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From: weiss@gondor.UUCP (Michael S. Weiss)
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Subject: Re: The Prisoner (& discussions thereof)
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Date: Thu, 14-Mar-85 00:20:36 EST
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>               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.  

*** REPLACE THIS man WITH a number ***

There certainly was a reason for the shower going on!  If you remember,
at the beginning of the episode 6 tried to take a shower, but there
was no water.  So HE DID NOT TURN IT OFF!  Just as there was no electricity 
or people when our hero awoke. And just like the lights came 
on at the end this was a signal that everything was "back to normal."
Also, I think every plot was carefully thought out and there was
a method to every madness, no matter how strange.
As for your other comments/questions I don't think 6's old bosses were
in on it, it would have been too easy to get him back without all that
searching.  And the milkman was way too obvious (what the hell would a 
normal milkman be doing in an airplane hangar?).  Re: Living in harmony.
I am watching the episodes sporadically as I go home every now and then
and watch them by video tape.  (A friend is getting the whole series
and is going to get Secret Agent Man when it is shown).  In fact, 
I only recently saw "A, B, & C".  Neat one!  What did you think?
Was no. 2 a real double agent or does our man VI have that much 
control over his brain?  Dunno.  My friend told me about Living
in Harmony.  he said he didn't like it.  I will get back to you 
when I see it.
Ok, let's keep this up!  Surely there must be other fans than 1 
guy from Penn State and 1 from St. Joe's!

-- 
I remember doing the Time Warp.

-Michael S. Weiss                               BITNET:  weiss@psuvaxg.bitnet