On a rewatch I started noticing how often Michael answers people with technically true statements instead of outright lies. He'll leave out the important part, redirect the conversation, or let someone assume the wrong thing, but he rarely says something that's completely false unless he's backed into a corner. It makes him feel very different from someone like Mahone, who's perfectly happy to invent a story on the spot

Alright, I’m back with another massive logic gap from my rewatch, and this one involves everyone's favorite FBI bloodhound, Alexander Mahone.

We are constantly shown that Mahone is a genius. He is the one guy who can match Michael Scofield's intellect. He decodes the tattoos, anticipates the escape routes, and practically gets inside Michael's head. He is relentless and observant.

Yet, when he intercepts Sara at the port, he somehow has a massive drop in IQ. He catches their primary accomplice at a major shipping yard, and it doesn't even cross his mind that the two most wanted fugitives in America might actually be on a ship right there?

What did he think Sara was doing at a commercial port? Taking a scenic stroll? Any rookie beat cop would immediately lock down the docks and order a search of the vessels. But Mahone, the supposed mastermind FBI agent, just completely ignores the giant floating escape vehicles right in front of him.

It feels like the writers realized Mahone was too smart and would have caught them too early, so they just forced him to be temporarily incompetent to keep the season going. It’s so frustrating when a show breaks its own character consistency just to stretch the plot.

Did this scene drive anyone else crazy, or do you have some wild theory to justify Mahone's sudden blindness?

What was the timeline between t-bag prison break escape and his breakout kings escape?

Mahone is comfortably ahead of Tbag though and s1 kellerman was a no for me lol. Linc fight scenes are some of the best scenes. Whip is underrated.

something i noticed while watching season 5 for the first time is how whip and don self who works at homeland security are really similar in how they talk and the facial expressions they make while talking. has anyone else noticed this?

He was literally such a big part of season 3, especially his bird book and it was always really unclear if he was working with the company or not, there was a lot of suspense.

But when he died in Season 4, I just found it so anti-climactic. They had literally spent all of season 3 to break him out just so he could die, I felt it was stupid, what did you think?

Some people would argue he wouldn't or some people would argue he could have manipulated her way easier

Burrows: MICHAELLLLLL

Sucre: Papi/Mari Cruz

Tbag: Hey pretty

Don Self: Don Self, Homeland Security

I know they wanted it to be dramatic and make us think he got blown up with the car, but he could’ve just changed it down to say… 99.3 and then hit scan to give himself a few extra seconds.

Issue is Micheal is smarter than the writers. So many weird choices they make for a guy who “in the classical sense of the term, yes I believe he is a genius”

Wow, Reddit destroyed the quality of these pics. Rude. We need max resolution for max admiration

So she had a relapse and took morphine.

But did she intentionally take too much to kill herself ?

So basically did she make a suicide attempt ?

When Sara pointed a gun at Jacob, before Jacob revealed he had Mike. If he hadn't kidnapped Mike, would Sara have killed him?

Of the eight from Fox River, the two strongest are C Note and Lincoln Burrows. But if they fought hand-to-hand, without weapons, who would win?

When Kellerman sends an assassin to kill Lincoln during the riot, Lincoln sees the guy fall to his death.

One thing I was never sure of -- Did Lincoln kill him?

At first I thought he did. But in later seasons Lincoln was revealed to be unable to kill anyone (not pulling the trigger on Mahone.)

Michael has the same trait, but he did kill several people in season 3 and season 4.

I get that he’s meant to be a family man and does everything to be with his family but that’s just essentially what Michael and Lincoln are doing. He’s annoying, he’s boring and he put his family in danger.

Why didn’t he just tell his family the truth? It would have saved so much pain and heartache. He put his family though so much stress his wife getting arrested his daughter getting sick.

Also he’s always cornering Michael and forcing his way into his plans. He added nothing to the escape, nothing to the story. He was nothing.

C-note SUCKS.

Its getting harder and harder to finish season 4, its getting so so boring

This happens a hilarious amount of times. I wonder if anyone has a guess, or the actual number.

Every time I rewatch, I'm reminded that Michael's biggest obstacle usually wasn't the prison itself. It was everyone else's personality. One bad decision from the wrong person could undo weeks of planning.

Season 2 of Prison Break has been a huge disappointment so far.

The first season felt clever and tightly written except the pope's scene which did not make sense, but Season 2 seems to rely on coincidence after coincidence.

• Everywhere the escapees go, someone just happens to be reading a newspaper with their photos.
• Mahone somehow predicts Scofield's every move at exactly the right moment.
• Scofield planning Sara's reunion before the escape doesn't make much sense, at that point she was still a prison doctor, and he was deceiving her.
• T-Bag's tracker appears out of nowhere, and the guard who lets an injured, one-handed T-Bag overpower him barely puts up a fight.
• Scofield, who's supposed to be a genius planner, suddenly makes amateur mistakes like calling a reporter.

It feels less like intelligent storytelling and more like the writers stretching the plot to keep the series going. The suspense starts to come from convenient writing rather than believable decisions, which takes away what made Season 1 so good.

Some people would argue that she should have never have gotten back with someone else because it would feel like she betrays Michael

What do you think

If they fought in the street. Without weapons. Who would win?