A little Prison Break reminiscing
I always love when new people come aboard the good 'ship Michael/Mahone, because it gives me an excuse to go back through my favorite posts and fics and screencaps for them and re-live the good times that was that year of Prison Break fandom. I can't recall ever having so much pure, unadulterated fun with a fandom/group of fans before. The show itself was so ridiculous, and gave us so much fanservice, that it felt right to just run with that, and it turns out I happen to LOVE being a fan of ridiculous shows. Plus the show ended before we grew acrimonious with it or each other, and it's always good to end on a high note.
Not that there weren't great moments of drama in the show, too, though, which is kind of the miracle of Prison Break. It's totally reasonable that they would have done Prison in SPACE for a fifth season, but that we still would have cared about the characters and their traumas. Especially when sold by the likes of the talented Mr. William Fichtner.
But, ah, Michael and Alex. What a great slash pairing. Start out as enemies, but enemies who are equals and who have no peer but each other. Then they actually have to start working together and eventually become friends. And there are drugs! And sweaty jails! And lots of wall-related sexytimes. *g* Tattoos and mindmates and saving each other and origami cranes and FLOPPY HATS and Epic Phone Calls of Ultimate Awesome that's just the CANON. Then the fandom comes up with mixtapes, and AUs where there are Michael/Sara/Alex threesomes, and jazz, and "that's not how you do *blank*, Michael," and videos of 'hey,' and people write sentences like this which stay stuck in my heart forever:
The two of them were set against each other by forces entirely out of their control - even so, somehow, the world twisted and turned itself until they were together.
- Principles of Uncertainy by cerebel
Sometimes it makes me sad to think of all the fun we didn't get a chance to have by never having a season 5. But man, did we ever make good use of what we did get.
NEVA4GET!!1!
From this Tumblr
PS my Sara/Alex/Michael friends, check out this picture. That's begging to be a story.
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Not that there weren't great moments of drama in the show, too, though, which is kind of the miracle of Prison Break. It's totally reasonable that they would have done Prison in SPACE for a fifth season, but that we still would have cared about the characters and their traumas. Especially when sold by the likes of the talented Mr. William Fichtner.
But, ah, Michael and Alex. What a great slash pairing. Start out as enemies, but enemies who are equals and who have no peer but each other. Then they actually have to start working together and eventually become friends. And there are drugs! And sweaty jails! And lots of wall-related sexytimes. *g* Tattoos and mindmates and saving each other and origami cranes and FLOPPY HATS and Epic Phone Calls of Ultimate Awesome that's just the CANON. Then the fandom comes up with mixtapes, and AUs where there are Michael/Sara/Alex threesomes, and jazz, and "that's not how you do *blank*, Michael," and videos of 'hey,' and people write sentences like this which stay stuck in my heart forever:
The two of them were set against each other by forces entirely out of their control - even so, somehow, the world twisted and turned itself until they were together.
- Principles of Uncertainy by cerebel
Sometimes it makes me sad to think of all the fun we didn't get a chance to have by never having a season 5. But man, did we ever make good use of what we did get.
NEVA4GET!!1!
From this Tumblr
PS my Sara/Alex/Michael friends, check out this picture. That's begging to be a story.
This entry was cross-posted at my Dreamwidth account. Please comment here or there. (
comments at DW)