Got the "Prisoner" complete DVD set for xmas: eerie parallels

Lerkfish

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Sat Jan-01-05 07:52 PM
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Got the "Prisoner" complete DVD set for xmas: eerie parallels

Now that I can watch each episode in order....
the "Village" is exactly what the neocons want the whole world to be...very scary.

but on the other hand, what a great christmas present! one of the coolest tv series ever made in my hot little hands!.

"I am not a number! I am a FREE MAN!".

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derbstyron

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Sat Jan-01-05 07:53 PM
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1. Great show.

I got the DvDs awhile back.

The parallels are frightening.

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Ellen Forradalom

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Sat Jan-01-05 07:56 PM
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2. "I will not be stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered!"

I'll be looking for the files on the torrent trackers BTW :-)

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tuvor

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Sat Jan-01-05 08:12 PM
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3. Self-delete

Edited on Sat Jan-01-05 08:12 PM by tuvor

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mcscajun

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Sat Jan-01-05 08:43 PM
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4. I've been building the set one 'box' at a time..

...and soon the marathon will begin!

However...I haven't decided yet which 'order' I'll being with...opinions vary on the 'true order'; production order, airing order, or the order that Patrick McGoohan had in mind, and a few others. :P

here's the dispute and the various 'orders':
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/tv/the-prisoner/part1/

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Lerkfish

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Sun Jan-02-05 08:52 AM
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5. I'm watching the box set order, but reading the "order debate"

arguments and weighing them. In the box set, an interview with Bernie Williams, he gives direct insight into how one episode was shot sixth, but McGoohan felt it was too intense to use except as the lead-in to the last episode.

thanks for the link, though, that's a more in depth discussion.

I really NOW want to get the secret agent man series, because I've never seen any of those episodes at all, though I remember watching the prisoner as a child.

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