The Therapy Zone

   I thought it might not be a question of how fans will take to the new series of THE PRIS6NER, it is more of a question of how new fans will take to the original series. Will they find it too quirky, even aged after watching the forthcoming series? I know there are fans out there who are of the opinion that the original series is best, and that no such remake, new series, fresh interpretation should have been made. Well no-one is forcing them to watch, but if they do watch this new interpretation of THE PRIS6NER, I hope they do so with an open mind. Remember, do not pre-judge THE PRIS6NER, believe me ladies and gentlemen, you'll be missing out on something incredible if you do!

Self-Suffiency

   The Village is a self-contained unit of your society, but is it so self-Sufficient? I mean how do they get here the milk, ice cream? the potatoes, and the aspirin?

     We enjoy all of the usual amenities here in the Village, water which means there is a large reservoir, electricity - means a modest power station, gas - by pipeline, there's a sewage plant close by, and a land-fill site for all the rubbish generated by the community here. We also have a farm which produces all the fresh vegetables we need, milk, cheese, cream, butter, and of course meat.

   What we don't have is a factory, a factory which produces all the tinned "Village Food," that is canned some place else, given the "Village Food" label and then shipped out here to the village. The same goes for record labels, Village Film, Village Cooking Oil, and packets of Village Needles, clothes, deck shoes, umbrellas, etc, etc, as well as No.2, all of which are imported. As for our exports, of which my fellow reporter wrote once "Will cover every corner of the globe," well what exports? The Village doesn’t actually produce anything, except information. I suppose there's always a market for that.

   So you see, the Village maybe a self-contained unit, but it is far from being self-sufficient, and needs exterior support from the homeland, wherever that maybe.

   I’ve have wondered if this is not some take on evolution, and if Patrick McGoohan was doing a take on Kubrick's ending to his film 2001, because that was about evolution - wasn't it? And here No.6 tears off No.1's black and white mask, to reveal the mask of an ape, and then man himself! Yet, judging by that last image of the montage, well make up your own minds as to what it's all about!

  Stanley Kubrick, who was producing ‘2001’ at Elstree film studios at the same time McGoohan was producing the final episode of ‘the Prisoner,’ ‘Fall Out.’ It is said that Kubrick visited the set of the cavern in ‘Fall Out.’ And Patrick McGoohan had taken this image from ‘2001.’

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