Both are meant to be exhilirating and suspenseful serialized shows. Lost (at least, the first two seasons) pulled this off better than Prison Break. While Lost was entirely unpredictable in its first season, plenty of the twists in Prison Break lost their potential because they were so foreseeable. If it had been crafted in less of an oh-my-God-what's-next way, it would have been better because at least then it wouldn't have felt like a let-down moment when something more exciting should have happened. And yet, I'm just as into Prison Break as I originally was with Lost.
Both series have a sizable group of characters who need to rely on each other, no matter what their personal disputes, to survive. Holding onto the mystery is part of what kept Lost exciting for so long. So far, Prison Break has kept a few of its cards unplayed. We know plenty about the main character's brother, but not a lot about Michael himself.
Both writing teams (or maybe marketing teams) also set you up with the good guy and the bad guy. In Lost, the stereotype is ridiculously played out: the doctor is the handsome good guy and Sawyer is bad but sexy guy. The safe type and the dangerous type. The type you'd marry and the type you'd just love to... well, I have the Catholic-bred desire for bad boys, so I'll move on.
Prison Break gives you two brothers: the one who is a criminal and probably deserves to be in jail and his brother who cares about others, is incredibly smart, and oh so sexy. The choice in Prison Break is not as hard to figure out as the time-honored juxaposition in Lost. But that doesn't matter because there is something incredibly attractive about Michael, played by Wentworth Miller.
There is a website dedicated to him called The First Chuch of Wentworth Miller. (A little over-the-top but hardly moreso than all of the forums speculating about Lost.) I even found this bizarre tribute article from Maclean's magazine, a general interest publication based in Canada:
Once a week, in season, Wentworth and I hang out, for slightly less than an hour, in my living room. He talks, emotes, and shoots me and the camera the occasional white-hot, knee-buckling stare. As boyfriends go, he's very low-maintenance: all I have to do is sit back and enjoy his company. Went is my guy not just because he's got great facial bone structure, a lovely tall, lean build, and gorgeous blue-green eyes. He's also smart and cultured--he's a Princeton grad, thank you very much, named after a character in a Jane Austen novel--and he consistently comes across in interviews as charming, thoughtful, and articulate.
Some viewers felt that the first season of Prison Break dragged on for too long without an escape. I don't agree at all but I have to wonder if it's just because I was too transfixed by Wentworth Miller's eyes and arms and pecs and tattoos.
If only Jack or Sawyer had the sex appeal to make this past season of Lost less painful to endure.
BEN, HE AUDITIONED FOR THE ROLE OF SUPERMAN/CLARK KENT IN THE RECENT MOVIE SUPERMAN RETURNS.
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Years ago, Wentworth Miller starred in a TV adaptation of "Dinotopia." I started watching for the dinosaurs and ended up watching for Wentworth. He's mesmerizing, isn't he?
Too sexy to be Superman!
You're right, he doesn't have enough wholesomeness to have been Superman.
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