Recaps: Prison Break, Sarah Connor Chronicles

“Let’s see if he has a tattoo to get out of THAT one.”

Thanks T-Bag for welcoming us back to Prison Break with a great little quip. He made me realize how much I missed this show.

And then somehow, by the end, I was yawning again. Maybe I missed it mostly because nothing else has been on and the idea of Prison Break and Sarah Connor appearing back-to-back just sounds too good to be nothing short of awesome.

It started off good, with a cool little “cooler” that Michael Scofield gets tossed into until the new head honcho of Sona can get him to talk. Then not only does he talk, but he TELLS EVERYTHING. At this point, Michael is just hoping for the best, desperate for anyone to help him.

But after pulling in Whistler and getting him to confess, and then giving the warder Gretchen’s name, they go after her.

Of course, the warden goes with only one guard, peeks into a trailer without a gun drawn and gets his ass kicked in a second flat by a handcuffed chick.

Now, the big speech he gave earlier about how he brought the biggest drug lord in all of Panama down and now runs the place, seems a bit far-fetched. What, was the drug czar sitting a trailer with his hands up, waiting for you to talk in with some cheap handcuffs?

Regardless of everything, the episode ends right back where we always are: Inside of Sona. Stuff happens, Bellick kills a dude by using a chemical and T-Bag is trying to get Sammy deadified as well.

But in the end…we’re back at the start once more.

On Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, we get a little more information on what is going on in the world. Apparently there are resistance soldiers here in 2007 that John Connor from the future has sent back to help take down Skynet.

Of course, that means there are also terminators here as well trying to take out the resistance. None of them are programmed to kill John though, so he’s safe if he sees one as they have no clue he’d be in 2007.

Ahh, but yes…one does know though. Apparently the amazing, awesome gun that we saw at the end of the last episode was nothing but flashy effects. Despite having his head blown off, the dead terminator also ends up in 2007. Someone picks up the head, takes it home only to be killed later by a walking, headless terminator.

Major problems with that…shouldn’t Cameron have known he was going to get caught up in the time travel warp? And why did he come later?

There was a little spark between Cameron and John, the brush she left on his shoulder as she walked by…a sure sign of a pending romance between man and robot. Since she apparently knows so much about John, what his mom read to her at bedtime, etc., is there something more to their future relationship than we know?

And of course, we have the big reveal that Sarah Connor will end up with cancer and died back in 2002. Since they jumped to 2007, she’s got a lot of time left, but who knows how that will end up?

I have to say, the show is sort of just okay for me right now. I really like Lena Headey. Her narrative is great. There is something unique about her voice that really gives the narrative a raw, rough, and determined quality.

But there are just a few issues I have with it all.

Terminator 4 is coming out down the road, with Christian Bale supposedly as John Connor. It’s likely to be set in the future during the fight against Skynet.

So what’s the point of the TV series if they will utterly fail anyways?

And second, the time travel stuff is REALLY hard to get your head around. You have to totally suspend all belief to like this show. John is sending like an army back in time, building stuff, etc., and there are terminators coming back as well, it’s just amazing anything in the future remains the same after all the stuff being changed in the past.