(SPOILER ALERT)
OK, so it’s a few days late, but I just watched this week’s episode of Prison Break, and I am truly stunned. Most of you probably already know about what happened. Scofield’s love interest, Sara Tancredi was killed. Apparently there were issues with the actor’s (Sarah Wayne Callies) contract, she was having a baby, they were going to kill her off but have her come shoot a few episodes, she didn’t like that idea, or something. The issue is well laid out over at MeeVee.
I agree with this article in the way this story arc was handled:
It’s going to alienate a lot of fans. The show gets some guys who tune in for the action, but female viewers in many cases stick around for Wentworth Miller as Michael. Killing off the love of his TV life seems to make as much sense as Jim strangling Pam in a quiet corner at Dunder Mifflin. Especially after Michael and Dr. Sarah spent most of last season risking life and limb for the chance to be together.
What a sad character arc. Recovering drug addict Dr. Sarah tries to make amends with a job helping inmates at the prison run by her dad. Ends up falling in love with Michael and helping him escape. Exposed, she becomes a national pariah. Relapses. Her dad ends up dead – a murder made to look like suicide, if I remember correctly. Dr. Sarah is tortured by remorse and Agent Kellerman. She finally reunites with Michael in the season-ender only to have him take the fall so she can go free. After which she falls into the hands of kidnappers. Who decapitate her to send a message to the boyfriend. Which doesn’t even get delivered because Linc can’t bear to tell Michael what’s happened.
I am one of the fans that has been alienated. Out of loyalty, however, I will be watching at least to see what Michael’s reaction to the news ends up being, although that doesn’t make the way this was handled. I mean, if you HAD to kill Sara off, OK, but at least make it dramatic and moving with at least an emotional payoff of some sort.
I am convinced that unless they end up hiring another great looking, voluptuous, vulnerable-looking female actor and somehow get us to want her and Scofield to get together, this show is doomed. Since the odds of that happening in only 17 or so episodes is…actually, wait a sec…that’s a lot of episodes, especially at the pace the whole story this season has been changing, so I guess anything could happen. Hmmm. Maybe the show will live. I’m still very pissed off, though. Bastards.
On a side note, did you know that the actress Sarah Wayne Callies grew up in Honolulu, Hawaii like me? And her parents were professors at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, just like my dad? But she went to Punahou High whereas I went to McKinley High. Interesting tidbit of info there.
I so agree with your quote and with you. I am alienated indeed. I’ve just been waiting for them to get through all the crap at that hell of a prison to see Michael and Sara get back together. It’s funny after the scene how we both looked at each other and came up with ideas on how that could not be her head in a box. Now your research has confirmed that it was really her. Ugh!
I have been catching up on sleep through most episodes this season anyway. I am not fond of watching Michael suffer in a Mexican prison. Seriously… which season do you prefer? The first one with Mr. Hottie taking off his shirt to consult the tattoo map or Mr. Hottie turning into Mr. Stinky with sweat stains all over his shirt? Another hottie, Sucre, is now reduced to burying dead bodies instead of professing love to his sweatheart. And seeing Belick in his jacked up state just makes me want to throw up. I’m sorry. It’s just not the same without Michael folding origami cranes and stealing moments with Sara in the medical wing.
Sigh.
Panamanian prison!
Ok, I did not know she(Sarah) was killed off. Thanks, now this has ruined the whole series for me. I was a true “Prision Break” fan from the beginning. Now, all is lost because I liked Sarah and Michael together. I will still watch the show, but with a heavy heart.
Thanks Mr. Haley!!
Nice episode last Monday. Will he get out or not?
I like the other girl on the show, not the nun, but the bird guy’s girl. She looked pretty good on the beach. If you ask me.
K-den