The Therapy Zone

The Village

    It was once written that the Village is not a copy of normal everyday life, {I should hope not}, I would agree, {goes on the author} that it is modelled on... Utopia. A community with absolute equality, {really!} all needs provided, no worries, {???} no questions, {????} no illness, happiness on all levels...{by order!} Surely this must be the perfect society? Of course this is only the surface, under which lurks a very different society. But I feel that the concept of Utopia may explain much of the general aspect of the vVillage.

   Well this may very well be true for those citizens who are not inmates, or who came to the village voluntarily. Have given, either freely or through coercion, the information inside their heads, and who are now being looked after for as long as they live in the village.

  For those who have been forced to undergo that pacification process known as Instant Social Conversion - basically a Leucotomy, the dislocation of the aggressive frontal lobes - afterwards it might appear to the patient as Utopia. But in what kind of Utopia are such operation carried out? No, for many the village is no Utopia, not for the likes of Roland Walter Dutton, and all those other inmates who are experimented on at one time or another in the hospital, by doctors who are only too keen to carry out human experimentation!

  Yet have not these things happened here in the outside world? The village is not a Utopia, but a microcosm of our own society, and reflected in that society all that goes to make up that of our own... surely.

Prisoner Observations

    The Hospital which is used daily, is not featured on Map of Your Village. But the Palace of Fun, which is never featured in the Prisoner, does appear on the ‘Map of Your Village!’

    The Palace of Fun was to have been a place of amusement and entertainment for the citizens of the village. Where they could gamble and play games. Attend musical concerts, and a theatre to put on Amateur dramatics.

    The picture of the Cockerel on the wall of the General's office, is that of General Jack, a fighting cock!

    The Colonel was murdered by with an exploding cricket ball - one run short  of his century, whilst Potter was supposed to have been watching his back. But was distracted by a pair of attractive legs at the time!

    The girl who was death was to originally have the name of Sonia, a name which is featured in the closing credits of the episode of the same name, yet the name Sonia is never actually used in the finished episode!

Checkmate

  But didn't that episode turn out to be something of a "fools-mate" for No.6? The leader of the gang hoist by his own perturb!

Be seeing you tomorrow..…back on the chessboard