Prison Break - Season 4

[lcummins]

Did no one else watch the series finale of Prison Break?

Spoiler:

Very unexpected and sad ending. Nice to know they were willing to do something like this, but I just didn't see it coming. I think the show wrapped up nicely in most respects... at least we got on ending, which most TV shows never get.

 

[shadow_jedi]

I think it jumped the shark with that stupid season 2 finale,
you could tell that the writers had the story solved, only to be
forced to do a Season 3...
I loved S1 and S2 though...

season s1 & s2 were the best
it tends to just go on and on when you think it is over their is a twist and a new season

 

[Kuzeh]

Did no one else watch the series finale of Prison Break?

Yeah I saw it in my mind in Season 2, the brothers and Sarah escaping with the money...


Nah, I missed it... too bad, I really liked Linc, Michael, Maone and T-Bag, great characters....

 

[Giant Chicken]

Yeah I saw it in my mind in Season 2, the brothers and Sarah escaping with the money...

TOTALLY AGREE!!! Stoped watching about 6 episodes into season 3... thought it was crap.

I read about the finale and I know what happened to all characters except Linc. Can someone please tell me how his story ended?? Remember to use spoiler tags

Thanks in advance!

 

[Nuka Cola Kidd]

Finale was great! Although i semi-disagree with the last scene. Loved all 4 seasons. Can't wait for the straight to dvd, dvd that tells the story from after they signed the papers to the last scene

 

[Vader AL]

Spoiler:

https://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2009/05/prison-break-bo.html

WARNING: Stop reading if you have not watched the series finale of Prison Break. I mean it. Everyone else, onward and downward...

I know. Since Prison Break concluded its four-year run tonight by sending its chiseled protagonist to the big slammer in the sky, you're grieving. You want answers. You want justice. You want someone to pay.

Would you settle for answers?

'Cause that's all I've got. But at least there are a lot of 'em, straight from executive producer Matt Olmstead. Read 'em and... oh, I see. You're already weeping. Well, read 'em, anyway. Maybe it'll help.

Why'd you have to kill him?!
MATT OLMSTEAD: It started as a discussion with Wentwoth [Miller] around Season 2. He brought up a good point: His character's hands are as dirty as anyone's. If you look at the initial act that he committed -- robbing a bank to get into prison to break his brother out -- there were ramifications to that; a lot of people got hurt. Not by them, but when they rattled the cage of the company that was after them, the body count started to pile out. And Michael was aware of this. And we've addressed his guilt throughout the show. But at a certain point, it felt nobler to have the character die so that others could live. It just felt a little weird for us to have Michael and Sara holding hands on the beach walking away -- though that would be gratifying in the moment. Knowing that there was pretty much a scorched path behind them in terms of what happened, [having him die] balanced the books for us. He also paid the ultimate sacrifice and, in doing so, everyone else close to him was able to live, including his child.

Michael-Sara fans will argue that they deserved a happy ending after watching these two go to hell and back for four seasons. What would you say to them?
OLMSTEAD: For me, it is a happy ending. Look at the very first episode of the season when Michael realizes Sara's alive. They have a chance to run away, and they both elect not to because, as two people of conscience, they can't live with what they both now have experienced. And at the end of the finale, when they're on the beach and talking about the baby that's coming, that's a huge victory in that they both stood their ground and, with the help of other people, brought down the ultimate antagonist. So they have their moment.

Can we assume that we'll learn more about the ultimate sacrifice Michael made in the two-hour direct-to-DVD prequel movie [due July 28]?
OLMSTEAD: Yes, it dramatizes what happened to Michael. The nose bleed that reared its ugly head at the end of [tonight's finale] was a factor in his ultimate demise in that he knew that he probably didn't have that long to live, but it wasn't the sole factor. It informed certain decisions that lead to his demise.

The two-hour movie picks up right after the finale, right?
OLMSTEAD: Yeah, it takes place fairly soon after they're exonerated.

What's the premise?
OLMSTEAD: Sara is on the hook for [killing] Michael's mother and she gets locked up while pregnant. The tables are turned… once a doctor in prison now imprisoned, and Michael's on the outside. The majority of the cast is back. It's Michael, Lincoln, Sara, Sucre, T-Bag, Mahone... all the heavy-hitters.

