BCNU
Friday, 21 November 2014
Teabreak Teaser
Why didn’t Number 6 dunk Number 14
into the tank of water at the end of the bout of Kosho?
Quote For The Day
“I have to report a breakdown in Control!”
{Number 2 - Hammer Into Anvil}
Why didn’t Number 6 report Number 2 as being a breakdown in control? After all that would have afforded Number 6 the opportunity for Number 6 to speak to Number 1. But then where would the full retribution have been in that? Much more humiliating for Number 2 to report himself.
Number 6 said that Number 2 was afraid of his masters. Possibly he was afraid of himself, of his own failure, of what would happen to him if he did fail. The question we should be asking ourselves, is why was this Number 2 brought to The Village in the first place? This Number 2 seems to be the odd one out. Meaning that all his predecessors were brought to The Village for a specific purpose. Yet this Number 2 seems to have no purpose, unless it is simply to be thrown to the “lone wolf” that is Number 6.
This Number 2 is paranoid. It might be that being afraid brought about his paranoia. If there was a purpose for this Number 2, clearly it took place before ‘Hammer Into Anvil.’ We first see this Number 2 interrogating Number 73 in a hospital room. Number 73 has clearly attempted suicide by slashing her wrists. Number 2 is a sadistic interrogator, who clearly doesn’t have the intelligence to understand that if they have a photograph with Number 73’s husband and the woman Mariah together in a hotel room, all they have to do is have agents working for The Village to keep said hotel under surveillance. After all, who took the photograph in the first place?
On the surface, this Number 2 seems nothing more than a professional interrogator. But perhaps he was brought to The Village to bring out those enemies within their midst! Perhaps he was supposed to have overseen a purge of The Village, to rid the internment camp of any enemies, malcontents, and troublemakers. In this it would seem Number 2 failed, and so another way had to be found, that was to be plan Division Q in the next episode! The only trouble is, there doesn’t appear to have been any such enemies, or indeed conspiracies. As no-one appears to have any idea of what Number 2 is going on about when he accuses his administration of being either in league with Number 6, or being involved in the conspiracy against both himself and the Village. With Number 2 being so unstable, so paranoid about non-existent enemies within their midst, I’m sure Number 1 would be glad to see the back of him.
There must have been enemies, because there were prisoners in The Village being held against their will and that made them natural enemies and malcontents. But Number 2 said in that article in The Tally Ho that he didn’t know who the enemies were in The Village. Yet the interim Number 2, the heir presumptive in the next episode ‘It’s Your Funeral,’ had a list of malcontents, top of that list being Number 6.
Number 2 saw enemies everywhere, and felt there was no-one he could trust, that he felt that everyone in The Village was conspiring against him. It seems the only enemy against Number 2, even when Number 6 decided to involve himself, was Number 2 himself!
Be seeing you
{Number 2 - Hammer Into Anvil}
Why didn’t Number 6 report Number 2 as being a breakdown in control? After all that would have afforded Number 6 the opportunity for Number 6 to speak to Number 1. But then where would the full retribution have been in that? Much more humiliating for Number 2 to report himself.
Number 6 said that Number 2 was afraid of his masters. Possibly he was afraid of himself, of his own failure, of what would happen to him if he did fail. The question we should be asking ourselves, is why was this Number 2 brought to The Village in the first place? This Number 2 seems to be the odd one out. Meaning that all his predecessors were brought to The Village for a specific purpose. Yet this Number 2 seems to have no purpose, unless it is simply to be thrown to the “lone wolf” that is Number 6.
This Number 2 is paranoid. It might be that being afraid brought about his paranoia. If there was a purpose for this Number 2, clearly it took place before ‘Hammer Into Anvil.’ We first see this Number 2 interrogating Number 73 in a hospital room. Number 73 has clearly attempted suicide by slashing her wrists. Number 2 is a sadistic interrogator, who clearly doesn’t have the intelligence to understand that if they have a photograph with Number 73’s husband and the woman Mariah together in a hotel room, all they have to do is have agents working for The Village to keep said hotel under surveillance. After all, who took the photograph in the first place?
