1. How crazy Crazy Jenny's eyebrows are and 2. Just how much I love this show. Can't wait to get home and continue the binge.

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    Past Seasons Talk: Before We Traded a Cop for an Assassin, a Psycho Hacker and The Machine's Evil Twin

    in Person Of Interest [V]

    I don't know about everybody else, but my problem isn't procedural vs. serialized, I've always liked both, especially shows that flip back and forth between them.
    Me, too. I don't believe one format is inherently superior to the other, and I don't think anything is truly original--everything builds on something that came before--what matters is what the storyteller adds or twists, the mix of convention + invention.

     

    What brought me to the series was Michael Emerson and the premise. For me, the beating heart of the show was Finch & Reese redeeming each other, or the Machine redeeming them both through each other...basically, Finch & Reese's evolving relationship. The medium for delivering that was the mix of POIs of the week, the introduction of the other characters, and setting the groundwork for the current long-term arc. But those were never the heart of the show, imo. I'm not sure if Finch & Root is going to be as compelling to me as Finch & Reese.

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    Past Seasons Talk: Before We Traded a Cop for an Assassin, a Psycho Hacker and The Machine's Evil Twin

    in Person Of Interest [V]

    Although I would've been just fine with more Finch, Reese, and Bear in the forefront and everything else in the background, I understand why the show had to change. I'm OK with Shaw and I will eventually, I hope, overcome my dislike of Amy Acker and get to like, or at least tolerate Root, because I think her scenes with Harold are the key ones of the series now. Carter wasn't essential to my enjoyment, but I do think it's a pity they killed her off after they made her interesting instead of in season 1 when the character brought the narrative to a screeching halt every time she was on screen.

     

    I certainly intend to stay until the end because of Michael Emerson and the underlying themes of the series. I expect that I will love some episodes and bits of episodes and really hate others, and get very tired of squeeing and shipping. Like any other show I watch.

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