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Well it was a decent finale but not amazing. Didn't really have one big final climax scene or anything. I'm sorely disappointed nobody got to kill T-Bag, he deserved death dammit! Prison is too good for him! I'm also pissed we never found out what happened to the Scylla Technology. Did the UN share it with all the nations and create a better world? Did it solve world hunger? What happened? Michael dying was a bit of a WTF moment. I thought the miraculous Scylla Technology surgery stopped the problem. It obviously worked on Christina since she was fine twenty years later, so why did Michael die a year or so after his surgery? Unfortunately I was spoiled on the return of C-Note and Kellerman, otherwise that woulda been a cool twist.
he is still dead, he just didn't die from the aneurysm, but rather sacrificing himself to get Sara out of a women's prison (because he knew he was going to die anyway), which is what the plot of 'The Final Break' is about. It's set before the "four-years later" coda of the finale.
The government can't go after Michael because of the immunity deal, so they arrest Sara for murder and Michael has to break her out with the help of the usual suspects. I think they were setting this up by having Sara speak Spanish (and Sucre having to take a two-day trip) because she's living on the lamb in some Latin American country.
The FBI agents they introduced in this episode will return as antagonists in the movie. Gretchen will also return.
Sounds kind of lame to me, especially with breaking out of yet another prison. I would much rather have Michael be alive but having to fake his death for some reason. What is it about these shows that they can't ever have a happy ending?
he is still dead, he just didn't die from the aneurysm, but rather sacrificing himself to get Sara out of a women's prison (because he knew he was going to die anyway), which is what the plot of 'The Final Break' is about. It's set before the "four-years later" coda of the finale.
The government can't go after Michael because of the immunity deal, so they arrest Sara for murder and Michael has to break her out with the help of the usual suspects. I think they were setting this up by having Sara speak Spanish (and Sucre having to take a two-day trip) because she's living on the lamb in some Latin American country.
The FBI agents they introduced in this episode will return as antagonists in the movie. Gretchen will also return.
Sounds kind of lame to me, especially with breaking out of yet another prison. I would much rather have Michael be alive but having to fake his death for some reason. What is it about these shows that they can't ever have a happy ending?
Good finale overall, and a good ending to the show (the whirlwind of people getting captured, escaping, captured again etc. in the space of about an hour real-time got a bit dizzying, but I liked the final subversion when it was revealed that Michael had been "abducted" by Kellerman).
Eh, Average episode, Bad season, best season by far was S1.
Wow, talk about padded. Very slow-moving and talky, really killed the pacing. Should have been one hour...
Can't believe they copped out on killing anyone important (not even T-Bag?!? I was counting on him at least dying!) - obviously for the sake of the DVDs which of course are going to reunite the old gang. One of these days, I'm hoping for a real ending, the ending where they at least kill T-Bag. They've already milked this cow dry, I guess they're going for powdered milk now.
The way Our Heroes were exonerated was astoundingly dumb. Exactly why would the US government cut a deal that puts Scylla in the hands of anyone but the US government? And why wouldn't the UN bureaucrat not scamper right off to whatever country he's from and turn Scylla over to his government, so they can use its Magical Weapons Tech to whallop all their neighbors? Or, fuck his government, sell Scylla to the Company and retire to his own private tropical island. Whoever wrote that ending has just about as deep an understanding of the actual exercise of power in the world as you'd expect from some naive Hollywood screenwriter. Dumb, dumb, DUMB.
Fun seeing Kellerman back again, even if it was in a wussy role.
I'm sorely disappointed nobody got to kill T-Bag, he deserved death dammit! Prison is too good for him!
No kidding, he's happy as a pig in slop. Even has a new friend to sexually abuse. Yet the General gets the chair, even though all he really wants is money and power.
The DVD movie and any other DVD movies they might make take place during the four years before his death.
I'm also pissed we never found out what happened to the Scylla Technology. Did the UN share it with all the nations and create a better world? Did it solve world hunger?
