Prison Break comments
A much better outing this week than last week. My standard for judging a PB episode is "was it entertaining enough to keep me from caring about the HUGE GAPING LOGIC HOLES?" Last night the answer was yes.
Hellooooo, naked Wentworth Miller! For the second week in a row you grace my TV screen with your presence, and don't think I don't appreciate it. Minus points for not being wet and shiny from the shower, but hey, the "degradingly strip-searched" look works on you too. I'm not picky.
The escape storyline had good forward momentum this week, which is one of the most important thing about any episode for me. Michael's trick with the watch was nicely MacGyverish (I love it when he's being an engineer), and Bellick's confrontation with Nika set up a nice potential complication that Michael doesn't know about and has no way of predicting. Nice to see Bellick regrow his brain, too -- I always like it better when the villains give the heroes a run for their money. I also liked the escalating tension among the breakout gang. Of course, T-Bag isn't going to play well with other, especially when the others are C-Note and Sucre. And Lincoln was very manly, stepping in to break up the fight between T-Bag and C-Note. See how they both backed down immediately? That's 'cause Lincoln is manly. Grr.
What the heck was up with Peter Stormare in this scene, though? I mean, I'm used to Abruzzi's accent wandering all over the map without ever actually hitting Italy, but his enunciation in this scene was just plain bizarre. I could barely figure out what he was saying half the time. Whatever drugs this dude is on, somebody needs to cut his dosage.
Westmoreland getting on board due to a convenient family emergency was pretty contrived. Also, I'm kinda bummed to find out that he's DB Cooper after all. It would've been way more amusing if Michael had done all that painstaking research, come up with an incredibly clever and elaborate theory, and been completely wrong. And we're supposed to believe that he kept that $100 bill concealed in a prison for thirty years, without ever having to hide it someplace where it might get at least a little bit wrinkled? Come on. Plus, how exactly do they plan to spend that money if the Treasury Department knows the serial numbers on the bills?
I have to admire Westmoreland's calmness and self-control, though. If I had Tweener for a cellmate, I would've strangled him by now.
Yes, yes, I know. Gaping logic holes. Let's move on.
I'm waiting to see how she acts in future episodes, but for now, Sara has redeemed herself in my eyes. She'd behaved stupidly and unprofessionally in the last couple of episodes, but she has actually recognized this about herself, and confronted Michael about it, and is trying to put a stop to it. This instantly made her sympathetic to me again. Plus, the scene with her and Michael in the infirmary was damn hot. The UST was just sizzling there. I swear, if you held a match between them, it would light. The confrontation in the prison yard was really good, too, especially Michae's desperate "they do have answers" line as she walks away. This attraction is throwing him off-stride as much as her, and it's always good to see Michael thrown off-stride.
Meanwhile, over on the boring side of the show, Veronica has lost all the cred she'd build up with me over the last two weeks with her whiny, self-centered "I didn't sign up for this" speech. Shut up, Veronica. Even whacking Quinn with a chair wasn't enough to redeem you in my eyes.
Speaking of the not-so-mighty Quinn, last week I had some hope that he'd inject some much-needed brains and class into the WWGC, but no such luck. He started off well enough, tricking his way into the cabin and shooting Nick, but everything he did afterwards was just stupid. I mean, okay, I'm not exactly an expert on these things, but if I was a menacing government conspirator who'd just taken three people captive with the intent of interrogating them, I wouldn't put them in three separate locations so that whenever I spoke with one, I couldn't see what the other two were doing. And I'd do a better job of tying them up, too. What the hell did he bind Veronica's wrists with, a twist tie? He had duct tape, why not use that?
And speaking of duct tape, you'd think that somewhere in Quinn's conspiracy training somebody would've taught him that interrogation is more likely to yield answers if the person you're interrogating doesn't have her mouth taped shut.
On the plus side, my love for LJ continues to grow by leaps and bounds. When the big reunion comes, Lincoln can be really, really proud of his kid.
Speaking of Lincoln, how much did I love that last conversation between him and Michael? A whole lot, that's how much. First Lincoln is all big-brotherly with "I know that look, tell me what's wrong." And then, when Michael explains the 18-minute thing, Linc just blinks at him with that "you know I'm not good at math, please don't make me do math" look until little brother has to spell it out for him. Hee. But I do wish we'd gotten a scene where Lincoln confronts Michael about his previously unmentioned sister-in-law. That would've been highly amusing.
