Friday 29 June 2007

Prison Break

This is my first post over the summer, and I've just been relaxing and working. Had a few days to myself so decided to watch as much Prison Break as I could since my brother is continually going on about how brilliant it is, and he was actually right! Watched the whole of the first two series in three days and am now hooked on it. I think the concept of the programme is excellent, convicts breaking out of prison, it sounds simple enough but its the detail within the programme that gets me. The main character is a genius, who goes into prison to break his brother out, and prepares for months and months to do this, thinking of "every contingency" and every strategy possible for what could go wrong. The character is an architect, and has the blueprints tattooed to his body.
The programme itself must have had some quite innovative and creative writers because the ideas used within the show are unthinkable, and must have taken years of thought. The tattoo itself is a work of art, and with the blueprints embedded in the overlayed images, the character can see which route can lead him out of prison. The main things that I find most interesting about this programme are the concepts used within the show which have to be seen, and shows how much preparation is needed to complete a task, and how execution is a key to completing that task.