I've been a bit amazed at how muted the response to that has been here. Check out other TV BBSes and blogsites - people are going ballistic!
I kinda thought it was a gutsy move. Personally, I was rooting for the Big Shocker Death to be Linc, but for it to be Michael is an even bigger shock. Also, it was handled with a lot more finesse and appropriateness than Trip's death, tho maybe that's damning with faint praise...
I was pretty pissed (but not terribly surprised) when his nose started bleeding and it became obvious that he was going to die. I believe I used a few colorful metaphors directed at the producers of the show.
I agree that it's a gutsy move, but it's a gutsy move that lacks any real compelling reason except to be a bummer for the audience. On a show like this, having a happy ending after all the misery these people have been through would probably have been more surprising.
It's like '24.' Ending that show on a down-note with Jack dying (as one of the producers have suggested before) wouldn't shock me at all, because after all the depressing stuff that's happened to the man over the years it's what you'd expect. If you want to shock the hell out of me, have Jack marry Agent Red and then have them ride off into the sunset with Kim on some ponies singing 'I'm Walking on Sunshine' or something.
You know, that WOULD be a good ending for 24. Not the ponies bit, but set it up to LOOK like Jack is going to finally bite it on the job, and then pull him out of it, he retires and finds some peace, and the final scenes are him and Agent Red (or whoever they are using at the time as the sympathetic hot female character) doing the domestic thing at home. Kinda like the beginnings of the first season, where he's home with the wife and kid...
I thought it was decent. I didn't think they were going to kill off Michael like that. I was hoping for Kellerman to be a switcharoo, and that they'd all end up back in prison again. That's right, I was hoping for the big "Fuck You!"
I don't remember where Kellerman was the last time we saw him, but wasn't he basically an irredeemable piece of garbage? I guess that woman spitting in his face kind of spoke to that a bit, though I can't even remember who her husband was... his old partner, what? Didn't Kellerman kill Lincoln's woman in the first season? Doesn't he know that? The Mahone stuff really strained credibility already.
I liked the show, but really, it was a great season one, followed by 'Wacky Hour', starring the cast of Prison Break for 3 years.
Well, maybe season 2 wasn't that bad. The on the run stuff was fun for a while.
It's not like ENT and VOY where I kind of wish I could unwatch them and somehow get that lost time back
I enjoyed both but the whole Sucre/C-Note/Kellerman/UN plot was the biggest Deus Ex Machina ever. And Michael's cynicism at the end was fully justified - how could the UN manage to secure pardons for him and the rest? That made no sense to me and wasn't in the least explained.
It certainly looked like Kellerman was about to be murderlised when we last saw him in a prison van but then again, we never got to, oh, I don't know, see his head in a box(!!!!!!), so no reason why the supposed assassination can't have been a rescue after all.
I liked how T-Bag was more like the menacing T-Bag from series 1 than the slightly toned down version he's been in this season. I wasn't entirely surprised he wasn't killed off - I originally thought he would be, but I think the writers secretly like him too much to off him. I thought Mahone would be killed but I'm glad he wasn't.
I doubt very much that someone as wealthy, old and influential as The General would have gotten the electric chair - life in prison maybe, but surely he would have had the funds and contacts to avoid a death sentence. And don't they put a hood over the condemned man's head before electrocuting them? Oh well, hardly the least realistic thing in PB ever ...
But killing Michael? No, no, no, no, NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! After all he and Sara have been through? Why, why, why? The guy deserved long life and happiness! I really wanted a happy ending for him. It really saddened me. I mean, a poignant moving ending, sure, but so unnecessary. RIP Pappi!
And why wouldn't the UN bureaucrat not scamper right off to whatever country he's from and turn Scylla over to his government, so they can use its Magical Weapons Tech to whallop all their neighbors? Or, fuck his government, sell Scylla to the Company and retire to his own private tropical island. Whoever wrote that ending has just about as deep an understanding of the actual exercise of power in the world as you'd expect from some naive Hollywood screenwriter. Dumb, dumb, DUMB.
