Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Prison Break: Wash
I love the complexity of the characters on this show. They each have some conflicting force in their psyche that makes it hard to predict which way they'll land in a given situation.
Let's start with Kellerman... He seems to have a serious love/hate relationship going with the President. At one point, he was totally dedicated to her. Since then, he has realized that she considers him expendable. His obsession with her could still sway him to turn back into her lapdog, but at the moment, he is feeling so betrayed that his love has turned to pure hatred. He never had any real emotion about Burrows and Scofield, so it is hard to say who his enemies are at any given point. At the moment, it is clearly the president.
Next we have Bellick... He has been hired as the "hound" for Mahone. He is angry that Scofield cost him his job. He is angry that he lost the money. He is angry that he got picked up for murdering his partner. He is angry that he got beat up in jail. He is angry that Mahone seems to be controlling him. He is angry that he hasn't gotten paid. He is angry that Mahone doesn't treat him with respect. He isn't really conflicted, he's just pissed off... at everything and everybody. He just wants one good thing to happen to him. Whoever can make that good thing happens will earn his efforts for the moment.
Finally we have Mahone... He has always been between a rock and a hard place. A basically dedicated Fed at one time, he did something that put him at the mercy of the people running this conspiracy. He has worked for them because of the leverage they have and the fact that they seemed to have a righteous goal: the capture of a convicted killer. Since then, he has decided that being blackmailed was not a good enough reason to do what he was doing and the Puppeteers threatened his family. Then he has been pushed into killing the felons. He was marginally OK with that because they were felons. Now he suspects that Burrows is innocent and that this whole thing may be a big conspiracy. His actions are not in question just because he may be after an innocent man, but because if Burrows is innocent, then it would not be difficult for him to realize that he will be expendable when all of the convicts are dead...
These last few episodes will be hard to predict but worth tuning in for!
Labels: Prison Break, tv
