(S03E12) "Screw you Mahone." - Lincoln
Is it just me, or was it relatively easy to break out of Sona? When compared to Fox River, it was cake! No tattoos required -- just dig a hole and run. And before you say, "but what about all those guards with guns," look at it this way: they're what made it easy! And Michael used it to his advantage. He gave them something to occupy their time (allowing Lechero, T-Bag, and Bellick to go first and get caught) and then he, Whistler, Mahone, and McGrady pretty much just walked through the hole in the fence. So, with that in mind... remind me again why The Company had to use Michael to get to Whistler?
Just seems like it would have been easier to send in some kind of tactical recovery team to bust the guy out. I suppose that doesn't really matter though because Michael worked his magic and got Whistler out anyway. So now they're running and swimming and driving their way to freedom, but not without some bumps along the way.
First there's Sucre, who's predicament with the guards at Sona has become borderline comical. First they nail him on a warrant for an alias that made no sense to me at all. We'd never heard him use that name before, right? At first, I thought maybe Gretchen had done it to set him up, but that doesn't make sense because she knew Sucre was part of Lincoln's plan. Why screw up her ticket to Whistler? So that warrant finally disappears and T-Bag, inches from having his twig and berries fried off by a car battery, fingers Sucre as having a part in the escape. I guess all I'm trying to say is that it sucks to be Sucre. He can't catch a break.
It did, however, lead to what I'm convinced is the most ridiculous moment in Prison Break history. Since Sucre couldn't man the boat, McGrady's father took over as skipper when he saw that the boat was still at the marina. How did he find the merry gang of convicts after they swam to freedom? He knew they were coming from the southwest and "took a chance." Wow! That was one hell of a gamble. So after running through the woods, swimming for who knows how long, and clinging to a giant buoy, it looks like they're all actually free. It opens the door for tons of questions though:
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Does Whistler's bird book actually hold any meaning? Isn't it more likely that he has all the knowledge he needs in his head and the bird book is just his way of lowering himself to seem innocent? Like a safety blanket to mask something? I'll be interested to see what T-Bag does with it.
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What happens if McGrady is recognized at the road block? I see no real reason for him to be around though. I'll be happy if he passes through and we've seen the last of him.
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Is Gretchen actually going to hand over LJ and Sofia quietly? As long as she gets Whistler, is there really any need for bloodshed?
There's probably more questions, but I'm moving on. I was a little bugged about how we're supposed to care about Lechero and Mahone. Lechero got shot. He can rot for all I care. Mahone is a little different and I think we're supposed to see him as more human now. I still can't stand him and wish Lincoln had shot him. Here's a guy who had a body buried in his backyard, and was willing to sell anyone and everyone else out to hide his own secrets. He let himself be manipulated by The Company and carried out all their orders. Good riddance to him. Lincoln's right, Mahone shot his dad with no hesitation. Not much room to forgive there. If he hangs around, maybe Gretchen will take him out since he probably knows more than he should.
More random thoughts...
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I loved how Lincoln's boom-box finally paid off. Recorded gunshots. Even better was that Gretchen and her goons fell for it.
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Do either Bellick, T-Bag, or Lechero actually know anything worth something other than Michael was behind it all?
So now they're out. Next week is the season finale so I assume we can expect some complications when the switch comes. I know Whistler got away at the end of this episode, but I'm not sure he'll get too far. Then again, maybe he will. Everyone else seems to know their way around Panama pretty well and he actually lived there for a while...
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2-11-2008 @ 10:00PM
bruce said...
Next week is also the series finale. There's no way they will renew it for a third season, and b/c of the strike, season 2 was cut in half. Prison break is over. I'm saddened, but considering where it was going, it's probably for the best.
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2-12-2008 @ 10:13AM
Logan said...
bruce you are by far the dumbest person on earth...first of all they are in season 3 so how can they renew for a season 3 u rere? Also they said season finale, if they were going to cancel it they would have said series dopey...god u are a moron
2-12-2008 @ 12:15AM
Tim said...
Logan, why do you have to be a jerk to Bruce? Maybe he mis-typed season 2? Like when you typed rere - what is that mean?
If the show hasn't yet been cancelled then they would call it a season finale but that doesn't mean it's definately going to get another season. Networks are only just now starting to make announcements for next season (ABC).
2-11-2008 @ 10:00PM
khamel said...
one more episode until Prison Break can RIP. hopefully wentworth miller can get cast on a show that has more than 7 episodes worth of quality scripts. i hate myself when i watch prison break, its like pennance for my sins. i cant wait till its over.
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2-12-2008 @ 10:12AM
Christopher said...
Quote is from T-Bag," Don't refry my beans!"
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2-12-2008 @ 10:13AM
Brian said...
I always enjoyed the show despite its many departures with common sense. If next week's is the last one, I'll be sad to see it go.
