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Subject: Re: The Prisoner Returns
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Date: Sat, 9-Feb-85 04:54:08 EST
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>>           The only thing that bugs me about the show is ROVER, the balloon-
>> like entity which guards the perimeter of the village. The way I see it, they
>> needed a believable way to keep the very clever No. 6 from escaping the 
>> island, but is this really believeable?  Or am I being unreasonably picky?
>>                                Any thoughts on this?

> About 
> ROVER.  I find him silly.  Many times you can see the string pulling him
> along the water, but I don't mind.  When you love a show you take a lot
> of things as givens.  ROVER could have been done more convinsingly, but
> such is life in the Village.

I haven't spotted the wires on Rover yet, but then I'm not really looking for
them either (reminds me of when STAR WARS was on CBS and you could see all the
matte lines and little squares of film where they inserted the TIE fighters
and X-Wings...but thats another flame for another newsgroup...).  Since The
Prisoner is really a "people" show as opposed to a "hardware" show, any little
things that I might have trouble believing in (like Rover, all those invisible
cameras that are everywhere and seem to follow folks around without them
noticing [except for Number Six, of course], the mind control techniques used
in "A, B, and C"... all these things are ignored by my conscious mind.  I'm
too wrapped up in the story to notice!

> I hope they tell us who #1 is at the end of
> the series, or at least get him rescued.  Q: Any thought as to where the 
> Village really is?  Not that many places can have the kind of climate they
> do (rarely rains, never cold), with a bay and mountains, etc.  Whaddya think?

The last episode of the series is absolutely fantastic.  No matter what you
want to see, you probably won't be disappointed.  The ending has some amazing
twists that have kept people puzzling over them since the series was first
shown.

As for where the Village is, my vote is for somewhere in Greece.  In an
early episode of "Danger Man" (known in the U.S. as "Secret Agent"), the
Patrick McGoohan character is sent to Greece to try and keep a British
agent from "selling out".  One of the locations looked EXACTLY like the
area where the Village is, in fact, it looked just like a shot of the
beach in front of the Village.  Coincidence?  Maybe...you never know.
At the end of that episode, when Drake (McGoohan's character) finds out
that his bosses lied to him in order to get the other agent back, and that
the agent was to be arrested despite Drake's promises to the contrary, I
realized just why he resigned!!  If I worked for a bunch of guys like
that, I'd jump ship too!

        Be Seeing You,

                .rne.

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