Of Hurricanes and Prison Breaks

[loula]

So Hurricane Gustav did not drown New Orleans again, which is awesome. However, it did do the following:

- Ruin my Labor Day
- Make me miss the Prison Break season premiere
- Leave me without power for a week so I couldn't download or write about the season premiere (and also very bored and hot)
- Ruin everything in my fridge and make me drive around town for five hours for one bag of ice
- Leave literally half the traffic lights in Baton Rouge nonfunctional a whole week later, thus adding a full hour to my 15-minute commute.

It's really just 2 and 3 that concern you, but the point is, fret not! I am back online and will be covering PB this season, except for the season premiere, which I thought was pretty awesome, so if anybody wants to talk about it, knock yourselves out.

Damn, I knew they'd do that shit to Mahone. Mumbly Black Kellerman does not mess around.

Oh, and I totally *listened* to a phone interview with Wentworth Miller but didn't get to ask a question. It was cool though. He is a genius dork who laughs at his own jokes and I want to have his squinty whispery genius babies. (And speaking of Kellerman, one of the people who actually got to ask stuff asked about who he'd like to see return if he could, and he totally said Paul Adelstein. Ding! Correct answer. Demand it, Went! You have the power!)

So look for a recap of tonight's episode later this week, and everyone blow real hard to keep Hurricane Freaking Ike from kicking us when we're down. (Ike Turner wifebeating joke goes here.)

[gasmilicous]

I thought the premiere was GREAT. I'm glad to see Sarah back but I thought they brought her back in kind of haphazardly. Like uh she's alive now, she was never dead. Ok, move on. Anyway - love watching them all working together and I'm excited for all the mayhem to come. T-Bag still creeps me out though. And I just watched the movie Hitman, in which he plays an interpol officer with a Russian accent. It was a little alarming.

[MelBell]

I love this show. Over the summer I watched seasons 1-3, finishing season 3 the night before the premiere. I was a little bummed becuase I knew Sara was coming back (I accidentally read it in a magazine) and the way they brought her back was so lame. oh well, such as life.

I would love for them to bring Kellerman back. I mean we don't really know if he's dead right? Or do we and I missed it? My husband and I totally interpreted that episode differently. When the van pulled over I thought the people killed just the guards and came to "rescue" Kellerman. My husband thinks they killed him; and when he said "it's about time you got here" or something like that it meant he knew the Company would send someone to kill him.

Maybe we were left with the possibility he might come back like on soap operas! Who knows. :confused:

[loula]

Melbell, I thought Kellerman's last scene was PERFECTLY ambiguous. In fact I'm pretty sure I spent an unnecessarily long paragraph on it in my recap. I agree that it was perfectly plausible either way - it would be a totally appropriate death for that character, sure. But they even had the assassins wear masks, which I don't think they ever did before, so we could plausibly find out that it was Aldo's people teaming up with him. Or he could have just gone out with a smirk. Either way is totally plausible and awesome. One of my favorite scenes of the series.

I totally called the Sara thing last year out of delusion mostly, and I thought Gretchen's explanation was pretty plausible, so I'm okay with it. I do agree that they kind of forgot the "oh hey, remember when I thought you were dead? That was wacky!" thing pretty quickly, but I guess it has only been a few weeks, and they're kind of thrown in the middle of something pretty much out of the gate. You probably have a better grasp on the actual timeline watching it the way you did - I tend to forget that all the stuff at Fox River wasn't actually 3 years ago. The actual breakout was maybe 3-4 months ago in PB time, right?

So far this season feels a lot like a spinoff really, but a spinoff I'm totally digging. I even like T-Bag's storyline - nice continuity with the bird book and a legitimate way to work him back into the story (Side note: Whistler! Whoa!). And the cool teamups - Mahone-Linc truce, Bellick-Sucre, Michael and Sara decoding things together, etc. Awesomeness all around.

I should probably shut up and write this recap, huh?