Something remarkable has happened to Root, though. It’s called character development. She’s no longer a zealot. Her faith in The Machine has been shaky for quite some time - to the point where she’s chosen Shaw and Harold over “her” more than once. She has learned to love and value human life over an AI who has always…

The only one overdue for a rewatch is you. Shaw has always been depicted as a sexual creature and that was particularly jarring in her conversation with Reese early in season 3:

No, but fans have known that since they shot the episode back in October. It’s no secret on social media, specially when the director of the episode (Chris Fisher) openly talks about it on his Twitter.

They aren’t dying after having sex, considering that happens early in the season, so that is yet another thing this show has done better than The 100.

Asexual? Shaw? What show have you been watching?

This comment is the truth.

And honestly, they were just thrilled that Amy Acker and Sarah Shahi had that kind of chemistry

I’ve gotten so used to thinking of this as the best hard-SF show on the air that it was surprising to rewatch and rediscover how slowly the SF elements were injected. In the whole first season, the Machine was nothing more than a plot device giving them numbers. It wasn’t until Root came into the story at the end of…