Just watched this week’s “Prison Break,” and I have to say, Veronica Donovan may go down as the most inconsistently dumb TV character of the year. Last week, after creatively evading the feds’ wire tap, she logs on to her IM, giving away her location to Scary Bald Guy. This week, after being tied up by SBG, she manages to heat up her plastic restraints on the furnace, freeing herself in the process. She hits SBG with a chair and instead of killing him, she runs off to free her nephew and friend. Of course, when SBG wakes up, the chase continues. Here’s a rule that should be followed by TV characters henceforth: It’s OK to kill people that are trying to kill you. Even if they are unconscious, and you think they might kill you when they wake up. Just go ahead and finish them!
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In last night’s “Medium,” super-psychic Allison Dubois has a dream about a girl in a sweatsuit, who will get knifed in her house by an unknown assailant. Then Allison enlists the help of Det. Scanlon to pay a visit to the guy who she suspects will do the crime. The guy sees Scanlon and runs into the street and gets hit by a car, ending up in the ICU. That night, Allison has a dream about the same girl, only this time she’s wearing normal clothes and talking about how “something bad happened” to a friend of hers and that she couldn’t make it to the gym. At the end of the dream, she still gets knifed in her home.
At this point in the show, I’m thinking the girl knows the suspect, but the suspect isn’t going to do the crime. Allison feels she has no way to track down the girl, even though the girl calls out her cat’s name a dozen times – can’t they search pet registration records for a name? Anyway, Allison feels so guilty about the guy in ICU that she goes to see him. Lo and behold, the girl from the dream is already there for a visit, wearing the same clothes from the second dream. Allison recognizes the girl but somehow fails to put it all together and lets the girl leave the hospital. It isn’t until a full minute later (when Det. Scanlan conveniently arrives) that she realizes that the girl will get stabbed tonight, and that they better get someone over to her place right quick.
Boy, Allison – you are dense.
Caesar is starting to show his true colors. Seemingly honorable and evenhanded, he indirectly hires Titus to assassinate an enemy of his, ultimately forcing Lucius to save Titus from certain death in the Arena. I doubt Lucius will be able to go back to being a magistrate after his public display of affection for his friend, but anything can happen in Rome.
Things are also moving forward on the Brutus front. When graffiti depicting Brutus betraying Caesar appears throughout Rome, Caesar asks him to leave the city for a year to govern Macedonia. Brutus is insulted and vows to help Cassius do what is needed to remove Caesar from power. Anyone who paid attention in their high school English classes knows where this is heading.
The first season had pretty boy Boone tumble to his own death, and now, his stepsister Shannon looks to have shared the same unsavory fate. Before you know it, the show’s writers will have weeded out all of the characters who no longer serve a purpose to the story by way of an ill-fated death scene. And the cause of her death, you ask? A gunshot wound from a trigger happy Ana Lucia who somehow managed to confuse the well-kept rich girl for one of the supposed savage Others. Nice detective work there Nancy Drew.
Meanwhile, another character seems to be drawing closer to his end of the line, namely Charlie, who has traded in his A-Team badge for a chance to play Mr. Mom to Claire’s baby. What the heck was all that fuss about? It’s pretty obvious that Claire is unfit to be a mother, heck she didn’t even want the darned thing in the first place, so why did Charlie have to go all psycho on her? Maybe he’s back on the crank, and that’s what’s driving him over the edge, or maybe he’s just trying a little too hard to impress Claire. Either way, he’s completely lost my respect as a meaningful character on the show until he shapes up and re-enlists as part of the A-team; his interactions with Hurley were the best, and now the big guy has no one else to hang out with but Rose, who will surely leave him in the wind as soon as she catches word of her husband’s arrival at camp.
And in one final note, Mr. Echo might just be the coolest new character on the show, and I cannot wait to see what happens when he hooks up with Locke for some serious “Lord of the Flies” jungle action. These guys are definite survivors in Darwin’s book, but it’ll be interesting to see who gets the axe next. JJ Abrams and Co. have made it pretty clear that no one is safe from here on out.
I just got over the fact that the Department of Corrections allows death row inmates to work unsupervised “PI” detail. Now “Prison Break” wants me to believe that an otherwise crafty Veronica is going to have her IM service up and running while she’s hiding out in a cabin in the woods. This is the same woman who had the foresight to give her nephew bogus directions (at the same time sending the correct directions via a text message) when she suspected that the Secret Service baddies were listening in on the conversation. Now she logs onto IM and gives away her location? Come on.
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