[Movie] Prison Break Season 4 Discussion

Originally Posted by nuttyturnip

It's really surprising they've even made a Season 4, considering how far out in left field Season 3 was. There's no real reason to care about any of these characters at this point. Sure, I'll watch, but only because I'm a glutton for punishment.

Word for word how I feel about this show. Except not angry enough. Seriously, they went from being awesome in S1, to okay in S2, to fucking terrible in S3. And when I saw the commercials for S4, I thought it was a joke. My mom actually suggested the show should go in a similar direction, and I laughed it off as a terrible idea. BUT THEY DID IT.

I honestly can't tell you why I'm still watching this show. And as for the ratings, S3 had the worse ratings yet, only hovering around the 6 million mark on average. Even for FOX that's starting to dip into terrible (shows which got cancelled early in their run, like Reunion and Drive, were only getting around two million viewers less than that), so my guess is that they only brought it back because of the Writers' Strike. There was hardly any new shows this season as a whole, so why not let an established one stay on the air a little longer.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I agree with you on everything. Even so, I still think this season has more potential than S3, which isn't saying much but still. Of course, having potential and actually being good are two different things, so whether this season turns out to be watchable is still up in the air.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I just really, really hated Sona. It was a crappy setting that led to even crappier storylines. As much as I hated it though, I do think that was a crappy way to resolve all the storylines from there, which was probably brought about more by a change in filming locations (they moved from Dallas to L.A. this season) than any actual caring for logic.

So yeah, to me S3 was some of the worst television I've seen in my life, which is why I think this season has the potential to be better.

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Originally Posted by nuttyturnip

Season 1 was Michael getting himself thrown in Fox River (Indiana) Penitentiary so he could break his brother out off of death row.

Season 2 was the convicts on the run from the law after they broke out, trying to find buried money and ultimately for the brothers to escape to Panama.

Season 3 was Michael thrown into Sona, in Panama, working to break out another prisoner.

This season seems to be an unfunny ripoff of last season's Knights of Prosperity.

I'm pretty sure Fox River was in Illinois, and KoP was from two seasons ago, not last season.

And honestly, maybe the show was worse than I thought, but I wasn't paying enough attention to actually tell. I haven't watched this show seriously since about halfway through S2, so it's not like it got my full attention (among other things, I was playing the PB mobile phone game while watching the show which, as terrible as it was, was at least based on S1 and thus way better than the garbage on TV at the moment).

So basically, looking at the screen occasionally and not seeing Sona already makes this season better than last season if you ask me. Plus, at least the Asian guy was mildy funny.

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Originally Posted by nuttyturnip

Illinois, Indiana, I can't keep the "I" states straight. Close enough for a fictional TV show.

That doesn't justify screwing up when KoP aired.

Never Forget.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Wow, I can't believe people are reporting that this show's ratings are going down because The Sarah Connor Chronicles is a crappy lead-in. While that's probably somewhat true, they can't deny that this show's drop in quality is somewhat to blame as well. The ratings for PB have gotten lower and lower with every season, even when it had no lead-in, so to use another show as an excuse is kinda lame.

That being said, I do think the show has gotten better in recent weeks, though like I said earlier just about anything would be a step up from that godawful Season 3. I still have no idea what the fuck some of these people are still doing on the show (T-Bag), but overall at least it's not terrible.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Wow, I'm so not into this show that I didn't even realize that had happened. Yet I still continue to watch it.

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Since there's still the direct-to-DVD movie coming out, it technically still isn't over yet. They never actually showed how Michael died, so I guess this will answer it, but at this point I doubt anyone gives a fuck (I'm certainly not paying $20 for content that wasn't even good enough to put in the show, and I don't even know if I can be bothered to download it).

And yeah, I'd definitely say the show started going downhill in S2, but S3 was when it totally went to shit and started being completely unwatchable. S4 was an improvement over that, but it'd be hard not to improve on that, and it was still much too little much too late.

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