And for the record, PB's most ridiculous moment was when TBag had his hand severed by a dirty axe, did not pass out from blood loss, continued running from Fox River police, managed to have the arm "repaired" by a vet, with no anesthesia, and has not yet shown any signs of any infection.
Although... getting in a boat and "going southwest" is definitely up there on the ridiculous scale.
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2-12-2008 @ 10:18AM
Dottie said...
I am fully entertained by PB no matter how far fetched it can be at times. I try not to let my mind focus too much on those things and just sit back, relax, and let them entertain me. Since The Shield and The Wire are ending their runs, maybe PB could get some decent writers in and turn the show around. I think their are still some paths they could follow. After all, they ARE fugitives. I am anxious to see what happens to Sucre and T-Bag. And I am definitely interested in seeing what Whistler's part is in this whole thing. I am betting they leave that as a cliffhanger.
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2-12-2008 @ 10:18AM
Dottie said...
I think if next week were to be the SERIES finale rather than the SEASON finale, they would have announced it as such. I am suspecting one of two things: (1) they will finish the season now that the writer's strike is over and, then, either announce it's the season finale or the series finale. If next week doesn't answer our questions then I think we can be sure one of the above will happen.
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2-12-2008 @ 10:19AM
bruce said...
Dottie, like I was saying, it has not been officially decided and announced that the show won't be renewed.
If they really intended on keeping it, though, they would not call this the season finale, they'd continue the season a few months after the writers get back and they get to film more episodes. There was no intent before the strike that season 3 end with the next episode. If Fox were dedicated to the continuation of PB, the next episode would not be the end of a shortened 3rd season. Frankly I bet the key players (creators, producers, actors) in PB have already been told the show is over, but that they have to keep it quiet for a bit. They don't want us dumb, annoying fans inundating them with a thousand worthless e-petitions to keep the show on the air right now, with the strike just finishing up and so many unknowns, they have many more important things to deal with. I assure you, prison break is cancelled.
2-12-2008 @ 10:18AM
David said...
Wow Bruce, you're long winded...
They must have ran out of script and still filmed it with someone like Grant Morrison to help once the strike started. Make the first part crazy, skip the third part and the end.
There is no second part, if there were, it would explain the third part, which doesn't need to exist because then it would explain the end. Something like that.
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2-12-2008 @ 10:18AM
Dragulf said...
OK... so the kids dad knew where the prison was and and there can't be that many buoys. I don't see it as far fetched for the father to find them.
Many people stopped watching PB because they killed off Sarah. I won't go into that can of worms but that is the reason PB might be canceled. Sarah was the heart of the show.
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2-12-2008 @ 10:19AM
bruce said...
I agree completely. Sara Wayne Callies gave them no choice but to kill off her character, though, because she got pregnant, gave birth to a healthy baby, and decided to be a stay-at-home mommy and stop working. Unlike most actresses in the middle of starring in a popular TV series, she refused to keep her baby on set with her in her trailer, or at home with a nanny. Sara Wayne Callies ruined the show by letting her estrogen-fueled irrational maternal instincts control her, giving the writers no choice but to kill off Sarah Tancredi -- the most important character besides the brothers (in some ways more important than Lincoln once he was out and exhonerated).
I despise Sarah Wayne Callies. She's a selfish bitch as far as I'm concerned. Maybe we should go back to the days of women being barred from acting and men (eunuchs) playing all womens' roles, so we don't have to worry about shows being ruined ever time a female lead gets knocked up. Unfortunately, mandatory abortion clauses in contracts wouldn't be enforcable.
2-12-2008 @ 2:21PM
Benjy said...
You've got your story wrong! Sarah Wayne Callies wanted to come back. In an interview early this season, Matt Olmstead said that the producers mandated that Sara Tancreadi had to be killed this season in order to make the show edgier. They originally wanted to kill her in the 13th episode (which has now turned into the season finale), but she was bitter about the whole idea anyway (after having been initially promised that she would not be killed off) and elected just not to come back at all.
http://teamsugar.com/group/209436/blog/695937
2-12-2008 @ 10:18AM
bruce said...
I'd still like the sci-fi angle re: the General in the bunker who, in having known about "Sona" for a long time, put Scofield in there to "do what he was born to do" (break out). It seemed like the show was going to take an interesting twist and there was a lot more to the brothers (or at least scofield) than we knew. But now the show has gotten lame and ridiculous, coincidence after near miss after lucky guess after fortunate mistake after helpful plot twist after coincidence.
I mean, I could accept, say, the X-files, going into an episode, knowing that towards the end when either Mulder or Scully were in danger, the other would show up to save the day just in the nick of time. That's what we knew going in. PB, on the other hand, is supposed to be a reality-based show (aside from the sci-fi angle which never materialized) and with stuff like Mcgrady's dad just knowing where, and which bouey, to meet the escapees at in the middle of the ocean, well... it's lazy writing and insults me for watching. I am a jackass. I am a moron. I watched the whole episode tonight. I'm a sucker. I'm stupid. I'm lazy, and I don't think things through. Clearly that's what the writers think of the viewers, and insofar as we watched, it's true.
