Person of Interest: If-Then-Else (2015)
Season 4, Episode 11
1/10
One of the very few badly scripted episodes
9 October 2022
It takes only a few minutes for one to realize that it all revolves around one of those repetitive trial+error scenarios where the plot does not advance much until the very end of the story.

A story based on so many misconceptions about what a computer, a computer program is and what instead an artificial intelligence is (not necessarily related to computers in modern times).

Brute force, even when supported by a very extended library of documented games of Chess paired with fictional processing capabilities is very much unlike what The Machine has represented being so far.

The Machine in its early stages of the iterations caused by Harold teaching methods would have been curious to learn other strategy board games, like Go or Shogi. Chess is popular, but there are more games that attract curious minds.

The Machine has shown the ability to evolve and has shown intuition. It has manifested skills for survival and self-preservation.

On the opposite Samaritan has not gone through all those steps. It lacks the necessary depth, the development history, his drives (pun intended, those were not really drives but tapes).

Albeit If-Then-Else is a good first watch, in retrospective is one of the worst and one could just skim through it until the last few minutes.

It is a cheap trick to also make one of the main characters exit the scene... For a while (another popular construct in programming). O7.
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