Episode Discussion 3x09

[orockthro]

Well dudes, it's that time of the week again. o___o
Tonight's episode (3x09, The Crossing) might be a doozy, so let's hold onto our butts, keep our heads, and don't blink.
Spoilers beyond this point! And also feelings.

Comments

[aprilvalentine]

I can't decide if I'm more angry or more depressed.

Same here.

And to do that they had to retcon two seasons of Reese's characterization, by making it that Carter's arrest in the Pilot is what gave him the will to live, and not, you know, getting a chance to save people by Finch.

You know, if they just had avoided doing that, I might have been less angry. Was he lying when he told anyone who would listen for two years that Finch was the one who saved him and gave him a purpose, when he told Finch on the rooftop that he'd be dead already if Finch hadn't found him? I don't mind Reese being grateful to Carter too, but I have never felt their scene in the pilot was any kind of magic that created either romantic sparks or was the one thing that gave him the will to live. If Finch hadn't sent the lawyer to pick him up, he'd've walked out of that precinct and never been heard of again.