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[dinovelvet]

I concur, fantastic episode, a whirlwind of twists, turns, backstabbings, and of course, death (RIP Hot Secretary turned Undercover Agent!)

Any word on whether next week is the end of the season...or the series? I'm glad you agree about the episode--that's the sort of writing that brought me to the series in the first place. And for the first two seasons, the writers' judgment never erred. Jesus, they were back in form! Where else but on PB could you root for a dirtbag like T-Bag when he sees one of the good guys, we'd thought, emerge as a murderous pyscho relentlessly coming his way?

Bravo.

I believe next week or the week after is the "fall finale", and they'll be back at some point in 09 with the rest of the season. I have heard rumblings that its the last season, but nothing official.

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While we wait for news of the show's fate, be sure to check out TRANSPORTER 3 for a terrific performance by T-Bag.

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Another brilliant episode last night, after a tread-water episode last week (the curse of serial TV). With one more show to go this season, PB seems poised to set out in its final season into dangerous new waters again. If it gets the chance. Here's hoping the show that's reinvented itself each and every season does get the opportunity to check out in high style. It would seem that next up will be a riff on THE GODFATHER, with the thuggish Lincoln entering the family biz. Yowzah!

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It has been confirmed, in the latest TV guide, that PB will return next year for a final season. Thank you, Stephen King, for your support of this wonderful show.

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Update: the plug's been pulled. The next 'season' will consist of six episodes intended to give us some closure. Let us pray they do this right. Not everyone hung in there with equal heart all the way--but I suspect that when it's gone, the DVDs of the whole show will make for great annual viewing. At its best it was wildly inventive and insanely entertaining.

[Professor Dent]

That's kind of a shame although I do feel like the show has hit it's peak. This season has been quite enjoyable for me but it does feel like the characters are getting weary of being on the run. Let's hope they do it justice & give it a proper ending.

[sharpshooter]

Update: the plug's been pulled. The next 'season' will consist of six episodes intended to give us some closure.

That’s a shame, but still better getting these six extra episodes than ending it right here. I enjoyed the last season as much as the others, so hopefully they'll wrap this thing up well and go out on top. I’m sure going to miss seeing T-Bag too, I hope they keep the guy alive at the end of it all. Great villain.

[dinovelvet]

Update: the plug's been pulled. The next 'season' will consist of six episodes intended to give us some closure. Let us pray they do this right. Not everyone hung in there with equal heart all the way--but I suspect that when it's gone, the DVDs of the whole show will make for great annual viewing. At its best it was wildly inventive and insanely entertaining.

Yeah I think it had ultimately run its course, did we really want a Season 5 where they go back to prison again, and have to break out again, and then go on the run again? I'm fine with it wrapping up, and at least we will get a proper ending, rather than, say, The Riches, which was cancelled halfway through a plot.

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Friday, the 17th, will hail the beginning of The End with a 2-hour episode. I can hardly wait!

[Professor Dent]

I just noticed this episode show-up in my TiVo To Do list.

[dinovelvet]

Friday, the 17th, will hail the beginning of The End with a 2-hour episode. I can hardly wait!

Actually I think its a repeat of the last ep followed by the first of the new ones.

Interestingly, the imdb lists some sort of spin-off thing with Gretchen and T-Bag involved

[dodge]

Friday, the 17th, will hail the beginning of The End with a 2-hour episode. I can hardly wait!

Actually I think its a repeat of the last ep followed by the first of the new ones.

Interestingly, the imdb lists some sort of spin-off thing with Gretchen and T-Bag involved

Jeezlaweez, how much better could life get? T-Bag in his own spinoff? Wow, I hope he gets his old office job back and gets to go Hannibal-Dexter on us once a show!

From the T-Bag fansite(http://tbag.saranya.net/tbag.php), showing his potential:

Profile
Name: Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell
Alias: Teddy
Dr. Marvin Gudat( S2E02)
Clyde May (S2E04)
Sam (S2E13)
Mr. Webster (S2E18)
Dr. Erik Stammel (S2E18)
Back number: 89632
Location: Sona Federal Penitentiary
Crime: • 6 counts of kidnapping
• 6 counts of rape
• 6 counts of first degree murder
• Second degree murder
• Aggravated assault
• Escape from a Federal Incarceration Facility
Sentence: Life sentence
Parole: Not eligible
Family: James Bagwell Jr. (second cousin)
Relationships: Susan Hollander (ex-girlfriend)

[dodge]

One more episode to go for a wonderful series too many have missed. Last night was a return to greatness, ratcheting the tension to the max with Michael forced to make an absolutely fiendish choice. And T-Bag has finally exloded back into his awesome Bad Boy form. I'm glas that the show was allowed this five-week extension to wrap the story up. And part of me is relieved that the show did not go on longer. I intend to buy the whole series on DVD and once a year sit through the whole works. At its best--and it was at its best more often than most shows--it made for magnificent viewing.

