I think it is possible that No.6 knew which side runs the Village right from the beginning. It all depends on which side you are on, and as the Prisoner told the new No.2 in ‘Arrival’ “I’m on our side!”
The thing about the conundrum that is ‘the Prisoner,’ is that it’s rather like a jigsaw, you have to put all the pieces together yourself. The only problem is firstly there is no picture on the box lid to guide us, and secondly we are not given all the pieces!
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Hi David,
ReplyDeleteit's an interesting idea, that Number 6 might have known from the start. But if so it would be even stranger than it is that he repeatedly tried to contact his former authorities whenever he thought that he had managed to "escape".
I like that jigsaw metaphor! I also think some of the pieces are just created by fans, so additionally it is a jigsaw that is growing all the time.
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Jana
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Hello Jana,
DeleteWhat's even stranger, is the fact that No.6 went running back to his former colleagues a second, and even third time, when he knew that he had been betrayed by them in the first place! I mean by both the Colonel and Fotheringay! Or is this simply a question of too many scriptwiters not knowing what the others had written?
Very kind regards
David
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Think about No. 6s line while on the taxi: "What would a Pole or Czeck be doing HERE?" He couldn't have known for sure but he was assuming HERE = his side. Hence the Village had to be on the the Western side, too. Whoever ran it. I also like the way the series skirts around clean-cut answers, definitions or locations. Only recently the series Homeland for quite a while managed to keep the status of things uncertain enough and tease around with it, a defector, a sleeper terrorist, yes, no? - BCNU!
ReplyDeleteHello Arno,
DeleteYours is a fair enough comment. Yes, that's the thing about 'the Prisoner,' it does skirt around the clean-cut answers, the question of identity, and location. But even though the Prisoner might have been assuming that HERE was on his side, why would Poles and Czech's be there?
The taxi driver spoke to the Prisoner in French, because she thought he might be a Pole of Czech, because French is International. No.2 in 'Free For All' had breakfast brought to No.6, the food was nicely done, and was suggested by No.6 to be French. "International" No.6 replied. the Village is an International community......so perhaps the French are behind the Village!
Footnote: The above is not what I first intended to write. I had a clever comment, and it was on the tip of my tongue as I began to type, and then it was gone. And the harder I tried to recall it, the further it got away from me, leading to total brain-lock!
Very kind regards
David
BCNU
"it was on the tip of my tongue as I began to type, and then it was gone..." Glad I'm not the only one! - BCNU!
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