i was convinced that james took them in the blast, it would have been a perfect creative ending. both mike and fi have been through so much and they die together side by side, it would have been a much better ending in my opinion. i still liked the ending, but i just feel that mike and fi dying together in the explosion would have been perfect. does anybody else agree or am i the only one?
shareI honestly would've preferred to have them die in the blast than have them somehow MAGICALLY outrun the explosion and fire and make it out alive.
shareThey magically dodged bullets and outran explosions and were always one step ahead of the bad guys over the course of seven years, though. The ending may have been a bit farfetched, but so is the entire show when assassins are always bad shots, Michael has one bullet that happens to kill someone, the con artist gets conned, etc. I took it with a grain of salt b/c realistically they all would have died years ago given the situations they were in.
sharetrue, very true, i just didn't like that they SHOWED them literally outrunning the fire and the explosion, it cheapened it for me. I felt like they just wanted to make that last scene full of CGI and special effects, i would've preferred a simpler approach.
shareI think they probably had to show it, though, otherwise it would have been even more unrealistic for them to just appear safe and sound and the viewer is wondering how they escaped. It was farfetched, but so are a lot of the situations/plotpoints.
shareI remember when Michael Scofield died at the end of Prison Break. I thought like you the hero dying at the end would be a perfect ending. Until it happened in that show, I was greatly annoyed.
shareAfter all that Michael had lost, I think it would have all been wasted if he and Fi and the baby didn't have at least the hope of some happiness.
shareI think it would have been a terrible ending, not at all in keeping with the show's trajectory. This show was about a lot more than an ex spy. It was about a highly capable & specially trained super-human who could do pretty much anything except deal with his feelings.
First he's thrust into a situation he's not at all prepared for. In the beginning, his tone is sardonic, detached and all business. He's a bit of an automaton and is comfortable with that. But soon he finds himself less comfortable and more bemused, because as capable as he is, he's at a loss when it comes to dealing with the people who are suddenly in his life.
For a long while he has been living with little connection to anyone. When Fi arrives, he barely acknowledges her presence, even though we learn she was someone he loved deeply in Ireland, so much that he was willing to die rather than leave her. This is how we know his feelings actually run deep. Too deep. That kind of emotion and its accompanying loss was too painful, so he shut it away. It's also why he removed himself from his mother and his family's painful past. Working for the CIA was the perfect out. He was able to transfer the feeling he had for the individuals in his life, to a love of country and countrymen.
Getting burned though, took that away. It tore down all the protective walls he'd built. Which gave him no choice but to start dealing with the real relationships in his life. And to try to reconcile his personal life with his professional one.
You see his transformation, in fits and starts, over the 7 seasons. By the end, after losing everything that truly mattered to him, you see how it broke him, how he almost lost himself in the process. Fortunately, the people who loved him wouldn't let that happen. They were willing to give up their own lives to save his and that's when he finally understood who he really was and what mattered most.
If he had died at that moment of realization, it would have been a complete waste. Just one more dead spy. Michael's final reckoning was not about dying in a blaze of glory, it was about coming out of the blaze as himself. It's why he seems so vulnerable at the end with Charlie. He's taking his first steps as the real man he's capable of being, the whole man, not just the super spy.
Centre, I think your comment is right on target! Well said!
I agree with those that said Sonya needed to die. She would not have gone on to live quietly somewhere. She would have hunted Michael down.
That's a good point. Sonya was ruthless. She would have kept the organization alive and would have definitely come after Michael to eliminate him.
shareNot a chance. I thought the ending was good with the now new Weston family complete with little person too. I was only disappointed that Madelyn had to parish. She was a kick with her being one of the moms to everyone kind of characters.
shareThe manner in which Michael and Fi survived was just plain ridiculous. That was just poor writing. However, the fact that they did survive through the end of the show was an absolute must. Killing them off, especially Michael, would have run 100% counter to the spirit of the show.
shareI don't have a problem with the way they survived because the whole show is like that. Every episode has someone, if not the whole team, being shot, chased, kidnapped, held at gunpoint, etc, and they're always able to talk/reason their way out of if or they manage not even to be shot despite being shot at by expert marksmen, etc. The whole show is unrealistic, really, so the ending didn't bother me.
shareI wouldn't say it was "plain ridiculous". Long shot? Definitely. But not completely impossible. The charges in that building didn't all go off at once. The explosions started on the ground floor and went off sequentially, giving Michael & Fi time to make a run for it, and since they broke out of a window at the end of a narrow side hallway, they were able to escape incineration. Amazingly, there were a lot of survivors of the Twin Towers, people who were inside when the buildings began to collapse. Some of those people had to go 91 floors to get to the ground level. Mike & Fi just jumped out of the nearest window. Lucky Michael knew there was water below. But that's what he was known for, sizing up his surroundings and thinking quickly in dangerous situations.
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