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From: iannucci@sjuvax.UUCP (iannucci)
Newsgroups: net.tv
Subject: Re: The Prisoner (& discussions thereof)
Message-ID: <942@sjuvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 12-Mar-85 14:39:16 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 12 14:39:16 1985
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In article <1628@gondor.UUCP> weiss@gondor.UUCP (Michael S. Weiss) writes:
>
> No symbolism, just out and out why did number 2 send him home (as it
> were)?  What do folks think about this?  Also, what do you all think
> the folks sixy-babe used to work for did/thought when he dissappeared
> again?  Let's hear some talk!
>
>-Michael S. Weiss                               BITNET:  weiss@psuvaxg.bitnet


              Maybe I didn't make myself clear enough the first time. What
I was trying to say was that I don't think that there WAS a reason why No.
2 sent him home.  I don't think the makers of the show took the show's 
meaning to the extent that there was a coherent explanation for everything!
How about the shower going on when he got back to his pad? There certainly
couldn't be an explanation of that (could there? :-))  We are supposed to
be intrigued by the surreal quality of the situations in which No.6 finds 
himself and enjoy ourselves for 50 minutes.  

          Assuming that someone actually sat down to figure out what the
"old colleagues" would think after he disappeared again, you would have to 
assume, of course, that they were not the ones who sent him back.  Your
milkman would have definitely been the pilot.

     I would like to discuss "Living in Harmony".  I did not exactly under-
stand the method by which they were trying to get him to "fess up".  
Specifically, how were "giving him love", "taking it away", "making him
kill", and "facing him with death" going to make him spill his guts?
Were they intending to ask him again in his "dream" to spill 'em, but didn't
get around to it? If you remember, the Kid did say that the Judge had 
pushed him into the critical situation too early. Thoughts on this?
-- 
Dave Iannucci
St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia
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"A witty saying proves nothing. "      --Voltaire