Dr. Sarah's 'Prison Break' return?!?
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OK, this is the craziest thing I’ve heard in TV Land this week, and believe me, we here at Remote Access hear some doozies.
But this is no rumor, and this isn’t speculation.
Dr. Sara Tancredi is coming back to “Prison Break” next season.
What, you say? Uh, didn’t we last see Sara’s head in a box?!?
Yup, that’s right! And get this: The show isn’t pulling a page from the “Lost” playbook, only to show Sara in flashbacks.
Sara is —ta-dah!—ALIVE!
(That chirping noise you hear is my stunned silence, followed by semi-hysterical “You’ve got to be kidding” laughter.)
But it’s true: TV Guide’s Michael Ausiello got the scoop from executive producer Matt Olmstead, who confirms that actress Sarah Wayne Callies (who had a nasty contract dispute with the show last year) will return as Michael’s sweetie-pie full-time.
Here’s the explanation Olmstead gives us, apparently assuming that we’re all complete idiots (or, at least, that Lincoln is):
Is he serious? Well, he must be, and FOX executives must have been hitting the crack pipe when they signed off on this asinine idea.
I mean, Sara was dead. D-E-A-D. You know it, I know it, and Olmstead and the writers know it.
Because Olmstead’s reasoning means that Lincoln would have to be too dumb to tie his own shoes for this plan to fly. And while Linc’s no Michael Scofield, he’s a pretty sharp dude.
I have to say, one reason I kind of love this idea is purely to watch the scene that’s sure to come when Michael confronts Lincoln after he finds out Sara’s not dead.
“I thought you said they sent you her head in a BOX?!?”
“Uh, whoops?”
Let me be clear: I was a fan of the Michael-Sara love story. It was truly sweet, and Wentworth Miller is hot enough that it made the doctor-falling-for-the-convict notion believable.
But Sara’s resurrection smacks of complete desperation on the part of the show’s writers.
I understand that they were put into a bad position with the strike and all, but the strike played no part in what was just a terrible Season 3 story arc.
The writers got backed into a corner when the characters were going nowhere, so they had to do something shocking to kick-start some action.
That, however, doesn’t mean that you get to go “oops, my bad” a few months later when you’re out of ideas—and hope that the viewers are morons.
You don’t get to just bring back a popular character from the dead—no matter how implausible—to cover your sloppy work.
After all, this isn’t “Dallas,” you know!!!
In any case, Olmstead says that when the show gears up again, about a month will have passed since we last saw Michael driving into the sunset after Susan B. Anthony and her shady government gang.
He says there will be “a bit of a mystery period” for all of the characters in terms of what happened to them.
Well, in my book, the mystery is how the writers got away with such a lame idea in the first place.
(Photos courtesy of FOX)
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on Friday, March 28th, 2008 at 1:58 pm by Heather Salerno.
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