Person of Interest drinking game

[foolish_m0rtal]

I only have two more unwatched episodes to go. I also have a six-pack. Help me make a PoI drinking game.

Drink whenever:

1) Reese creepily stalks Finch, and everyone is okay with it. Now I want stalker!Reese fic.
2) Finch appears out of fucking thin air.
3) Carter hesitates to help Reese, and he's able to completely change her mind with a few pithy words.
    - double drink if the pithy words have something like "you could ____ or you could save a life."
4) Fusco is under-appreciated. Is it bad that I like Fusco loads more than Carter? I think I would like Carter a lot more and think she was great if everyone stopped talking about how great she was. 
5) Reese smiles.
6) Someone mentions Elias or he shows up. Note + Spoilers: This rule does not apply to "Foe," or I would be dead.
7) This one is borrowed from Vallegirl's PoI recaps on tvgasm: Reese shoots someone in the knee.
8) Carter brings up Reese's suits.

Some might argue that another rule should be "whenever Finch loses his limp" or "Finch can move his neck," but Finch himself has said that the pain can range from day to day, so I'm not sure if that's Michael Emerson forgetting to limp or if that's deliberate. Can we plot Finch's feelings in relation to the severity of his pain? I must stop being an engineer.

Also, look. Now I have a new tag, since I'm talking about this show like crazy. There goes my determination to keep my tags to a manageable amount.

Comments

[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

Haha, I inorite? I think he is a lot more compelling too. I feel so bad when Reese and Finch treat him like crap. Because deep down he's a good guy, and he puts up with Reesefinch because he wants to help. D:

I mean, I really like Carter as a character, I just don't really care for the actress that plays her. But that's just my opinion. *shrug*

[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

Ah-h, I haven't! I'm on Wolf and Cub right now, so Blue Code is next. I look forward to it! (Does Carter get any better, btw?)

[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

Ex-actly. I've seen so many shows where the writers blatantly tell the viewers, "Hey, gaiz. Please like this character," but viewers are contrary and don't like being told what to do. The writers will then keep pushing this character on the viewers to make them like the character, which will only increase viewer discontent. I wonder why writers don't learn from the mistakes of those who came before them.

[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

Also, that icon. Launcher of a thousand ships.

[angstbunny.livejournal.com]

If Finch were a chick, I'd hate stalker!Reese with the fury of a thousand suns. But since he's not, it's adorable. :D

I really grew to enjoy Fusco, and his episode was totally "Blue Code" where it was like OOOOOOOOH SHIIIIIIIIIIT. It's funny, because I was so-so about Fusco in the beginning. I like the actor a great deal, and I saw potential in the character, but he didn't engage me a whole lot. But then "Blue Code" happened, and it was like holy shit omg. I like the complexity of his character, even though it doesn't seem that way at first. Just from the pilot, where Reese lets him live because he thinks Fusco is dirty out of loyalty rather than greed, and through the course of the episodes, we see that is indeed true. He comes to have this weird Stockholm Syndrome thing going with Reese, and I think he yearns for some sort of approval from Reese, since Reese, for all his rulebreaking, is doing good. And perhaps Fusco can find his redemption by doing all this stuff for Reese. Except now he's gotta do more wrong to do right, and that's a LOT of grey. Whereas for Reese, he just sees Fusco as an asset, and he is a guy who actually isn't very good at handling shades of grey, so... it'll be interesting to see where that goes.

As for Carter, conversely, I liked her a lot in the beginning, then waned on her later. I loved her tenacity and intelligence in the beginning when she was chasing Reese. I love that she is a WoC cop who has an army background. I like that she isn't dumbed down to make Reese look smarter. But once she became their ally, it's like all that fire went out from her character, and she became little more than a plot convenience, the one who provides exposition.

Oh oh, I read the most hilarious description by someone. The sniper rifle scene with Reese in "Foe"? Somebody said, "omg, Reese shot the car in the knee!" I lol-ed.

[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

Agreed. Once we have Carter on Reesefinch's side (I really need a better dual name), she becomes obsolete, since we've already got our bro Fusco as the inside cop on the side of the angels. I would have liked them to continue with her being a well-intentioned antagonist. I should have guessed they would slip her away from the antagonist role once they introduced Elias as the main baddie.

