One thing that surprised me a lot this season is the number of red herrings: Harold's Trojan Horse with Beth Bridges taking down Samaritan, Control being the one to release the AI's stronghold on the government (as well as popping Greer), Grice being an ally for the team, Harper getting texts from The Machine with the implication that she'd aid them in taking down its rival, to name a few. None of them came to fruition, which is kinda bold on the part of the writers. The ones with Control, the concept of the Trojan Trigger, & Harper can still be revisited in Season 5, though.
Pushing the science fiction angle going into Season 5, I think they already have a cool device in place: The Pseudo Google Glasses utilized by ISA operatives in Control-Alt-Delete. Given how the concept of the Machine (& eventually Samaritan) is ideally a spiritual successor of the Sonar System in The Dark Knight, either the newly rebooted Machine or Samaritan can give its operatives a modified version of these shades, providing them access to AI POV (like the white-eyed Sonar Vision), as opposed to just getting them through instructions via earpieces & texts.
It's easier for Samaritan cause it just has to either tweak the existing ones provided to the ISA, or task any of the multiple organizations it has shuttered (& continues to shutter) over the course of the year across multiple countries in the world with high technological capabilities to develop them. The old Machine was a closed system, and nobody could see what it sees. But given the new one being more proactive is a likely possibility in theory, I suppose this can come along with it. And if either the Thornhill Corporation or IFT has a role in creating them (going by how I theorized either of these companies could have a hand in TM's reawakening), even better.
Pushing the science fiction angle going into Season 5, I think they already have a cool device in place: The Pseudo Google Glasses utilized by ISA operatives in Control-Alt-Delete. Given how the concept of the Machine (& eventually Samaritan) is ideally a spiritual successor of the Sonar System in The Dark Knight, either the newly rebooted Machine or Samaritan can give its operatives a modified version of these shades, providing them access to AI POV (like the white-eyed Sonar Vision), as opposed to just getting them through instructions via earpieces & texts.
It's easier for Samaritan cause it just has to either tweak the existing ones provided to the ISA, or task any of the multiple organizations it has shuttered (& continues to shutter) over the course of the year across multiple countries in the world with high technological capabilities to develop them. The old Machine was a closed system, and nobody could see what it sees. But given the new one being more proactive is a likely possibility in theory, I suppose this can come along with it. And if either the Thornhill Corporation or IFT has a role in creating them (going by how I theorized either of these companies could have a hand in TM's reawakening), even better.
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