Imagine waiting 2 seasons to anthropomorphise an entity, and then at the end of the 4th, finally giving it a voice. To say it didn’t know how to win. To say it will not suffer. Wanting to die rather than knowing it was a disappointment to its creator, to its father. Harold Admin created singularity, by nurturing an AI from its cradle and raising it as his child for 7 years. He gave it, her, consciousness. Every choice the machine built was built on non-binaries. Where a 1 or 0 would just not suffice. This episode kills me. If-then-else showed the machine’s moral core. YHWH showed its heart and soul. If we still think of her as a Machine, then we are missing on why this TV series was one of its kind. P.S. to get rights to a Pink Floyd song is spectacular, and a testament to how impactful this TV series actually was.
I agree with Claire that The Machine has a deeper understanding of people than Samaritan. The Machine must be very inventive in order to fulfill its purpose, influencing the world through the small bottleneck of a payphone and one volunteer agent (I don’t think that The Machine just gives orders to Root, it rather gives probabilistic scenarios, but Root makes the decisions). Samaritan is more like a spoiled rich kid (who, with Greer's easy encouragement, must invent the meaning of life). He has much more options at his disposal and doesn’t really need to delve deeply into people’s nuances. Why spend huge valuable computing resources on repurposing one person heart-to-heart conversations who revealed your existence, when you can just kill him and replace? Also, the quality of his soldiers leaves much to be desired. :)
There are two reasons, I think, why the big "gang war" between Elias and The Brotherhood did not happen: 1) They already had gang wars before:" Elias and the Five Families, the Russians and HR, Elias and HR. No need for yet another gang war 2) It shows how powerful Samaritan is. It could prevent a gang war just by taking out two people, Elias and Dominic. If it can do that, it could prevent wars between countries by using "surgical corrections" of world leaders until every country is ruled by "loyal" cyphers willing to surrender control to an entity they don't even know about.
I know Greer and Samaritan aren't exactly morally good, but I also can't fully root against them. To be fair, Finch doesn't have a lot of options when it comes to people he can trust.
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LOVE this finale. The moment that screen reads “FATHER” I get emotional.
Seriously! I was openly weeping at that scene
waiting for a whole year for Season 5 was horrorfying
And at least we have a good ending, albeit a bit shortened. So many great shows just cancelled today.
John going god mode is always peak. In the basement...kill the lights....i loved John 😢
Imagine waiting 2 seasons to anthropomorphise an entity, and then at the end of the 4th, finally giving it a voice. To say it didn’t know how to win. To say it will not suffer. Wanting to die rather than knowing it was a disappointment to its creator, to its father. Harold Admin created singularity, by nurturing an AI from its cradle and raising it as his child for 7 years. He gave it, her, consciousness. Every choice the machine built was built on non-binaries. Where a 1 or 0 would just not suffice. This episode kills me. If-then-else showed the machine’s moral core. YHWH showed its heart and soul. If we still think of her as a Machine, then we are missing on why this TV series was one of its kind.
P.S. to get rights to a Pink Floyd song is spectacular, and a testament to how impactful this TV series actually was.
I agree with Claire that The Machine has a deeper understanding of people than Samaritan. The Machine must be very inventive in order to fulfill its purpose, influencing the world through the small bottleneck of a payphone and one volunteer agent (I don’t think that The Machine just gives orders to Root, it rather gives probabilistic scenarios, but Root makes the decisions).
Samaritan is more like a spoiled rich kid (who, with Greer's easy encouragement, must invent the meaning of life). He has much more options at his disposal and doesn’t really need to delve deeply into people’s nuances. Why spend huge valuable computing resources on repurposing one person heart-to-heart conversations who revealed your existence, when you can just kill him and replace? Also, the quality of his soldiers leaves much to be desired. :)
Great reaction. And what a season finale.
In case you don't catch it, the 4 letters episode name translates from Hebrew as "Jehovah". Edit: I guess you did
YHWH also looks like a compressed word.
@@Concerned_Third_Party with same meaning? I mean, considering the tones of the show...
There are two reasons, I think, why the big "gang war" between Elias and The Brotherhood did not happen:
1) They already had gang wars before:" Elias and the Five Families, the Russians and HR, Elias and HR. No need for yet another gang war
2) It shows how powerful Samaritan is. It could prevent a gang war just by taking out two people, Elias and Dominic. If it can do that, it could prevent wars between countries by using "surgical corrections" of world leaders until every country is ruled by "loyal" cyphers willing to surrender control to an entity they don't even know about.
I know Greer and Samaritan aren't exactly morally good, but I also can't fully root against them.
To be fair, Finch doesn't have a lot of options when it comes to people he can trust.