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Darkness & Light

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People can be so extreme. As overrated as fans feel Michael Scofield is, he is Prison Break. There'd be no show without him. That's why the show is literally over the moment he dies in season 4, and they only have a 5th season because he's alive. He is the show. Considering the fact that the show is titled Prison Break, and absolutely no one would be breaking out of prison without Michael Scofield, yes... it is fair to say that he is the show. Without him, Prison Break would be a show about a bunch of characters wishing they were breaking out of prison instead of actually breaking out of prison, and Alex Mahone would be bored out of his damn mind.

You don't have to shit on other characters to elevate your favorite because I can shit on your favorite character just as easily. I mean... you don't see Alex Mahone in season 5, do you? Perhaps your favorite character isn't as important as you thought.

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"Take care of yourself. "

Or get screwed three ways to Sunday.

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Don Brownrigg - Just Breathe

Here's another cold day In that old November way Once again it's begin I'm stuck and out astray

And you came in like a wave Through the same paled grin, I gave Just breathe Just breathe

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I'm currently on episodes 8 and 9 of my season two re-watch. I'm pulling a master post on season 2, that way I can simply share it whenever fans exaggerate Alex Mahone's intelligence.

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"Special Agent Alexander Mahone, is responsible for multiple deaths. He murdered not only John Abruzzi and David Apolskis… but also the last fugitive he was assigned to chase. A man names Oscar Shales. A man who escaped from prison two years ago… who remains one of this country's most wanted despite the fact he'll never be found."

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From the moment I got here… …I've been planning my escape.

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That's a big irony. Lawman in jail. You are exactly where you belong.

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Mahone is written on the other side of Avocado. Easier for me to switch and overlay dialogues to show the whole of what Michael could see.

"Why did he lie?"

"I think I owe you an apology because I lied to you..."

Rape is about power and control, so everything fit perfectly.

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Design graphics Geya Shvecova (Glitter Stars) Archive_310325

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Theodore Bagwell

I don't consider T-Bag redeemed in season 5, but I do feel the writers opened the door for a real redemption storyline for his character. I'm not saying they should do a spinoff for T-Bag's redemption, but fans are more than capable of writing fics about it.

"I am the last in the line of Bagwells. The tail end of a corrupted breed. The earth, thank God, shall see no more of our generations. I cannot procreate, Susan. And yet there's something in that that gives me great hope. No more Bagwells shall roam this planet. Not with that vile blood in their veins. All I wanna do is end that bloodline, extirpate it... and start another afresh. A new family. Those children are my salvation."

T-Bag isn't infertile. It was his own desire to not have children. Verb tense matters, and all he wants to do is end his bloodline. It would be ended if he were infertile. T-Bag wanted to end what he considered a family curse. His parents were related, and he was conceived out of rape because his father raped his own sister. She wasn't his only victim because they show flashbacks of T-Bag being sexually abused by his father. Add in the fact that T-Bag himself committed rape and child sexual abuse, and you have a man that believes vile blood runs through his veins.

Forget Susan's children being T-Bag's salvation because I feel that was Whip's purpose. Through his own son, he was shown what was ingrained in him and what was learned. This will allow him to face the truth of himself, of his bloodline, of his own crimes. Rape and sexual abuse isn't ingrained, it's learned... and he learned it from his father.

"Give it to me straight... How you really feel about me?"

Whip was a rare gift. Kill him off, plant him in the ground, and see if anything will grow. It's not about how Michael feels about T-Bag, it's about how Michael feels about Whip... his whip hand, his ace in the hole. "There's maybe five people in this country that can do what I do with a deck of cards."

"He came to me with absolutely no sense of self-worth. The loss of both parents very often does that to a child. But with the low latent inhibition, something interesting happened to Michael. He became very attuned to all the suffering around him. He couldn't shut it out. He became a rescuer. One of those people who are more concerned with other people's welfare than their own."

There are other considerations. T-Bag was sexually abused by his father. Michael was beaten and thrown into the dark of the closet by his foster father. The two of them had painful childhoods.