[bondrules]

This show stopped being interesting once they escaped the first slammer.

[dinovelvet]

One more episode to go for a wonderful series too many have missed. Last night was a return to greatness, ratcheting the tension to the max with Michael forced to make an absolutely fiendish choice. And T-Bag has finally exloded back into his awesome Bad Boy form. I'm glas that the show was allowed this five-week extension to wrap the story up. And part of me is relieved that the show did not go on longer. I intend to buy the whole series on DVD and once a year sit through the whole works. At its best--and it was at its best more often than most shows--it made for magnificent viewing.

Hey yeah I was getting a bit bored with this whole conspiracy/evil mother/WTF-is-going-on stuff from the last few weeks, but they've managed to ramp it up for a big finish with Michael's Big Dilemma ™ and as you said, T-Bag getting back into Bad Boy mode. (I'd love to see a spinoff where T-Bag plays a Company Agent going on missions and just generally living it up). So yeah, bring on the 2 hour finale and let's go out with a bang!

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So, then. Tonight's the night: The End of the series. Greetings to the handful of members of this exclusive little club. Let us raise our hands in prayer that:
--We get the closure we need and deserve.
--The ending be spectacular--with a real sense of rightness and inevitability about it.
--Either Linc or Michael kill their mother.
--T-Bag check out, if check out he must, in truly memorable fashion.

And...Well, it's been reported that one of the series' most 'beloved' villains will return tonight. I don't see how this is possible. But I pray nonetheless: let it be the great Peter Stormare!

[dinovelvet]

And...Well, it's been reported that one of the series' most 'beloved' villains will return tonight. I don't see how this is possible. But I pray nonetheless: let it be the great Peter Stormare!

Whaaat? I don't see how he could be back, unless its some bizarro hallucination/dream sequence. (Actually didn't Haywire pop up in this way, when Mahone was on drugs?) Hmm.

Anyway, rooting for Teddy to get away clean, Hannibal Lecter-style.

[dinovelvet]

R.I.P.

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R.I.P.

A fitting closure. And the boldest, most unexpected final scene since I don't know when. Btw: supposedly, there were two more completed episodes....That in itself doesn't excite me, since the ending as is is all we need or want. But there's also talk of a future miniseries: the survivivng team members reuniting to free Sarah, who's landed in jail. Hmmm...a 2 to 3-story arc could work. But viewership had dwinkled severely by the finale. So I'm not sure that it could be sold. Plus, I'm more intrigued by the other talk of a female Prison Break spinoff.

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Surprise, surprise. When I was ordering my full set of Prison Break DVDs, I was unaware that I'd also ordered PRISON BREAK: THE FINAL BREAK. I checked online and discovered that this was a 2-hour TV movie never shown in the States, intended to give fans more closure. So I watched it and it did--while also giving us more time with T-Bag. Gretchen and the gang--as Michael springs Sarah from a Dade County prison to which she's been consigned immediately after their marriage. For die hard fans it's definitely worth a look. At the very least, why miss the chance to see Sarah and Gretchen take on a female-style T-Bag?

[Professor Dent]

Thanks for the tip on that unaired episode, dodge. I just added it to my Netflix queue. Can't believe I missed this being released.

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Thanks for the tip on that unaired episode, dodge. I just added it to my Netflix queue. Can't believe I missed this being released.

You're welcome. And I have a question for you, after you've had a chance to view it: I'm currently re-watching the entire series, which will take a few months at least. I wonder at what point exactly, on a continuum, this movie would fit in: probably one or two episodes before The End. Anyway, let me know!

[dinovelvet]

Thanks for the tip on that unaired episode, dodge. I just added it to my Netflix queue. Can't believe I missed this being released.

You're welcome. And I have a question for you, after you've had a chance to view it: I'm currently re-watching the entire series, which will take a few months at least. I wonder at what point exactly, on a continuum, this movie would fit in: probably one or two episodes before The End. Anyway, let me know!

All I know is it takes place after everything we've seen, but obviously before the "Four years later" scene which ended the series, as Michael will still be alive in it! I haven't seen it yet either, but I see it is on netflix streaming (it's just listed as episode 23 of season 4). I too will check it out in the next couple of days.

[dodge]

Thanks for the tip on that unaired episode, dodge. I just added it to my Netflix queue. Can't believe I missed this being released.

