The only real beef I have with Prison Break is that it’s not 24. It’s a pretty good show but where the F is my Bauer? (A: In an entirely different and somewhat related rant that won’t take place here.) However, I was trying to watch the Panthers – Eagles preseason game last night and FOX kept slipping these Prison Break commercial into my moving picture slide.
And it occurred to me … there has never been a more poorly planned television show. Ever. This occurred to me first when I saw that the people involved in Prison Break are no longer in a prison. Call me old fashioned, but that’s problematic. Or, as the kids say, a “force” (decent ratings = just keep rolling them out).
And I noticed it the second time when the dude to your right (and perhaps a little north as well) was facing angrily out of a window in a wifebeater. The lack of sleeves on his arms showed off his all-body encompassing tattoo. “Why would someone get tattoos like that?!?!” you ask. Well, you see, this guy is an engineer type, and he had the entire blueprint for the prison he was originally shipped to inked on his body. (The ridiculousness of this coupled with his ability to successfully get jailed in the prison of his choice is also patently absurd, but that’s for another time as well.)
Again, problematic because … yeah, you guessed it: he’s no longer in prison! So, to recap, I have no problem with the show itself. I just find the planning behind the show (”blatantly one season” and/or “lack thereof”) to be really annoying. Just think it through a little further and then rename the goddamned thing next time please.
