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Title: "The Prisoner" tv show and its paralells
Post by: mark_mnc1 on November 17, 2009, 03:16:40 AM

I was watching the top videos on google video and came across an interesting British show from the late 60's called "The Prisoner."  Im surprised Ive never heard of this show and watched the documentary on the show.  There sounds like a lot of paralells to the late 60's counterculture movement and to Ayn Rand and individualism.  Has anyone else ever seen or heard of this show?  I downloaded some of the shows just to see more of it.  At any rate, heres the documentary on the series.

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=the+prisoner%3A+the+human+condition&hl=en&emb=0&aq=f#

Mark

Title: Re: "The Prisoner" tv show and its paralells
Post by: TimeLady Victorious on November 17, 2009, 02:37:18 PM

http://bbs.freetalklive.com/index.php?topic=26964.0

Title: Re: "The Prisoner" tv show and its paralells
Post by: mikehz on November 17, 2009, 08:39:55 PM

I saw the show years ago. It was interesting, but had some problems, such as the giant beach ball that keeps Patrick McGoohan prisoner in the village. Why doesn't he just use a pin on it? And, the writers buried themselves so deep that they apparently had no idea how to resolve the series. Instead, the last episode just ends, without every answering any of the viewer's questions.

Title: Re: "The Prisoner" tv show and its paralells
Post by: inane on December 04, 2009, 09:24:14 PM

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I saw the show years ago. It was interesting, but had some problems, such as the giant beach ball that keeps Patrick McGoohan prisoner in the village. Why doesn't he just use a pin on it? And, the writers buried themselves so deep that they apparently had no idea how to resolve the series. Instead, the last episode just ends, without every answering any of the viewer's questions.

the giant beach ball actually got shot a few times with little or no effect. I dont think a pin would help much.

What was left unanswered?

Title: Re: "The Prisoner" tv show and its paralells
Post by: inane on December 04, 2009, 09:34:02 PM

Never mind. I found this on the other prisoner thread.

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I have a good explanation for it: The series writers dug themselves into a very deep mystery hole from which they could not possibly extract themselves. They were very good at creating mystery, but not so good at resolving it. We never find out who is behind the town, why the town exists, why they've captured the prisoner, or why the prisoner quit. Unable to resolve things, the writers simply throw it all up into the air and say, "SCREW you, viewer! The series is now OVER, and we don't have to tell you anything!"

Is it really important that you found out who was behind the village? His name was Fred. Anti-climactic enough for you?
Why does the town exist? Are you serious? This wasn't obvious?
Why did the capture the prisoner? He obviously had some sort of government job. Like a spy or something. They were afraid he quite his job to go to sell information to competitive nations. Why he would have to quite his job to do that is beyond me. Either way, you dont quite a high paying government job for moral reasons. They figured something fishy was going on.   

Title: Re: "The Prisoner" tv show and its paralells
Post by: AL the Inconspicuous on December 05, 2009, 01:33:44 AM

Quote from: TaimuRaidiu on November 17, 2009, 02:37:18 PM http://bbs.freetalklive.com/index.php?topic=26964.0

Ditto.

People who start new threads without searching for identical ones first fragment the conversation, thus decreasing its value.

A minor nag is called for.

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