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Sra ([personal profile] sarcasticsra) wrote in [community profile] pofinterest_chat2013-09-29 03:50 pm

New character thoughts.

Okay, pardon that crappy subject line, but I can't quite figure out how to summarize what I want to talk about.

So I've been having random thoughts occur to me lately, some relevant to S3 and some REALLY FREAKIN' OLD, lol, but I wanted to share and see if any of you guys have been having any new/different thoughts about our beloved characters.

So let's start with the new season ones: it occurred to me that Root calls the Machine 'she' and is also the only one actually directly talking to it. Do you think the Machine asked her to use that pronoun? Could that make the Machine somewhat bigender, given Ernest Thornhill? I think that would be kinda awesome.

Along those lines, the Machine is trying to rehabilitate Root--to give her another purpose, almost. Is the Machine taking after Harold? This is, after all, basically what Harold did with John, and I can't tell you how pleased I'd be to have the Machine learning behaviors from Daddy. XD

And, finally, going back in time--it randomly struck me that in "Baby Blue", when Reese shows up at the safehouse to find Szymanski wounded, it seemed kind of weird that Scarface only shot him non-lethally (well, as non-lethally as shooting someone can get, I suppose) and didn't finish the job once he was down? Given Scarface seems much more inclined to have 'kill all the things' as his motto, I'm wondering if maybe Elias had him do it that way on purpose--a sort of "don't kill him if you don't have to" kinda thing. After all, we know from the S2 finale that he has an interesting code of honor, so it would make a weird sort of sense.

So those are my thoughts! What are yours? (There will, naturally, be spoilers in the comments!)
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[personal profile] subluxate 2013-09-29 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
MY THOUGHTS ARE YOUR THOUGHTS

LITERALLY

Ahem.

So. The Machine views Root as an asset, one to be reprogrammed, as it were (and how Root would love viewing it that way). I do think it's partly taking after Daddy, but I also am wondering who the aux_admin might be. I'm leaning toward Reese, since he answered the phone, too. So Root is an asset, but Reese is in the trusted position of being an admin; the Machine views his relationship with Finch as something that means she can "trust" him, too, perhaps. Besides that, he's already integrated into the purpose of her coding; he saves people, working with Finch. He's even been given numbers directly, and he made her cooperate with him when Root abducted Finch. All that implies a much greater level of control, trust, and cooperation than Root will have for quite some time, if ever. It's not what Finch has, not quite, but it's still much bigger than anyone else has--possibly even bigger than Nathan had (though we don't know, or at least I don't recall, how the Machine designated him beyond as a number pre-ferry bombing).