09 June 2006 @ 12:04 pm
Prison Break (eps 1 to 15 more or less)  
This was one of my series chosen to be seen during summer, with Lost season 2, that I've already watched (see post here), Hustle and some other...

I'm currently watching episode 15 and so far I love it!



First of all, I haven't been reading everything said about the series, just some things here and there because, for a change, I didn't want to spoil myself too much. I've managed, btw ;)

I love it from the very beginning (probably Wentworth Miller's fault. Funny that the first time I saw him in something was in Popular!, I know, no comment). I did know the premise of the series so it was pretty easy to follow. It's impossible not to fall in love with Michael and his crusade to get Lincoln out of prison, besides, I'm kind of weak when we're talking about hot looking guys with and IQ above the average... Anyway... I'm sure there are photos of him with another hair style but I guess he knows he looks the hotest with the hair cut so so short, personally I think it fits him just fine!!

Another part of my love goes to Sucre... I love the guy, although at the beginning you don't know very well where he steps... later on he shows he is a nice pal for Michael... I love him with his girlfriend in that encounter when he asks her to marry him (hate hate Hector! when he goes to prison to tell him she is with him now and tells Sucre to forget about her)... He looks like he isn't brilliant, but did have a couple of good ideas... Love when he speaks Spanish!

Another of my weakness but because the character is really interesting is Westmoreland! How can I just not love the man... Being the veteran in the whole prison, I image what he has witnessed and lived... He belongs to a time where crimes were made in another fashion... I guess he got surprised more than once seeing what human beings are capable of doing to each other. To me he is one of those 'last outlaws' that took a lot of money from a place because he may need it but also enjoyed the rush of adrenaline and to enjoy to live just crossing the line... he was kind of a rebel (okay, I believed the whole legend thing, I'm weak!). I really enjoy his interaction with Michael, the talks they have, the lessons they teach each other... I knew he was going to join the group in the escape, but I didn't want it to be for such a sad reason :( Btw, what T-Bag did to his cat, was just awful, I felt so bad for him!) And right now in episode 15 he had this cute moment with C-Note about their daughters...

Okay, I also like, because I like him very much ages ago when I saw reruns of Mike Hammer (I know, this character was considered like kind of chauvinist but I liked him because he was like the detectives of the fifties... and the guy who dubbed him here was just amazing, lol!) Anyway, Stacy Keach is really great at Warden Pope, I love that he keeps his present for his wife as a secret... What kind of guy built that just because he knows she loves it!!! Kind of cute, if you think about it). Besides I'm a bit tired of bad-bad wardens, so it's a good change (he passed the label of 'bad guy' to Capt. Bellick (who is kind of disgusting).

As I have only seen 15 eps, don't know what happens so far, but for now, I really like Nick Savrinn. It can be because previously I saw the actor (Frank Grillo) to be the most annoying and repulsive guy in Blind Justice, so this was kind of a nice change. Btw, I was kind of annoyed with the continuity guys... I imagine it was the episode after the break... but he was in hospital one day and the next (or so) he is carrying his 'lawyer case' with his injured arm!!! Please! The only sign he hurts it's he kind of flinched a bit rubbing it when they arrived to their office or similar.

Have to admit this: apart from Wentworth Miller, the other reason I wanted to watch the series was Peter Stormare. I love the man!!! John Abruzzi isn't a guy to like easily but he has his moments, okay?? Having in mind that mostly I can't stand T-Bag, it was good when John faces him... too bad he good the bad end... *snif* Peter is so good at this kind of creepy guys... I was in disbelief when he cut Michael's toes!!!

In general, I also like C-Note, although as all there, he is not angel... however he isn't a bad bad guy and repulsive as T-Bag.

I have to admit that the actor playing T-Bag does a hell of a job! He is really great because he really manages for you to hate the character and wish he was out of the plan instead of anybody else... but well that is his only merit ;)

However my absolute hate goes to Agent Paul Kellerman. It's hard to say how much I hate him!! As Donna (from the West Wing) would say, 'to put it quite simple, I hate your breathing guts!' He is the most disgusting fellow in the series... more than any of the inmates, seriously. I get so angry after everything he does that I just can't stand it and I can't find words to explain it. I take out of 'the hate' Agent Danny Hale, since he regretted what he did and try to make the right thing.