On the surface, this Number 2 seems nothing more than a professional interrogator. But perhaps he was brought to The Village to bring out those enemies within their midst! Perhaps he was supposed to have overseen a purge of The Village, to rid the internment camp of any enemies, malcontents, and troublemakers. In this it would seem Number 2 failed, and so another way had to be found, that was to be plan Division Q in the next episode! The only trouble is, there doesn’t appear to have been any such enemies, or indeed conspiracies. As no-one appears to have any idea of what Number 2 is going on about when he accuses his administration of being either in league with Number 6, or being involved in the conspiracy against both himself and the Village. With Number 2 being so unstable, so paranoid about non-existent enemies within their midst, I’m sure Number 1 would be glad to see the back of him.
There must have been enemies, because there were prisoners in The Village being held against their will and that made them natural enemies and malcontents. But Number 2 said in that article in The Tally Ho that he didn’t know who the enemies were in The Village. Yet the interim Number 2, the heir presumptive in the next episode ‘It’s Your Funeral,’ had a list of malcontents, top of that list being Number 6.
Number 2 saw enemies everywhere, and felt there was no-one he could trust, that he felt that everyone in The Village was conspiring against him. It seems the only enemy against Number 2, even when Number 6 decided to involve himself, was Number 2 himself!
Be seeing you
Playing The Game
“Good morning Number Twelve.”
“Be seeing you” Number 12 salutes in response.
“Good morning Number Twelve.”
“Yes why do you call me Number Twelve?”
“Well that’s what you were called the last time I saw you.”
Number 36, pushing an elderly man in a wheelchair, was in the right place at the right time, as Number 6/12 was just passing by on his way to the Green Dome. This in the same way as the Sikh-Number ??? who was just passing by ‘12 Private’ as Number 6/12 was emerging from the cottage. Just two people, two apparently ordinary citizens, to help impress upon Number 6, that he is Number 12! They are not intrinsic to the plan, but they do play their part nonetheless for that.
Be seeing you
“Be seeing you” Number 12 salutes in response.
“Good morning Number Twelve.”
“Yes why do you call me Number Twelve?”
“Well that’s what you were called the last time I saw you.”
Number 36, pushing an elderly man in a wheelchair, was in the right place at the right time, as Number 6/12 was just passing by on his way to the Green Dome. This in the same way as the Sikh-Number ??? who was just passing by ‘12 Private’ as Number 6/12 was emerging from the cottage. Just two people, two apparently ordinary citizens, to help impress upon Number 6, that he is Number 12! They are not intrinsic to the plan, but they do play their part nonetheless for that.
Be seeing you
Thursday, 20 November 2014
I’m not one of them!
No, no-one is. And yet there are so many of them, and strangely
enough Monique, or rather Number 50 is one such damsel in distress who did not
betray Number 6!
Number 50 went looking for Number 6’s help, and he spurned her at first, after all he been bitten before, and so is forever shy. But they are not shy, they love to listen. And so the Observers who see and hear everything, now know all about the assassination plot. The only trouble is, so does the Supervisor-Number 26, and he happens to be in on it!
So Number 6 was right to be suspicious at first, and yet he could do nothing but involve himself in the plot. Oh not to see that its carried out, but to sabotage the assassination plot! So why does Number 6 care? Oh he doesn’t care what happens to Number 2, it’s the citizens he’s concerned about. He wants to protect them from almost certain mass reprisals for the assassination of the retiring Number 2. It would appear that by the time of ‘It’s Your Funeral’ Number 6 has grown a conscience. Its no wonder that Number 2 of ‘Once Upon A Time’ asked Number 6 why he cared. Of course he might have been referring to old times, and 6’s relationship with Number 8! But its like Number 6 said “You’ll never know.” with hindsight it could be to do with Number 6 being the alter ego of Number 1. That Number 6 was there to counter the machinations of Number 1 for the good of The Village. The only trouble with that is, at the time of ‘Once Upon A Time,’ no-one knew who Number 1 was!
