Prison Break 4x10 "The Legend" - Discussion/Spoilers

[Trekker4747]

From TV.com:

Sara is left with no choice but to take Michael to the hospital as his condtion rapidly worsens. Sucre and Lincoln are faced with unknown territory as they are left in charge of the operation. Agent Self makes a surprising ally.

 

[Trekker4747]

SBA: "Have you ever heard of noodling?"
TBag "I don't beleive I have."
SBA: "Then what kind of hillbilly are you?"

 

[Trekker4747]

Good episode.

At the end as Michael is talking about the lycranphonic sensors (sensors that turn into werewolves?!) and not touching the floor, etc. The Mission Impossible theme went through my head.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

^^^ "Microphonic sensors." It's how they say "microphones" in the dialect of the Voyager people. It's actually accurate terminology, just needlessly technical for the purposes of conveying that they need to keep quiet.

And yes, I immediately thought of 'Mission: Impossible' as well. Excellent episode though.

Brad looked great for getting hit by tons of water and flushed down a big ass pipe into the ocean. Those FBI funeral home workers do good work.

 

[TheInsideMan]

Great send-off for Bellick. And nice twist with the hot redhead secretary being an Agent.

 

[Trekker4747]

Great send-off for Bellick. And nice twist with the hot redhead secretary being an Agent.

I dunno. I didn't much like that twist. Seemed too much like a 24ian literal "11th hour" plot change-up that in hindsight makes little sense. Kind of like Logan becoming EEEEEVIIIIIL.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Average...geeze, I don't think they needed to do a whole episode as a memorial to Brad Bellick.

SBA: "Have you ever heard of noodling?"
TBag "I don't beleive I have."
SBA: "Then what kind of hillbilly are you?"

Gretchen was really rockin' this episode. I liked the way she lit into Sucre for being such a crybaby about the whole stepping on a mine thing too.

 

[witchie]

Can we kill off Self now? He's an ass. Did anyone really believe him when he tried to get all badass with Sucre? Umm...no. But then Sucre becomes the biggest wuss with the mine, as if he'd be the only one to die. Gretchen was right. She'd get her face blown off.

 

[Mallet]

Solid episode. Nothing to major, but it seemed out of character for T-Bag to be so upset about Bellick dying. You'd figure T-Bag would at most not care, and at worst be happy about it.

 

[Trekker4747]

Solid episode. Nothing to major, but it seemed out of character for T-Bag to be so upset about Bellick dying. You'd figure T-Bag would at most not care, and at worst be happy about it.

Yeah, that didn't ring true with me either. Robert Knepper sort-of sold it but didn't ring true with the character. I would've figured that, yeah, he wouldn't care. But, it's possible he's a deeper character than we think.

 

[Mallet]

Yah, Robert Knepper was great as always. I'm just worried that they are going to take him in a new "direction" like they did with Sylar in Heroes.

 

[Trekker4747]

Yah, Robert Knepper was great as always. I'm just worried that they are going to take him in a new "direction" like they did with Sylar in Heroes.

T-Bag has committed incredible artocities -some of them involving children. I think it'd be hard to "redeem" his character especially given the more "naturalistic" setting of PB as opposed to Heroes' Sylar.

There's nothing I see potentally redeemng in him, as opposed to in Sylar.

He's stll incredbly fun to watch.

 

[Captaindemotion]

Solid episode. Nothing to major, but it seemed out of character for T-Bag to be so upset about Bellick dying. You'd figure T-Bag would at most not care, and at worst be happy about it.

I don't know. I actually found that more convincing than Bellick's transformation to good guy. T-Bag is a complex creature. There may even have been a touch of Stockholm syndrome about his reaction. After all, the Fox River gang have all been through a lot together. He has no friends at the minute - the rest of the gang, enemies as they may be, are his only mainstays.

Oh and yeah, Bellick was in great shape for a man who ought to have been pummelled to a pulp in that tunnel.

The twist with the sexy secretary/ Fed wasn't any sillier than the numerous twists with Whistler and Mahone, IMHO. And the whole break into Scylla definitely had a MI feel all right. I thought some time ago that this season would feature them breaking into a prison or prison-like building and it's definitely going that way.

One final, macabre thought. There are rumours going round that Fox has decided to end the show this season. Could they end the show with Michael suffering some sort of stroke and becoming paralysed. His body becoming a prison, one that even he can't break out of? How awful, yet brave, an ending would that be?!

 

[Mallet]

They can't end this show until after the crew have been imprisoned in a super-secret orbiting company prison colony in outer space and then manage to escape.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Yah, Robert Knepper was great as always. I'm just worried that they are going to take him in a new "direction" like they did with Sylar in Heroes.

With Sylar, the writers left hints from the first episodes of what they had in mind, or at least one of the potential directions for the character, so it doesn't come off as forced now. T-Bag hasn't had that kind of foreshadowing.

 

[Mr Light]

I think I read somewhere that this season will be the last one and it will last 22 episodes. I'm surprised there's that many left because the story seems to be reading an end; once they get Scylla and expose it to the world what is left to tell? Or are they going to pull one of those mid-S1 twists where they don't get it and have to start all over again at the new facility (that would be annoying).

 

[Trekker4747]

It was pretty obvious, to me, that from the first episode they were setting this up to be the last season.