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It's sort of interesting to think of 'Continuum' and 'Person of Interest' as shows on opposite ends of the same spectrum.Permalink On twitter.com
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Both shows are explicitly about surveillance, the state, and how we react to terror (or use it) as a society.Permalink On twitter.com
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One end: Person of Interest challenges gov't responsibility over surveillance & asks us what limits we're willing to go to for escape terrorPermalink On twitter.com
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Continuum asks what level we're willing to be agents of surveillance for the state, & how much terror we'll accept by sympathetic causes.Permalink On twitter.com
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Person of Interest asks - should we challenge systems that make us safe if they challenge our morality?On twitter.com
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Continuum asks - How far are we willing to go to defend our own moral code and how can we defend when we go far, perhaps too far?Permalink On twitter.com
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Perhaps most interesting part of both shows: they have antagonistic organizations that champion sympathetic causes through terrible means.Permalink On twitter.com
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Both Vigilance and Liber8 are fictional organizations with essentially sympathetic causes and terrible means for their ends.Permalink On twitter.com
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I find it fascinating that either show goes on TV while something like 24 exists.Permalink On twitter.com
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The other interesting piece is both center the debate around questions of if technology is positive. Both plots are only possible w/tech.Permalink On twitter.com
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Both ask if this technology is inevitable, if surveillance is inevitable, & if people can possibly be responsible for using it appropriatelyPermalink On twitter.com
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