I would gladly share a cell with Michael Scoffield

With the TV season all screwy there's not much fiction available on TV. I've been catching up on Life on Mars and other shows that are in reruns that I never really got into.

The studios should just bust out some old series that were cool. If they started showing episodes of Angel from the beginning I'd totally watch that every night. Or Farscape. NBC owns Farscape but it never aired on the network except that brief period before the Peacekeeper Wars. They should toss that on the old satellite signal.

Firefly's not on the air. You know what is? Prison Break.

Now I would absolutely wreck Wentworth Miller or Dominic Purcell, and the first season was a perfect demonstration of putting characters in a bad situation and making it worse. I spent a good portion of my time watching that show trying to figure out how the hell they were going to fix the mess those guys created.

Then they escaped from prison and went on the run. Okay, I guess, there were still some twists and turns to follow. The conspiracy from season one hadn't been concluded yet so there was an ongoing thread to follow. And I really liked Agent Kellerman's (Paul Adelstein) character arc.

This show has always required a massive amount of suspension of disbelief, but this season has just been absurd. My brain can only handle so much denial.

The brave choice, and the one that would have been more interesting and less limiting to the story, would have been to change the cast up significantly. By trying to keep the same characters involved in the story the writers really screwed themselves. One character ending up in a Panamanian prison I get. Two guys together would even make sense if they worked in collusion on whatever landed them in the jail, and you could still keep some of the cast having adventures on the outside. But four Americans who all know each other ending up in a prison in Panama for different reasons? Come on.

And I don't really get what the hell is going on anyway. A prisoner runs the prison except when the story doesn't need him to run the prison. People run around throwing chicken feet at each other. T-Bag has one hand but it never really seems to be a problem anymore, nor does he seem that despicable anymore even though I know he's a pedophile. He's been kind of nice lately. He's a gentle pedophile. He could babysit your kids with his one hand.

I liked that episode last season where we saw why T-Bag was so messed up. It made me feel sorry for him, but not sorry enough to want him to go free. This season he just seems toothless.

Oh, Prison Break. You could be so much more awesome if you just got a little more reasonable.