I enjoyed the opening credits of
The Prisoner
a lot more than I enjoyed the rest of it. The opening credits? like
Bullitt.
The rest of the show? Like your crazy uncle getting himself tangled in a lawn chair and bellowing at your cousins, only in Wales.
I remembered to try that Matt Damon link this morning. Very funny.
That's five or six people he can do scary-accurate impressions of, now. All we need is for him to swallow a sword and my vaudevillian dream will be complete.
As for the recent home invasion case, the thing that struck me about the whole thing was that the woman did everything right, every step of the way. She hears the window break, she calls 911 without wasting time checking around the house. She speaks in a whisper to the 911 guy, tells him the important information first, explains where she is in the house, stays on the line. She stays on the line -- like, phone in her hand on the line -- even when the guy gets into her room, so although she might have struck the 911 guy deaf with her screaming, he could accurately relay the situation to the cops who were breaking down the door and charging up the stairs.
I was only sorry that she did not stay on the line long enough after the cops trundled her attacker away so that we could hear her and the cops fall into each other's arms congratulating each other at doing such a good job under such trying circumstances.
EM got another freaky note
good Lord. This is way too nasty for words.
I'm looking forward to the possibility of a coherent ending.
come on, now! explanations are for wimps!
explanations are for wimps!
As is, apparently, lucidity.
I am torn like Jessica about the Prisoner remake.
The pink-and-white cherry-covered bedspread creates a kinky contrast with the blood red cuffs that adorn its four corners in the Hello Kitty S&M Room. A stuffed version of the celebrated pussy watches voyeuristically from her swing above.
Trudy's wet dream...
The Prisoner was awesome, but it's an awesome, trippy, allegorical, self-indulgent mess. I suspect a modern version would attempt to be An Edgy, Realistic Drama. Which is completely missing the point.
Okay, maybe if they turned this season of 24 into The Prisoner. And had David Lynch guest-direct.
That
would be daring.
Iconic though it may have been, and revolutionary, I found it too hand-stapled-to-head melodramatic to enjoy.
Hrrmm? I've heard a lot of criticisms of the Prisoner over the years (mostly about the final episode, which is GENIUS!), but melodramatic is not one of them. I may be misunderstanding the intent of the word (or lacking a different definition the word may have).
Okay, maybe if they turned this season of 24 into The Prisoner. And had David Lynch guest-direct. That would be daring.
Duuuuuuuuuuuuude. You totally get my vote for being in charge of television.
The Prisoner was awesome, but it's an awesome, trippy, allegorical, self-indulgent mess.
I suspect seeing it when I was in my early teens (on PBS re-runs) is why I have such an unholy love for it. I've noticed on re-watching that too many of the episodes start to become copies of earlier ones. If it had gone on any longer, it would have burnt itself out a la Twin Peaks. I think a shorter run might have been better, but I'm sure some on the episodes I cherish were among the later additons (MacGoohan had 7 planned initially, I think).
