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Arfa Daily wrote:

"msg" wrote
Eeyore wrote:

'The Prisoner' was always clearly full-blown escapionist nonsense.
Along
with the likes of The Avengers. Entertaining but not to be taken
seriously
ever.


Indeed... In one of the many cycles of airing 'The Prisoner' on PBS
here
in the States, there was 15 minutes of psycho-social analysis and
commentary
at
the end of each episode, some segments even included Mr. McGoohan who
evidently
had some control over production and scripts. It was all very heavy,
full
of
cold-war themed allegory and psychiatric theory, existentialism,
psychedelic
references,
etc., etc.

BTW, humor My spell checker always suggests replacing your handle
with
'Eyesore' /humor


I seem to think that Patrick McGoohan was executive producer or some
such,
and the concept was born out of his earlier black and white show "Danger
Man
". I remember seeing an interview with him ( which was rare as he didn't
do
interviews about the show normally ) on a programme that examined the
whole
series, and he was asked about the final two parter "Fallout" I think
it's
called. He said that by that time, the whole story thread had gone out of
the window, and they literally had no clue as to how to end it, or even
really what exactly it had been about in the first place. It had
basically
just got swept along with the hype and its popularity, until it became a
living thing just existing to keep the fans happy. It was a brave
decision
to end it in the way that they did, and it probably let a lot of fans
down.
I love Lost to bits - except when it's going through one of its
frustrating
patches - but I think that there may be rather more parallels with The
Prisoner than are at first apparent, and that Lost might be heading down
the
same road ...

Can you remind me how The Prisoner ended ?

If you haven't been to Portmeirion you should btw. It's a lovely place.
It's the
ultimate 'folly'.

Graham


Oh boy, where do you start on that one ? Apart from the fact that it's been
probably 10 years since I last saw it, I seem to recall the whole story
being a really surreal thing full of 'hidden meanings' and 'symbolism' (or
maybe not ?? ) about what Number 1 was and what it all meant and how it
related to society. There was loads of debate and interpretation stuff at
the time as I remember. I have this hazy memory of some kind of court
proceedings going on and him somehow coming face to face with himself. The
whole concept of what we thought it was about, was turned on its head I
think ( a bit like Lost ). The next thing I remember is him being in a taxi
and being back in London driving over a bridge somewhere near Westminster -
or maybe that's from another episode. Actually, there must be loads on the
web about this, rather than trusting my memory. Hang on a minute whilst I go
and look ....

..... OK. Try this for size. Seems to be as good a synopsis and analysis as
any


http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/pr...eventeen.shtml

Arfa