Person of Interest - long or short dramatic presentation?

[ffutures]

I'd really like to see Person of Interest get at least to the voting page for the Hugos. Tactically I think it doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning in the long form, or even getting to the voting page: Gravity is almost certainly going to win, and Orphan Black S1 can make a much better case for being a single coherent narrative as a TV series. Then there's Thor 2, Man of Steel, Hobbit 2, etc. etc.

So I'm looking more at individual episodes for the short form award. I'm inclined to think that 2-21 "Zero Day" or 2-22 "God Mode" are the most SF-nal - 2-21 is the one that reveals how The Machine is evolving its consciousness, 2-22 shows what happens when an omniscient AI is in your life, but I think on the whole 2-21 is the one I prefer. Or I may just nominate both.

Any thoughts? Or is there a better contender I'm missing?

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[whswhs.livejournal.com]

This has sfnal content? I've heard nothing about it except the title, which sounded pretty conventionally thriller-like. But I'm slow to hear of television; I only heard of Orphan Black from a friend who had seen it and thought it was my kind of thing. (I think it is, but chorale's new semester started before we'd seen more than the first two episodes.)

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

It's got a lot of SF themes, mostly related to AI and the panopticon society. Basically, The Machine (a Skynet-like omniperesent computer) monitors everything and looks out for terrorists etc.; the heroes have a back-door and are using it to prevent murders. But it's becoming sentient, and things occasionally get very weird.