*Spoiler Warning* Post after the jump...
Is Shaw gone? With the team having had to go underground since the finale of last season of Person of Interest and Shaw being the first to have her identity compromised, the story seemed to be headed in the direction in which one of the good "guys" would be killed off (probably in a heroic self-sacrifice). I have had doubts about how necessary the character of Sarah Shahi's Shaw is to the story. While Shaw does seem to have a flaw (an almost? pathological lack of emotion/sympathy, generally), in every other way the show seems to have built her up as a superwoman, almost even better than Jim Caviezel's Reese. (Still, time is catching up with Sarah Shahi, and this season she looks considerably older -- has she lost weight on her face? Her face looks older.)
So it isn't surprising that the lesbian undertone to the relationship between Shaw and Amy Acker's Root was confirmed tonight. Root's attraction to women was clear from her backstory; for Shaw not so much. (Perhaps Shaw is bisexual.) Is the romantic attraction between them forced or a last-minute reveal? I can't say that it is either. Commentators at Vox Day's blog point out with the recent "twist" ending of a cartoon on Nickelodeon, what happens when there are no men equal to the women? There is a twisted logic that they must end up with a woman, since their hypergamy disqualifies all available men. Apparently some fans have been cheering for a lesbian romance (even coining the new name "Shoot" to describe the pair, Shaw + Root) between them. Truly, there is something wrong with Uhmerican society.
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