Roush on Prison Break
Question: I know you're no fan of
Prison Break, and on that we'll have to agree to disagree. But what do you think of the show's producers spoiling their own plotline by announcing the return of Sarah Wayne Callies as Dr. Sara? Couldn't they have left that surprise for the viewers? Just like when the producers of
Lost announced Michael's return before the season even started, they sort of took the fun out of it for me. I had some suspicions that Dr. Sara could be coming back, but couldn't they have let me mull it over during the summer and given me a shocker in the season premiere? Must they continually keep flipping to the last page of the book before I even start reading it? They're called spoilers for a reason. Can you imagine producers today keeping their mouths shut about who shot J.R.?
— Cyndy M.
Matt Roush: Oh, don't get me started on this ridiculous show. And the very idea of even mentioning Prison Break in the same breath as a legendary TV phenom like Dallas — or Lost for that matter. Heresy. Can anyone really say they're surprised that the shrunken heads who run this show have decided that it wasn't Sara's head in the box after all? It was a disgusting stunt to begin with, and now it's just an insult to common sense. All the fans who think the producers have listened to their complaints by restoring Sara to the show should think again. This show is responding to only one thing: creative desperation. I agree that Lost and ABC could have kept Michael's return a secret, and we and they would have better off, but in the case of this grisly cartoon, nothing they do would surprise or shock — or interest — me anymore.
