In a variety of countries the gesture has many
different meanings. However Internationally it is a gesture used by scuba
divers, meaning “Okay,”
I have never read, nor heard anyone say who
was responsible for the idea of this gesture to be used as a salute in ‘the
Prisoner,’ or how the idea of the salute came about. However as an idea of my
own, during the filming at Portmeirion divers were used to release the meteorological
weather balloons from below the waves at the bottom of the estuary. It is
possible that someone saw the divers giving each other the “okay” gesture, and
adopted it as a salute used by citizens in The Village in conjunction with the
phrase “Be seeing you.”
Be seeing you
There was only one diver. He would not have given a salute to himself.
ReplyDeleteThe hand gesture also resembles the number 6.
ReplyDeleteHello Loren6,
DeleteThat goes without saying, but I think that's more of a coincidence.
Be seeing you
Is it also used in Illuminati?
ReplyDeleteYes so I understand
DeleteOn Babylon 5 the character Bester (Walter Koenig) used "be seeing you" with the same hand sign as his signature goodbye greeting.
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