The Therapy Zone

The Power Behind The Throne

    I wonder why it should be assumed that No.1 is the ultimate power behind the Village. After all there were all the delegates of the Assembly, who each represented a section of society from Education to Entertainment. From the Old Folk to Transportation. Accommodation to Nutrition, Youngsters and Security, Welfare and Administration, to name but a few. Surely the real power behind the throne is the Assembly and it’s delegates, and No.1 merely the figurehead. After all, every Nation needs some kind of figurehead. And what may we ascertain from this? That it’s possible that No.1 was being manipulated by the delegates of the Assembly, of which No.1 was apart of, I think.

   Is it possible for just one man to have ultimate control over every single section of society? Napoleon Bonaparte tried that, even when he was at war, and look what happened to him! Look what happened to No.1!

That Blasted Rocket!

    There would have been three people aboard that rocket as it blasted off from it’s underground silo during the mass evacuation of the village in Fall Out - No.48, the "late" No.2 and of course sir, who would have fitted nicely inside that last vacant "Orbit Tube". Once launched into a low orbit, which would have been as much as that rocket could have achieved. So unless there was a Space Station in orbit for the rocket to reach, the rocket would have re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere and either burned up, or would have been destroyed on impact with the ground, either that or sunk at Sea. Either way, it would have meant the end for all those aboard the rocket.

  Unless of course the rocket, like its predecessor, was target to crash on London, obliterating it and all those aboard into the bargain!

Everyone’s A Prisoner

    "We’re both lifers" No.2 told No.6 during a conversation during The Chimes of Big Ben. There can be no distinction between Prisoners and warders in the village. No-one, except a small minority, is allowed to leave the village. As for those born in the village, they would never know anything else. The outside world would be as alien to them, as the village is to those who find themselves abducted there.

    The best thing citizens who find themselves living in the village, is to make the best out of a bad thing, as indeed many have. After all one cannot keep on rebelling forever, there has to come a point where one accepts and to finally settle down. After all, even No.6 accepted his given situation for much of the time. Otherwise he would not have been able to survive for so long. That and the fact that he was not expendable like some I could mention!

Be seeing you.