I'm not saying they should do a spinoff for T-Bag's redemption, but if they ever decided to, I'd want the spinoff to be Michael and T-Bag for the sake of redemption. It's my headcanon that Michael visits him at Fox River to tell him stories about Whip and the prison breaks they pulled off.

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Echo of a Kiss

Just watch how they mirror these scenes

Sara coming - in this room, then in this place

Getting interrupted - in this room, then in this place

Sara going - in this room, then in this place

Kissing - in this room, then in this place

"It won't always be like this."

In this room, in this place.

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Poseidon: Michael vs Sara

It's insane to me that fans are actually questioning who had it worse in Poseidon's storyline, Michael or Sara. I don't even consider that a real question. A disgusting joke, really.

"I used to think the worst feeling in the world was losing someone you loved, but I was wrong. The worst feeling is the moment that you realize that you've lost yourself." - Elena Gilbert, The Vampire Diaries

Michael

Michael's last four years were spent in solitary confinement because he tried to escape Ogygia Prison as soon as he got there. Take a roll of masking tape or painters tape into the biggest room of your house and mark yourself a 9ft x 6ft area. Stand inside of that area, then imagine living in it for four years.

This was Michael's home for four years. He told Ramal what he did while in solitary confinement. A string a day pulled from his uniform. 365 days per year, multiply that by four. A total of 1460 days that he spent in solitary cofinement, a total of 1460 strings that he pulled from his uniform.

I'm actually quite surprised that he didn't go insane.

Imagine everyday life in that cell. On days when Michael was the only prisoner in solitary, they would've been spent alone and in silence. Left to his own thoughts, he likely spent hours fantasizing… about going home, about holding his son. On days when he wasn't the only prisoner in solitary, he'd actually have the luxury of conversations with another human being, someone who could bring his spirits up and help him pass the time. This is as hopeless as hopeless can get, as lonely as lonely can get. One should wonder how many times he thought about giving up.

"No, that's just a memory." He was being denied his identity, so an "S" for Scofled was carved into the wall, and likely acted as a beacon of hope for him. He became so invisible that he might as well have never existed at all. Jacob was erasing him from history, literally. They couldn't even get his real face to show up on the internet when they typed in his name. He lost his very identity because he couldn't even admit to his real name while being recorded by C-Note. He only admitted his real name on Ja's cell phone because he believed he was going to die. He got stuck wearing the mask of Kaniel Outis, so he was Kaniel Outis.

In the three years that he actually worked for Poseidon, he believed that his escapes were sanctioned by the CIA because the CIA is capable of doing some pretty dirty stuff. Even though it was dirty work, Michael would've at least believed it was for good because it was for the CIA. It wasn't until Poseidon killed Gaines and framed him for the murder that he realized none of their work was sanctioned, that Poseidon went rogue. So every rogue agent, every dissident, every terrorist that Michael helped escape from prison wasn't sanctioned by the CIA. This goes against everything Michael believes in, which would've affected him on a spiritual level. Certainly a lot of guilt to carry there. Fans might as well imagine Michael finding out that he was working for the General while being blind to the fact that he was working for the General because that's basically what it amounts to. He would've preferred death, honestly.

The entire world believed he was a terrorist working with ISIL, and he was getting abused by the guards because of it. Even C-Note questioned who they were breaking out of prison, Michael Scofield or Kaniel Outis.

A person that believes their spouse is dead will mourn and eventually move on as Sara did with Jacob. A person in Michael's shoes, in his knowing that his wife is alive and out there... a constant longing to be with her, and knowing there's absolutely nothing he can do about it.

Michael might as well have been fixed in cement. There is no "moving on" in solitary confinement for four years. Ogygia Prison was his tomb.

"Kaniel Outis" was the perfect name choice for him because Michael became Nobody. To everyone he loved, he was dead and buried. He never once held his son. The only people he's had in his life in the last four years were the friendships he built while in Ogygia. Whip essentially became his brother, and Poseidon left both of them to die in that prison.

"I used to think the worst feeling in the world was losing someone you loved, but I was wrong. The worst feeling is the moment that you realize that you've lost yourself." - Elena Gilbert, The Vampire Diaries

Quote callback. Michael not only lost his wife, he lost himself. He outwardly admitted that somewhere in there, he became a ghost.

