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redfiona99Day 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.
Day 1 - A show that shouldn't have been cancelled
Day 2 - A show that more people should watch
Day 3 - Your favourite new show
Day 4 - Your favourite TV show
Day 5 - Your least favourite TV show
Day 6 - My favourite episode of my favourite show(s)
Day 7 - My least favourite episode of my favourite show(s)
Day 8 - A show everyone ought to watch
Day 9 - Favourite scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A TV show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favourite Male Character
Day 15 - Favourite Female Character
Day 16 - Your Guilty Pleasure Show
Day 17 - Your favourite mini-series
Day 18 - Favourite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favourite kiss
Day 21 - Favourite ship
Day 22 - Favourite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show I plan on watching (old or new)
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death
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.
Day 1 - A show that shouldn't have been cancelled
Day 2 - A show that more people should watch
Day 3 - Your favourite new show
Day 4 - Your favourite TV show
Day 5 - Your least favourite TV show
Day 6 - My favourite episode of my favourite show(s)
Day 7 - My least favourite episode of my favourite show(s)
Day 8 - A show everyone ought to watch
Day 9 - Favourite scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A TV show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favourite Male Character
Day 15 - Favourite Female Character
Day 16 - Your Guilty Pleasure Show
Day 17 - Your favourite mini-series
Day 18 - Favourite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favourite kiss
Day 21 - Favourite ship
Day 22 - Favourite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show I plan on watching (old or new)
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death
