New character thoughts.

[sarcasticsra]

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!)

Comments

[off_kilter]

My headcanon thus far is also that TM is not trying to be human, and honestly I'm pretty sure I'd like a storyline where it understands humans and likes learning about us on that level while being perfectly content to be ITSELF. Instead of acting like us and thinking like us, I really love the idea that the almost alien thoughts and processes show the good and bad of humanity by highlighting the demarcation between us as well as the similarities.

[spatz]

Yes, this! I mean, not to sound like Root or anything, but I love that the massive AI is, for once, not immediately evil but rather incredibly empathetic and devoted to saving lives by spotting things we cannot. And that it is very big picture in a way that we can't really comprehend.