Prison Break - Season 1

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Prison Break:

The opinion:

I've been looking for the right show all my life. A show that makes me feel like I can not breathe because that is what it is designed for. A show that makes the seat I am currently sitting in, not a seat, but another place and that place is in the show. A good show can do this to a person. A good show will make you feel like the character that you are observing. The question I ask myself is why do I want to feel this way when I am watching a television show? Maybe it's because I am bored for the time being or maybe I am having a bad day and want to escape a little to reset my thoughts. Whatever the reason may be I have understood that watching great television shows is a great experience to view someone else's experience even though it may be acting, and to learn from it.

Introduction:

The show starts out in a bank. A man named Michael Schofield is making an attempt to rob the bank. As I was viewing this for the first time I actually was thinking that he was going to get away and not because it was showing that he might get away with it while he was in the bank but because most movies that would start out this way would have this guy succeeding in his attempt to rob the bank. The twist to it all is that he planned to rob the bank but didn't do it to steal anything just to get in to trouble. Soon, as Michael Schofield had planned the police and swat team shows up and swarms the outside of the bank. Michael immediately puts his gun down, and raises his hands to surrender. The whole time I'm on the edge of my seat thinking… How easy was that? I do not know why I just felt like there should have been more to it and that was why I kept watching. There was all this mystery about to unfold.

I turned out that Michael Schofield wanted to go to prison. He planned everything from the beginning. He desired it.

As the story went on, it showed the police searching his apartment and finding nothing. He wanted it that way of course. He wanted them to think that he was an idiot looking for trouble and wanted to go to prison, but that's just it… he did go to prison. He was in court with the prosecutor and the judge and his own personal lawyer that he knew and as they gave him a plea bargain not to go to prison he still wanted to go to prison. He told the judge that he didn't want the plea bargain… he just wanted to do his time and get it over with. By now I'm completely lost and confused because I would have taken the plea bargain so what the hell is this guy thinking?

Now this is where you start to get an understanding of Michael Schofield. He's quite tall probably around 6?'' and has a shaved head before he goes in to prison because I'm thinking he was preparing himself for it. He knew what he must do. He's completely confident in everything he encounters. He's so intelligent it makes you wonder why he wanted to go to prison.
Flash-Back:

Michael is in a tattoo shop getting his entire torso and arms tattooed. The designs are of gargoyles and castles and other interesting designs. The whole time he wears expensive suits. Then I ask why is he getting a complete torso and arms tattoo? As the woman who is the artist is giving him the tattoo's, Michael has all the drawings laid out the way he wants them.

She asks him curiously, "So why does a guy like you want to get your entire upper body tattooed?"

Michael responds, "What do you mean a guy like me?"

She responds, "You know… I mean, come on… I can tell that you're a business man walking in here with your expensive suit and needs an entire torso tattoo done and sleeves as well. Usually people's first tattoo is like a small cat or dog. Do you understand what I mean?"

He answers, "Yes I do"

Flashes back to the future:

What's very interesting is what happens next. Michael flashes back a lot as the story explains why…

The tattoo all over Michael's body is the blueprints to the Prison of Fox River which is where Michael was sent to do his time. Interesting…

It turns out that Michael's older brother is in the same prison for murdering the vice president's brother… or did he?

Flash-Back:

Michael is frantically making plans in his apartment, stressing out and trying to accomplish something, but what? As it continues on I figure out that his entire wall is covered in ideas to break out of the prison, but why would he rob a bank and get sent to prison to break right out and be forced to run all his life… that is, unless he's caught. Maybe it's not him he's trying to break out of prison. Maybe it's his older brother.

A great story:

This is what I call a great story. As a matter of a fact every episode felt like an adrenaline rush. I was shaking, going crazy with questions and totally consumed with the plot. The greatest surprise to this story is that Michael Schofield's plan falls into every piece that's in play with the Prison break, but there's always things that get in the way which drives the audience insane, and keeps them on the edge.

Actors:

Michael Scofield: He is the man with the plan. The main character of this series. He comes up with all the plans to breaking out of the prison and is part of the reason why you can't stay on your seat as your watching this series. In the episodes to come it explains how he is a unique individual, being that there are two different types of people. There are those who look at an orange and see the orange peel and nothing more, knowing what lies inside, and then there are those who look at the orange and know that its orange but look at the peel and see that its rigid and has unique texture and then goes to the inside of the peel and sees the white layer and then continues on through the whole orange analyzing every bit of it. Michael Scofield is like this.

John Abruzzi: (Peter Stormare), Jonh is the main mob boss on the outside world and has his little gang on the inside as well but can still control a lot of his people on the outside and arrange certain things that Scofield needs in his plan.

T-bag: (Robert Knepper), T-bag is the child malesting murderer who finds himself keniving his way into the plan of escaping out of prison and only becomes a nuisance throughtout the episodes to come. He kills with out a thought and finds he loves the rush.

C-Note: (Rockmund Dunbar), C-note is the manipulator who has to manipulate his way into Michaels plan as well.

Fernando Sucre: (Amaury Nolasco), Sucre, as they call him in the series is in love with a woman on the outside and is crazy enough to try and break out to see her before he ends up losing her to his best friend who betrayed him while he was in prison.

Charles Westmoreland: (Muse Watson), He's the old guy of the group probably the most wisest of the crew, but the slowest as well. He's famous for stealing 5 million dollars and stashing it somewhere in Utah.