What most upsets me about this mini-series is that AMC is not broadcast in HD on DirecTV. It's bad enough I have to watch 'Mad Men' and 'Breaking Bad' in standard 480. It's torture watching my favorite shows in that format.
I'm trying to imagine the story meeting where someone said,"You know what would make this better? If Number Two had a son! A rebellious son!"
Why was that statement not met with derisive laughter? You can bring your freakin' family with you to the village? That fatally undercuts the artificiality and isolation of the place.
Maybe the whole "son" thing is just a line of BS that Number Six is being fed. Please, no Evil Junior.
@cletar: In "It's Your Funeral" there is an elderly scientist and his daughter living in the Village, so there are occasionally some family units.
I'd feel better if I knew the son character had been born and raised his entire life within the confines of The Village. (I know #2's changed at the drop of a hat in the old Village, but this is a reboot)
A child born into a society of absolute conformity, uninfluenced by peers or the outside world, who learns to rebel out of some inherently human instinct... It could be an interesting concept if they have intelligent writers who know how to run with it.
Sounds similar to the so called "gang stalking" phenomenon. People think they are being constantly observed by some secret cabal that has almost everyone in their immediate vicinity watching them.
Back on topic, people have good reason to fear this, in some cases. I saw something recently (on boingboing I believe) about a proposed reality show in which they would lure fugitives to a certain location by telling them they won a prize, then film the police capturing them.
@Dormouse II: The Wrath of Gryphon: I know that is actually done. I remember something in LA I belive it was where they told fugitives that they won a boat and just grabbed them as they came in. I think it was on Dateline. A reality show would be that much better.
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*movie will either suck-ass, or no one in America will see it.
*rover will look much better.
*they will miss the mark completely.
*someone decided it must have an end... I am guessing number 6 escapes. roll credits.
*people who actually saw the television program's heads will explode.
*all us whiny fanboys will flock to it at any rate, and it will still be a flop.
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Why was that statement not met with derisive laughter? You can bring your freakin' family with you to the village? That fatally undercuts the artificiality and isolation of the place.
Maybe the whole "son" thing is just a line of BS that Number Six is being fed. Please, no Evil Junior.
01/09/09
I'd feel better if I knew the son character had been born and raised his entire life within the confines of The Village. (I know #2's changed at the drop of a hat in the old Village, but this is a reboot)
A child born into a society of absolute conformity, uninfluenced by peers or the outside world, who learns to rebel out of some inherently human instinct... It could be an interesting concept if they have intelligent writers who know how to run with it.
01/09/09
"The booooones is yours, Dad... they came from you, my Daddy..."
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Can we at least have the trippy ending where 6, 48 and 2 are being driven around London in the cage-van by the midget?
01/09/09
There are certain things that should not be eff'd with... and The Prisoner is one of those things
01/09/09
Maybe he's got a conjoined twin or is so morbidly obese that his asshole father decided to give him two numbers. :(
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Nice job, Mr. Dean.
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"Paul"? Is Garrison a fake name after all?? My world is shattered.
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Well, I hate to be one of these people, but that pretty much does it for me, that's a no.
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If there's no butler, or if the butler's wearing a number, then we're really going to have an issue.
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You best watch your lip or we will write you out of your own show. You can always be replaced by Cory Feldman, buddy!!
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Back on topic, people have good reason to fear this, in some cases. I saw something recently (on boingboing I believe) about a proposed reality show in which they would lure fugitives to a certain location by telling them they won a prize, then film the police capturing them.
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I was just about to say that. That movie seems to always get overlooked.
To the article: Why is this any more spectacular than most of the paranoid delusions of schizophrenics? Seems like standard territory for them.
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I'm sad to say that I actually went to a theater to see that P.O.S.