Hey Fox, it’s not like I’ve memorized the dictionary or anything, but I’m pretty sure it’s just plain wrong to advertise an episode as featuring “The Greatest Escape in Television History” and then to not show us a breakout.
What we got instead was a lot of faffing. With Sammy out of the way, you’d think the preparations inside the prison would be smooth sailing, but now the guys have only 24 hours to re-dig the tunnel that took them three days to excavate the first time. Plus it’s raining. In Michael’s words, “Rain. Dirt. Tunnel. Problem.” Even with the proper support, the extra water weight could make the whole structure collapse. The solution? Move the escape up half a day before the ground gets too heavy. So now they have 12 hours to re-dig the tunnel that took them three… oh you get it. And to make things worse, now they’ve got to breakout at night. Under any other circumstances this would be a good thing, but in Sona that means double the guards and double the jeep patrols. As Elbert Hubbard wrote, “Life is just one damn thing after another.”
So in place of a heart-pounding, mind-blowing prison break, we got a few A-team montages of the guys hurrying to build tunnel supports. We got some old-school Michael, with his plan to cut off the electricity and use honey and dirt to cover the escape hatch. We got some “heart-to-hearts” between Lechero and T-Bag, Bellick and Mahone, and Michael and Whistler. We got to see Sucre use his little gray cells and sabotage a patrol vehicle. We got to cringe and wiggle when Gretchen put out her henchman’s cigar on Sophia’s shoulder. And we got to cheer for Whistler when he actually came through for once and tore up the paper with the coordinates on it, refusing to give in to the Company. Then again, who knows what was on that paper. Could be “Dear Gretchen, clean me, love, your underwear,” for all we know.
But I digress. I was waiting for some sort of convo between Whistlerand Mahone. “Hey, you worked for the company? I worked for thecompany!” “Really, what kinda benefits did you get?” “401K?” Seriouslythough, I wouldn’t be surprised if they were both STILL working for theCompany. Which reminds me, we didn’t learn much more about Whistler’s(aka Edward Guthrie’s) mysterious past in this episode. (What didGretchen say to Linc? She could tell him about Whistler, but she’d“have to kill him.”) But thanks to PopWatcher Arczi for pointing outthat the famous American-born artist James McNeill Whistler had an art dealer named Edward Guthrie Kennedy (whom he painted a portrait of once).Coincidence? I think not: you know all that gobbledygook from a fewepisodes back about Whistler’s mother? Well one of James McNeillWhistler’s most famous paintings is called “Whistler’s Mother.” Go Arczi with your bad self.
Speaking of paintings, did anyone notice that the graffiti on thewall in the scene when Michael lets McGrady join the crew? It said“Viva XIII,” which totally made me think of the comic XIII in which an amnesiac with an ass-kicking past is falsely accused of murdering the president and ends up in jail. I’m not too well versed in it, but I think there might be a connection.
So what’s on your mind? Annoyed that we didn’t get a breakout? Angrythat with only two episodes left it doesn’t look like we’re going tofind out anything about the secrets behind Whistler and the company?
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Perhaps they are referring to the title and premise of the show, Prison BREAK, and not necessarily the episode in question.
Two eps, that’s it? I wonder, is that because of the writers’ strike, or is that all they were planning for this year? I thought three seasons was going to be it for PB. Gack.
I wasn’t the least bit surprised that we didn’t get to see the breakout tonight. PB is one of the worst shows when it comes to procrastination – there’s always something that can wait until next weeks episode. I was just glad that when the credit’s rolled and we saw the preview it said “next week”, and not “PB will return in 2009!”
It was hilarious when Bellick asked Lechero how to say “Don’t shoot me!” in Spanish. Lechero blew a golden opportunity…I would have died laughing if he’d taught him “Shoot me first!” in Spanish instead followed maybe by “Su madres son muy feas”. Doesn’t Bellick know that almost everyone of the escapees has him marked as a body shield when the bullets start flying? Loved the Prison Break ad during the Super Bowl too. Great seeing T-Bag get clotheslined like that. So…2 eps for the break and run. I guess they are planning another season?
I loved last night’s episode…loved it. It gave me that “can’t believe he/she just did/said that” feeling throughout. And the fact that they left us hanging about the breakout is great because for the first time in months, I can’t wait until the next episode. I did not like Gretchen’s “if I tell you, I’ll have to kill you” line. She has said more novel and witty statements in the past. I’m not buying Whistler’s sudden boldness, though. He’s so shady, they could all slither behind him and never be seen escaping Sona. Finally, I’m still sensing some hostility from Michael towards Linc. He needs to get over the fact that Linc withheld the info on Sara’s demise.
I really needed a LOL moment yesterday and I got it when Mahone told T-Bag that if there were any justice in this world that he’d be buried face down with the rest of his inbred family. Hysterical.
I hope that there are 2 episodes left because of the strike and not because they’re doing another season. I like these characters, but this show needs to end.
Yea, I’m guessing the 2 episodes left thing is because of the writer’s strike. Heroes did the same thing with the ‘Generations’ arc in fall ‘07. It kept advertising as ‘the Heroes have so-and-so episodes left to save the world’. This show does need to end pretty soon, because I haven’t been too emotionally invested to this show since the excellent (if somewhat uneven) first season.
The basic premise of the show – that you have this big, bad organization “The Company” that can rig elections, set people up for crimes they didn’t commit and be all powerful EXCEPT when it comes to getting a guy out of a two bit prison in a nearly third world prison makes no sense to me.
this show is awful…i watched the first two seasons and they were good, but wasnt this suppose to be a 3 season show…we met the bad people, we were introduced to the higher ups and we were heading towards a satisfying resolution to the story arc, but instead they slotted this show for another 4 years…thus this crappy season came about..they are stalling and they really have nothing to go on anymore..end it already!
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