What’s
the Guardian doing there? Number 6 isn’t about to make a run for it, that comes
later. Perhaps it’s there to make sure Number 6 goes into the Town Hall, why
shouldn’t he? After all he has an appointment with Number 2 to witness the
dissolution of the out-going council. But why should the Town Council be
dissolved? After all when a British Government changes, the Civil Service
remains the same, members of the Civil Service work for whichever Government is
in power at the time. I should have thought that was the same even in The
Village, Number 2 might change, but the members of the Town Council remain the
same. Besides do we actually witness the dissolution of the Council? True the
final resolution of this council is a vote of thanks to Number 6, it is carried
unanimously, and there is no further business at this time. Number 6 is allowed
to question the members of the Council, not that they even attempt to answer
his questions, it’s no wonder Number 6 described them as a bunch of tailors
dummies! And yet perhaps they are what they are supposed to appear to be. The
election was a manipulation of Number 6, aided by his own predictability. So no
election, perhaps no Town Council, and yet Number 6 must have believed in the
democratic process, as he explained to the Colonel in ‘Many Happy Returns’ that
he could have been a member of the Town Council, it being elected once a year.
But is that the same Town Council as witnessed in ‘Free For All? If it is I
cannot somehow see Number 6 being a willing candidate to become one of those
brainwashed imbeciles as he called them. It also strikes that by the time of
‘Many Happy Returns’ Number 6 has changed his mind about the Town Council, he
seems “matter of fact” about it, almost casual as he explains it to the
Colonel, as though it’s no longer something dark. But perhaps that’s because
Number 6 thinks he’s well out of the way of The Village, and can now afford to
be blasé about it. If that’s the case,
his predictability is once again to be his downfall, as he is about to be
placed in the hands of his tormentors once again!
Be seeing you
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