'Persons Unknown' Series Finale Recap

what i get from this show-

-The program, it to me is a training exercise. To weed out the "good" and "bad". From what was sais each of the perticipents had something the company saw was a asset to them. Each of the guests had something about them to make them a good canidate for the "experiment" SPOILERS FYI

(i dont remember names to bear with me) Sargent- a soldier turned merc and killed for money after being misled as towho and how his team died.
The Doctor/mental patient - Killed her mother and (was it father) a man after the man took advantage of her at night and her mother saw and did nothing.
anyway they all had a personality trait, or flaw that "the Program was designed to test and exploit as to get the result it wanted...and whats that result?
MORE SPOILERS
In my opinion-I have seem movies such as Killing Room in which they use MK-ULTRA U.S. Government mind control experiments that were outlawed in the 1960’s due to unethical practices. It was used to eventualy wear down the mind and make a "slave" of the person, doing whatever was said of them, said to be like "mind controll". In that film it was said they were used to be suicide bombers against our enemies. I beleave the program is doing this, using theese methods to make obediant workers to use as they please, and to do what is needed to continue the program and make it larger. what i dont understand is exactly what theese people will do, some can be used as workers in the Institute, one guest was "killed" but later was the head of a department, soldiers,fisherman, i dont know. But whatever it is its to further streangthem the company and make the Program stronger.

At the end of the killing room, all but one of the 5? i beleave is alive, thinking he had escaped running down the hallway into an exit door, but finds himself in a room with a man tied to a chair with the PA system saying " welcome to lvl 2"

thats what got me, in the movie it was4-5 lvls that they had to get through, but the audience thinks each level is a metaphore for each person who had to be killed. So reaching lvl 4 ment being the only one alive.
Unknown Persona seems to have 10 lvls, and Joe is the only one in years to have the potential to get there, im guessing the Director herself has gotten there and is why shes in a high ranking position. I don't beleave the guests are in a computer program. That just leads my mind too far, there are meny ppl who are in or visit the town to make me belave its a simulation, the taxi drivers, the Blue Men, how the reporters got into one of the towns (we hear there is at least 27 of them) and get physical evidance of there being humans there. along with the survivor from there being questioned with no signs of being in the "white Room"( Joe was shaved head,even eyebrows and stuck with tons of needles) the survivor was normal as can be..kinda

this is my guess at some of the stuff, but i can see holes in it and its what I think. i feel bad that we couldent know for sure

I watched this show from beginning to end and although it had an intriguing premise, this show became a huge disaster. Thirteen episodes was much too long for such a dissatisfying ending. The cheesy dialog, the out-of-nowhere plot twists and manufactured emotion destroyed what little intrigue this show had at the start. As for all those believing there was supposed to be a second season, if true, then it is a bigger failure on the part of NBC because when they did the solicits, they clearly referred to this show as a "summer miniseries". NBC majorly screwed up with this series

ugh. the only reason I watched this horrible acting and writing through to the end is because I thought I'd get answers and finally be done.

I sure hope there's no second season so we can all begin forgetting about this show.

I agree - I want those 13 hrs of my life back...

OK. I for one was completely furious at the finale. I was singing the praises of this show all season. I told everyone that I thought summer mini-series' were a brilliant idea, then this crap!!! And this is just my emotional, postpartum hormones talking, but it disgusted me that they took her away from her daughter again. Almost physically makes me sick. I'm gonna have nightmares about being separated from my son now. Thanks alot NBC. Hope you're willing to pay for my therapy now you jerks!!!LOL

Having seen the finale and all that happened in it I am convinced they have been planning for a second season for a long time if not from the beginning.

The first evidence is the DVD box set cover of the show which is displayed with the sale item on lots of ordering sites on which (the box cover) the words 'the complete first season' are clearly visible. If the show was intended to be a single season shouldn't read 'the complete mini-series'?

The second piece of evidence (in my mind at least) is the appearance of Robert Picardo (best known as Star Trek Voyager's holographic doctor) as a member of the secret society, a part I'm sure they wouldn't have cast with such a beloved actor if it weren't going to be expanded into a full role at some point.
If the part is not to be developed it makes little sense to cast an actor such as Picardo in the role, if for no other reason but to save a few dollars.

A second season may be forthcoming but don't be fooled by the makers when they state there intention was only for a mini-series.

As for NBC they want to be really careful they don't pull this stunt of lying about the scope of a show again or too often as it is inclined to make viewers very angry!

if anyone can shed any light on the following, I'd appreciate it!

- what, exactly, is the purpose of the 'experiment' in the first place?

- why did they show us the board meeting in the final episode? since it went nowhere in the plot.

- what 'commitment' did Janet's mother make? presumably to this 'Institute' - (see question 1!) What is this Institute trying to explore, anyway?

Honestly I think a lot of these TV writers are just plain LAZY! They just throw out some story threads, as if that constitutes a satisfactory ending. How annoying!!!
-

Did anyone notice the name of the ship at the end? It translates to "Lost Souls". Were these people dead all along?

I have tried to process this show over and over again, but I don't think I quite understand it.

One theory is that the "program" is training people for a Big-Brother type thing. They are putting people through the program so that they can be leaders for the potential utopian society that they hope to create. they are starting with a smaller community, and going to build on to it more and more until they have enough people to take over the world (sounds dramatic). My theory was that the program felt that these particular people had something to offer, and that's why they were chosen. Then we find out that Janet's mom had something to do with her disappearance, and that one blonde from the beginning's dad was apart of her disappearance too (which brings another question--the show showed that she died in that fountain, then later she was a nurse when Joe was being tortured, then she was the night supervisor thing...doesn't make sense!)

I thought the show was really good, suspenseful, etc. But the ending disappointed me. There were only new questions created, none answered. Ugh.

So.. what happened to Mark`s girlfriend? Was she left for dead? ;o! DID SHE DIE!?! shes my favorite character. she cant die D"; noooo!!

Knowing NBCs history of pulling the plug on series without warning, the ONLY reason I watched this show was it was called a MINI-SERIES!! So how could there not be resolution???