I guess what breaks suspension of disbelief varies from person to person...
I'm willing to cut fiction a lot of slack when it comes to setting up a particular story (in this case, the coincidences leading to him actually being able to get into the same prison as his brother, a prison he helped design) as long as, once the setup is complete, the heroes don't constanly rely on happenstance, luck, and plot immunity to get things done. (the one thing I really didn't like so far is how easily the warden seemed to be taken in - because he just happened to be building a model of the Taj Mahal for his wife - but hopefully, there's more to the character than that)
In this case, I like the effort the writers have made to show how much work he must have put into engineering this thing, and the details he'd investigated... My favorite so far was the fact he had - apparently - gone so far as to get his hands on info as trivial as what the prison doctor's yearbook quote was. (and while having her become sympathetic to his point of view is a stretch, I'll wait and see how they develop it)
Although maybe I just like it more than I otherwise would because of the wonders of DVR - I recently stopped watching anything I haven't recorded and can't watch commercial-free, and found I suddenly enjoy TV a whole lot more.
I'm willing to cut fiction a lot of slack when it comes to setting up a particular story (in this case, the coincidences leading to him actually being able to get into the same prison as his brother, a prison he helped design) as long as, once the setup is complete, the heroes don't constanly rely on happenstance, luck, and plot immunity to get things done. (the one thing I really didn't like so far is how easily the warden seemed to be taken in - because he just happened to be building a model of the Taj Mahal for his wife - but hopefully, there's more to the character than that)
In this case, I like the effort the writers have made to show how much work he must have put into engineering this thing, and the details he'd investigated... My favorite so far was the fact he had - apparently - gone so far as to get his hands on info as trivial as what the prison doctor's yearbook quote was. (and while having her become sympathetic to his point of view is a stretch, I'll wait and see how they develop it)
Although maybe I just like it more than I otherwise would because of the wonders of DVR - I recently stopped watching anything I haven't recorded and can't watch commercial-free, and found I suddenly enjoy TV a whole lot more.
