The showrunners didn't have a choice, with Shahi needing to leave the show; and in any case, I think it will prove serendipitious. You can't have Root and Shaw making eyes at each other forever, and for them to get together would get boring fast. But this way, now Root will be very angsty and possibly revert to her…

And just think, if Root has the hots for Shaw now, think of how hot Shaw would be for Root as a part machine…

I think it's entirely plausible we can see a very limited view of Shaw in a few months. While Shahi doesn't sound willing to return full-time, I doubt we would have to wait 2 years to see her again.

The first part of Season 1 - the initial 13 episode order - was IMHO, quite meh. But the show markedly and rapidly improved after that first 13 episode order, and that's clearly a case of the network giving good notes and the showrunners working to tighten things up. All the success this show has enjoyed since then,…

I don't know if I should go meta in this thread, but much light on the situation is shed by Sarah Shahi's exit interview with EW.

"starting to get cartoony"? It's been that way since the first season.

Really, does anyone else wonder if Samaritan will inhabit one of her nerd herd and they will do they nasty, a la Sigourney Weaver and Rick Moranis?

Especially female machines.

Thanks.

Has anyone else considered the significance of the name "Decima"? Doesn't that mean "one-tenth"? Brings to mind two things: "decimating" a legion (killing every tenth man), or church tithing (sacrifice to God)…

Yeah… if Bear is microchipped, he's screwed…

I didn't get a chance to rewatch the ending, so I'm not sure what I saw… but, were ordinary cops dispatching Samaritan's new "deviant" targets? (As opposed to professional assassins going after the old "relevant" targets?) If so, where does that leave Fusco - who isn't one of the seven gone into hiding? Is there a…

Also, I think Jim Caviezel let a little bit of actual acting slip last night, during the bridge scene.

{sob} How romantically tragic was Finch passing blindfolded Grace on the bridge? {ugly crying}

Michael Cerveris is bald as a cue ball in real life. Any time you see him with hair (as in Evita, recently), it's a wig.

Could it possibly be? Is Person of Interest finally going to STOP with the "Mythology one week, Boring Cases of the Week the next"? Because this Case of the Week was actually entertaining, and there was enough Mythology mixed in to make it worthwhile.

Wow. 100 comments and no one came within an ass hair of mentioning "ass hair"?

I don't care WHERE rap artists grew up… I'm sick of hearing their obsession with bling. Do real people really dream about having gold chains and Maybachs? Seriously? Even kids from Compton? They only dream about that stuff because some idiot rapper sings about it.

Something that fans have to understand is the iron rule of show-saving: A show can be saved only if people at the network WANT it to be saved. And the job of the fandom is to reinforce the decision that the network really already wants to make.

Re "convenient miscarriage": I like how Fringe handled it. They just erased the kid from existence (not before subverting the "dramatic pregnancy" trope by speeding it up 500 times).