Next week: one person needs to be kicked off the team, and the show tries to milk an hour's worth of suspense about who it's gonna be, even though we know everybody hates T-Bag.
Hellooooo, naked Wentworth Miller! For the second week in a row you grace my TV screen with your presence, and don't think I don't appreciate it. Minus points for not being wet and shiny from the shower, but hey, the "degradingly strip-searched" look works on you too. I'm not picky.
The escape storyline had good forward momentum this week, which is one of the most important thing about any episode for me. Michael's trick with the watch was nicely MacGyverish (I love it when he's being an engineer), and Bellick's confrontation with Nika set up a nice potential complication that Michael doesn't know about and has no way of predicting. Nice to see Bellick regrow his brain, too -- I always like it better when the villains give the heroes a run for their money. I also liked the escalating tension among the breakout gang. Of course, T-Bag isn't going to play well with other, especially when the others are C-Note and Sucre. And Lincoln was very manly, stepping in to break up the fight between T-Bag and C-Note. See how they both backed down immediately? That's 'cause Lincoln is manly. Grr.
What the heck was up with Peter Stormare in this scene, though? I mean, I'm used to Abruzzi's accent wandering all over the map without ever actually hitting Italy, but his enunciation in this scene was just plain bizarre. I could barely figure out what he was saying half the time. Whatever drugs this dude is on, somebody needs to cut his dosage.
Westmoreland getting on board due to a convenient family emergency was pretty contrived. Also, I'm kinda bummed to find out that he's DB Cooper after all. It would've been way more amusing if Michael had done all that painstaking research, come up with an incredibly clever and elaborate theory, and been completely wrong. And we're supposed to believe that he kept that $100 bill concealed in a prison for thirty years, without ever having to hide it someplace where it might get at least a little bit wrinkled? Come on. Plus, how exactly do they plan to spend that money if the Treasury Department knows the serial numbers on the bills?
I have to admire Westmoreland's calmness and self-control, though. If I had Tweener for a cellmate, I would've strangled him by now.
Yes, yes, I know. Gaping logic holes. Let's move on.
I'm waiting to see how she acts in future episodes, but for now, Sara has redeemed herself in my eyes. She'd behaved stupidly and unprofessionally in the last couple of episodes, but she has actually recognized this about herself, and confronted Michael about it, and is trying to put a stop to it. This instantly made her sympathetic to me again. Plus, the scene with her and Michael in the infirmary was damn hot. The UST was just sizzling there. I swear, if you held a match between them, it would light. The confrontation in the prison yard was really good, too, especially Michae's desperate "they do have answers" line as she walks away. This attraction is throwing him off-stride as much as her, and it's always good to see Michael thrown off-stride.
Meanwhile, over on the boring side of the show, Veronica has lost all the cred she'd build up with me over the last two weeks with her whiny, self-centered "I didn't sign up for this" speech. Shut up, Veronica. Even whacking Quinn with a chair wasn't enough to redeem you in my eyes.
Speaking of the not-so-mighty Quinn, last week I had some hope that he'd inject some much-needed brains and class into the WWGC, but no such luck. He started off well enough, tricking his way into the cabin and shooting Nick, but everything he did afterwards was just stupid. I mean, okay, I'm not exactly an expert on these things, but if I was a menacing government conspirator who'd just taken three people captive with the intent of interrogating them, I wouldn't put them in three separate locations so that whenever I spoke with one, I couldn't see what the other two were doing. And I'd do a better job of tying them up, too. What the hell did he bind Veronica's wrists with, a twist tie? He had duct tape, why not use that?
And speaking of duct tape, you'd think that somewhere in Quinn's conspiracy training somebody would've taught him that interrogation is more likely to yield answers if the person you're interrogating doesn't have her mouth taped shut.
On the plus side, my love for LJ continues to grow by leaps and bounds. When the big reunion comes, Lincoln can be really, really proud of his kid.
Speaking of Lincoln, how much did I love that last conversation between him and Michael? A whole lot, that's how much. First Lincoln is all big-brotherly with "I know that look, tell me what's wrong." And then, when Michael explains the 18-minute thing, Linc just blinks at him with that "you know I'm not good at math, please don't make me do math" look until little brother has to spell it out for him. Hee. But I do wish we'd gotten a scene where Lincoln confronts Michael about his previously unmentioned sister-in-law. That would've been highly amusing.
Next week: one person needs to be kicked off the team, and the show tries to milk an hour's worth of suspense about who it's gonna be, even though we know everybody hates T-Bag.