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San Francisco, 3:36 AM
Mon Nov 9
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Whatta shitty day.
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I also have a sample of Number X (can't remember his number; been a while since I watched the show) shouting: "Information! We want information!" It's a great error sound.
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Okay, it already looks more like Edward Gorey but you get the idea.
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and it seems we've lost Ricardo Montalban as well..
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I also remember seeing him a junior high school film were he played a crooked jockey with a son who was trying to go straight. In both Scanners and in the film I saw he seemed to be type cast as the eccentric who stood apart and bucked the rules.
I don't know what his feelings were about the current Prisoner remake. I don't know what his feelings were about the Prisoner graphic novels that came out a couple decades ago--I never read them, maybe one day I will.
The point is he left a body of work that affected generations of science fiction fans and the mainstream. I guess that's as much as anyone can hope for.
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The Prisoner graphic novel 'Shattered Visage' was... interesting. It would have been much better without the introduction of new young characters we didn't give a crap about, but I can sort of see an old worn-out and crazy #6 returning to the crumbling ruins of The Village because he's discovered the rest of the world is just as much of a prison.
I was really hoping that one day, McGoohan would actually sit down and write his memoires or agree to record special commentary tracks for "his" episodes of The Prisoner. Sadly, that day will never come.
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The penny-farthing you mean.
It's been a while since I watched the alternate version of 'Chimes of Big Ben' but while nobody in the village actually rode the penny-farthing, it was supposed to be extremely symbolic of #6's role in The Village... As was the mysterious phrase 'POP,' which was originally supposed to be used as the final shot during the closing credits sequence. A few snippets of dialogue from the alternate version of 'Chimes of Big Ben' reveal it stands for "Protect Other People" (or possibly "Prisoners of Power"?)
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Patrick, you were never unmutual in my books.
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He will always be The Free Man.
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Good for you for ignoring the dumbassed trolling.
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You have been declared Unmutual.
Please report to the Green Dome for immediate social conversion.
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