Monday December 8, 2008
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Gretchen and Self wind up with Scylla (and a buyer).
Michael battles with the Company for Scylla.
Mahone asks some familiar faces for help.
T-Bag continues to hold a couple of innocents hostage.
After the previous episode, I wasn´t expecting that PB writers could delivery something very interesting from now on. The beginning was perfect and unexpected. As expected, the writers always use the same logic, asking for Michael alliances with his enemies. Through the episode, all the setups are made and the climax was nice and fun. Michael was captured and like I said, one more time, they have to make a alliance with the enemy, predictable.
Mahone has another spotlight of his own, nothing interesting, because is another filler, lead to nowhere. T-bag too, but his plot is more relevant and is more interesting because this guy that appeared really seemed innocent and the situation was interesting.
What Self did in the end, I didn´t understand, it just something to give Michael time to get Scylla.
Presentation Phase - » (10/10) excellent beginning,
Complication Phase - » (7/10) interesting, and now they have two complications,
Climax Phase - » (8/10) Nothing special, but was fun the action,
Ending - » (8/10) Fine endings, nothing bombastic,
Details/Progress (To point A to B) -» (9/10) Fine progress.
Time and Scene Management - » (8/10) some fillers, but T-bag part was very good,
Plot Details/Holes- » (9/10) almost fine,
Suspense/Tension - » (9/10) T-bag last scene and some nice action,
Drama - » (9/10) T-bag rocked,
Surprises/Shocks/Twists - » (8/10), simple twist, a religious man, the end was nice for self
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While I'm still not warming to the all new, good for nothing, scumbag version of Don Self, 'Just Business' managed to keep my attention squarely away from my distaste of this particular plot development. hide show
While I'm still not warming to the all new, bad ass, double crossing, good for nothing, scumbag version of Don Self, 'Just Business' managed to keep my attention squarely away from my distaste of this particular plot development long enough to actually allow me to enjoy what I was watching. For the most part, anyway. There's still a little too much convenient bait and switch going on for my liking (Self and Michael are enemies, now they're allies, now they're enemies again) and the Mahone plot was little more than an exercise in how to fill ten spare minutes, but the main thrust of the narrative, the recovery of Scylla from the angle of three different parties, is well executed and manages to inject sufficient tension into the proceedings to be enjoyable. There's also some wonderful intrigue to enjoy as Lincoln gets handed a mysterious folder labelled 'Tombstone II' (what is that, some sort of instruction manual for an X-Box game?) and T-Bag plays a game of identity crisis with both a 'Bible salesman' and himself. Credit to Robert Knepper (again): he really makes these scenes come alive and demands your understanding and sympathy. Despite being a murdering paedophile. No mean feat, that.
Another solid and enjoyable performance from season four of Prison Break as the show transistions into the second part of its season now that Don Self is working against the company. Only two real things stuck out to me in this episode - the first one being Don Self being caught in the beginning of the episode and then being let go by Michael and company when Gretchen crashed the party. Though I do know now that the plan was to get Sucre in the trunk the whole time, it doesnt seem like the safe, reliable plan. The second thing I didn't like was Mahone being put in a car at the end of the episode and being driven away. If that really is the last we see of his character - poor writing. If he takes an episode or two off and comes back strong with a flashback showing us what happened, sure its all worth it. Mahone has always been a good guy in the long run, though debateable with his killings in season two. He let's his emotions get the better of him sometimes and he can't control himself. His character being put into a cop car and driven away does not complete his characters storyline, not by a long shot. So - we will see what happens with him.
This was, in my opinion, one of the best Prison Break episodes ever. (Spoilers) hide show
Yet another superb episode of Prison Break. I'm loving this show more and more as the season continues. Mahone is continuing to be a great character. He was barely in this episode, but he is still a very well acted character. I loved the action in this episode, especially when Sucre was going one on one with Gretchen. I still hope they get rid of her soon though. I love that T-Bag is starting to become a good guy. It would be cool to see him change like that. I'm also interested to see what happens to Lincoln. I give this episode, Just Business, a 9.5 out of 10.
With the break in over and Scylla on the loose, the hunt is still on for the object we still don`t know much about. This episode is literally a back and forth game with Michael/crew, Self/Gretchen and the company all aiming for scylla. It was great, specially the whole Michael vs. Self thing with both getting owned by the other at some point of the episode. Action in the hotel was fantastic, love the thing with the Owner of the hotel, the sabotage on the ladder, Linc shooting and Scylla changing hands constantly. Michael`s health issues comes into play again. I must admit I hope it is addressed soon cause the health problem is starting to be a little draggy.
T-Bag was great as always. The redemption thing they did here was pretty much the same they did in season 2 when T-Bag spared Mrs. Hollander. But it looks like Bagwell will be bad guy forever. Mahone`s deal with the government was useless. Of course everybody knew that would happened but there was a very interesting development: Mahone was arrested. It was nice to see Wheeler back, even if he was annoying.
Final scenes felt weired. General looking like he cares for Michael, Linc coming to the aid and a bizarre Tombstone II cliffhanger. This is for sure intriguing. I`m glad they brought the brother love and sacrifice feeling again here. It was lacking since last season when Sara "died"
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