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root x shaw

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Person of Interest 📷 1.06 “The Fix”

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big fan of stories that, while undoubtedly being about the power of friendship, acknowledge that the power of incredible violence is just as important

the love was there. the love changed everything. the crowbar helped also

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'I asked chatGPT to-'

yeah ? well I asked The Machine, and it spies on you every hour of every day. I know because I built it. I designed the machine to detect acts of terror, but it sees everything. Violent crimes involving ordinary people, people like you. Crimes the government considered irrelevant. They wouldn’t act, so I decided I would. But I needed a partner, someone with the skills to intervene. Hunted by the authorities, we work in secret. You’ll never find us, but victim or perpetrator, if your number’s up, we’ll find you.

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I hate HATE how underrated person of interest still is. Its the first tv show I actually fell in love with and I am now coming out of a rewatch to see what other people in fandom thinks and its just dead?? Is no one else obsessively rewatching this show each year? Am I alone here? Do my screams just bounce around in the void? Where are my people?

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Listen y’all.

Let’s talk about these fine ladies.

See, Person of Interest was my first major fandom after Stargate Atlantis, Sherlock, and Criminal Minds.

Stargate Atlantis had the same problem that BBC Sherlock and Supernatural had: mainly, that the writing team could not control their misogyny long enough not to make every female character a complete dumpsterfire of contradictory motivations, damsel in distress tropes, incompetence, and sidelining.

The fandom reflected that misogyny.

And at the time, I resisted the characters and hated the characters for being emblematic of the misogyny that I had to deal with in my life (formal apology to Dr. Keller).

And then I watched Person of Interest. And these characters were not that. They had flaws, but those flaws existed within a consistent moral framework.

Control was an antagonist, but she believed herself to be the protagonist of another story, and acted in a way consistent with how she define one-who-saves. She resisted the title of “hero,” even, because she knew that her actions were not morally right, but she believed them to be morally necessary. And when the “morally necessary” thing was to work with the actual protagonists, she did so.

Sameen Shaw was largely gender non-conforming. She did not have the feminine empathy that she was supposed to have. But rather than punish her for that, the narrative celebrated her as a hero. At the same time, it also not deny her affection and loyalty and status as someone people believed “she was worth sacrificing for.”

And then there’s Joss Carter, a cop who believes in “protect and serve” existing within a corrupt police force. Having to make the moral compromises necessary to uphold justice when the laws are written by unjust people.

It was gold. It was a balm to my soul.

Since that moment, I have made the decision that I will treat women characters with all of the grace with the fandom normally gives to male characters who are played by actors they want to fuck. I grade female characters on a curve of how much of their moral “badness” is directly attributable to them….

…versus how much is morally attributable to their writers is not being able to contain their misogyny.

Because this show showed me that this is an author problem, not a character problem. It doesn’t have to be this way. People behind the scenes are making it this way, and they could unmake it.

So, anyone who has seen Sherlock, who has seen Supernatural, watched Stargate Atlantis — who is disenchanted with how the women characters were treated: I strongly recommend, on every possible level, Person of Interest.

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having steak today so the ghost of sameen shaw knows she's summoned

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Quick, what's your favorite thing about your favorite piece of media with no context or explanation. Go!

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What does it say about me that I know the episode title and number of every episode of POI from season 1 to 3?

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The fact that John has a specific soundtrack for "I just fucked up a vehicle with a big gun" is one of many reasons I fucking love this show.

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Doodles but rough, sorry!

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Nothing kills that cat

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Happy Pi Day to the fandom that made me care about when pi day is

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under close watch