Be seeing you
Number 50 went looking for Number 6’s help, and he spurned her at first, after all he been bitten before, and so is forever shy. But they are not shy, they love to listen. And so the Observers who see and hear everything, now know all about the assassination plot. The only trouble is, so does the Supervisor-Number 26, and he happens to be in on it!
So Number 6 was right to be suspicious at first, and yet he could do nothing but involve himself in the plot. Oh not to see that its carried out, but to sabotage the assassination plot! So why does Number 6 care? Oh he doesn’t care what happens to Number 2, it’s the citizens he’s concerned about. He wants to protect them from almost certain mass reprisals for the assassination of the retiring Number 2. It would appear that by the time of ‘It’s Your Funeral’ Number 6 has grown a conscience. Its no wonder that Number 2 of ‘Once Upon A Time’ asked Number 6 why he cared. Of course he might have been referring to old times, and 6’s relationship with Number 8! But its like Number 6 said “You’ll never know.” with hindsight it could be to do with Number 6 being the alter ego of Number 1. That Number 6 was there to counter the machinations of Number 1 for the good of The Village. The only trouble with that is, at the time of ‘Once Upon A Time,’ no-one knew who Number 1 was!
Be seeing you
Caught On Camera
It seems to me that the
picture seen on the wall screen in Number 2's office is nothing more than that,
a painted picture. I wonder why? After all the Town of Harmony is actually part
of The Village itself, as seen during 'The Chimes of Big Ben,' and 'The
Schizoid Man.' So why the need for a painted picture to be projected on the
wall screen, and not the real place? It is suggested by my wife that in some ways 'Living In Harmony' is like a pop-up story book, looks like she is right!
Be seeing you
Looking At It From No.1’s Perspective
I shouldn't think Number 1 has a point of view, or does
he? He seemed to be as mad as a hatter upon that meeting with Number 6, hiding
behind masks and showing No.6 his future in that crystal ball.
But Number 1 is the man who Number 6 was asking Little Bo-Peep about at the ‘Dance of the Dead.’ The power on the throne, and instigator of the village. Are we expected to believe that no-one knew who Number 1 was, that he went around all the time in a white cowled robe and black and white mask. That Number 2 didn't recognise Number 1's voice when they spoke on the telephone? Surely he didn't spend all his time aboard that rocket in ‘Fall Out’? Number1 must surely have had other quarters in that underground complex of the village, he had to eat and drink. Who served him his meals? And go to the bathroom just as his supposedly alter ego does above ground in his cottage in the village. And an office would be called for, for a man in Number 1's position, an office from which to administer the village, and surely Number 2 was not the only Village administrator to speak with Number 1.
And if we are to touch upon the subject of alter egos, why then did Number 1 put his other self through so much? Perhaps he had to, in order for him to become Number 1 in the first place!
There is even the chance that Number 1 actually got his hands dirty during the episode of ‘The Schizoid Man,’ in the guise of Curtis perhaps. After all we only have Number 6's word that Curtis-Number 12 actually died by suffocation by the membranic Village Guardian, not everyone did you know. And if Curtis was No.1 getting his hands dirty out and about in The Village, then it would not be the first time that such a meeting had provoked such a violent reaction between the two. After all John Drake had previously met with his other self in the ‘Danger Man’ episode ‘The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove.’ that meeting also broke out into a fight, as indeed it would have done between Number 6 and Number 1 in the control room of the rocket, if only Number 6 could have got his hands on Number 1 as he gave chase around the control room in the rocket.
