Prison Break - Series Finale

So, anyone still watching? The series finale is on Friday, and all the major players are converging in a nice & tight (though absurdly contrived) little ball of tension and angst.

Michael has Scylla. The General has Sarah. Mama Scofield has Linc (whom she just shot). The lady or the knuckleheaded tiger–which will Michael choose?

Plus, Self’s wounded and a widower, Mahone is still the most grounded of the bunch, and T-Bag is far overdue for a karmic kickdown.

I gotta say, it’s just as ridiculous as 24 without being so politically problematic. I’m gonna miss it–let’s hope it all goes out with a nice big bang.

I’m still watching. Hopefully they’re able to wrap things up in a satisfying way. Maybe some old characters will make an appearance, although that might be tough for the writers to do without forcing it.

I’m having a hard time thinking of any old characters that aren’t dead! AJ (lord help us) and C-note about sum it up, though maybe Mahone’s Bureau colleage (the black woman) may make an appearance.

Well, there’s Sucre, and some old side characters like the warden. Also I’ve been maintaining for years now that Kellerman isn’t really dead, and that the guys shooting into the van were rescuing him rather than killing him. It seems that this is my last chance to be proven right.

Plus, if they can bring Sarah back after having an episode where Linc finds her severed head in a box, pretty much everyone is fair game.

I’ll watch just to make sure T-Bag makes it out alive. He’s probably one of the most despicable characters on TV and I will be PISSED if he’s killed, and yet good-hearted Michael could bite it and I wouldn’t feel a pang. Go figure.

I doubt you could separate Sucre from MariCruz, and the show was right to realize he was just a largely useless hang-along once they broke out of their 2nd prison. As for Pope, that’d be a stretch–why not pull in ex-POTUS Reynolds, too! :cool:

Ah, Kellerman, that magnificent bastard. RIP, I’m afraid (though that would be the Resurrection of the Year).

Right there with you, that guy and William Fichtner really bring their A-game, no matter how dumb the show gets. I haven’t missed an episode since the beginning and will miss the show when it is over. I also have no freaking idea what is going on anymore, if I ask my boyfriend what a character is doing and why, the answer is just “He’s Prison Breaking”. Aaah, and then I totally understand.

I did like last season when Scofield gained some weight and was constantly wearing that blousy light blue buttondown, because a friend came over and said “Is that the hot one? He looks like Barefoot Contessa”. So lovely. I see that Scofield has gotten back into fighting form, gotta be attractive to have your chemistryless relationship with ole Lazy Eye Tancretti.

My personal favorite is how if a cop is within a mile of Linc, he just gets on his knees and puts his hands behind his head. In the opening credits, it should just be a montage of that.

+1 for me :smiley:

Any pangs after all?

All in all, I thought this was a surprisingly good ending.

“We were voting whether you get a stick of gum on your ride back to prison.” And the way T-Bag spit it out was priceless.

So all the good guys are basically happy except Scofield, because he is DEAD and all the bad guys got what they deserved. Karma has been done.

Well. Lets just say, I guessed what the final scene was, as the characters on screen where walking over there.

I think we know what we mean.

It HAD to end that way. There is no other way it could.

On Don Self

Sucks for him. I would have liked my Prison Break with a little less Snuff than that.

On The General

Man, his trial was fast. Glad that he got the chair, frankly, Glad further, that Micheal never shot anyone. - He maintained his pacifism throughout, correct?

Comment on what Linc does in the last scene.

I loved that he had an Origami Bird. Yet, who folded it? now that I think about it.

On T-Bag

I loved how another cellmate had GATE literature. Too perfect. Salt in the wounds. And he is back at Fox River? Perfect.

On perhaps the Biggest shock in the Finale. Right at the end of the first hour.

Kellerman. It was an on going question I had, that I voiced with my parents. I was NEVER convinced that Kellerman was out of the show. - This is FOX. if Jack Bauer can die 3 times, certainly, an UNSEEN, ASSUMED gun shot, can not go as planned.

In fact, I was expecting THAT to happen.
On the OTHER Shock that relates to the above, but with another Character.

C-Note. I Was shocked to see C-Note. Sucre was a given, and he was even kept in the show’s intro. But having C-Note back, and to also get one last jab in on T-bag - literally was good.

Almost makes me want

DB Cooper, Haywire, and other guys back. Warden Pope at least. (Did Keach Die?)

Or

The fact that LJ wasn’t around was odd.

But, Again at the end:

I thought The Company fixed Michael’s nose bleed issue.

Yes. Great Ending GREAT closure.

Well poo!

Can you explain this to me? I mean, seriously, I have no idea why it “HAD” to end with Michael dead. I mean, maybe if he had been shot or killed in a valiant last-ditch (successful) effort to save everyone, I could accept it. Then his death would have had some meaning. But to just go out with a whimper because the brain-whatever came back? I thought it was just a cheap shot by the writers because, for some reason I will probably never fathom, there’s this bizarre idea extant that fully happy endings are bad. Given what you said, perhaps you agree with that, so again: can you explain why? I really just don’t get it. What would have been so wrong about letting Michael live happily ever after with his family?

I agree with Roadfood. Why couldn’t they just do surgery and fix him? Cheap shot.

FWIW I reckon that Michael’s death was an indication that the Scyla ( sp? )

technology didn’t work as advertised.

Remember Sarah’s concerns about the procedure?

In this way, you know that Prison Break will never return. Main Character, Dead, IN THE GROUND.

The show is over. The epitome of Closure.

It might not have been on his terms.

His death was on no one’s terms.

Well, we DID see Haywire and DB Cooper, after they were gone.

-Loved that episode. PrisonBreak was almost saying, Oh yeah, we DID start this thing in a prison, didn’t we?

Actually, yes. As soon as I realized Michael was dead, I got a little choked up. :o

But I was equally moved by T-Bag’s end. I was glad he was alive (and that dude will find a way to come out on top, literally and figuratively, in there again), but the fact that he wasn’t the young, gleeful predator of season 1 but was all wizened and embittered kinda got to me. sniff

God, he was awesome in season 1. I’ll have to watch the DVDs now and relive his former glory.

I agree. Especially since it seemed that his mother had the same condition, the same surgery, and apparently lived for 30 or however many years afterward. I could have completely understood if he was shot doing something brave, then died in Sarah’s arms or something like that, but it seemed so unneccessary to end it the way they did for him.

Other than how Michael ended up, I thought it was a pretty good finale.

Just watched it tonight and was very satisfied. What a great finale. And it was so awesome to see Kellerman again! I had a feeling that it would be him when C-Note mentioned that he had someone helping him, but I tried not to get my hopes up too high.
How long was Michael alive after they won their freedom? His gravestone said he died in 2005, but in what year was the show actually set? If we’re supposed to assume that “4 years later” brings us to the present time, then Michael must have died very soon after that scene with Sarah on the beach, a thought that really depresses me.

Actually, I think they should have just wrapped it up after Season One - or the latest, after Season Two. The whole McGuffin of the mystery Similla (or however it is spelled) was just plain stupid. And does anyone know a single person on earth who had a full body tattoo removed so quickly and perfectly with nary a scar?
This is one show that really needed to end.