While I still stand by my assessment that they are dragging this out way too long, this was a pretty good episode. For once I liked the ole’ switcheroo, with Lincoln and bad FBI guy. I also thought Michael’s stabbing strategy was sound. I knew he wouldn’t do T-Bag in, he’s just too great a villian and will be needed next season. Which brings me to a prediction. Sometime, next season, after you thought T-Bag was long gone from the show, his grinning face appears from the shadows and he raises two shiny, sharp, scary-looking hooks up and says, “Hello Pretty.”
I agree that they probably should have stuck with the original plan and kept the show limited to two seasons. However, I honestly can’t get too upset at there being another season of Prison Break, and another season of Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell on my TV.
Without Season 3, we wouldn’t be able to look forward to T-Bag as a no-armed prison gimp…
Linc being caught by the really bad guy was just plain stupid. Shoot the fucker out of everyone’s misery already. Shoot to wound. and get the hell away from him.
Other than that, it was a great episode.
This one sort of pissed me off, there was too much stupidity to make the plot run.
First off, you have a gun on a guy (Linc) you don’t go right up to him to get yourself hit and lose the gun. Stay back 3 feet and he can’t hit you. If he refuses to handcuff himself to a handy pipe, put a bullet in his leg.
Second, when you have a gun on the “unstoppable one armed killing machine” that is T-Bag, you don’t just let him sit in the back seat of the car with some love sick dorkus. You wrap him up with duct tape until he resembles a silver burrito, plop him in the back seat, then you and Sucre sit in the front.
And if you do have him in the back seat, you don’t put him behind the driver. All he has to do is reach out and start choking him.
I love your silver burrito suggestionl.
Yes, the whole “Lincoln’s not a killer” business really rang false, because he was in prison for a murder that, while he didn’t commit it, he fully intended to commit. He’s also beaten the living hell out of some people on the show so the new kinder gentler Lincoln Burrows? Not so much.
Giving T-Bag hooks. Now there’s a good idea :rolleyes: How long before he stabs someone’s eye out with those things?
Heh heh hehe…I am now being highly entertained at the mental picture of T-Bag as a Stephen Hawking-style invalid motoring along in his wheelchair and being all “Hello Pretty” in his computer synthesized voice and still being an unstoppable killer.
I surprise myself by how much nonsense I’m willing to put up with on this show. The show has some weird undercurrent of taking itself extremely seriously while not really taking itself seriously, which ends up working beautifully most of the time.
Michael just bumps into Sucre with a totally casual “hey, what’s up”. Both Linc, with Mahone, and Sucre, with T-Bag, hold a guy at gunpoint from about 6 inches away, instead of restraining them or shooting them or something. Sara has apparently agreed to go through with the plea, and then asks her lawyer when she’ll get out for good behaviour. All great.
And was that the longest “I’m being followed” chain in history? T-Bag was being followed by the two cop guys, who were being followed by Mike, Sucre, and Bellick, who were being followed by Mahone, who was being followed by Lincoln. Great :D.
What was really incredible was the length of time the chain of being followed walked on and on and on and on and on with nobody making a move!
I’m with all of you. I don’t know why this show works, but it does. It always has. I think part of it has to do with a certain writing-from-the-hip style, almost like earlier Sorkin. It’s like the writers themselves don’t really know what’s around the corner, but someone is there to keep everything somewhat grounded. I suspect that we’re seeing the result of their good chemistry. That gives us stuff like the man chasing the dog chasing the cat chasing the mouse.
Whatever is going on, it’s working and it’s entertaining. The moment I realized Sara was being prosecuted, I thought “Great, now Michael has to stage a Prison Break for her, S.3 is a slam dunk”.
I’ll return to one of my posts in a previous thread - the heroes aren’t all that, the villains are. Mahone and Kellerman are great villains. Among the best ever. T-Bag is one of the creepiest guys ever, mostly because he’s so real. He’s one of those guys that will make headlines that will turn on the outrage in the BBQ pit. Bellicq isn’t as high profile, but a very solid acting performance and a very believable guy nonetheless. Damaged people, working the “right” side of the law, at least nominally, and taking shortcuts, doing what they think is right. It’s very true to life and makes PB a very, very good show, with innumerable shades of grey.
The scene with Kellerman preparing for his suicide was amazing.
Mr Kim is too stereotype, though.
If nothing else, you’ve got to admire the sheer speed of the Prison Break judicial system. They caught Sara, what, like three hours before her trial started?
They got from Chicago to Panama on a freighter in minutes, too.
I’ve come to love that part of the show. There at the end Mahone tells Michael, “bring the money and the boat. You have five minutes.” Um, to decide, or to actually get the money and the boat to you? Oh well, this is PB, it’s doable.
Actually - I think there was a capion at the beginning of last week that indicated that quite a lot of time (for PB) had passed. A week? Ten days?
A week.
I was guessing that, too, and was expecting (hoping?) for a Women in Chains season, with half-naked catfights and rampant lesbianism. Oh well. 
It seems like nobody has ever heard of “bind & incapacitate” on this show (at least among the good guys). After Sucre duct taped the two company men, why didn’t they give 'em both good solid knocks on the head? What did Linc have to lose by shooting Mahone in the calf? Better safe than sorry, people!
Still, that magnificent bastard Kellerman is doing the right thing (and outing the former Prez in the bargain), and all probably unbeknownst to Woo who’s in Panama. I don’t mind going into Season 3 if the cliffhanger’s solid, but I can’t imagine them going any farther than that…
Yeah, but remember that a lot of us said they wouldn’t be able to sustain a season 2 outside the prison. And especially when they started killing a bunch of people off (starting with Tweener?).