The Therapy Zone

The Prisoner

   You can just tell it's going to be one of those days, when you wake up and suddenly something feels different. Then as you make a search of The Village you discover that everyone's gone but you! Imagine, everyone escaped The Village but No.6. What could be worse than that? Me being left alone in The Village! Mind you, I don't have the necessary skills as our friend No.6 here. Oh I could chop down trees and probably make myself a raft. But then what? I'm no sailor, and have very limited navigational skills, and besides which, it's a very long way home! So if it were me in No.6's shoes, I'd probably have to sit down and wait to see what happens next. And if then no-one turns up, well I'd probably pack necessary provisions and head off across country, but keeping well away from those mountains!

The Chimes of Big Ben

    In this episode, after Nadia and No.6 have managed to escape the confines of The Village, we as the viewer are privy to a fraction of the 12 hour journey taken to reach an office that No.6 will know very well in London. First the journey started by road, then by sea, and finally by air, and again obviously by road, but we are not witness to that part of the journey, to finally arrive in that very office previously mentioned by No.6.

    Well that's all fine and dandy for the television viewer. But what I find fascinating to think about, is what actually takes place, the removal of the crate out of that cave, and by any number of Village people. To be put aboard a boat and taken back to The Village, to be transported to a place where the crate can remain for the next 12 hours with No.6 and Nadia inside, No.6 who is quite oblivious to what is actually taking place. the crate mounted on a "rocker," so that any movement at all during what would have been an actual journey can be simulated, with sound effects, by road, a sea voyage with ship's engines sound effects, and journey by aircraft. I find to imagine that is far more interesting that what we actually see on the screen. But of course had we seen what actually takes place, and not the journey, well the 'punch line' at the end would have been lost.

   If the Prisoner is considered by many to be a rebel, why is it that each time he manages to, or think he has escaped The Village, he goes running back to his ex-colleagues in the establishment? I mean rebels don't go doing that, do they?

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