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 The Prisoner rewatch episodes 16-17
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| OneSparePart |
Posted on 07-03-2024 21:56
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OK, let's send TT off to his Speedway season with a hearty thank you for the Prisoner, and try to decide what to watch next. Lorna - any ideas? Looks like we have a couple of weeks to come up with ideas but here is one...some classic sf films? Excellent idea - but are people up for long sessions? Well I wasn't thinking of modern ones cos they go on and on. But some 50s or 60s classics don't stay around long...90 minutes on average. Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!
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| AnneArthur |
Posted on 07-03-2024 21:56
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And one thing I forgot to say... did anyone else spot how the front door of No 6's door opens electronically as the Butler enters it at the end... just as it would in the Village? I didn't! Thank you for telling me that. |
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| trevor travis |
Posted on 07-03-2024 21:56
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OK, let's send TT off to his Speedway season with a hearty thank you for the Prisoner, and try to decide what to watch next. Lorna - any ideas? Thanks! Hope the Prisoner was an okay choice, despite the way it ends. IMO earlier episodes such as The Chimes Of Big Ben, Many Happy Returns and Checkmate are the Prisoner working so well to its format... before anything goes in the final 5 episodes or so! I still love it, despite the moaning! I won't leave it so long before I rewatch it. I want to get some familiarity with it. (Still looking for answers). That final episode will never give any answers. Even the No 6 = No 1 only works as a metaphor (you are your own worst enemy), it doesn't make any narrative sense. But yeah, I love the overall series. Even quite like the final episode, as weird as it is. No you can't get past the fantastical element of the final episodes but perhaps I can lose my loathing...but not of Alexis Kanner. I can't stand him. I guess he gets slightly more screen time that he should. Blame the director/writer Patrick McGoohan 
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| OneSparePart |
Posted on 07-03-2024 21:57
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I still rate it as one of the best tv series I have ever seen. As much as some of the eps annoy, it does challenge your thinking Not sure whether to laugh or cry at that comment! Laugh...maniacally! Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!
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| trevor travis |
Posted on 07-03-2024 21:57
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And one thing I forgot to say... did anyone else spot how the front door of No 6's door opens electronically as the Butler enters it at the end... just as it would in the Village? I didn't! Thank you for telling me that. Yeah, it happens just as the hearse goes by - the same hearse where the driver pumped the gas into No 6's house in Arrival! Vote Og.
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| OneSparePart |
Posted on 07-03-2024 21:58
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And one thing I forgot to say... did anyone else spot how the front door of No 6's door opens electronically as the Butler enters it at the end... just as it would in the Village? I didn't! Thank you for telling me that. I did. Are we to understand he is still in prison? Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!
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| M1795537OCVirn |
Posted on 07-03-2024 21:58
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OK, let's send TT off to his Speedway season with a hearty thank you for the Prisoner, and try to decide what to watch next. Lorna - any ideas? Looks like we have a couple of weeks to come up with ideas but here is one...some classic sf films? Excellent idea - but are people up for long sessions? Well I wasn't thinking of modern ones cos they go on and on. But some 50s or 60s classics don't stay around long...90 minutes on average. Did you have anything specific in mind? "You're not sulking, I hope?"
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| trevor travis |
Posted on 07-03-2024 21:58
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I still rate it as one of the best tv series I have ever seen. As much as some of the eps annoy, it does challenge your thinking Not sure whether to laugh or cry at that comment! Laugh...maniacally! 
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| trevor travis |
Posted on 07-03-2024 21:59
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Alpha Grade Posts: 8372 Joined: 16.01.22 |
And one thing I forgot to say... did anyone else spot how the front door of No 6's door opens electronically as the Butler enters it at the end... just as it would in the Village? I didn't! Thank you for telling me that. I did. Are we to understand he is still in prison? Or another metaphor! Vote Og.
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| M1795537OCVirn |
Posted on 07-03-2024 21:59
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And one thing I forgot to say... did anyone else spot how the front door of No 6's door opens electronically as the Butler enters it at the end... just as it would in the Village? I didn't! Thank you for telling me that. I did. Are we to understand he is still in prison? The prison of one's own mind.... "You're not sulking, I hope?"
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| AnneArthur |
Posted on 07-03-2024 22:01
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And one thing I forgot to say... did anyone else spot how the front door of No 6's door opens electronically as the Butler enters it at the end... just as it would in the Village? I didn't! Thank you for telling me that. Yeah, it happens just as the hearse goes by - the same hearse where the driver pumped the gas into No 6's house in Arrival! I noticed the hearse - but the fact that it was leaving, not arriving, seemed a positive to me. |
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| trevor travis |
Posted on 07-03-2024 22:02
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Anyway, thanks all for your company, and Be Seeing You!
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| AnneArthur |
Posted on 07-03-2024 22:03
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Right. I have to go now. I thoroughly enjoyed The Prisoner - despite, or perhaps because of, the weirdness. See you the week after next! |
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| OneSparePart |
Posted on 07-03-2024 22:03
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OK, let's send TT off to his Speedway season with a hearty thank you for the Prisoner, and try to decide what to watch next. Lorna - any ideas? Looks like we have a couple of weeks to come up with ideas but here is one...some classic sf films? Excellent idea - but are people up for long sessions? Well I wasn't thinking of modern ones cos they go on and on. But some 50s or 60s classics don't stay around long...90 minutes on average. Did you have anything specific in mind? Forbidden Planet? Time Machine? Day the Earth Caught Fire or Stood Still? Quatermass and the Pit has Gareth Thomas briefly and Julian Glover in it...(have we done that already?) Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!
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| M1795537OCVirn |
Posted on 07-03-2024 22:07
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OK, let's send TT off to his Speedway season with a hearty thank you for the Prisoner, and try to decide what to watch next. Lorna - any ideas? Looks like we have a couple of weeks to come up with ideas but here is one...some classic sf films? Excellent idea - but are people up for long sessions? Well I wasn't thinking of modern ones cos they go on and on. But some 50s or 60s classics don't stay around long...90 minutes on average. Did you have anything specific in mind? Forbidden Planet? Time Machine? Day the Earth Caught Fire or Stood Still? Qustetmass and the Pit has Gareth Thomas briefly and Julian Glover in it... Not a bad list. Are they available foc? I can announce it on the NEWS page once we've decided - hoping to entice some more rewatchers to join in. "You're not sulking, I hope?"
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| Cygnus Bazza |
Posted on 17-03-2024 08:18
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OK, let's send TT off to his Speedway season with a hearty thank you for the Prisoner, and try to decide what to watch next. Lorna - any ideas? I could get behind a Selective Sci-Fi Season. I'd chuck in original 'War of the Worlds', 'Bodysnatchers' and the bizarrely hilarious 'Wasp Woman' (which was on YouTube last time I looked). Can't do this Thursday - as you know, I've an urgent appointment with ABBA in the Neths - but after that I'd be selectively up for a selection. |
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| OneSparePart |
Posted on 17-03-2024 19:45
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OK, let's send TT off to his Speedway season with a hearty thank you for the Prisoner, and try to decide what to watch next. Lorna - any ideas? I could get behind a Selective Sci-Fi Season. I'd chuck in original 'War of the Worlds', 'Bodysnatchers' and the bizarrely hilarious 'Wasp Woman' (which was on YouTube last time I looked). Can't do this Thursday - as you know, I've an urgent appointment with ABBA in the Neths - but after that I'd be selectively up for a selection. Hell's teeth...it lives! We'll take a look at yr selections when you return from something related to ABBA in the Netherlands....what could that be? Laters, taters. Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!
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