tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6503758639704574841.post3409445230979116777..comments2022-03-25T15:01:43.500+00:00Comments on Visual Mutterings: The Prisoner - Free For AllH E Cooperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05967729929106311170noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6503758639704574841.post-41232814193809661392020-03-08T12:23:22.904+00:002020-03-08T12:23:22.904+00:00'Free For All' is among the most popular p...'Free For All' is among the most popular posts on this blog and I think it is one of the best episodes. Its satire is very accessible and interest tends to peak around elections. Alas, Anonymous, I am unlikely to have time to write anything more on The Prisoner any time soon. I really enjoyed doing these blogs at the time and deeply regret not making it through the whole series; if I were to revisit it again now, I think my interpretations would be rather different. One day...H E Cooperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05967729929106311170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6503758639704574841.post-53662400124336814042020-03-06T11:27:42.653+00:002020-03-06T11:27:42.653+00:00Good post but I was wondering if you could write a...Good post but I was wondering if you could write a litte more on this topic?<br />I'd be very graterful if you could elaborate a little bit further.<br />Thank you!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6503758639704574841.post-57335253424163572132015-03-14T07:33:11.960+00:002015-03-14T07:33:11.960+00:00As a satire on elections and the press, I thought ...As a satire on elections and the press, I thought this episode was fantastic. I sometimes watch it around election time (along with the movies "The Candidate" and "The Manchurian Candidate") as a reminder to myself of the reality of what is going on. In this case, Number 6 is more like The Manchurian Candidate because he is drugged to fall into line and become a politician, although getting swept up in events is also seen here. I suspect there might also have been a bit of old-man-politician-poking in this episode, with that line about Number 6's good record "but he has no experience whatsoever of the manipulation of a community such as ours".<br /><br />This episode, too, is wonderfully inside continuity for The Village. It mentions the fake alcohol again, we get a mention about how some of the people with numbers are actually warders and not prisoners, and so on. It really builds up the alternate-reality that is The Village.<br /><br />Very good review.<br /><br />Be seeing you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com