The scene where they kill LJ's mom and her boyfriend was one of the most awful at the same time than powerful of what I've seen so far... poor boy I was almost crying because it was all so awful and when they arranged everything to frame him. Watching how they were putting his fingerprints in the gun and all... 'I was no, no, no!!!'

I know I've talked about Veronica or Lincoln... Okay, they're fine and I like them but Robin Tunney isn't a favorite of mine, although she is fine... and Dominic Purcell is also fine as Lincoln... He does an incredible job with his anguish and lost of hope... I really like his relation with Michael (his face when he sees Michael in prison for the first time was amazing) but don't know there aren't too much to work with since Michael is the main character in my opinion and it's totally defined as character meanwhile Lincoln isn't.

What else... Sarah, the doctor. I really like her and I think she is great in chemistry and interaction with Michael. It's a good character and I enjoy watching her talking with him and seeing how she is kind of falling for him in her weird way... they are kind of cute ;)

Simply amazing for how impressive her change is, Patricia Wettig as the Vicepresident. I really want to hit her hard!!! She is a very good evil woman!!! She goes right there to share 'the evilness throne' with Angela Channing and Alexis Carrington! lol!! (okay they're old examples but they were the very first evil ladies I saw on tv). I really want her to be discovered. I really want her biting the dust and facing a sentence, really!!!

And my own funny fangirl note: Anthony Starke, Ezra Standish in one of my beloved fandoms, The Magnificent Seven, played Sebastian, Veronica's fiancee... He is so good being a jerk that it was pretty funny to see him. From the very first moment I wondered when he was going to be out of the picture, well, it was pretty sure and pretty awful... quite memorable (being ironic here).

Now I wonder too many things to probably put it here... the obvious one is if they'll get out (I doubt it but well, it would be cool)... but putting this aside I wonder: will get any of the guys in the breaking team get out like T-Bag, Westmoreland (not!!) or C-Note...; what will happen with LJ, and more important Nick, because he isn't one of the main character, is he?; Sarah and Michael will go further ;), that will be cool... Capt. Bellick will discover more suspicious things about Michael... hmmm... too many questions... Have to watch the rest soon!

So far I'm enjoying it very much but after Lost I really should have found a less intriging and tense series... because if I was left at the end of my seat with Lost season finale, this isn't getting better lol!

You see, I needed to create my very first Prison Break icon to use in this post ;)



Btw, belated Happy Birthday to [livejournal.com profile] dreamydaze. I'm sorry I didn't say it yesterday but after one of my exams I came home very late. Hope you had a great day, lady!!!!
 
 
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[identity profile] uponplains.livejournal.com on June 9th, 2006 09:30 pm (UTC)
Yeah, it's nice to go back and forth. It might be an overload if it was too much of one or the other. And yeah all of them come up with fantastic ideas, you'll see one of Sucre's more brilliant ones in the seventeenth I think? And T-Bag and C-Note have a good one. I like how even though there are some characters that are smarter than others all of them sort of have a criminal mind, and they're very imaginative lol.

Abruzzi freaked me out so much... the toe thing was horrible! And he was still so awful to Michael for a while, before they became sort of friendly/business partners. I love that scene when Abruzzi's like "you didn't tell Falzone where Fibonacci was and now he's behind bars" and Michael's like "and how do you feel about that?" and he sort of like turns his head in this CRAZY way and he's like "pretty damn good." And it's just like oh phew. He does that so much, it's really offputting.

Bellick is horrible and he is so easy to hate. Even easier than T-Bag who is at least entertaining and pretends to be better than he is... Bellick is just disgusting. I like how they switch who you would assume to be good and who you would assume to be bad. Like you figure the guy on death row would be the bad one but no he's good, or you'd figure the CO would be a decent guy except nope. I do like that they don't totally switch it though, there are still really bad criminals since it's prison after all and there are still good COs.