During Number 6's tormented, interrogated and tortuous time in The Village, through his disappointments, failures and victories, how did No.1 feel about his other self? In the way Number 6 thwarted Number 2 and The Village's administration, in ‘The General’ and ‘It’s Your Funeral’ for examples. Number 1 saw Speedlearn as purely a military exercise, according to Number 2, and then there was the failed execution of the retiring Number 2. Number 1 surely didn't make this all happen as mere tests for his alter ego-Number 6. And the drugs, therapy, and interrogation techniques used against Number6, had Number 1 no feeling for his alter ego at all? And how could Number 1 have felt when Number 6 was taught a lesson in episodes as ‘Free For All’ and ‘Many Happy Returns?’ Perhaps Number 1 saw himself as the stronger, and Number 6 as the weaker side to his nature. But in the end Number 6 was proved to be the man of steel who had survived the ultimate test of ‘Once Upon A Time.’ But what if Number 6 had not survived, there would have been no meeting with Number 1, and how do you think he would have felt then? And would Number 1 have actually survived without his alter ego the Number 6? Because throughout the series of tests he set Number 6, there were enormous risks taken by Number 1, anyone of which could have proved fatal!
Be seeing you
But Number 1 is the man who Number 6 was asking Little Bo-Peep about at the ‘Dance of the Dead.’ The power on the throne, and instigator of the village. Are we expected to believe that no-one knew who Number 1 was, that he went around all the time in a white cowled robe and black and white mask. That Number 2 didn't recognise Number 1's voice when they spoke on the telephone? Surely he didn't spend all his time aboard that rocket in ‘Fall Out’? Number1 must surely have had other quarters in that underground complex of the village, he had to eat and drink. Who served him his meals? And go to the bathroom just as his supposedly alter ego does above ground in his cottage in the village. And an office would be called for, for a man in Number 1's position, an office from which to administer the village, and surely Number 2 was not the only Village administrator to speak with Number 1.
And if we are to touch upon the subject of alter egos, why then did Number 1 put his other self through so much? Perhaps he had to, in order for him to become Number 1 in the first place!
There is even the chance that Number 1 actually got his hands dirty during the episode of ‘The Schizoid Man,’ in the guise of Curtis perhaps. After all we only have Number 6's word that Curtis-Number 12 actually died by suffocation by the membranic Village Guardian, not everyone did you know. And if Curtis was No.1 getting his hands dirty out and about in The Village, then it would not be the first time that such a meeting had provoked such a violent reaction between the two. After all John Drake had previously met with his other self in the ‘Danger Man’ episode ‘The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove.’ that meeting also broke out into a fight, as indeed it would have done between Number 6 and Number 1 in the control room of the rocket, if only Number 6 could have got his hands on Number 1 as he gave chase around the control room in the rocket.
During Number 6's tormented, interrogated and tortuous time in The Village, through his disappointments, failures and victories, how did No.1 feel about his other self? In the way Number 6 thwarted Number 2 and The Village's administration, in ‘The General’ and ‘It’s Your Funeral’ for examples. Number 1 saw Speedlearn as purely a military exercise, according to Number 2, and then there was the failed execution of the retiring Number 2. Number 1 surely didn't make this all happen as mere tests for his alter ego-Number 6. And the drugs, therapy, and interrogation techniques used against Number6, had Number 1 no feeling for his alter ego at all? And how could Number 1 have felt when Number 6 was taught a lesson in episodes as ‘Free For All’ and ‘Many Happy Returns?’ Perhaps Number 1 saw himself as the stronger, and Number 6 as the weaker side to his nature. But in the end Number 6 was proved to be the man of steel who had survived the ultimate test of ‘Once Upon A Time.’ But what if Number 6 had not survived, there would have been no meeting with Number 1, and how do you think he would have felt then? And would Number 1 have actually survived without his alter ego the Number 6? Because throughout the series of tests he set Number 6, there were enormous risks taken by Number 1, anyone of which could have proved fatal!
Be seeing you
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