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From: weiss@gondor.UUCP (Michael Weiss)
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Subject: Re: The Prisoner Returns
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Date: Wed, 6-Feb-85 14:12:17 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?

*** REPLACE THIS man WITH number six! ***

I love this show!  Except for ROVER, though, I wouldn't call it SF.
I am not in Philly now, so a friend of mine is taping the entire series
for me.  When I go home, I watch about 3-4 hours straight of it.  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 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?

"I am a MAN, not a number!!"          -Number Six

-- 
-Michael  "on the Twilight Node"  Weiss            ...!psuvax1!gondor!weiss

     - The opinions expressed herein are those of my superiors,
       and are not necessarily shared by myself.