It’s gonna be the best Prison Break season yet!
By fred | August 13, 2007
Of course producers or anyone else involved in a show wants you to watch it, season after season. So every year, you hear the same old “it’s gonna be the best season yet” routine.
After fan got worried with new casting rumors on Supernatural, creator Eric Kripke explained how they got there, and that it wasn’t what it might have looked like at first.
And then, of course, he said fans should expect no less than “the best season of Supernatural yet“.
Last season of 24 was probably the worst ever, but producers are trying their best to convince fans that they’ve realized what gone wrong, they’re ready to make changes and while they didn’t said those words out loud yet, they did promised that next season would please everyone, including all “disillusioned” fans!
And now, it’s time for yet another show that, like the previously mentioned ones, might look to be somewhat in “trouble” to go down that way.
Fair to say that many fans of Prison Break are pretty anxious regarding its upcoming third season. Seems logical.
The show was a pretty great new show back on its first season, as it was a claustrophobic act where a man deliberately get himself sent to prison in order to help his brother escape. And to do so, and had prepared every step of the way, to an extreme extend, using his own body as a coded map.
What people loved in the first season was obviously completely challenged for the next one, as they had indeed escaped. Now it wasn’t a in-doors show, none of the characters were confined into a cell trying to escape, they were actually out there, running out to stay free and prove their innocence (or Lincoln’s at least).
And for the pleasure of most if not all fans, they did pull it off. Second season had the show go into a brand new direction, and it was very well done.
The concept was originally thought as a 14-part miniseries, then turned into a full serialized series after the success of shows like 24 or Lost. The move from the first to the second season had always been planned out by writers, in the possibility of good ratings.
But to extend it all the way to a third season was never part of the plan. It was originally conceived to have only two seasons tops, thus creating a lot of anxiety amongst fans regarding whether or not the third (and, hopefully, last) season of the show will hold up to the series’s standard and quality.
Besides, the second season was starting to come to a conclusion with all of the stories within the show, only to “relaunch” some of them during the very last episodes, to set up the third season. By many, this was seen as a late move to dive into yet another unplanned season, and the basics planted of the season finale wasn’t of high expectations.
The season ended with one brother back to jail, and the other one out, most likely willing to do what it takes to take him out. Roles were reserved, but it sounded much like season one. Yet is wasn’t perceived as a good sign or returns to the roots of the show, more a lack of inspiration and, to be honest, possibilities.
Producer Brett Ratner confirmed that the third season will indeed be some kind of mix of the two previous season, and that, of course, it should be…
“I just came from Dallas. I was on the set of Prison Break. I think this is by far the best season yet. It’s a hybrid of the first season, as Michael Scofield’s back in jail. The second season was so great because it became like The Great Escape. This is a hybrid of both those seasons. It’s combination of a prison movie and an escape movie.”
Hopefully the season will be neither first half season one, first half season two, neither a mix of the two at the same time, with one brother in trying - once again - to escape, and one brother out on the run, but will feature a more complex and fresh plot. I guess this is when “The Company” comes in.
Will Michael escape? Will he find Sara back? Will Lincoln be a free man again? Will both of them partnered with Mahone to defeat the “The Company” ? What is the “The Company” ?
Those questions and the others will have to wait a little more, as Prison Break returns on September 17th.
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