I just watched the end of Prison Break season 2, episode 20, and the start of episode 21.
I got bored with Dark Angel pretty fast. I think it may be fun for short episodes, but for watching lots of episodes en masse, I feel it gets tiring pretty quickly, since there is not really much of an ongoing plot underlying the episodes, besides her quest to find her classmates, which doesn’t seem that interesting as far as quests go! At least, on its own, without something more, some pressure to get to them on time, before something bad happens to all of them.
So, I’ve gone back to Prison Break. I feel the characters in Prison Break feel very real. I feel they are generally intelligent. I think the plot is reasonable and well thought through, and very interesting, and really unpredictable, at least if one doesn’t pause the video every 30 seconds or so to try to figure out what happens next 
That said, I find the end of episode 20 and the start of episode 21 a little annoying to me. I think Michael is acting a bit stupidly and a bit out of character.
This is the bit where he sees Sucre send a message on the europeangoldfinch.net messageboard, telling him that T-Bag is in Panama, near where Michael is.
I think a specific thing I find annoying with Michael’s going after T-Bag is that, unless he does something unexpected, which is admittedly quite likely, I’m not really sure what he intends to do with T-Bag? I don’t really see Michael killing T-Bag, it is very out of character I feel; I can’t remember Michael directly killing anyone so far.
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On another track, all these lives that Michael has indirectly destroyed by breaking Lincoln out of jail. He is not I feel wrong to feel bad about this, and, more to the point, for example, perhaps it could be more in character if, when he realizes he’s going to do something bad, he just stops. Or maybe, when I say more in character, I mean: more in a hero’s character.
For example: with Sarah, he explicitly asked her to leave the door open, effectively screwing up her life. Whilst I can understand this, considering the amount of pressure he was under at the time! but hey, he’s a hero right? , and also whilst the very act of asking her was itself courageous, the results for her were catastrophic, and she did it under I feel moral coercion.
I feel if there was some way for him to have got Sarah to do stuff without moral coercion, and similarly for the warden, without physical coercion, I feel I’d feel more comfortable with his character.
I’m not saying it’s easy to do, and I’m holding up Prison Break to a far higher standard than any other series, simply because I feel it really is one of the best, if not the best, but anyway it was what was crossing my mind recently whilst watching it, and arguably nothing is perfect.
To balance things out a bit, I really do think Prison Break is an awesome piece of writing generally. Really well done I feel.
Interesting potential writing exercise: figure out a way to rewrite some of the bits where Michael doesn’t do things that are particularly nice, and change it around a bit.
An example of where he does do something nice, against his own best direct interest, is where they go into the bar in the middle of the New Mexican desert, he gets attacked, Sucre walks in (so: help from someone he’s been nice to in the past), and then, specifically, after the gun fight, Michael lets his assailants go, so that they can take one guy to the hospital.
Another example of where he doesn’t is: T-Bag wants into the escape. There are two possibilities here: Michael forgives T-Bag for things he has done in the past and welcomes into the team, or Michael doesn’t want to have T-Bag running around outside, so he refuses to go any further in the escape, potentially compromising the escape. At this point, something else jumps in, and neutralizes T-Bag somehow.
Not: wait till Michael’s just about finished escaping, and then randomly regret T-Bag’s escaping and run back to kill him, or whatever he is going to do, I feel.