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The Prisoner - Is it worth it?

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09:54 / 23.01.03

No worries Mister Six. Thats just the way the cookie crumbles.

Now seen the first two and a half episodes. Enjoyed it more than I thought I would! I thought I may be let down due to the hype surrounding it but its very very good. I am already seeing why people related the Invisibles to it. The story telling techniques of characters "dying" and then emerging alive as "villains" or being "good" and then turning out "bad" (all terms in speachmarks used in a very loose sense since "good" and "evil" are not strongly defined) were used in the Invisibles. Also already there is the notion that boths sides are really on the same side with russian and british spies all working together for what I presume is a higher order. Again themes that came out during the Invisibles. Very interesting. Very good. I was amused by the liberal use of lava lamps in the first episode and I thought the giant white ball was done very well.

Itching to see more but that thing called life keeps getting in the way! Probably won't get a chance to see anymore until next week. Ah well, the prolonged enjoyment can only be good!

uncle retrospective

17:48 / 24.01.03

God damn! Now I have to wait for it to arrive. Thanks Six, and my bank balance hates you.

Mister Six, whom all the girls

18:54 / 24.01.03

Um... your welcome to you and your bank account. Many bank accounts hate me.

Don't worry about the wait because it should be appreciated like a nice wine, rather than gulped like a... not-so-nice wine, but far cheaper and so it's okay to drink it quickly, although you hit on your friend's sister and just before you're about to say something brilliant, puke on her shoes.

Let me know what's on it, yeah? I have the US A&E Version.

08:00 / 14.10.03

I've finally finished it all! Watched the last two episodes last night. I'm glad I already knew that the ending never really explained anything. If I hadn't had known that I might have been sat there thinking whats the point. As it was I'm just bemused right now. The last episode was very weird. I didn't get loads of it. Not sure what to make of it all.

Out of the last few episodes I liked the Western episode which was amazing and find it very amusing that it was originally banned in the US. I also liked the Degree Absolute episode. That was brilliant. What I find most scary about the whole series is when I realised that all these original whacked out sci-fi ideas are far older than I had thought!

On the last disc was also The Prisoner Companion documentary from 1990. It was a bit crap. There were too many clips and not enough info but the info they did give was good. In a way I wish I had thought about things a bit more myself first. I only watched half of that due to bed beckoning.

As I was watching the last episode I was trying to predict how it would end. One of my predictions about who Number 1 was (well appeared to be

) was correct (but not quite in the way I predicted). Other idea I had was that Degree Absolute was continuing especially since No 2 was alive again (who's to say it wasn't).

I still need to let the last episode filter through my mind and bounce around my subconscious before I can tell you fully what I really think of it.

Overall a highly enjoyable experience!

08:52 / 14.10.03

All you need is love, Chubby P.

Now do an all day caffeine fueled marathon of Evangelion and Lain back to back. You'll thank me!

16:53 / 14.10.03

My girlfriend has the dvd box set, and its great, cause when there is nothing to do, and nothing on tv to watch, we will pop it in. We are up to episode 9 now.

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