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[Person of Interest] Where Jesus is Batman
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Person of Interest is a new show that premiered on CBS on Thursday 9/22/2011 at 9pm.
It stars Jesus from The Passion of the Christ as a retired and presumed dead former CIA/Special Forces Operative named Reese who has been wandering New York City the last few years as a homeless drunk.
Some years ago his wife/girlfriend/something died horribly. He blames himself because he wasn't there, etc. etc. If you piss him off he will break various parts of you. He's played by Jim Caviezel.
It also stars Ben from Lost as Mr. Finch.
He's a mysterious (and also presumed dead) man of virtually unlimited resources who has access to a government system that monitors every e-mail, phone call, security camera, whatever that hell that was authorized by the Patriot Act. He's created an algorithm that allows that government system to determine the identities of people who will, in the near future, be involved in some kind of horrible violent crime. Michael Emerson plays him.
It also seems to feature this woman.
The hottie on the left. She's Detective Carter and she encounters Reese during the pilot. After running his fingerprints and watching him beat up a bunch of wannabe mobsters on the subway she decides that she needs to question him further. But before she can he's whisked away in a luxury car by Mr. Finch's people. She's played by Taraji P. Henson.
Look at it this way, Michael Emerson is Bruce Wayne, and Jim Caviezel is Batman. Together they fight crime on the mean streets of New York. Except Jim Caveizel has no problem killing bad guys.
The pilot is up on CBS.com watch it
http://www.cbs.com/shows/person_of_interest/video/2139986986/person-of-interest-pilot
The only real problem I have with it so far is that there's a tremendous amount of leg-shooting being done here. I mean, like fifteen people in the pilot alone. Other than that, fuckawesome.
It airs Thursdays at 9pm until it gets cancelled in the immediate future. Enjoy it while you can.
It stars Jesus from The Passion of the Christ as a retired and presumed dead former CIA/Special Forces Operative named Reese who has been wandering New York City the last few years as a homeless drunk.
Some years ago his wife/girlfriend/something died horribly. He blames himself because he wasn't there, etc. etc. If you piss him off he will break various parts of you. He's played by Jim Caviezel.
It also stars Ben from Lost as Mr. Finch.
He's a mysterious (and also presumed dead) man of virtually unlimited resources who has access to a government system that monitors every e-mail, phone call, security camera, whatever that hell that was authorized by the Patriot Act. He's created an algorithm that allows that government system to determine the identities of people who will, in the near future, be involved in some kind of horrible violent crime. Michael Emerson plays him.
It also seems to feature this woman.
The hottie on the left. She's Detective Carter and she encounters Reese during the pilot. After running his fingerprints and watching him beat up a bunch of wannabe mobsters on the subway she decides that she needs to question him further. But before she can he's whisked away in a luxury car by Mr. Finch's people. She's played by Taraji P. Henson.
Look at it this way, Michael Emerson is Bruce Wayne, and Jim Caviezel is Batman. Together they fight crime on the mean streets of New York. Except Jim Caveizel has no problem killing bad guys.
The pilot is up on CBS.com watch it
http://www.cbs.com/shows/person_of_interest/video/2139986986/person-of-interest-pilot
The only real problem I have with it so far is that there's a tremendous amount of leg-shooting being done here. I mean, like fifteen people in the pilot alone. Other than that, fuckawesome.
It airs Thursdays at 9pm until it gets cancelled in the immediate future. Enjoy it while you can.
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I'll give it a few more episodes before they cancel it.
Pretty cool this is. I will keep up with it.
It's more like Michael Emerson is Microchip, and Jim Caviezel is the Punisher. That's the gist I got.
I thought this exact thing. The characters and the action scenes were terrific. Cannot wait for more.
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Just wanted to suggest a change to your OP.
Also, I'm getting some Minority Report vibes here. :P
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Jesus/Reese is really a Shepherd from the Fireflyverse sent back to the past.
He's basically playing Ben, same amount of resources, control, and wide swath of information, but without the whole Island thing to cloud his judgement or be terrible. Think Alt-Ben from Season 6 but with more money than God and no desire to teach chemistry.
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First episode was pretty good. As for the leg shooting. It is better than to just kill everyone, which would have been a tad more unbelievable.
Except shooting someone in the leg or thigh will pretty effectively kill them and it's harder to do than shooting center mass. If you shoot someone... odds are they'll die. There are gigantic arteries in the human leg and if you even clip the femoral they could bleed out in about five minutes.
