Last week: the saeson got off to a rough start, with the “Prison Break” thread suffering from a wretched baby-talk title.
Oh, and Michael and the gang were in a Panamanian prison and there’s a mysterious guy in the wall and junk. Not a bad episode, for kicking off a totally artificial first season.
More Mr. Wizard/MacGyver stuff from Michael: Moses of the Panamanian prison system. Lincoln fumes. Sucre pouts. Mahone is foiled again. Yay.
Nice to see the producers haven’t forgotten us poor heteros and given us some eye candy in Ms. Anthony in lieu of the good doc’s absence.
Whistler: Terrence Steadman by anyother name would be a pawn as much.
Can someone explain what Michael did, exactly, with the alcohol? I mean, how did he get water ?
How much more Inertia are we going to afford this season? Where are our ohmygodImontheedgeofmyseat!! moments that defined this show?!
All I know for now, is that I will see ep 3. That is all I know.
He made a crude Molotov cocktail that just happened to blow the faucet off the water pipe.
A lot of things in PB “just happen,” which is part of the show’s charm. I love seeing Alex get one-upped.
If the plot with James Whistler has anything to do with his mother, I’m going to scream.
My Husband the Engineer says that could have worked, but he’s not sure if he would have in this case, and now I’m going to have to suffer through a week’s worth of physics and fluid mechanics lessons, I think. Which: can’t he just watch and admire how pretty Wentworth Miller is? I mean, come on.
Heh. Incidentally, anybody know who the actor playing Whistler is? I feel like I’ve seen him before but I can’t think of where. He’s kind of cute for a guy who’s been hiding in the wall for however long.
Also: is Mahone supposed to be the new Kellerman, with flexible alliances and such? Because last week he was Michael’s friend, and this week he wasn’t, and I am easily confused. Although, he is an addict going through withdrawal, so maybe a little irrationality is understandable.
And also: the actor who plays Bellick is far too talented to be reduced to the snivelling dirtwad he’s played so far this season. Bellick is obviously not supposed to be as smart as Michael, but you would think he’d have learned something about the way things work in a prison so that he wouldn’t have to run around in nothing but underpants for an episode and a half.
Bellick knows how American prisons work when he is on the top. He doesn’t know about how Panamanian prisons work when he is on the bottom. Remember what happened when he had the money in the hotel room and T-Bag walked in? Instant snivelling dirtwad! I’m enjoying his getting his just desserts, and he does snivelling dirtwad so well.
I wish Agent Kim could get thrown into the prison mix.
I guess it’s entirely appropriate to Linc’s character that the term Immaculate Conception doesn’t mean what he thinks it means.
Notice how Linc gave Susan B. Anthony the duplicate bird book, she leaves, and he immediately takes the real bird book out of his pocket and starts reading it? Stupidity on the level of handcuffing T-Bag’s severed hand to the radiator.
Whistler is played by Chris Vance
And his snivelling dirtward in Panama prison is completely different both from his snivelling dirtwad facing T-Bag in the hotel and his snivelling dirtbag in Fox River. That sounds like I’m being snarky but I’m not. The actor is playing each situation with different tones and shading when it would have been so easy to play them all the same way. Very good work.
As a corpse in the yard? That wouldn’t be very entertaining. Well, not for very long it wouldn’t.
“That’s not chicken.”
I stand corrected.
Mmmmmmmmmmm…Asian Chicken
I meant Kim alive in the prisonl. I loved his character.
Good points, on both your parts. Guess the actor who plays Bellick is even better than I gave him credit for.
I think there is no doubt that Kim took the dirt nap.
shot to the heart, and then he fell into the water.
Agent Rasputin on the other hand…
As next week’s TV Guide asks “Just how fast does word travel in that prison?” You’ve got this guy that has been hiding in a wall underground for how long? One person spills the beans and a couple of hours later there are about 142 people down there trying to get to him.
The Internet couldn’t do it that quickly.