I did but I'd be surprised if I was the only one. Whether they intended it as an homage or not, it was beautifully done.

great comparison

The creator of the SimGM spoofs came up w/ Roochine and I've seen others use it. Works for me.

I'll subscribe to your newsletter. Would he really just walk off and let the Machine handle everything? Even though he had come to accept that he could trust her, surely everything he's learned is that she could evolve into something dangerous or develop an ideology that was at odds with humanity.

God is an omniscient lesbian satellite. With a super hot girlfriend.

I loved that. The hand on Reese's and Little Reese's shoulders. Oh man. The dust in this thread….

Well to be fair, we *are* spreading that agenda. But not via this show.
[wryly witty lesbian smirk, bordering on self-righteousness]

oh honey, you've just scratched the surface of the crazy/dumb/disgruntled. I read a whole thread on twitter about how evil Root's gone and infected the machine and now it's *disrespecting* Finch and Reese by calling them "Harry" and "big lug."

She's come a long way though. She's always had a great screen presence and an intelligence and wit that comes across. Plus, duh, hotness. But her roles weren't all that different from from the Sarah Shahi. But she really stretched out in POI. More than any other role I've seen her in, she really disappears into Shaw…

Shahi killed it. The way she reached out without thinking to touch the cables. (!) I mean that could have just been flat out ridiculous but it worked. And then hurriedly wiped away tears before she turned back to the fight.

The Fringe finale was a lot more predictable. There was NO way they weren't going to get Etta back. Whereas in POI, she might not have made it…

and smokes! Because she's evil.

respectfully, I'm gonna call apples and oranges on that comparison. I love both shows and there are some similarities in the pacing and the way the stories unwind. But whereas the emotional center of POI is the found family and a sort of ideal "agape" love for mankind at large (irrelevant all), Fringe has one family,…

Yes, Root on a horse was a gift from the gods.

if they could've dispensed with the numbers of the week, it would have been better.
(as pontifex points out below in a comment I haven't read yet. The Machine told me about it).

It was a such a switch from the show's previous narrative voice/style, that it really felt slapdash. I know it wasn't - they landed the plane but it felt like they (producers/show runners) realized about halfway through, "Oh shit, we've only got five more episodes, better get busy." I know that's not what happened but…

See, I'm confused about that. I thought the missile we saw in the previews HAD to be the payoff for that. But if I"m not mistaken (I haven't rewatchedd the finale) it was stated that Samaritan sent it, correct?

THIS.

Manheim was in a Broadway play, Turco was in the City of Light…

The Machine will provide for him. I bet there's a scholarship fund for Lee already set up.