OK, if you happen to watch FOX’s Prison Break as religiously as some of us do, you’re probably feeling a little of the frustration I’ve got going on right now. It’s not often that I’ll waste a blog posting on a specific episode of a television show, but this one definitely takes the cake. No, this has nothing to do with the show itself, but it has everything to do with FOX’s absolutely brilliant (read: moronic) take on adding suspense to their on-air schedule.

I’ll admit that I am painfully (and easily) addicted to “real-time” action dramas like Prison Break and the ever-returning, back-from-the-dead Jack Bauer in 24 (must.. watch.. 4-hour.. season.. premiere… <passes out>). Now that I can watch these in HDTV (as FOX just recently became available to Shaw HD customers in Vancouver, which is a long story on its own), I’m even more inclined to watch them live, instead of downloading them off of BitTorrent and watching them later. The fact that 24 has never had a 5 month interval in mid-season is probably a major reason I still watch it. However, the idiots in FOX’s television programming department managed to somehow convince their superiors that adding a 5-month gap to a real-time show is a scheme that smacks of creative genius. Rather, my opinion is that these guys should be drawn and quartered for sheer stupidity.

I had heard that the season would last 13 episodes. What I hadn’t heard was that the much-vaunted “last” episode was actually a shitty cliffhanger that provides no closure whatsoever. And then they end the show with “watch for new episodes in MARCH 2006!” Yeah, I’m gonna sit around and wait now. Bastards.

Well, enough of my ranting. Looks liks vanmega is having a mental breakdown similar to mine over this whole affair. And yeah, I didn’t see the whole John Abruzzi thing coming, either.

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