Following the rest of your theory (which is great), shooting yourself isn't a guaranteed death, even if he did kill Finch 'properly' maybe he would have survived his attempted suicide. Samaritan would make good and sure he actually really truly died.

It was so important to me that Finch got all that in Root's voice. We're seeing the flashbacks, but he would have been hearing them narrated by The Machine. To do it in a bot voice, or even someone like Grace's assumed voice, would be awful. To get it now, in Root's voice, is somewhat painful but also really beautiful.

It was all the pontificating which used up his oxygen.

I tweeted a little about this, but I thought his death was really fitting. They locked the villain in a room - well, actually he locked himself in a room - where his monologuing literally killed him. He was so intent on Demonstrating his Evil Plan To The Captive Opponent that he used up all his oxygen. It's that old…

Mostly yes, but I wonder what was up with the weird way they filmed Greer falling over. We went from a stable shot to something which looked as though they strapped a GoPro to a long pole and attached it to him, but then zoomed in. I thought maybe John Nolan couldn't "keel over" very well, but the shot on Finch wasn't…

Yeouch.

I immediately thought it would be his version of "Rosebud." I didn't catch the myriad of Sense and Sensibility connections.

Great review which helped clarify some thoughts for me, thanks.

I mentioned above that's where I felt this scene was heading when Matt asked for a pre-confession. I didn't think it at all until that line, but maybe something about that line triggered a specific link to the many similar scenes I've seen.

That line was over the top but . . . it would have worked if they'd immediately following it by Matt killing the priest for being a pedophile.

While I'm with you on the disappointment, I'm wondering if their lawyers said "absolutely you shall NOT have the President - who is involved with sneaky surveillance, and is the target of an assassination - be an Obama-doppleganger."

It wasn't so much that I don't think the two can coexist or have related factors, but I don't think you made the arguement about the logic of the two so much as deriding the one. And, it's a false premise to assume communal tendencies can't exist with both, especially the "ideal life of leisure," or "Pop Culture"…

I nominated Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, but think Closer gets at those same ideas.

It's funny you blur together extreme leisure and late capitalistic ideals as supporting one uni-philosophy which you despise, when in fact they're diametrically opposed, as evidenced by - to reference pop culture - all the major American commercials touting the willingness to work 80 hours a week and go without as…

"Adult as in . . . devoid of anything remotely childish or immature."

Much of the first season didn't click for me; I bought her as a cop, but not Caveziel as a deadly assassin (plus his pilot beard was teeeeeerrible). Elias and the Hitchcock homages and the fact I lost a bet kept me coming back, but I will admit I was not a fan right off. To each their own! The important thing is, we…

I loved Carter, and her moral center, and all the plots revolving around her. I'm so glad the show has continued to acknowledge her, and how her presence shaped Team Machine.

I have to admit, when we very very first met him, I rolled my eyes. Another slightly rumpled, gruff, good-ol'-boy [well, bad-boy], cop. Yawn. His partnership with Carter was just enough Odd Couple to keep me from audibly groaning.

I think she did feel here, and then compartmentalized it. She didn't feel in the same way / to the same extent as other people, but there is something. It took a great, massive, world-shattering event, and it's a slight twinge where most people would be brought to their knees, but I think we've seen there be small…

They haven't really followed that logic in the past, though. Sure they've used the cop cover to check in on things. But before Reese was a cop, he'd still fake, bluster, or bust his way into whatever hospital room, office building, or bank vault he needed to be in. Why start playing by…