{"id":68,"date":"2011-06-27T19:58:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T00:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/k-tock.com\/?p=68"},"modified":"2011-06-27T19:58:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T00:58:00","slug":"prison-break-prognostications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/k-tock.com\/?p=68","title":{"rendered":"Prison Break Prognostications"},"content":{"rendered":"

SPOILER ALERT: If you are, like me, a Prison Break<\/em> virgin and haven’t seen the second season, don’t read ahead.<\/span><\/p>\n

I lay awake in bed this morning, my mind contemplating the first six episodes of Prison Break: Season Two<\/a>\"\". Agent Mahone is a gripping antagonist for Michael to battle.<\/p>\n

It was while musing about that battle of wits that something came to me. Season Two has added some layers to the main theme of family<\/em>. It is now also more directly about addiction\/obsession.<\/span>
For instance, Dr Sara Tancredi is battling with her morphine addiction; Abruzzi paid the ultimate price for putting his obsession with Fibonacci before his family; T-Bag gets in trouble for being unable to rise above his proclivities<\/em>; and the list goes on.<\/p>\n

With that in mind, early in Season Two we see addiction\/obsession unveiled in Mahone’s actions. He has a need for some little pills he always carries around with him, and he is obsessed with an old case – that of a man named Oscar Shales.<\/p>\n

Now, the thought that came to me this morning was that it would be very interesting if Mahone’s obsession<\/em> with Oscar Shales had a family<\/em> connection. Perhaps he had something to do with Mahone’s parents – perhaps he is<\/em> Mahone’s father (in my best Vader impression “No, I am your father”). Like I said in the disclaimer, I am a Prison Break<\/em> virgin, so this is all speculation, but it would make for a neat thematic tie-in.<\/p>\n

There are a number of parent-child relationships in Prison Break<\/em>. We have the complete abandonment of Michael and Lincoln by their father, the dysfunctional relationship between Dr Tancredi and her father, the Governor.<\/p>\n

It would fit right in thematically if Mahone and Shales have some family connection. It would also be interesting if there was a link between Oscar Shales and the Company, or at least with Michael’s father, but now I’m entering the realm of pure speculation (“You are entering another dimension, a dimension not of rationality and logic, but of imagination. You’ve just crossed over into the Speculation Zone).<\/p>\n

Anyway, I could be completely wrong, so I’ll just keep watching and see what unfolds over the course of the remaining episodes in Season Two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SPOILER ALERT: If you are, like me, a Prison Break virgin and haven’t seen the second season, don’t read ahead. I lay awake in bed this morning, my mind contemplating the first six episodes of Prison<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,104,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prison-break","category-season-two","category-theme"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t