Kicking this off pretty early. PoI's fifth and final season will begin May 3rd.
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Damn, didn't know that. So that means that it will finish up in June sometime?
quote:I agree. This is still my favorite network show but it's gotten far too complicated with Root, HR, Samaritan, Elias, The Brotherhood. It's been too much for 4 seasons. If it had been a little more streamlined and stuck with the conflict between The Machine (good) vs Samaritan (evil) as the main, constant storyline it could have been so much more.
Well, beginning in season three we had at least three storylines going on at once which isn't counting the one off's. We had the Vigilance storyline, Greer moving more, Carter and HR's stories culminated in that season, and Samaritan vs The Machine. So I can see why that would be confusing with so many moving parts.
quote:Well, Limitless is airing in the time slot that PoI used to have. That will wrap up next week, and looks like it will likely be renewed. If you haven't watched Limitless, I would suggest giving it a try. It's a good show in its own right and a little lighter in tone than PoI but also has a good serialized story.
I guess they're going to replace it with NCIS: Port Aransas.
quote:We needed the Carter and HR story for her character and it rightly ended with her. Looking back on season three though, we probably could have dumped the entire Vigilance story line and it probably still would have worked. We needed to tie up Elias and The Brotherhood, and they are done now.
I agree. This is still my favorite network show but it's gotten far too complicated with Root, HR, Samaritan, Elias, The Brotherhood. It's been too much for 4 seasons. If it had been a little more streamlined and stuck with the conflict between The Machine (good) vs Samaritan (evil) as the main, constant storyline it could have been so much more.
quote:Yeah, I know you need to introduce new concepts, characters, etc. throughout the series to move the story along, but they always ended up being too big a part of the show and made me wonder what the show was supposed to be about.quote:We needed the Carter and HR story for her character and it rightly ended with her. Looking back on season three though, we probably could have dumped the entire Vigilance story line and it probably still would have worked. We needed to tie up Elias and The Brotherhood, and they are done now.
I agree. This is still my favorite network show but it's gotten far too complicated with Root, HR, Samaritan, Elias, The Brotherhood. It's been too much for 4 seasons. If it had been a little more streamlined and stuck with the conflict between The Machine (good) vs Samaritan (evil) as the main, constant storyline it could have been so much more.
quote:Possible. Per JJ Abrams:
I will miss this show. It's one that I would watch back-to-back-to-back...as soon as new seasons arrived on Netflix.
Maybe they can find a new (additional) audience on something like Netflix, Amazon Prime, or Hulu and they can continue the story line. Unless all key characters are killed off at the end of this final season.
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Planning ahead of time for the Season 5 finale to also serve as a series finale, Abrams confirmed, was "the goal. But, obviously, things can be adjusted if [there's] a miraculous [ratings] performance. But I think the idea is that this would be the finale."
The discussion of shopping the series around to a new possible home, "in theory, will be had at the right time," Abrams said. "But at the moment that's not what we're doing."
quote:It was also mentioned that Root is also not going to be the only death Team Machine will have.
This was always the end of Root's story, this was always where we were going. It became clear at the beginning of the season that this was the end of the ride for us and Root's journey has always been getting ever closer to The Machine, so the end of her story was always basically becoming The Machine. That's another thing I thinks separates this from the pack, and this is how Root feels about it it's an evolutionary step. We're not trying to sucker-punch the audience.
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Series finale is tonight!