I really think I stopped liking her character once I realised that the writers were desperately trying to get the viewers to like her. And of course, you know me. I'm all Anarchy in the U.K. 24-7.



I also think Reese stalking Finch is less creepy because he's not doing it to actually be creepy. It's because they're both so terrible with feelings, and Reese wants to get to know Finch better, but instead of being all, "Hey, want to grab coffee later," stalking Finch is the only way he knows how to get to know people. And that is so pathetically SAD. That is SO sad. The Podcast of Interest people were totally convinced that Reese turned into a mumbling robot (more than usual) around Bridget Regan (who was WONDERFUL) because he was instantly smitten with her, but I totally saw it as Reese not even being able to do normal things like ask emotionally transparent people for a haircut, because all his social interactions are with Finch, and they are both so fucked up. And that might be the saddest thing I've ever seen.

[angstbunny.livejournal.com]

ReeseFinch... Team Robot? :D

Yeah, she became redundant, though I have to lol at the near comedy of Fusco and Carter not knowing about each other. And as much as Reese said that it's more advantageous that they don't know about each other, you know he's secretly amused by the thought of keeping them in the dark about each other. Reese is a bit of a dick.

I don't know if this counts as a spoiler, and I'm not sure if you're like I NEED TO KNOW NOTHING, but I've read some interviews that do seem to indicate that Carter's role may change once more. So we shall see.

Technically, Reese did try to be all "hey, let's grab coffee later" though it was more like "hey what's good in this diner" so at least Reese seems slightly more socially functional than Finch lolol though that isn't saying much.

But yes, I agree. I don't think it was a case of smitten, though, well, who wouldn't be smitten and struck dumb by the magnificence that is Bridget Regan, but yeah, realistically, it's more like Reese was blindsided by somebody actually being friendly and normal with him. He's so used to people being shady and furtive and cooperative. He has no clue how to handle stuff like that. Which is indeed very very sad. *petpets Reese*

[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

I really do hope Carter's role changes. Excited for that. :D I'm about three episodes behind at this point. (Finishing Wolf and Cub) My thesis was due at the end of February, so I was not so good at keeping up on my tv shows.

HAHAHA, I loooove how Reese is like, "Hey, you want to recommend some eats?" and Finch is all "FUCK YOU, CIA MOOK" and wearing his imaginary tinfoil hat. I love Finch's paranoia so much. I really want Reese to figure out where Finch lives so that Finch can come home from the office and Reese is sitting on the couch eating a snack and watching TV. Or maybe he would try to be weirdly nice in his own way, and he would be in the kitchen making Finch a Sorry I Broke Into Your Home dinner, complete with I Can Pay For That Window dessert. Except it would all be field rations, and it would suck.

Oh man. Bridget Regan. All it took was this scene (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxTj8kAI45w). Seriously, that smile at the very end of the clip, and my heart was like TAKE ME NOW, BRIDGET. Finch needs to hire her to be friends with Reese.

[angstbunny.livejournal.com]

Oh dammit, that means I talked about stuff that you haven't gotten to yet. Sorry. :(

he would be in the kitchen making Finch a Sorry I Broke Into Your Home dinner, complete with I Can Pay For That Window dessert. Except it would all be field rations, and it would suck.

Omgggggggggggg looooooooooooooooooooooooool forever. Fuck, I can totally see Reese doing that, just casually breaking in, like it's a thing you do.

BRIDGET IS SO AMAZING NNNNNNNNNGH HOW SO PERFECT. But weird to see her in her natural red. STILL FLAWLESS THO.

[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

I don't care. :D I'm totally fine with spoilers unless they're earthshattering. Not sure if there are any besides the twist in Foe. While watching the episode, I actually wondered how funny it would be if the guy Reese was protecting turned out to be Elias, and so at the end I was like, wait, really?

Hahaha, right after I finish my Terminator of Interest fic, I am so writing a fic where Finch comes home to find Reese in the kitchen baking him a casserole or something.

[angstbunny.livejournal.com]

Yay ok phew.

I WAS TOTALLY SIDESWIPED. (I think it's "Witness" you mean. "Foe" is the one with the old German spy) Enrico Colantoni totally had me fooled.

YOU CAN MULTITASK, RIGHT???