Prison Break - Episode 3.13 - Reviews Part 2

Some more reviews from the fans!

Maritza:

How far can a good man go and still call himself a good man? This is one of the fundamental questions underlying Michael Scofield’s actions in the Prison Break series. Everything he has done wrong – all the times he has used and manipulated people, bent the rules and downright broken them – has been in the name of family and love.

As a season finale, The Art of The Deal, neatly wraps up some of the existing arcs and expertly creates new storylines to pursue in a subsequent season. Whether there’s going to be one or not, the episode gave us all the nail-biting, cliff-hanging tension we could have asked for. For every question it answered, it spawned at least two more, leaving fans wanting more.

But it also brought Michael’s continued moral struggle sharply back into focus. When he aims the gun at Gretchen’s back and hesitates, I had to ask myself – can he do it? Has he been corrupted enough to be able to kill his enemy in cold blood, from behind? It’s one thing setting up T-Bag, Lechero and Bellick to be caught while escaping. He can always argue that he didn’t intend for them to be shot in the process. But killing Gretchen requires him sink to a new level of darkness within himself. And as we saw, he’s not quite there yet. And there’s a chance he would have left it at that, and not continued his vendetta, if LJ hadn’t given him the origami rose that triggered the flashback to Sara, once again steeling his resolve to revenge her death.

Of course I look forward to season four to see how Sucre fares in Sona under T-Bag’s populist rule, and exactly what underhand business Gretchen and Whistler have that makes Mahone a useful ally. But mostly, I am eager to see where Michael’s personal journey takes him. There are some things a man has to do on his own, as neatly suggested by the final shots of Michael driving down a deserted Panamanian beach road with Lincoln staying behind to attempt to build a new family with LJ and Sofia. Will there be happiness, or merely self-destruction at the end of that road? Time will tell.

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Kevin:

The finally of season 3 of prison break was the most anticipated episode ever, how in godsname would they make sure that the fans wouldn’t be left with a feeling that i can only describe as ‘what… that was it?’

The show started with a lot of action right from the start continueing with the pursuit of whistler by micheal and lincon, it really gets you on the edge of your seat because you hope that the plan of micheal and lincon works.

The show had some really nice twists and turns that I couldn’t predict, but all in all they did seem to be the perfect choice for how the story would go on, seeing as how smart they had made the character of micheal schofield, he is still allways one step ahead of everybody else.

To be completly honest the show had some flaws in it, like the scene where micheal is holding a gun out in the open and nobody seems to notice, even though I didn’t mind that much and was screaming at the TV ‘Shoot her micheal, shoot!’

The last episode of prison break was a good ending, it leaves a lot of room for a 4th season, which in my opinion that cant dismiss, we just have to know how this ends, micheal is eager for revenge, mahone teamed up with whistler and susan, t-bag is running sona, and sucre is stuck there while the love of his live is still save in the states.

So many unawnsered questions, so many ways the story can go, if the will not be a season 4 that continues with this story line I would consider this a very bad episode, I mean to call it a finale, you cant leave fans with this much questions and suspense and call it the end of it all. If there wíll be a season 4 then this was the best ending they could ever make because this is certainly the type of ending that keeps the fans wanting more and more of prison break.

Only time will tell what will happen, but at the moment – with no news if there will be a season 4 – this episode really left me with the feeling of

‘WHAT!? was this it??’

Lt:

Although I do enjoy the show and would like to continue seeing the shows presence on television, the possible issue that might come up is that the storyline of escaping from Prison has been reached beyond its limit. Even though the show is title “Prison Break,” it might not be necessary to reference an actual prison. It can be a metaphoric representation of a “prison,” for example a release from the containment of the Company. (Of course this might even ruin the show since the show’s origin is based on an actual breakout from an actual prison).

What makes this episode particularly interesting and different is that it is slightly moving away from the original storyline of breaking out of a prison and the slight separation of the brothers’ bondage. From what I can understand, Michael Scofield from Season One and Two wanted to break his brother free from the jail due to the belief of Lincoln Burrow’s innocence and the need to be a family (excluding the knowledge of the company for now). In this episode we see Micheal’s passion for those he loves beyond extreme measures. Micheal had an opportunity to be a family with L.J., his nephew, and Lincoln, but he was willing to sacrifice that to pursue Susan B. Anthony due to the decapitation of Sara Tancredi, the love of Micheal, whom he fell in love with in Season One. If this episode storyline continues as such for future episodes or seasons, it will bring a possible new direction to Prison Break that has nothing to do with breaking out an actual prison. So this episode can !
be a new approach or stepping stone to Prison Break’s storyline, as long as the fans and Fox are willing to accept it.

My only complain about the episode is this:
How is it possible that the security guard of the Art Museum, who was shotting at Susan B. Anthony, did not see Micheal holding a gun out in the open? Micheal even paused when he heard the shots and took his time to hide his gun. One would have thought the guard or someone would have seen the gun, maybe even the guy running in the back ground maybe 5 to 10 feet away from Micheal. Thats the only flaw I have noticed about the episode, but from a story telling point of view it showed us that Micheal was willing to sacrifice himself, even getting shot by the guards, for Sara.

Trish:

I really wasn’t disappointed at all, except maybe for how they left Sona with T-bag basically in control. Otherwise, I thought it wrapped up very nicely for a season finale. I mean, it brought everything to some stopping point, but yet it left enough lines there to certainly pick up and take off fast and hard on when/if it comes back. I was very pleased, actually. I must say though, I was SHOCKED when Whistler walked into that bar. I mean…SHOCKED! I just never in a million years made that connection….NEVER!

This way you are left with the fact that Michael still has purpose to be out there hunting down the killer of the woman he loved. Lincoln hopefully (you think) has found someone that can offer him what this man truly needs….family and some roots to keep him out of trouble. But I will almost guarantee you that he’ll end up chasing Michael down and helping him next season. We’ve learned that Whistler really is a bad guy for the Company (which took us a full season of 13 eps to figure out), and I’m sure that he’ll try next season to convince Sophia of what a good guy he is. I bet there will be a play between Whistler and Burrows. And we even were given that glimpse that Mahone has a future and didn’t get killed off (whew!). All together, I think they did a nice job of tidying up things but still leaving the door open to pick up and run with when season four comes around. And even if it doesn’t, it’s still a nice stopping place for all components. I was very satsified and a little more than simply impressed by the end results. They were right about the twists and turns that nobody expected. I sure didn’t.

I would like to add that I think this is the BEST show on TV! And I think that all involved in this show do a phenomenal job, especially all the actors (double points for Fichtner) and the writers (double points for the writers too).