I’ve gotta say this since nobody else did. Person of Interest needs some persons of interest.
Have there ever been two duller leads in a supposedly major tv series? Yeah, sure, they’re men of mystery. No they’re not. They’re men of cardboard.
Add that to the inane background - social security numbers that mean… something; the superhero action scenes - performed by a drunk on a two-month bender which didn’t dull his reflexes one percent; and the insane plot - cops have been killed and wounded by somebody who they saw up close, but instead of the whole city stopping to conduct the biggest manhunt ever, I’ll bet there’ll be no mention of it in the second episode - and this seems the biggest glop of utter nonsense on tv since … Lost. You Losties can have it this stinking pile if you that’s what you want but I hope everybody else has the sense to turn away.
Lost was very engaging though I’ll concede that it could have been a much better show had the writers mapped out an actual plot instead of just making up shit as they went along.
That being said, I’m not sure why you even watched the new show given your odd derision towards people who enjoyed a fictional tv show.
I think I can safely live with the background of the supercomputer, from the trailers, I had thought it was some sort of time device that could glimpse into the future. As long as they don’t draw attention to it, I can just pretend. It’s a vaguely sci-fi premise - so be it.
For a pilot, I saw enough there to keep me interested for a while at least. I’ll give it a few more episodes to see how it goes.
I tried to watch it but kept falling asleep. Will give it another go if I’m ever home on a Sunday night again. It seemed OK and it wasn’t the fault of the programme that I couldn’t manage to stay awake.
May I add that I love Cafe Society. I don’t post much but I do read this board a lot and I’ve watched a lot of shows I might otherwise have missed, simply because of reading about them here.
Yeah -
Jim Caveziel was awful. I don’t think I’ve seen him in anything else (I missed the Mel Gibson movie) - so this was my only exposure to him. Listening to him mumble and mutter every single one of his lines in a barely audible, emotionless monotone was unpleasant. Maybe as part of his backstory, the special forces had made him semi-catatonic except when he was beating people up. But it didn’t make him a character I want to watch for an hour each week.
I think there’s a premise, but it needs a different cast, director, script; it just needs a lot of work. I’m pretty sure I’m not watching it again.
From the premise I thought it would be something similar to “Minority Report.” But I was pretty bored by it and found the concept of a machine that spits out social security numbers of people who are to be involved in a violent crime just stupid. It really made no sense. But I like Michael Emerson (I’ve liked him since 1999) so will give it one more episode.
I also thought that Jim Caveziel was awful. Just awful. The other things I have seen him in, he did well, but this was terrible. He was the weak link.
I liked Michael Emerson’s role and thought there were some good hints at other things.
Yes to the supercomputer’s abilities. I can suspend my disbelief for a bit, though, for a good story.
So, I will be watching a few more because I like the idea but am hoping that Jim improves as he didn’t impress me and I think it would get old with how much I didn’t like it.
I read that scene a little differently. He told him earlier something to the effect of: I think you’re a loyal person who just got in to a bad situation. Because I’m going to need someone on the inside, I’m going to keep you alive and hope I didn’t read you wrong.
Then later, he tapped this new resource with his first task: Dispose of the body. And for extra incentive, I used your gun, so it will behoove you to dispose of it well, since if it is found the investigation will show that your bullet is the one that killed him.
I’ve been trying to check out most of the new shows and this one was not the worst so far but it’s definitely in the bottom 25%. I’ll give it another episode or so to kill it from the recording list but I don’t have high hopes of it turning around.
I think I am tone deaf for acting. I really enjoyed Caviezel in this role. I thought he played a pretty good badass with a rough past. I’m bad at picking out bad acting, unless it’s over the top hammy. So, what about his performance do you guys dislike?
I don’t know if I can explain this but am willing to try.
To me, his performance was off. Maybe he was doing a dramatic pause but held it a bit too long and it didn’t work. Or he delivered a line and emphasized it wrong. In a few places, he came off wooden, with no emotion, when he should have had some.
Not everything was bad. Again, the scene were he gets the guns is good, but everything else just seemed off.
Without watching it again, I can’t call it up clear enough to give a specific example of what I didn’t like.
I thought Caveziel was going for the “cold, detached, emotionally checked out assassin” thing. I haven’t seen him in any other role, so I don’t have an opinion as to whether or not he can act.
I didn’t find his acting bad, but I wasn’t really looking for it. Maybe next episode I’ll look more carefully. Although something like really bad acting jumps out at you, doesn’t it?