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From: iannucci@sjuvax.UUCP (the vicar)
Newsgroups: net.tv
Subject: The Prisoner
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Date: Wed, 27-Feb-85 15:24:47 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 27 15:24:47 1985
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Organization: The Dirty Vicarage
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> In "Many Happy Returns" what was the point?  It was obviously
> all a setup by the then No 2.  Was it just her idea of a birthday
> present to No 6?  Why?  Did she 'dissapear' for it?  Also, do you
> think it was the scheduled pilot who ejected him, or the milkman who
> entered the hangar just before takeoff?
> 
> -Michael S. Weiss                               BITNET:  weiss@psuvaxg.bitnet


              I'll give it another try.  I think that we may be trying too
hard to read all kinds of symbolic meanings, etc. into this show.  True,
it was meant to make you think, but I think we're thinking too hard. I've
heard from someone through netmail who said that he saw an interview with 
Pat McG. in which ol' 6 said that they weren't trying to make the show
allegorical to fantastic levels, but rather just trying to make it interest-
ing, thought-provoking, and most of all BIZARRE.  I feel that many of the
things that you are making out to be deep symbols, are really only there
to make a good plot.

     "MHR" is a good example.  We are kept on the edge of our seats in
anticipation that No. 6 will escape (why do we let impossibilities get to 
us like that?) and when we find out that it was a trick of No.2/Mrs. Butter-
worth, we sit back and say, "Da*n! Foiled again! Boy, that was a good episode!"

   Those of us who do not tape the series quickly forget little details like
the milkman, but my guess is that if you saw a milkman, of all people, enter
a hangar on an air base, that he was probably there to do exactly as you
suggest. Now that's the type of thing to look for!

   I hope that my "theory" doesn't get in the way of any good conversations 
in the future. BTW, I don't know about you, but I have been saving these
recent spoiler article without reading them.  Have you given in to temptation? 

-- 
David J. Iannucci (the dirty vicar)                   St. Joseph's University
{allegra | astrovax | bpa | burdvax}!sjuvax!iannucci             Philadelphia

"A witty saying proves nothing. "                                  --Voltaire
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