One other thing. If they were going to have to swim under water for a while, particularly salt water, wouldn't lincoln have put in masks or goggles in addition to the oxygen tanks?
It's always bothered me how easy it is for tv/movie characters to open their eyes under saltwater (I can barely open my eyes in a pool - it stings like a mofo, and if I get a drop of saltwater in my eyes at a beach, I'm in agony for at least an hour). But if it's like for death, I can accept it. Stinging eyes or die, okay, take the stinging eyes. But lincoln didn't bother to buy $4 goggles? They would have fit in the cooler just fine. So would diving fins, for that matter... knowing they'd have to swim far and fast, that would have been prudent too. But it seems goggles/masks were just as important as the air supplies.
And why did they leave their shoes on the beach to be found, logically implying they went into the water? And Sona called for the coast guard but the escapees had no problem having their boat get back to port?
I watched it, so I'm a moron. Gotta take responsibility for what I watch. All of you PB fans (at least past season 1) are morons, too, and I hope you can admit it like me. It will make you feel better about watching season 3. Seriously, say it: I am a moron, I am a naive fool and I am a gullible idiot.
Ahh...
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2-12-2008 @ 10:19AM
bruce said...
I meant "But if it's life or death, I can accept it." (Regarding opening eyes under saltwater).
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2-12-2008 @ 10:19AM
bruce said...
Logan: I made a typo (i'm making a lot of them tonight). I meant season 3, not season 2. I guess this season has been so pointless in my mind it's never really existed and I still feel as though there have only been 2 seasons of PB. How does a typo make the the "dumbest person on earth"? Gimme a break, I admitted in my other post that I was a moron for still watching PB. You don't have to rub it in and hurt my feelings.
As for whether it's the season or series finale, clearly that decision has not been made official yet (or at least made public), and until such time as it is, the next episode will be called the "season" finale. But it will also be the series finale. You'll see. There's only one more episode of prison break, EVER. And it won't tie a damn thing up or answer a single question.
Just because a show is called the "season finale" doesn't mean it is affirmative evidence that another season will follow. See, for example, the "season two finale" of Dark Angel. It turned out to be the series finale, as well, several months later when it was confirmed the show was cancelled and there would be no season 3 (rightfully so, as season 2 of Dark Angel was miserable, just as bad as Season 3 of Prison Break).
People smarter than us have stopped watching PB, giving it it's lowest ratings ever this season, which is ultimately the nail in the show's 2.5 season coffin.
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2-12-2008 @ 10:19AM
bruce said...
Logan: I made a typo (i'm making a lot of them tonight). I meant season 3, not season 2. I guess this season has been so pointless in my mind it's never really existed and I still feel as though there have only been 2 seasons of PB. How does a typo make the the "dumbest person on earth"? Gimme a break, I admitted in my other post that I was a moron for still watching PB. You don't have to rub it in and hurt my feelings.
As for whether it's the season or series finale, clearly that decision has not been made official yet (or at least made public), and until such time as it is, the next episode will be called the "season" finale. But it will also be the series finale. You'll see.
There's only one more episode of prison break, EVER. And it won't tie a damn thing up or answer a single question.
Just because a show is called the "season finale" doesn't mean it is affirmative evidence that another season will follow. See, for example, the "season two finale" of Dark Angel. It turned out to be the series finale, as well, several months later when it was confirmed the show was cancelled and there would be no Season 3 (rightfully so, as Season 2 of Dark Angel was miserable, just as bad as Season 3 of Prison Break).
People smarter than us have stopped watching PB, giving it its lowest ratings ever this season, which is ultimately the nail in the show's 2.5 season coffin.
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2-12-2008 @ 10:19AM
Chuck said...
Bruce--a typo might not make you the "dumbest person on earth," but calling someone a selfish bitch because they decided to spend more time with their baby? well, I hope you were speaking tongue in cheek, because otherwise you're just a complete douchebag. Who the fuck are you to judge a decision like that? So she becomes a mom, realizes that she would like to spend more time with her kid then her job would allow, and somehow it's a personal affront to you? Like she needs to run her parenting decisions by YOU before they're okay? Any "mandatory abortion" decisions should be made retroactive so we can clean up this planet of asses like you who think their television entertainment is so important in their dull, meaningless vaccuous existences that the actors actually OWE them something more than they owe their own families.
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2-12-2008 @ 10:19AM
jaerisk said...
wow Bruce you're a real asshole
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2-12-2008 @ 10:19AM
Sam said...
I totally agree with Chuck. Bruce is a first class idiot whose a classic nucklehead. Fancy calling someone a bitch just bcuz she wants to be a good mother to her kid. Other than that, you are an egoistic, arrogant sexist who deserves to be kicked for posting such a pathetic and cold comment.
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