Seeing Paul Adelstein back as Kellerman was a nice surprise. How'd that come about?
OLMSTEAD: We reached out to Paul and pitched him the idea of what his character would be doing, and he liked it very much. And then I told him that we would be jumping ahead four years to show where all the characters are, and I asked him where he would want [Kellerman] to be; he was included in the [creative process]. We traded a lot of e-mails and the ideas ran the gamut. We ultimately arrived at what it was, which is he rose to a position of power, but that the widow of his [former] partner that he killed revisits him. In the scene I wrote, she spits on his shoes. [On the day of shooting], I got a call from the director, Kevin Hooks, and he said, "Paul's here, and he [thinks] she would spit in his face." And I said, "Have at it." So she spit in his face. And then he's in the limo afterward and you can see that private moment where [he realizes] he can never outrun his past. That's one of my favorite sequences in the flash-forward. He played the self-loathing and regret beautifully.

Did you encounter any problems getting ABC to loan him to you since he's now on Private Practice?
OLMSTEAD: Everybody was very accommodating, and I think it all stems from a universal goodwill towards Paul as a person. He's a really good guy and people wanted to do him a favor. And we were able to get all his scenes done in one day.

Was there anyone you wanted to get back for the finale and couldn't?
OLMSTEAD: The only person we couldn't get was Marshall Allman, who played Lincoln's son. We would have loved to have gotten him.

Looking back on the four seasons, anything you would have done differently?
OLMSTEAD: I don't have a whole lot of regrets. [Another journalist] wrote that we left it all out on the field by the end of the series, and I feel the same way. Every story was exhausted. Every creative juice wrung out. It was a completely worthwhile experience, and I know the other writers [agree]. It was a difficult show to pull off, and we did it.

 

[SwedishHeat]

Ending was WAAAAAY deus ex machina.

The first 2 seasons were cool, season 3 was getting a bit farfetched, but season 4 was just silly. It seems like every supporting character faked his or her death at least once. It just got ridiculous.

 

[Buttmunch]

I just got around to finishing this. I always felt that the show would end with

Spoiler:

Michael dying. It seemed fitting to me that he would be willing to save his brother's life by giving up his own. So the fact he probably died of the brain tumor thing was somewhat disapointing. But since there is that movie coming out, maybe he didn't die from that?

I was really glad they didn't kill of T-bag. T-bag was my favorite character by the end of the series. Strange, since I wanted him to die since the first episodes of season 1. Talk about character evolution. He was definately a survivor though. Very creepy, and played perfectly. I just thought it was funny they put him back in Fox River. I could almost see a T-bag mini-series of him trying to break out again

I just loved T-bag line about "erectorially challenged"

 

[JustinLuck]

Anyone love T-bag this much?

https://maffikus.deviantart.com/art/prison-break-t-bag-complete-118537626

 

[paulaura]

Just seen the finale yesterday.

I was quite surprised how it ended, but thought it was quite good.

Ive enjoyed it all apart from season 3, which just didnt seem to fit in with the rest of the seasons.

 

[DinoLast]

Anyone love T-bag this much?

No matter how much you like the show, why would he want a picture of a guy who plays a convicted Pedo?
It's just Wrong

 

[Darklord Dave]

I didn't know there was a direct to DVD prequel/sequel coming (july28).

I was surprised they could sustain a series called "Prison Break" past the breaking out of prison - but they did create some great characters that went through some incredible arcs. Mahone became one of my favorite characters - we've not seen such a redemptive arc for a villain since Spike on Buffy/Angel.

The ending was a bit surprising, but made a kind of sense.

 

[Fritz]

Didn't Michael's mom have the same tumor? How did she survive so long?

I miss Gretchen.

 

[Darklord Dave]

Didn't Michael's mom have the same tumor? How did she survive so long?

I miss Gretchen.

She had the same operation that fixed him. Guess it didn't take with Michael.

 

[Buttmunch]

She had the same operation that fixed him. Guess it didn't take with Michael.

I suspect this dvd movie will answer that question. Maybe it wasn't the tumor that killed him afterall? Maybe he died saving someone (again)? I suppose how Michael died is really the only question that is left unanswered although the logical answer is the tumor.