From: "Bob W"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7829267.stm
> >
> >
> > That's sad. I watched episode after episode of "The
> Prisoner" and some
> > reruns, but I must declare I was frequently unable to
> understand just
> > what was going on. Other than the simple "He wanted out of there."
> >
> > Joseph McAllister
> > [email protected]
>
> James Bond meets the Twilight Zone.
>
> The underlying premise is a "secret agent" decides to quit
> his job, and
> he's kidnapped and taken to the village to brainwash him into
> telling why.
>
> That premise provides a framework from which to hang various SciFi &
> adventure stories.
Well, maybe on the surface layer...
Didn't bother me when I first watched them as a teenager that most of
them didn't always make a lot of sense.
Later, I kind of figured out they were like James J. Angleton's
"wilderness of mirrors", and never would make sense. You were always
supposed to be left wondering if you'd really solved it or was there
another meaning you might have missed.
In the contemporary real world, who was the mole? After the "Third Man",
was there a fourth man? A fifth? A sixth? Will we ever know?
From that angle they all make sense, once you realize you don't know
the whole story, and probably never will. In the end, even after they've
escaped the village no one is ever really free. They and we are always
left looking over our shoulder to see if someone is lurking up behind us.
It's the same shivery, "it almost could be true" that sells Stephen King
books and made the X-files such a culture phenomena.
Anyway, it was entertaining and fun. And they had a better effects
budget (or used the budget they had to better effect) than Star Trek.
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