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Person of Interest: The Day the World Went Away (2016)
Are you all watching the same shows I have been watching?
When Person of Interest (PoI)first debuted I was hooked. A good, dark show with some good acting and writing. It proceeded to get better as the season went on, and the story-line of HR was interesting, and made me want more.
Then "Big Mistake No.1": the death of Carter, and the PoI ship seemed to lose its rudder. The Shaw addition was good, but not Root, she is annoying...almost as bad as the Wrinkly Samaritan guy.
PoI lost its way and became more Sci-Fi than thriller, and the all powerful SAMARITAN vs "The Machine" was just depressing.
I was hoping for a good final half season, so far I have been disappointed. The story lines are full of holes, and SAMARITAN is too all knowing, especially in this episode with the sniper that takes out a main character with little info, a license plate, no car description and he arrives at the kill point minutes before his target, trying to escape capture after a nasty shootout, drives up the block, and in less than 30 seconds, he decides that it is THE target, by seeing the license plate from about 200 ft, and aims and fires... Crap. Just like the convoluted plan to get revenge by attacking the precinct from within...I cannot believe that story at all...
Am I disappointed? Yes....I hoped the show would exit gracefully...no such luck, but I am here for the duration: 3 episodes to go.
Young Cassidy (1965)
An excellent rendering of O'Casey's story.
"Young Cassidy" is one of my all time favorite movies. I am a big fan of Sean O'Casey, and became a big fan of Rod Taylor's when I first saw this film over 35 years ago. It used to be shown every St. Patrick's day, like The Informer and The Quiet Man, I believe it was WOR, Channel 9 (now the UPN) here in NY, then it just disappeared, and I have been unable to find a VHS or DVD copy of it, a real shame. John Ford worked his usual magic and was well replaced by Jack Cardiff (after Ford fell ill), and a wonderful vision of Ireland in the early 20th Century took shape. It tells of Young Jack Cassidy (O'Casey) and his attempts to break out of the poverty cycle he has been trapped in, to get away and pursue a career as a writer. He is faced with the prejudice that all "common" Irish faced, and then has to survive the madness that overtakes Dublin during the "Easter Rebellion" of 1916, before he finally gets a chance and sails off to London. I have not seen this film in 20 years, and I wish I knew why it was so unavailable. It adheres quite well to O'Casey's Autobiographies, though it is more fun to read his words than see them portrayed.