I think the show went so dark overall - not just Carter and Root's death, but *in this episode alone* we have John's sacrifice, the Machine saying 'I learned to despair,' Fusco's sadness, Shaw's struggle and announcement all the people who taught her to be a good human and almost everyone she loved are dead, Samaritan…

Maybe he walked off assuming he was still going to die, that there would be more operatives out for him? He didn't have the Machine to protect him. (He would rather have Her be with John until the end, anyways; and that scene was really lovely.) It's got to be something like letting your teenager go off to college -…

Good points. To be clear, I don't buy into said conspiracy, just like I don't believe that Walt dies when he gets into his car at the beginning of Breaking Bad at the rest is his desired end (complete with Christ figure imagery and Jesse's improbable survival). In fact, I think POI of all shows has laid really great…

I loved Witness, and the one-two punch of it and "Super," two very different episodes, is really what got me. And now, five seasons later, Elias was given a fitting end after several phenomenal episodes and involvement in several levels of the show. Bloody fantastic.

I haven't yet seen the Conspiracy Theory About Finch's End post, so I'll write it, tongue in cheek.

Most of my favorites have already been mentioned, and if they hadn't been @avclub-d72f705337e5adcf7e33ec0381c5f5b2:disqus nailed it, so I'll throw out "Super," only because it was the first episode where the show really clicked for me. We'd had "Witness" where we met Elias and "Get Carter" with some of my…

And we remember her.

She lied to Jon prior, but yes the rest was all surmising. I was explaining what I guessed at in the last few eps, but I shouldn't've had to; what you said could have been in place, concretely. And it wouldn't've had to change the battle, either, if they hadn't wanted it to. They could have even had Jon decide to…

Of course, but in this case it felt both as though Sansa was playing coy with Jon about something really important which could get a lot of people killed, and also as though they were playing coy with the audience about Sansa's plan and mental workings. The whole point of her conversation with Jon was strategy; to…

I'd been thinking along the lines of, Sansa didn't tell Jon because she wasn't at all sure Littlefinger was coming, and she didn't want to reveal she'd lied to Jon earlier at *least* until LF actually appeared. But you make a really good point; I guess we'll find out what sort of ruler she means to be, and then…

That's how I read it; Sansa didn't tell Jon because she wasn't at all sure Littlefinger was coming, and she didn't want to reveal she'd lied to Jon earlier at *least* until LF appeared. I wish the show had done a better job of actually delineating that, though; it hasn't done a good job this season spelling things out…

Disagree about her being a murderer. Wesley had just drugged her, kidnapped her, pointed a loaded gun at her, and when she didn't take his bribe, threatened to kill everyone else in her life at which point she'd follow. He was actively endangering her safety, and she reacted in a very strained situation (not to…

I thought the monologue writing itself was fairly weak and very formulaic, with a couple really lovely phrases which stuck out like a sore thumb because they were trying too hard to be poetic.

I actually thought her very first choice regarding keeping the Union Allied flash drive a secret was for selfish reasons; that she was going to try and sell the info for $$$. When that turned out to not be the case, I was a little surprised when they immediately made almost everything else she did involving other main…

I'd totally watch that.

I thought this episode was a giant jump downwards in terms of . . . everything.

Definitely in black and white!

Bringing Ulrich to a place where he could see people in really great hospice care he would never be able to afford was horribly cruel and thoughtless. She didn't consider it as that, she just wanted to get him there, but the point is she should have realized how awful it would make him feel. I agree, I lost a lot of…

I agree, it feels like plot machinations to drive more plot, but I think there's also an angle where Matt [and Foggy, to a much lesser extent since it's not his secret, and later he pushes Matt to tell her] aren't trusting her at all, either. There's a barrier in that friendship, which she can feel, and which affects…

He also had a role as a serial killer in The Practice, and it was downright chilling, but still totally different. Everywhere I'd seem him, he seemed to get typecast as the polar opposite to himself, up until Finch.