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    How Soap Operatic Will The Prisoner Remake Be?

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    Image of ghostlikeswazy ghostlikeswazy
    01/09/09

    In reply to How Soap Operatic Will The Prisoner Remake Be?
    my predictions:

    *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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    Image of RAHfanboy RAHfanboy
    01/10/09

    @ghostlikeswazy: I think it's more likely to go full circle and have #6 wake up again in the Village.
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    Image of BullfightsOnAcid BullfightsOnAcid
    01/09/09

    In reply to How Soap Operatic Will The Prisoner Remake Be?
    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.
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    Image of RAHfanboy RAHfanboy
    01/10/09

    @BullfightsOnAcid: You'll be able to get the HD version on Pirate Bay.
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    Image of cletar cletar
    01/09/09

    In reply to How Soap Operatic Will The Prisoner Remake Be?
    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.

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    Image of bluehinter bluehinter
    01/09/09

    @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.

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    Image of lightninglouie lightninglouie
    01/09/09

    In reply to How Soap Operatic Will The Prisoner Remake Be?
    So does this mean that Number 11-12 will be a rebellious hipster type, like Number 48 in "Fall Out"?


    "The booooones is yours, Dad... they came from you, my Daddy..."


    [uk]

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    Image of bluehinter bluehinter
    01/09/09

    @lightninglouie: I was thinking the exact same thing.


    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?

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    Image of fhbals fhbals
    01/09/09

    In reply to How Soap Operatic Will The Prisoner Remake Be?
    Number 11-12? Now, *that* sounds conflicted. I'm surprised they're not calling him 7-11, or, even more Scott Evilish, 2 1/2.


    There are certain things that should not be eff'd with... and The Prisoner is one of those things

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    Image of bluehinter bluehinter
    01/09/09

    @fhbals: Yeah, I don't understand that at all.


    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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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    01/09/09

    In reply to How Soap Operatic Will The Prisoner Remake Be?
    Ah... phew, that feels better.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    01/09/09

    @Grrsn Dn: Wha? I'm missing something here.
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    01/09/09

    @crashedpc: He gave Number Two's jacket the proper piping 'n' stuff. :)
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    Image of Aethelred Aethelred
    01/09/09

    @crashedpc: Photoshopped piping on Sir Ian's jacket, there.
    Nice job, Mr. Dean.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    01/09/09

    @Aethelred: Very nice indeed.


    "Paul"? Is Garrison a fake name after all?? My world is shattered.

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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    01/09/09

    @crashedpc: No, Garrison isn't a fake name. Dean... Maybe, but I don't know who this Paul character is.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    01/09/09

    @Grrsn Dn: I clicked on the photo and it said "Paul's Gallery". Did you kill Paul and take his gallery of one photo?
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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    01/09/09

    @crashedpc: yes. yes I did.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    01/09/09

    @Grrsn Dn: Your 'shopping of piping has inspired me to go Netflix The Prisoner. Thanks, "Paul"!
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    Image of Lassus Lassus
    01/09/09

    In reply to How Soap Operatic Will The Prisoner Remake Be?
    A son?


    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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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    01/09/09

    @Lassus: I'm really struggling to imagine Number Two with a son. It's like, wha???
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    Image of Rasselas Rasselas
    01/09/09

    In reply to How Soap Operatic Will The Prisoner Remake Be?
    Also, no McGoohan.
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    Image of TrueCrime TrueCrime
    01/10/09

    @Rasselas: Yes, that will be a problem.


    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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    Image of coppertree coppertree
    01/09/09

    In reply to How Soap Operatic Will The Prisoner Remake Be?
    ... Or that awesome suitjacket with the white piping ... or the weird bike pins
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    Image of tamoko tamoko
    01/10/09

    @coppertree: And none of those trippy phones... get them here if you want one


    [www.retrokillerclothing.com]

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    Image of tamoko tamoko
    01/10/09

    @tamoko: Ericofon Replicas BT British Telecom phones... love those damn things... second only to the turtlenecks.
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    Image of ceilingFANBOY ceilingFANBOY
    11/25/08

    In reply to "Truman Show Syndrome" Makes Life Seem Like Reality TV
    I'm sure the fact that there are cameras everywhere doesn't help things with this.
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    Image of Jay042 Jay042
    11/24/08

    In reply to "Truman Show Syndrome" Makes Life Seem Like Reality TV
    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.
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    Image of JennaW JennaW
    11/24/08

    @Jay042: Turns out it's just their wireless network.
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    Image of phantom_K9 phantom_K9
    11/24/08

    In reply to "Truman Show Syndrome" Makes Life Seem Like Reality TV
    I don't mind that I'm the star of a secret reality show...but I just wish they would fire the writers and get some good ones in there...
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    Image of SunnydaZe10 is BANNED! SunnydaZe10 is BANNED!
    11/24/08

    @phantom_K9:Hey, I am one of the writers on your show and I take offense, sir!


    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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    Image of Dormouse: Corporate Tool Dormouse: Corporate Tool
    11/24/08

    In reply to "Truman Show Syndrome" Makes Life Seem Like Reality TV
    I love that movie. Wayyy underrated.


    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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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    11/24/08

    @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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    Image of Alexis Alexis
    11/24/08

    @Dormouse II: The Wrath of Gryphon:


    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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    Image of B B
    11/24/08

    In reply to "Truman Show Syndrome" Makes Life Seem Like Reality TV
    Still not as bad as Cable Guy syndrome.
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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    11/24/08

    In reply to "Truman Show Syndrome" Makes Life Seem Like Reality TV
    What's worse are the people who think they're in EdTV.
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    Image of Alexis Alexis
    11/24/08

    @Grrsn Dn:


    I'm sad to say that I actually went to a theater to see that P.O.S.

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