#1 reason why Michael Scofield is still trying to break out of/into/around/through/under/over things

[trinityvixen]

Because he keeps being interrupted when trying to get some. (Please note, this is not a spoiler; this is observable from episode one.)

Seriously, the show would have ended in the middle of season two if he'd gotten laid. Hell, it would probably have been in serious jeopardy if he'd gotten a blowjob in season one. If the villains really wanted to stop him on his endless crusade to mess their shit up, they needed to hire one ten-cent hooker (hey, viridian, you interested?) for about an hour. Done. End of threat from the prison-escaping mastermind. So much more subtle than the various and sundry ways they've tried to publicly execute him...

Also, the decapitated character coming back = just as stupid as I assumed it would be. Especially since this character, who previously had one of the better, understated but still powerful tragedies in his/her past, is now just a simpering victim of torture. As if making a show about people escaping from prisons all over the world weren't ridiculous enough already, you're going to ask these characters to carry the legacy of Gitmo? Sigh.

Another fun development? Prison Break has decided to pull a "Heroes" and reform some of the bad guys. I suppose I should say that Heroes pulled a "Prison Break," seeing as Prison Break was messing around with this last year. Heroes, please let me assure you that The Last Thing you want to be like is Prison Break.

And yet? I'm still watching! Hurrah! I always thought exercise was masochism, but I never knew how right I was!

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[neo-leviathan.livejournal.com]

Seriously, the show would have ended in the middle of season two if he'd gotten laid. Hell, it would probably have been in serious jeopardy if he'd gotten a blowjob in season one. If the villains really wanted to stop him on his endless crusade to mess their shit up, they needed to hire one ten-cent hooker (hey, viridian, you interested?) for about an hour. Done. End of threat from the prison-escaping mastermind. So much more subtle than the various and sundry ways they've tried to publicly execute him...

I didn't read the title of your post.
Until you got to "Prison-escaping mastermind" I thought you were talking about Mohinder....

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Hardly. Mohinder's ability to jump through glass without getting a scratch is pretty impressive, however.

[linaerys.livejournal.com]

Yet I totally want to watch Prison Break. And I'm secretly hoping for a little BroYay. I blame Adrian Pasdar.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I have to admit that despite some cracktacular lapses of logic on this show, the first two seasons were just dynamite television. I was sure I was going to have a heart attack if I stopped watching in season two.

And yes, it has loads of BroYay, especially in the way that most of the ladies who like Supernatural like--you've got the younger brother definitely trying to prove himself worthy of protective big brother, and you've got the self-sacrificing big brother more worried about the little brother than himself. Plus it has one of the few token female characters I have ever liked, so that's something.

Season three was okay, though not as great as seasons one and two, but still worth watching, I think. I'm all of one episode into season four and I'm pretty sure this is season-four-of-Smallville-shark-jumping. But we'll see.