Recaps: Prison Break, Sarah Connor Chronicles

These two shows, Prison Break and The Sarah Connor Chronicles have gone is opposite directions this season. One of them started getting better, the other one could have used a laugh track.

If they need that laugh track over on the Prison Break set, we have one over here, as my wife did nothing but chuckle the entire episode.

Prison Break

Well, not much can be said. Again, nothing really happened except Lincoln got L.J. back and Michael has revenge on his mind. T-Bag ended up killing Lechero and taking over Sona, whilst Sucre got the crap kicked out of him and ended up thrown in the very same prison he tried to help Michael and Whistler escape from.

I really wanted Sucre to walk in and just kill T-Bag, but of course I never get what I want on this show.

I also wanted Michael to shoot Susan, but he stood there shaking like a leaf, and while that moment didn’t work, he’ll try again later I suppose.

Everything is up in the air…and for some reason, I didn’t care too much about what happens next. According to the Ausiello report, there are no new episodes planned at all, and the future of Prison Break is still to be determined.

I hope it doesn’t come back actually, so that this addiction of mine will be broken on its own.

The Sarah Connor Chronicles

Now here is a show that is starting to find its rhythm, if I may steal a sports cliche.

I don’t know if it happened before or after Brian Austin Green entered the picture, but either way, since he’s been on the show, it’s risen to a while other level

After the first episode, I felt the “mythology” of the show was weak and wouldn’t be enough to keep me tuned in every week in the long run. They just gave us the mission of trying to end Skynet, but there was nothing else really enticing.

Enter the Kyle and Darek Reese back story. What a great bit of story to add to the mythology here and the way it’s been told has been pretty good.

This week Derek fights for his life while Charley tries to keep him alive. In the middle of it all, we see his hatred and fear of Cameron, and after a bit it dawned on me that we’d see them together somehow in the “flash-forwards” (thanks Lost) that we got in this episode.

I am still wondering what happened in the basement of the house Derek and his fellow fighters were kept prisoner. I believe they were tortured and one gave up the location of their nearby hideout, but who did the torturing? Could it be Cameron in another form? Or was it just a plot element not to show us and wont ever be important?

I loved the flash-forward story of Derek and Kyle. We learn that John Connor has discovered the existence of a secret weapo, which obviously has to be the technology to time travel. He leads his men to attack a research center and suddenly Kyle is never seen or heard from again.

We know he got sent back by John to protect Sarah Connor as we saw in the first Terminator film.

Derek wants to know what happened to Kyle and towards the end of the episode, John calls him into his room, escorted by Cameron herself. A bit earlier one of their “turned” terminators starts killing everyone and Cameron takes it out, stating “Some of them go bad…we don’t know why.”

I have no doubt that this Cameron is the same one we see in the present time. Cool.

John then sends Derek and his group of men 20 years in the past to set up a base to help defeat Skynet before it begins.

The real essential point of the story tonight was Andy Goode. Killed in the last episode, we see him in the future, imprisoned alongside Derek. He spills his guts, suffering from utter guilt from creating Skynet.

A huge clue came from this: There were 10 total men who helped build Skynet. One down. Nine to go.

And finally, we see who really killed Andy. Derek told Sarah he was already dead when he opened the door, but that was a lie. Derek killed him and we now know why.

A bunch of other little things happened. Cameron burned the dead terminator from last week, but the hand is missing and we know the FBI agent has it. We saw the photograph that Kyle takes with him to the future of Sarah, although I’m confused about that. If he was already gone, why was the photo left behind? Didn’t Kyle have it with him in the first terminator?

Or wait…you can’t take anything with you during time travel right? So my memory is faulty…where did the photo come into play in the movies?

Also, what were the flying machines building? I am not sure if that was supposed to indicate the time travel stuff, or something new. Either way, it looked like giant jet engines they carried.
Great episode and suddenly I’m really starting to look forward to this show every week.