In short, it's a more difficult shot than center mass and more often a fatal one.
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As a rule I don't hold out hope for any show that I like. I could list off like ten series that I loved immediately that were cancelled before finishing their first season. Day Break, Journeyman, Drive, etc. This show seems like it will require pretty high production values, which is always a point against it, along with a premise that at a base level will make people uncomfortable (the whole Surveillance State thing).
It has some of the benefits of the cop/lawyer/doctor shows in that during a given week Jim Caveizel can wind up associated with someone from any walk of life, but it doesn't have the inherent positive association because he's a vigilante and not a licensed good guy.
In a lot of ways it reminds me of a show called Hack with David Morse that was also really good and didn't last very long.
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To be fair, I just marathon'd a season and a half of Warehouse 13 over the weekend, so "behind the scenes bullshit leading to action/drama/shenanigans" is pretty much right up my alley.
I also don't care if he's just Ben without the Island, I enjoyed him here too.
I am not an expert ... I just thought he did it because he didn't wanna kill anybody or something.
I know why they showed him doing it, it's actually a really common thing.
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It just happens to be one of those things that bugs me when I see it done to excess. Seriously, he shot like eight guys in the room with the Anton, no fatalities. One of the cops after he shot a grenade in the car. Another guy in the lobby at the end.
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That said, it was a hilarious bit of action fluff. And I'll give it a couple more episodes to try and develop.
funny thing, I think that would boost ratings for some weird reason.
But I did not. I can't tell if it's just because Jesus gives a staggeringly yawn-inducing performance or because, when Ben finally explains some of the process of how the persons of interest are found, it doesn't fly particularly well.
But I will continue to watch. Tinkering could make this work!
The legs shooting didn't bother me because everyone who was shot was a tv person and not a real person. TV People's anatomy is different than ours. You can shoot them in the leg or in the shoulder and it's not that big a deal.
I find people getting knocked out a far worse trope and probably even more common than "shot in the leg". Really though, assuming you have superhuman aim, shooting someone in the foot has a really, really low probability of killing them. Being able to reliably hit someone's feet is even less realistic than shooting them in the leg and having them be fine though.
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Loved it in Stroker and Hoop when they knocked out a camera guy the other guy correctly pointed out that they never checked to make sure the people they "knocked out" were still alive or okay later on. Somewhere there's a clinic filled with thousands of henchmen with brain damage
From the sounds of it, it's a simpler version of Batman, with Bruce Wayne and Bats as separate entities, less costumes.
Truck bit was great. Detective lady seems to have chunked up a bit between pilot and pickup. Much more of a Human Target vibe this time around.
Damn I hope this show sticks around.
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Batman doesn't kill. This guy is Punisher Light with Micro: Micro Edition.
I need to watch tonight's episode but I gotta wake up early tomorrow so it is postponed.
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So I wonder if the system is nation-wide now or still only New York. Can't recall if they ever specified now. I doubt they'll be state hopping even if it is nation-wide, but I guess even without the system being out of state there's no reason the people involved can't go somewhere. Not that that's too likely.
I would have had less issue with this if Jesus Bauer shot the guy in the head the second time to make sure he was down.
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I was honestly hoping that Reese wouldn't get there in time, but it's a little early in the show to have them fail just yet. Particularly when they're protecting a kid. Convenient last-minute saves are a staple of shows like this, but without some kind of cutaway showing Reese trying to get there it felt more Deus ex Machina than it should have.
The show still needs to figure itself out a little bit, and I could pick the entire episode apart if I hadn't had so much fun watching it. How did Reese beat the crap out of a restaurant full of mobsters but still get hammered by hired gun in the laundromat? How has an NYPD Detective pulling countless redacted files and running fingerprints not informed the government that Reese is still alive? Why were random mobsters still looking for a girl who'd been declared dead years ago? Why on Earth would you kill people who owe you money? You'll never get anything out of them that way. Again, why all the leg shooting? Why would a girl who's been on the run for years consent to staying in a room with a guy who looks like Michael Emerson? Etc.
Still having too much fun to worry about it though. Or maybe it's just filling the void left by Human Target.
Also, I quite enjoyed the intro that was new this week.
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I hope the leg shooting stops, too. It also looked like the guy was wearing a vest still, even on his leg. I suppose they're not going to have blood splatter all over, but as was said, putting a round into his head (out of frame or just minus any gore) would have been nice.
Damn I miss 24 for Jack Kills.
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