Prison Break - Season Two on FOX - Page 6

Maybe I am easy to entertain but I think this show is great and have enjoyed the 1st 2 episodes.

I believe you are missing the frustration. The first season, although unbelievable, was still fun and made you say "Hmm, what if.....". This season, it makes you say "Whatever, no way that could happen....". The problem is the downhill spiral from Season 1 to 2. Almost appears like different writers.

Or sometimes they don't even show you enough to say "no way, that couldn't happen." Getting into and out of the courthouse is a good example of that.

You don't think it is possible for a veterinarian to successfully reattach a severed human hand while the psychotic patient is awake? Or that two escaped convicts, who likely have their faces plastered over every newspaper and newscast could think they could break that kid out of a courthouse, even though it did have the worst security ever.

Also, didn't the president get poisoned on the last episode of season 1? Isn't it odd that when they show the newspapers that wasn't the lead story instead of the prison escape. Maybe the story about the president's death and the swearing in of the first woman president was on page two.

I think most viewers are willing to accept a certain amount of implausability for the sake of entertainment, but the writers on this show aren't even trying to stay within any limits anymore.

Last season's Prison Break I'd describe as "intriguing and suspenseful". This year's Prison Break I'd describe (so far) as "silly and annoying".

I DO NOT like the FBI's intellectual equivalent of Michael Scofield. I wish the writers went in a different direction.

The re-attachment of the severed hand by a VET is just ridiculous. What were the writing team thinking when they discussed that in conference. There must've been a better direction they could've gone. And for T-bag to overtake, strap-down (????) and inject the vet with only one good arm with such a weak weapon is just laughable.

The whole courthouse scene was illogical. The roof scene was right out of 24 (which was just as stupid as this). And exactly HOW exactly did they get away?

I understand that this series requires some dispelling belief. Last year it worked because they were in a situation (prison) that was so unique. But out in the "real world" there are certain laws of logic that come into play which have been violated. Thus, it turns a series that was intriguing into silly.

My prediction is that the genius FBI agent will figure out just about everything along the way and will be right on their heels the whole time. I also predict that he will figure out the corruption in the government. Therefore, he will actually end up fighting two battles.


I'm not sure this seaon's going to work. I'm certainly going to keep watching. Maybe it will correct itself. I went through the same thing in seasons of LOST and 24, but I remained interested.

Forget the vet doing it, most MD's couldn't do it with a cadaver and a text book open using proper tools and equipment.

To do that kind of extensive microsurgery to attach those nerves, bloodvessels, tendons, muscle, fractured bones etc would take a specialist with a specific skill set (and added degrees in microsurgery) to have the thing not fall off dead the next day.

and who's to say that it ISN'T going to fall off real soon? I think I'll be a little more patient....you guys are way too restless.

ITA with everyone who's saying that this show has gone off the deep end of implausibility. I will give it another few episodes, but if it's just more of the same after that I'm done.

I thought episode 2 was better than episode 1, but the whole hand reattachment was completely ridiculous....it would have been far more plausible if he just had a deep laceration or broken bone to be set...no way is that outcome even remotely possible in rl...

Still I will tune in every week...it beats most of what is out there...but I do hope it gets better, to the quality of last season, which rocked imo.

We're still a long ways off from 24.

No the quality differs and I also wonder about the writers...Prison Break was one of the best shows around last season...I don't want a lackluster season this year. Mondays were a blockbuster television night with Prison Break and 24.

Indeed, it will make for a great escape device the next time he's handcuffed.

Nothing in last year's show was all that plausiable. Nothing made me go "oh, what if...". The show's hook for me is the interaction between the characters. This season so far is about breaking down the constructs of last season. The killing of the annoying Veronica character, the firing of Bellick, and the dropping of the President storyline all reshuffle the deck for this season.

I hate to break it to you, but there a lot of people who look a like. There are thousands of crimnals who go around free everyday because of that fact.

My guess: "We have a problem. Robert Knepper doesn't want to wear a fake stump on the show. He says it's uncomfortable. Is there some plausible way we could have his hand reattached? Oh wait, I forgot... we're on Fox. Just come up with anything. An Indian veterinarian? No anesthesia? OK, sure, just make sure the dude dies after he screws T-Bag's hand back on."

What I don't get is, why did they have to make the guy a veternarian? The least they could have done was have T-bag stumble across an actual human clinic, with a real doctor. It still would have been unbelievable, but not quite as much.

I loved Sobell's comment about that in the Television Without Pity recap of the episode:

I think the idea there was a vet was more likely to be alone. T-bag taking on two people with one hand would really be unbelievable!

That comes next week.

Naw. . . .I think it would've been a lot more exciting if T-Bag took over a whole hospital and forced an eight-member surgical team to reattach his hand and then, to top that, go to the roof and commandeer a medical helicopter to make an escape all while holding off the security with a half pair of scissors.

Nice to see all of the excitement over this show on this board. Thousands of posts on the latest episode.

Anyway, Bellick following Michael's wife was smart. But I wonder why the FBI wasn't on her tail. Bellick smarter than the FBI? Hmmm. Didn't much care for the red herring "death" in the car that was in the previews.

I agree. This episode was one of the better ones of season2 by far!!


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I'm wondering how they knew to go out at the bridge in the middle of nowhere to see the car being blown up? It's not like Michael gave that detailed of information to that fat guy that Bellick(sp?) scared the information out of in the prison....

The FBI got the cell phone tracked when he made the call to the email drop. What I don't get is why they didn't use a helicopter.

If they had used a helicopter, they would know longer be 1/2 step behind

I agree with the other posters that this was the best of the three this season, but still extremely bad in comparison to last season.

Was Sarah's Dad a different actor from last season? He looked different.

He was following his "wife".

They're always refueling.


Nope. Same guy.

Just saw the President's brother (actor from last season) on one of this season's episodes of The Closer.

What I learned on last night's episode is that cayenne pepper and vodka can heal a gunshot wound!

Also, I'm confused about the car that Michael had with the elaborate radio-rigged bomb, with the body parts hidden in the trunk. Wasn't the original plan to get on the plane with Abruzzi? So that elaborate set-up with the car was simply a backup plan?