Sara

Was Sara thrown into prison while she was pregnant? Yes. Did she nearly lose her child because she was fed rat poison? Yes. Did the love of her life die right in front of her? Yes.

This is Sara following all of those events. She's watching the video Michael made for her and Lincoln.

This is Sara three years later. She and her son were free to live a normal life. She wasn't a fugitive, she wasn't living a life on the run. Her freedom was the entire reason Michael agreed to work for Poseidon in the first place. This was stated out of Michael's own mouth at least three times.

"Poseidon told me Kellerman didn't have the authority or jurisdiction to exonerate our crimes. He used that as a legal fulcrum. Told me he could put us all away for life within the mandate of the law unless… unless I went to work for him."

"And he needed my help breaking out people imprisoned all over the world. Terrorists, political dissidents, rogue agents. And if I did it, you and Sara, you'd go free. Your record's expunged."

"He told me if I didn't agree to come work for him, he'd go after you and Linc, put you both in jail. And then he proved it to me."

This is Sara four years later. Fans need to stop acting like she was incapable of surviving without Michael. Did she mourn him? Most certainly. But she was able to move on. She not ony got remarried, she more than proved she had no problem living without Michael because it came out of Jacob's own mouth, and she agreed with all of it.

"Do you remember our honeymoon? How you opened up. Told me you carried shame for what you did at Fox River. How some days you wished you'd never heard the name Michael Scofield. Even admitted to lying, keeping it all from me. How you finally came clean and put it all behind you? I forgave you for the lies. Your past. Accepted you. Loved you and Mike."

THIS is how well Sara moved on.

"I used to think the worst feeling in the world was losing someone you loved, but I was wrong. The worst feeling is the moment that you realize that you've lost yourself." - Elena Gilbert, The Vampire Diaries

Quote callback. Sara lost her husband. She did not lose herself.

She was a wife, a mother, a daughter-in-law, and a friend. She was not alone, and she had no reason to be hopeless. Sara had everything that Michael did not, which was the entire point of him working for Poseidon and the very reason Michael had it worse than she did. Because he didn't want her to have it worse than he did. He wanted her to have a life, and she did... for seven years.

UNTIL is your Michael - Sara parallel

Jacob was Sara's husband, the two of them were raising Michael together, and the three of them were a happy family UNTIL she learned the truth about Jacob. So no, she didn't spend years living with a monster. She lived according to what she believed, as did Michael.

Michael worked for Poseidon for three years, and believed everything that he was doing for him was sanctioned by the CIA UNTIL he learned the truth - that Jacob had gone rogue.

A disgusting joke because Michael had it worse, by far.

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"But if you're asking me if I picked up the head to check to see if it was Sara… No, Michael, I didn't."

"What I want is to see the Company burn to the ground, and you in prison."

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I'm finishing up a gif post, then I'm gonna play around with that fence scene in The Key episode.

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Hannibal (2013-2015)

2x07 || 2x09

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I hate Michael's final scene

Sara was pregnant with Michael when Jacob put her in prison to prove his power over their immunity deals. Once inside, she risked miscarriage because someone fed her rat poison. I consider this a physical assault on Michael, which Jacob is responsible for.

Emotionally, he went above and beyond.

It's not every day that a child is forced to face a killer walking into their house, shooting his stepfather, and forcing his mother to barricade them in the bathroom for their safety.

It's not every day that a child is told that his mother died when she's still alive, or that a terrorist is using his dead father's identity for the sole purpose of hurting him and his stepfather.

It's not every day that a child watches a woman pretend to be his mother, and for the purpose of killing his father right in front of him.

It's not every day that a child feels so threatened that he tells his father, "We need to run."

It's not every day that a child is forced to hear a man get shot right in front of him, and solely because that man was trying to do right by his father rather than kill him.

These are abuses Jacob committed against Michael's son. All the more reason he should've had another father/son moment in the finale.

Is it selfish of me to have wanted at least one normal father/son moment? I don't think so. They could've had such a moment right before T-Bag had his way with Jacob, but for some reason... the writers wanted Michael sitting all by himself.

I don't think I'm wrong in hating the ending.