I feel bad about taking over the thread with blocks of black bars, but there's only one month left... Sorry to everyone who doesn't watch, please bear with us just a bit longer.
Me too, as I said in the previous post the brainwashing that Samaritan's been trying to do and perfect (even though we haven't seen even one with the chip since that episode, interesting no? Perhaps it doesn't work?) would be kind of..tuned to say.. to 'normal' people, and blah-blah I've already said this, but if the writers really thought it out, I can't imagine I'm the only one who thought of that loophole for her xD Even if it's more than plausable, kind of accurate even.
And man, oh man. Episode 9, I would think less guarded because they wore her 'walls' down with 7000+ iterations, and we don't know since when she started talking like what we saw in episode 4, but if she never managed to kill Root (said it herself in this episode (ep9)) then maybe it wouldn't require all that much simulations. Maybe even after the 10th or so. Who knows, what's important though is that they managed to believably wear her down through narrative and through all those simulations I'm confident that more or less, if they manage to survive they'll get together.
The talk Root and Shaw had when Shaw was about to kill herself for real, wasn't as strong as it could've been, but it still was probably exactly the thing that was needed, and now I'm thinking that should Shaw die, Root would probably kill herself, provided Samaritan is destroyed. If not, she'll do everything to bring it down and either go down fighting or she'd destroy it and then probably kill herself (though with how long it takes, she may not do that).
But yeah, Elias is one of my favorites and I was disappointed that he didn't kill him right then and there, but when he activated the bomb, yeah, I don't know if he meant it for it to be an ironic death (since The Voice likes his bombs very much) or something, but I really, really hope Elias joins the team now in bringing down Samaritan xD
I'll stop here for now. Maybe later I'll make that PoI thread, we'll see. Sorry for all the black bars.