[VerySadAmerican]

comment?

[gov_bean_ counter]

Depressing ending...

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I recorded it - will watch tomorrow and comment

[dragnet2]

By traditional means, little can be done to limit, reduce, reign in reckless government foreign polices, corruption, spending, etc.

It’s just become too big.

[baddog 219]

Machine 1 will battle machine 2...and absorb it.
Best series on tv.

[Grams A]

I always watch what my grandson calls “Grams Big 3” on Tuesday evening: NCIS, NCIS:Los Angeles and Person of Interest.

NCIS was a beautiful tribute to Ralph Wait. Just wish they would bring Zeva back. NCIS LA left us all hanging until the fall. Person of Interest is a very scary and disturbing program that gets too close to the truth about our government. I am really surprised that it has been allowed to continue without government censorship.

What I find interesting about all three of these programs is that they do give us some glimpse into the functioning of our government, albeit from a different perspective.

[InvisibleChurch]

It’s a fictional tv show, right?

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Isn’t that the whole them of the show?

When I watched the pilot I thought “this is science fiction.” Now its a documentary.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

“them”= “theme”

[Rembrandt]

NSA doesn’t work for itself; it follows directions and orders. Figure the rest out for yourself.

[Dalberg-Acton]

Last episode of the season but not the end of the series (I hope).

I like the bit at the very end where that weasel WANTS to take orders from the new machine. One thing that rang very true was how Decima secretly created Vigilance. A created and financed enemy is not a new thing.

[Intolerant in NJ]

No, but I did watch this week's PBS "Frontline" 2 hour program (1st of 2 parts) on the NSA - fascinating history of the operation up through the Bush years, how their programs were cut back after they "spied on dissidents" under Nixon, felt they were handicapped in what they wanted to do thereafter, expanded radically under what they thought was the law after 911, the internal disputes and eventual whistleblowing by those who disagreed with the expansions, how AG Ashcroft at one point refused to endorse the routine 45 day extension of the program because his lawyers were saying it was unconstitutional, how new laws were invoked to keep it going and Congress was involved to write law to legitimize it, how Obama, running for the presidency, promised great "transparency" and to end "illegal" spying, voted for the new law and once president continued the "illegal" practices he had run against. Next week's installment starts with Snowden's revelations and what they've wrought....
If you discount the obvious admiration some of the narrators have for the whistleblowers and disdain for what the government was trying to do to keep the country safe, it seems a pretty-well balanced presentation....

[Texas56]

I’ve watched this show since it began. It is one of the three shows I record.

I agree it seems awfully close to reality, and like others said more of a documentary than science fiction at times. The evilness which seems to abound at all levels of the government could be taken from today’s headlines.

I’m not sure about this year’s final show. I’m glad vigilance is gone, got tired of them. The main Descima guy reminds me of Darth Sidious of Star Wars - a manipulator with pure evilness where his soul should be. I guess we’re stuck with him in the show at least through next season. It will be interesting to see how the show plays next year since the team has been split up with new identities.

Glad “Bear” was given a little more action time.

[BobL]

There is a chain of command and there are purse-strings. And there WAS one person that could have put them on a leash, Rand Paul.

But now he’s too busy trying work out an Amnesty “compromise”, getting FELONS the right to vote, and ending Voter ID because it hurts the feelings of 5-time voter minorities that somehow manage to access $50,000 worth of government goodies every year without ever having an ID to prove who they are.

So, yes, we’re toast.

[ontap]

I caught the end of it and it peaked my interest....when is it on next, I can’t find it?

[Bikkuri]

Finally watched it.. (Torrent DL).. waited to watch it before I read this thread (had to do hard core search to find it >.<)..

Brought out a lot.. Biggest mistake/push was “Democracy”... as far as I know, USA is still Constitutional Republic... next, that the opposing group was taunting power as Libertarians (anarchy).. SO.. I finally saw where the writers were trying to push/go.. Turn the libs (Libertarians against the Conservatives).. Well, they (libertopians) have already done that :p

Also, pretty much everything that was shown in this movie CAN be pointed at Obama now ‘which they trried to redirect) :p