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Why so many feels, show?

When Reese realizes he's going to get caught and tells Harold how he "meant what [he] said this morning" (i.e. that Finch has made him happy- I mean, he was talking about the job, but Finch is the job and anyway he was looking dead at him when he said it) and Harold says "John" in that bewildered little lost voice when he almost never calls him that I just melted. I do not understand how on God's green Earth I am supposed to not conclude that a courtship is happening here. A bizarre courtship of stalking and emotional ineptitude, yes, but a courtship nevertheless.

As to the actual plotty happenings: back when I was silently stalking this fandom without having seen S2, I remember a lot of musings about why Harold would have been living under an false name in college. Now, I could be wrong in assuming that it was implied that Finch was the hacker being discussed in the episode- but if so, I think that might explain it.

I want to add my voice to many others on my love of the female baddies on this show. Root was cool (especially since Amy Acker spent so long being cast as the same bubbly sweetheart over and over; I love it when actresses get to branch out and kick ass doing it) but Stanton gives me chills. It's fantastic the dark reflection figure (there's probably a real name for this archetype; the person the protagonist would be if things had gone very, very wrong) for both male leads is a woman.

But also, even Elias isn't a typical villain. I mean, here's this smallish, professorly bald man, and he says one word and everyone on that prison yard scatters. This show so often draws the conclusion that the power isn't where you assume it'll be.