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Day 26 - Most OMGWTF series finale
The Prisoner (*). How can anyone who has seen it say anything else?
Fall Out is wonderful. It's odd and marvellous in equal measure and makes the kind of total perfect sense (for certain values of sense) that is rare in shows that promise a grand answer at the end of it, the kind of mythard that I find is the least well done in general.
The best part of it is that no two people I know seem to have watched the same episode. As an example, the last time I watched it, I was watching it with housemates P and O. P was convinced that the Prisoner is a thriller about cloning, O that it's a spy drama with Orwellian features and I think it's an exploration of your rights as an individual versus your responsibilities in a functional society (admittedly pretending to be a spy drama). We all swear we're right and can all use bits of Fall Out to back up our opinions.
There's also the possibility that we're all right, simultaneously. Patrick McGoohan apparently wanted "to have controversy, arguments, fights, discussions, people in anger, waving fists in my face." I think he succeeded, without sacrificing narrative cohesion, character or the overall feel of the thing.
The more OMGWTFBBQ parts of the finale are the dancing, All You Need Is Love, the singing, the caged van, the revealing of who Number 1 is (no name given, not for spoiler avoidance reasons, but because the different readings lead to different answers to that) and how numbers 48, 2 and 6 end up.
It makes for a hysterial, surreal, hypnotic whole.
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* - I mean, of course, the proper one. I have not seen enough of the re-envisioning to comment, other than it suffers greatly in comparison, and would probably have been better off it if had had a different name so people wouldn't compare it to the proper one.
( The Other Days )
The Prisoner (*). How can anyone who has seen it say anything else?
Fall Out is wonderful. It's odd and marvellous in equal measure and makes the kind of total perfect sense (for certain values of sense) that is rare in shows that promise a grand answer at the end of it, the kind of mythard that I find is the least well done in general.
The best part of it is that no two people I know seem to have watched the same episode. As an example, the last time I watched it, I was watching it with housemates P and O. P was convinced that the Prisoner is a thriller about cloning, O that it's a spy drama with Orwellian features and I think it's an exploration of your rights as an individual versus your responsibilities in a functional society (admittedly pretending to be a spy drama). We all swear we're right and can all use bits of Fall Out to back up our opinions.
There's also the possibility that we're all right, simultaneously. Patrick McGoohan apparently wanted "to have controversy, arguments, fights, discussions, people in anger, waving fists in my face." I think he succeeded, without sacrificing narrative cohesion, character or the overall feel of the thing.
The more OMGWTFBBQ parts of the finale are the dancing, All You Need Is Love, the singing, the caged van, the revealing of who Number 1 is (no name given, not for spoiler avoidance reasons, but because the different readings lead to different answers to that) and how numbers 48, 2 and 6 end up.
It makes for a hysterial, surreal, hypnotic whole.
~~~~
* - I mean, of course, the proper one. I have not seen enough of the re-envisioning to comment, other than it suffers greatly in comparison, and would probably have been better off it if had had a different name so people wouldn't compare it to the proper one.
( The Other Days )
