Season 5 Discussion

T5000 wrote:

For me the final few eps of S-1, and first few of S-2, then the end of S-2, and start of S-3 will always be the best and I can watch those over and over.

Seems writing carter out an making shaw a regular was not such a smart idea??

Personally I dnt miss carter,. but shaw being a regular  was too much of her, and she was better as someone who recurred maybe twice a season.
Even Root was better as a recurring  semi villain.

but too late now.

webruce wrote:

My wife wishes both POI and Elementary were on at 9pm. So she could watch. Then put Criminal Minds and whatever else at 10.

T5000 wrote:

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my tv watching time may be limited in the near future ...

tscc1000 wrote:

T5000 wrote:

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my tv watching time may be limited in the near future ...

Everything ok?

CBS Episode Orders 2015/2016

tscc1000 wrote:

CBS Episode Orders 2015/2016

Code Black - Season 1 - 13 episodes
Criminal Minds - Season 11 - 22 episodes
2 Broke Girls - Season 5 - 22 episodes
The Big Bang Theory - Season 9 - 24 episodes
Mom - Season 3 - 22 episodes
Person of Interest - Season 5 - 15 episodes
Rush Hour - Season 1 - 13 episodes
Supergirl - Season 1 - 13 episodes
Mike & Molly - Season 6 - 13 episodes

So 15 eps for PoI ... well, that doesn't make much difference to 13 ... not enough anyways ... I think PoI is done then ... dammit ...

And the always same crime shows like Criminal Minds get 22 ...

CBS Episode Orders 2015/2016 *Updated*

TVLine wrote:

By  Matt Webb Mitovich /   August 10 2015, 8:56 PM PDT  

Reason No. 39 why Person of Interest needs to return sooner rather than later: Shaw is back, for real.

Sarah Shahi, who has been on maternity leave from the CBS drama since the middle of Season 4, is returning for much of the coming run, the actress told TVLine at CBS’ Television Critics Association press tour party on Monday night.
“I go back in September — full-time,” Shahi shared. “I’ll probably do eight or nine” of the shortened season’s 13 episodes.

As for Shaw’s return storyline, “I have no idea what the plan is,” she admitted with a laugh.
Shaw has been glimpsed twice since being shot to “death” — in a “She’s alive!” reveal filmed before Shahi took leave, and in a season-ending tag.

www.givememyremote.com wrote:

August 11, 2015 by Marisa Roffman  


Credit: WB
PERSON OF INTEREST has officially pinned down the return of Sarah Shahi’s Shaw.
“Sarah Shahi should be back by episode 5,” PERSON OF INTEREST co-showrunner Greg Plageman shared. “She’s a trooper man, she’s doing a lot. But she’s ready to go, she says I want to be back, and we’re very excited to have her.”
On the show, Shaw went MIA after she sacrificed herself to save Team Machine. Initially, she was presumed dead, but viewers have seen brief glimpses of Shaw — clearly not right — in the months since. (Shaw’s temporary exit was crafted to accommodate Shahi’s real-life pregnancy.)
And though PERSON OF INTEREST isn’t on CBS’ fall schedule, the airdate limbo could serve to bring back Shahi earlier than planned.
“We could actually see her even earlier,” Plageman shared. “In the production [she’s filming episode 5]. We have a very flexible air date schedule, so we may monkey with that.”
For her part, Shahi is equally excited to return to PERSON OF INTEREST.
“I’m excited,” Shahi gushed. “I did this episode of RAY DONOVAN not too long ago. It was good to get my feet wet. I’m very excited. I know very little [about what’s going to happen], even after talking with Greg for an hour, I know very little. They keep promising Shaw is coming back with a bang. And [asking] if I’m ready for the amount of work they’re going to give me. And I am. I’m ready to get back. The way Shaw ended, it didn’t feel right — it felt there was so much more story. She just had a lot more road to go down, and I think we’re going to go down this year.”
One of the unresolved stories? The complicated relationship between Shaw and Amy Acker’s Root.
“I know what the fans want; I think it’s important to give the fans what they want, because I feel like they’ve been down that Root and Shaw journey for so long,” Shahi acknowledged. “They got a kiss last year, which is good. We’ll see what this year brings. I love working with Amy. She and I feel very mutually about each other, so I hope we get to flirt with that dynamic.”
Aside from that, Shahi has a pitch for how Shaw should return…albeit one that probably won’t end up on-screen.
“The thing I keep pitching is I want Shaw to shave her head, on-camera,” Shahi laughed. “Be a full-on half-cyborg with the bionic arm that’s like an automatic machine gun. Another thing was like, oh, she should be Team Samaritan. Maybe she’s Team Samaritan…who knows? But I still go for the TERMINATOR aspect and the hair and bionic arm — that’s what I want to do.”
No matter what happens, Shahi shared her gratitude for the fan support.
“I want to say thank you so much,” she said. “I had no idea that Shaw would have this kind of impact on people. And while I was at home, on bed rest, and then living in a fog for the last five months, it’s just so nice to know people are still ready to have me back on television. I just want to say to the fans, thank you so much. I wouldn’t be able to have a career without them, I wouldn’t be able to support my family.”
- See more at: http://www.givememyremote.com/remote/2015/08/11/person-of-interest-sarah-shahi-and-greg-plageman-preview-shaws-season-5-return/

http://www.tvinsider.com wrote:

Mike Flaherty  July 10, 2015 6:30 am

With Person of Interest’s intense season finale leaving malevolent supercomputer Samaritan triumphant, the Machine stuffed inside a briefcase, and our heroes on the run, it was time to grill the show’s masterminds—executive producers Jonathan Nolan and Greg Plageman—for a postseason debrief and a look at the perilous road ahead in Season 5. (Also, more season 5 secrets will be revealed at Person of Interest's Comic-Con panel on Saturday, and visit TV Insider's Comic-Con page for more features.)
First of all, what was the meaning of the title of the Season 4 finale, “YHWH”?
Plageman: It means Yahweh [the Hebrew name for God]. It’s called the tetragrammaton. The ancient Israelites didn’t want to spell out the word [for religious reasons], so they’d often use YHWH.
Nolan: He who shall not be named.
As in recognition of the supreme being that, as things stand, is Samaritan.
Nolan: Yes. For the moment, I would say the Machine has been vanquished. Pretty much down, though not necessarily out.
What are the challenges of keeping the Samaritan vs. the Machine story fresh going into next season?
Plageman: Well, it’s pretty fresh insofar as our guys are completely hosed right now.
Nolan: Next season will really deal with the idea of rebuilding the Machine in the face of a superior threat. And assuming they can get it back in the game, how will it fight back?
Plageman: It will explore what it means for Samaritan to have that firm a grip on things. If an artificial intelligence were actually to appear, would humanity even notice?
Did you always envision Samaritan as a multiseason storyline?
Nolan: You don’t build a god and then dispose of it conveniently in one season. A lot of fiction has treated artificial intelligence as a singularity—one mind that absorbs other minds into it. But this show presents AI proliferation as similar to nuclear proliferation—an idea that intelligence begets other intelligences. It’s an arms race that the Machine is currently losing.
This past season, Reese [Jim Caviezel] seemed to undergo a bit of a spiritual change. Will that continue?
Nolan: Season 4’s storyline forced our guys into hiding as normal people. And with Reese, it was like your mom telling you not to make a face too often because it might stick. So Reese is maybe starting to enjoy being a normal person and being emotionally involved with other people on a level he hasn’t been in decades.

"I wanted her to go out with a bang," Shahi says of Shaw's midseason exit, "saving the people she's grown to care for over the last couple of years."
His hallucinatory experience with Carter [Taraji P. Henson] in “Terra Incognita” also helped that along. How did that come about?
Nolan: I reached out to Taraji last year. There’s really nobody who can engage with Reese on an emotional level like Carter can. From their first scene together in the pilot, she always had the goods on him in a way that no one else did.
Apropos of Reese’s emotional awakening: Are he and Iris [recurring guest star Wrenn Schmidt] definitively a thing now?
Plageman: Reese clearly has strong feelings toward Iris, but given his occupation and the activities he’s engaged in, it’s always fraught with peril, so…
So they’re not a couple?
Nolan: It’s baby steps. Baby steps.
The episode “If-Then-Else,” in which Shaw (Sarah Shahi) was shot and abducted by the Samaritan operatives, featured a full-on kiss between Shaw and Root (Amy Acker). Is there a mutual romantic or sexual thing going on between these characters?
Plageman: Whether it was amorous or more a platonic sense of respect for a friend, we haven’t had a chance to explore.
Nolan: I think there’s definitely an amorous streak between the two of them. Root feels it, and Shaw is maybe a little bit in denial about it.

Reese (Caviezel, standing, with Kevin Chapman) "is a very broken dude who has, with teh help of Finch, Shaw, Fusco, and Root, been working his way back," executive producer Nolan says.
Have you heard from Shahi whether she’s going to come back? [Shahi departed midway through Season 4 on indefinite maternity leave.]
Nolan: It’s an ongoing conversation. We hope to get her back on the show sometime soon.
You introduced three new kickass female guest stars this season: Harper Rose (Annie Ilonzeh), Dani Silva (Adria Arjona), and Frankie Wells (Katheryn Winnick). Was that a way of hedging your bets in the event that Shahi doesn’t return?
Plageman: Well, yeah. A couple of those ladies are certainly people we brought back because we were interested in them.
Nolan: That said, nobody replaces Sarah. We just love having firecracker women on our show.

T5000 wrote:

CW is airing reruns of POI now, pilot is on next sunday, so maybe it picks up some new viewers.

Person of Interest - Season 5 - Will be final season on CBS