Jonathan Nolan

Person of Interest' EPs tease Season 4 AI battles and the Root and Shaw 'ship - Zap2it

   'Person of Interest' Season 4 will be the season of artificial intelligence, and showrunners Jonathan Nolan and Greg Plageman could not be more excited.

There’s a lot to quote here. But I do love this part:

   JN: Yeah, absolutely. We like being reckless, but always with a plan. That was our pact with the audience, was that we would be reckless with them a little bit in terms of the risks that we take with the characters and the storylines, but that this was always going somewhere.

I’m so glad to read about this, that they knew the pact he has as a showrunner to his audience. Its something, not to be OOT, the HIMYM completely lost sight of.

   They haven’t, until this point, been saddled with being real people. In superhero terms, they haven’t had to have their secret identity. Finch has dabbled in it over the years, they’ve all had fun playing at being one person or another, but they’ve never been locked into those identities. As Root put it in her closing voiceover last night, in a world in which everyone is watched, stamped, indexed, numbered, the only outliers are the people who don’t fit that mold. So our characters now, in addition to figuring out how to save the world and save someone’s world in New York every week, will have to figure out how to masquerade as real people.

And I love that they’re going to explore this dual identities thing next season, that its not something they’ll brush off.

Also, I like their take on AI, that viewing an AI in human terms is a mistake whether its the Machine or Samaritan, they’re not human and they have different agendas and points of references.

and of course:

   I don’t know if you guys know about ‘shipping —
   GP: What? What is that?
   JN: Don’t be coy, Greg. You’ve been teasing the ‘shippers all season.
   We have to talk about Root and Shaw, because I think a large group of fans really want those two characters to have some sort of romance. Is there any hope for those ‘shippers?
   JN: That is the storyline that launched a thousand ‘ships.
   GP: Raw? Shoot?
   JN: Yeah, we haven’t decided which name we like for that ‘ship. We love the chemistry of those two together. It’s just hilarious and fantastic. It’s clear that Shaw is slowly coming around — or being less pissed off — with Root when Root flirts with her. I don’t know, Greg. Where is that storyline going?
   GP: I don’t know, but it sounds really exciting to me.
   JN: You’ve got to be careful with “Person of Interest” when you’re rooting for your ‘ship to set sail. It’s usually in a tragic fashion, so file that one under “be careful what you wish for.”

Hah. Even the showrunners are shipping it. And I loved that Jonah went straight to say: don’t be coy, Greg. In Sarah and Amy’s interviews they’ve always been coy about it, dancing around Root and Shaw because they’re not sure if they’re allowed to mention shipping Root and Shaw but here the showrunners just bulldozed right over it.
Except I think we should really heed Jonah’s ‘be careful what you wish for.’
Because this is Person of Interest, and nothing is easy, and almost everything would lead to heart break.
Thanks for devmackie for pointing me to the article!

De l'IA et du Ships Root/Shaw ?

Pour le IA cela peut être intéressant si les scénariste n'oublie pas la fonction première de la série sauver les gens.

Root/Shaw OK, mais ne pas laisser oublier les garçons :love: