More joy day in prison!

[gwyn_r]

For more joy day, I decided to do something that would bring joy probably only to me, but that's okay, too. I have been eaten alive by Prison Break fandom, specifically Michael/Mahone slashiness, but since the show ended a year and a half ago, everyone's moved on, which means I am very late to the party and short on cash. But I've been reading

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[trepkos]

I'm considering investigating this on the basis of that cap. up against the wall, alone.

[gwyn_r]

Oh, that scene against the wall is HEAVEN. Really, I could watch it a million times in a row -- but the whole season is like that, they're constantly in each other's faces.

SDWolfpup has a really good beginner's guide to Michael/Mahone here if you do get interested.

[slavelabour]

Jesus, Gwyn. Your passion is infectious. And I think I might have to quote you on, 'We're fans, it's what we do.' \m/

[gwyn_r]

If I could infect at least one person from this post, I would die of happiness. I'm feeling so alone!!

[sdwolfpup]

THIS IS THE BEST POST EVER.

Um. I still have some fannishness for Prison Break. Hee. I will comment AT LENGTH later.

[gwyn_r]

Yay!!! I have been enjoying so much going through your PB posts and re-reading all that stuff from before.

[out_there]

This post brought me so much joy. The thing about PB is that, yes, it's crack-filled and ridiculous when you try to explain it, but that doesn't stop it from being awesome and really, really involving as you watch.

Alex can read Michael's tattoo-clues and figure out where he's going, what he's doing next, what brand of toothpaste he prefers, and his favorite sexual position.

Bwahahahaa! That's it exactly.

It's not a quality show in terms of story (but it is in terms of cinematography and acting). It jumped the shark almost from the get-go, but in some ways that almost made it more fun. That's very true. It's a ridiculously fun show to watch, and in so many ways, it's perfectly built for fandom. Canon is so crack-filled that any story you write is always *this close* to something that would have appeared onscreen -- and more than that, the show always paid more attention to the emotional intensity of the series (the connection between the characters) and the prettiness (the cinematography is regularly gorgeous) than the plot. I

[gwyn_r]

I'm often surprised by it... it's like you get kind of accepting of the crack and then you forget how great it can be, and you'll be reminded when you least expect it.

Your stories have brought me so much glee while I've been tumbling back into this.

Random drive-by comment...

[ealgylden]

(my favorite is the Company guy who tells him that his son is dead if he doesn't do this or that and the next scene we see Alex open up the trunk of his car to find the guy, nice big bullet hole in his forehead, deader than a dead thing)

Hee hee hee! I loved that. So there.

And of course, the guy in the chickenfoot fight tries to shiv Michael, whereupon Alex steps in and kills the guy -- what is more of an I Love You than KILLING SOMEONE FOR YOUR BELOVED? I ask you.

I watched this episode the first time around with my little sister and her fiance, and he was massively disturbed by our shared ecstatic reaction to that scene. "Oh my GOD, he's so hot!" "I know!" "Wait, what? He just broke that guy in half. With his bare hands!" "We knoooowwwww!" Sorry, kiddo, it's Fichtner. That just... says it all.

Not that I just loved Alex only for his violence, of course. It was the whole brilliant, beautiful, obsessed, terrifyingly ninja package. That show was completely demented, but I forgive it many sins for the sake of Alex, and his mad

Re: Random drive-by comment...

[gwyn_r]

I love drive-by comments!! Especially when they're about Fichtner!

Poor fiance... some people just have no idea what they're getting into with fans, and the kinds of things we looooove.

I love "terrifyingly ninja package." I will be quoting you on that.