Person of Interest - New JJ Abrams/Jonathan Nolan TV Series

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Person of Interest is an American drama television series broadcasting on CBS. It is based on a screenplay developed by J. J. Abrams and Jonathan Nolan.[1]

Mr. Finch (Michael Emerson), a mysterious billionaire, has developed a computer program that predicts the identity of people connected to violent crimes that will take place in the future. However, the program has its limitations; for example, it cannot predict whether the person will be a victim, perpetrator, or witness, nor can it predict when or where the crime will take place. Unable to stop the crimes on his own, Finch hires John Reese (Jim Caviezel), a former CIA field officer who is presumed dead, to help stop the crimes from taking place.

The pilot episode establishes that Finch originally built the machine for the government as a means to prevent another 9/11-type disaster, but found that it was also predicting many "irrelevant" crimes. Finch built a backdoor into the machine that, before erasing the "irrelevant data" each night, sends Finch a single Social Security number of someone involved in one of those crimes. Finch also reveals that the world thinks that he, like Reese, is dead.


Slightly mixed although generally positive reviews for the series pilot. Just watched it and was a pretty good pilot although I'm not sure how it will develop as the series goes on given it's a 'procedural' type show (eg main character solves a case per episode) and the premise is a little bit tedious, but If Nolan is involved (and JJ Abrams) then it has potential, and especially with Michael 'Benjamin Linus' Emerson being one of the leading parts.

Worth a look anyway!
 
Its sort of a flashforward-burn notice hybrid. Actually that does sound awful doesnt it? :D

The pilot was pretty good though, it just depends how it develops.
 
Watched first episode, thought it was ok although also had the view that unless there's something 'big' underneath the whole premise of the episodes it's going to get old very quickly....
 
I think it might be the best of the new shows, but that isn't saying much. It kind of blew its "big twist" load by making the first case the opposite of what you assumed. I like the lead, the Lost guy wasn't bad, the female detective hasn't ever been in a good show or film ever which when I realised she was in it made me worry about it, even more than it being an Abrams show(won't ever make sense, over the top premise, canceled quickly or drags on making no sense, might just get 2 seasons of sane tv out of a series).

Terra Nova, teen drama set on another earth, list of things you'd never do your first day on essentially an alien planet with carnivorous dinosaurs, yup, they did each one, woo.

Unforgettable, stupid stupid stupid show, just nothing more to say about it, stupid beyond belief.

A gifted man, fairly cack, slim potential, Whitney, woeful, 2 broke girls, pretty bad.

This years new tv is almost entirely crap :(
 
Person of interest seems OK, i'll give it a few episodes. terra nova might have potential, again will give it a few episodes, see what happens.

best thing though is Castle is back!
 
Sounds like Minority report-ish...

I haven't watched it yet but I guess it will have loads of lens flare and flashes seeing as J.J Abrams involved.
 
oxygene said:
Take a look at Revenge. I'm interested to see where that goes.
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TO be fair to that, I only watched the intro and it felt so forced and painful, but pilots are often like that to open with, or even just the opening episode. So weird because pilots can be fairly crap, but some exec likes them so puts good writers, better cast and more money into it so the second ep can be insanely better. I'll give it a shout but not expecting much.

Suburgatory surprised me, a LOT, firstly I thought it was a teen drama, not a comedy, but its an american 21 min comedy WITHOUT A LAUGHTER SOUNDTRACK :o

Actually had some very good moments, good acting, some great cast members, it was silly in large part but still promising and because I thought it would be woeful, a huge surprise :p


sammo62 said:
So it's like Minority Report the TV show?
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I see the comparison but no, Minority report they both see the crime and get an exact time when it will happen so find that person before the time, crime averted basically. With this its just a person, a death but could be any time and you don't know where this person is (to a degree, the whole concept is a big machine that reads patterns by "watching" through every security camera in the city, interesting but ultimately ridiculous premise, right up Abrams street :p ). Which lends it some flexibility, second ep I thought was more boring than the first, significantly, it was all too easy and they clearly put a lot of time and money into the first ep, fighting, trying to be a bit Bourne Identity style wise, this was fairly bog standard.
 
sounds crap - so the computer program can say 'this guy will be involved in a crime as victim/criminal/witness at any future point of time and any place' - that is pretty much everybody on the planet.
sounds like a program to generate random names!!
 
Watched the pilot and it seems OK. Trying very hard to be the next Lost on some levels. Can't really pass judgement yet but it's an interesting concept.
 
aardvark said:
sounds crap - so the computer program can say 'this guy will be involved in a crime as victim/criminal/witness at any future point of time and any place' - that is pretty much everybody on the planet.
sounds like a program to generate random names!!
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yes, but I think he's minimized it down to Americans only and perhaps even locally to the NY area. Sucks to be in Bhutan when something bad is going to happen!
 
MissChief said:
yes, but I think he's minimized it down to Americans only and perhaps even locally to the NY area. Sucks to be in Bhutan when something bad is going to happen!
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Yes it appears they are working on a localised system to New York, which is slightly more daft and I'm assuming, but they haven't said that the system churns out its numbers in an order of things happening, which narrows it down I assume.

ITs another half thought out, rather retarded, no end game, made up as it goes along Abrams show, it shouldn't be surprising that on the surface the premise just about works if you ignore all logic and don't think to hard, the second you do you realise Abrams might be borderline retarded :p
 
aardvark said:
sounds **** - so the computer program can say 'this guy will be involved in a crime as victim/criminal/witness at any future point of time and any place' - that is pretty much everybody on the planet.
sounds like a program to generate random names!!
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yup, the point of the loriginal computer program, as finch points out, is to sort the relevant and irrelevant data, relevant is where a large number of people will be involved (ie 9/11), irrelevant is where a small number will be involved (single murder etc).

as far as i gather it prioritises the numbers based on its interpretation of the threat level.

the main program is based on threats in the USA, but he's further condensed the data he receives to concentrate on new york.
 
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