Prison Break

I just started watching Prison Break last week and it has basically consumed my life. I'm obsessed with it.

Anyway, I was watching an episode of season 2 last night, and I noticed a few different things that kind of reminded me of our discussion on semiotics.

Michael and Sara were in the middle of nowhere, when all of a sudden FBI Agent Mahone came racing out of nowhere to come and kill them. They hop into Michael's car and take off, with Mahone right behind. Then there's all this cool camera work that shows Mahone, then Michael and Sara, back to Mahone, and then both cars. That's when I noticed that Mahone, who is a "bad guy" at this point is in a black car. Michael and Sara, who are the "good guys" are trying to get away from him and they're in a white car. It was some pretty obvious symbolism, which is probably the only reason I noticed it. Both my roommate and I commented at the same time, laughing that they had the bad guy in a black car and the good guy in a white car.

As I watched another episode, I began to realize that all of the "bad buys" are in black cars and SUVs. Meanwhile, the escaped convicts are in every color car except black. Is it a coincidence? Maybe, but the reading on semiotics made me think deeper into it and I think that the people behind Prison Break did it on purpose. Humans are conditioned to think that black equals bad, and this is just another way to reinforce that.