You're welcome. And I have a question for you, after you've had a chance to view it: I'm currently re-watching the entire series, which will take a few months at least. I wonder at what point exactly, on a continuum, this movie would fit in: probably one or two episodes before The End. Anyway, let me know!

All I know is it takes place after everything we've seen, but obviously before the "Four years later" scene which ended the series, as Michael will still be alive in it! I haven't seen it yet either, but I see it is on netflix streaming (it's just listed as episode 23 of season 4). I too will check it out in the next couple of days.

My question seems a little foolish, in retrospect. I suspect that the ideal place to view it would be just before the FOUR YEARS LATER epilogue. I'll see how that holds up when I've made my way through the full four seasons. I hope you enjoy the final gift from the PB team.

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One other thing I would like to point out: PB was so intricately plotted that it may have suffered more than most shows from the usual Network nonsense of long delays between episodes. I note, in season one alone, a delay of nearly four months. Small wonder that some fans were grousing that the escape was taking forever. But, watching the episodes consecutively, I'm amazed at how quickly and smoothly the story runs along.

I'll be interested one day in watching LOST in its entirety, straight through on a similar basis. On network TV the show lost me after about three seasons for the same reasons I cited above. It all felt too padded, too forcibly stretched out to me. Possibly, viewed properly, I'll be as caught up by its mysteries as my beloved brother, 00Twelve.

[dinovelvet]

So I watched the final/missing episode, and er...yeah. I had forgotten who had done what to who and why so I just went along with the ride. The women's prison scenes had a predictably trashy/exploitation vibe to them, and we had the by now familiar "I hate you but I'll team up with you to get out of this jam" shenanigans.

Still, we do find out what exactly put Michael Scofield six feet under, and it wasn't quite what I expected, so points for that. And T-Bag still shines in his attempts at pulling off yet another scummy scheme.

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Hopefully, this may help jumpstart Wentworth Miller's film career:

Resident Evil: Afterlife is an upcoming 3D science fiction horror film written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson, and starring Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Kim Coates, Spencer Locke, Wentworth Miller, Boris Kodjoe and Shawn Roberts. It is the fourth installment in a series of film adaptations based on Capcom's survival horror video game series Resident Evil. It is also the first film in the series to be released in 3D, using Avatar's Fusion Camera System. Resident Evil: Afterlife is scheduled to be released on September 10, 2010.

Hard to believe that four years' work on a great TV series hasn't led to more by now.

[dinovelvet]

Hopefully, this may help jumpstart Wentworth Miller's film career:

Resident Evil: Afterlife is an upcoming 3D science fiction horror film written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson, and starring Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Kim Coates, Spencer Locke, Wentworth Miller, Boris Kodjoe and Shawn Roberts. It is the fourth installment in a series of film adaptations based on Capcom's survival horror video game series Resident Evil. It is also the first film in the series to be released in 3D, using Avatar's Fusion Camera System. Resident Evil: Afterlife is scheduled to be released on September 10, 2010.

Hard to believe that four years' work on a great TV series hasn't led to more by now.

Hmm, really? He wasn't even in the trailer. Though that doesn't always mean anything...Sam Rockwell wasn't in any of the Iron man 2 ads, for example.

[dodge]

Hopefully, this may help jumpstart Wentworth Miller's film career:

Resident Evil: Afterlife is an upcoming 3D science fiction horror film written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson, and starring Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Kim Coates, Spencer Locke, Wentworth Miller, Boris Kodjoe and Shawn Roberts. It is the fourth installment in a series of film adaptations based on Capcom's survival horror video game series Resident Evil. It is also the first film in the series to be released in 3D, using Avatar's Fusion Camera System. Resident Evil: Afterlife is scheduled to be released on September 10, 2010.

Hard to believe that four years' work on a great TV series hasn't led to more by now.

Hmm, really? He wasn't even in the trailer. Though that doesn't always mean anything...Sam Rockwell wasn't in any of the Iron man 2 ads, for example.

He receives third billing on IMdB, as Chris Redfield. Unless he's ended up on the cutting room floor, I guess that's a sure sign that he's not seen as that big a drag. But as I rewatch Prison Break, the entire series, I'm far more impressed by his acting chops. Limited, but fine.

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It's also great to see that the awesome William Fichtner is keeping busy since PB: this year should see the release of THE BIG BANG, in which he costars with Antonio Banderas. And, set for next year: DRIVE ANGRY 3D, co-starring with Nicholas Cage. I don't know if Fichtner can make the transition to leading man in film, but his acting chops are sensational. And whatever he's in, I plan to give it a look.