#POI:5x10

[4alarmfirecracker]

"The only thing I know for sure is I... need... you."

[laurensxdeath]

I'm up to POI 5x10 and I'm just kinda... procrastinating watching it cause I know it will emotionally destroy me

[respectwomenjuice]

okay so my roommate is watching bones bc i got her hooked and i just noticed that in ep 5x10 during one of the interrogation scenes booth has a practice poi hes spinning??? like tennis ball on a rope in and out of frame?? what?

[lafgl]

yeah what it means is i'm blocked by 50 angry lesbians on twitter and got poi 5x10 spoiled for me approximately five minutes before it actually aired by flamingoes who jumped to the show without giving a shit about anything except a ship but pardon me if i sound a bit bitter

Dead Lesbian Fight - Semifinals

Lexa (The 100) vs Root (Person of Interest)

[halforcdad]

I watched POI when it already finished airing so whenever I see someone said they watched it when it was still airing I went

Oh honey

Oh dear

Oh sweetie

You watched it live?? You watched 5x10 live?? Not knowing whats going to happen??? *Give you a hug*

I already know what was coming and still that episode left me heart broken just shattered emotionally (which is to say, also, that good writing can still make an impact even when the audience knows what's going to happen so take notes Marvel)

On another note, the 4x11 self-sacrifice lives in my head rent-free. "If you die die for something that you love" and "i'm a sociopath i dont have feelings" then she goes and kisses Root and saves them all I am on the floor bawling

the funny part is i saw bts photos from the finale that showed root and reese together and i naively thought, 'ok cool they still might die, but at least they survive until the end' and the writers really said Lol. but considering the type of show it was (and what happened to carter) and how dire things were going in s4-s5 i kinda prepared for character deaths leading up to the season. it left me numb and sad for a while, but i dont remember being extremely devastated about it. all the stuff we got with shaw dealing with it afterwards, however, that shit hurt bad. and unfortunately i love angst a lot (the writers were very good at writing sad stuff!)

my main complaint is that the death was so sudden and kinda anticlimatic (but i guess there has to be one of those to further stress how much their backs were against the wall). everyone else in the show gets a poetic death/sacrifice scene and in carter's case, at least she was killed by a significant villain in her arc and we're allowed to really feel the pain and consequences of her death, root gets taken out by a guy who started the job like two weeks ago and no time to mourn bc we're in a war Lol (and they had to rub salt in the wounds by showing us her for-sure dead body and telling us samaritan dug it up to get her implant, which while realistic, was brutal).

i feel like a lot of people talk about it as one of the worst writing decisions, but i can see why they chose to keep root's fate the same. yes, it sucked to losing a wlw character (especially when that was so close to clexa, if im not getting my times wrong), but i don't believe lgbt media should only be happy, soft stuff and that lgbt characters should be plot armor protected always. i still found a lot of meaning and emotion in the ending we got with shaw carrying on the work her team left behind with the machine and having some small piece of root to hold on to (and shaw being the only one next to fusco who never really had a lot of direct contact with the machine, getting the chance now to work closely with it and understand root more maybe that way). the show was always dealing with death/loss and grief and emphasizing how people still leave significant legacies behind and stay with us even if it's just the influence and impact they left on their surviving loved ones. i would still prefer if it had ended differently, but at least I could understand the message they were going for.

ill never stop loving 4x11 it's genuinely one of my favorite tv episodes ever. poi was very good at normalising shaw's apd and everything they did with shaw and especially what they did in the aftermath of that episode ripped me to shreds (her telling simulation root that she was her safe place and then telling real root she'd rather die than get them all killed, that made me totally normal). shaw getting the big emotional, meaningful moments in 4x11 (in the machine's simulation when she shows root one last act of kindness with 'maybe someday', the subway scene with the bomber, and of course the ending scene) was so important and well done. and root's slow-moed reactions at the end were gut-wrenching i must have rewatched that scene maybe 1000 times.

[lisagarlandd]

Harold: I'm going to kill you 😐

The guy who interrogates him: Are you threatening the life of a federal agent😡

Harold:

Samaritan: 🔺️👁👁🔺️

[poistills]

Moments of Interest

The Day the World Went Away (5x10)

[ura-nepu-haru-michi]

My mood atm...

Having some withdrawal symptoms since finishing POI... Haven't been this hooked to a tv show since my anime watching days... I need a rewatch...

[muchadoaboutsnap]

Listen, all I’m saying is that if we’re just information, just noise in the system…we might as well be a symphony.

[asleepinawell]

Yes, Sameen. That’s good enough for me.

[4alarmfirecracker]

I really don’t know what "I love you" means I think it means "don’t leave me here alone”

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[poiintheattic]

[scentofdriedflowers]

I did it. I finally finished the whole rewatch of poi, I was stuck at the beginning of that damn 5x10, but now I finished the show and as predicted I cried for all the last 4 episodes every time Root 'came in', and goddamn the scenes with Shaw too

I can't believe that after what?! 6 years?! a speech (and a goodbye) about fucking shapes still makes me emotional and cry like a baby. A tiny lethal badass sociopath and a genius hacker ‘perky psycho’ reformed killer cocoa puff were a match made in heaven, can you believe?! 4 alarm fire in an oil refinery indeed. I missed Root and Shaw so much.

I still believe that Root didn't have to die (Carter too, but that’s another whooole story), she should have been able to see the end, see the Machine survive and reborn and Samaritan dead, after all she's been through she deserved to live. Shaw was back for just a week after a year of abduction and Root distraught by it, she had just confessed that she had finally found a way to belong, with them, with Sameen, in their own way.... and at the end of the episode she dies? nah fuuuck you. Always a damn good yet painful touch to have Root voice for the Machine tho💔.

Root was a damn unique awesome character, loved Amy Acker giving her life.

[challengerblue]

me when i rewatch poi 5x10 thinking it can’t hurt me anymore

[purplesaline]

Okay so all the memes led me to expect way more from Shoot.

[poistills]

Stills of Interest

The Day the World Went Away (5x10)