Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site gondor.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!psuvax1!gondor!weiss From: weiss@gondor.UUCP (Michael S. Weiss) Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho,net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: What is "The Prisoner"? Message-ID: <1608@gondor.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Feb-85 20:15:24 EST Article-I.D.: gondor.1608 Posted: Mon Feb 11 20:15:24 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Feb-85 02:23:30 EST References: <1360@hao.UUCP> <2305@nsc.UUCP> <8041@brl-tgr.ARPA> Distribution: net Organization: Happy Valley, USA Lines: 21 Xref: watmath net.tv.drwho:856 net.sf-lovers:6133 > One thing I always felt was a bit "off" in THE PRISONER: With a number ) like "6". I always thought > it would have been better if he had been "Number 47" or "Number 238" or > something, instead of "Number 6". *** REPLACE THIS spy WITH number six! *** Everything they did was part of the plan to send him over the edge so he would talk. Giving him a high number, but no control I thought was very clever. A bit of a mind twist. Also, I feel that most (95%) of the people there are trying to break number 6, so that would make him very high man on the Village totem pole. "I am not a number!" -Number Six msw -- -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.