Angelica's side: it seems that the write-up of episode 13 has taken far too long to get to. Despite the re-run prior to episode 14, much of my initial thoughts on the episode have been washed away by all the events in between mid-November and now. But I remember all the hubbub about being "unmutual" and I remember being fond of Number 48 (she was just kind of likable). I actually quite like these episodes where Number 6 isn't always out looking for a way to escape. For me, things seem most interesting when Number 6 is up to a little plotting and scheming of his own against those trying to break him. Sure, it is always a little far fetched that everyone would fall for all the things that he gets up to, but it is the Village after all, and people seem to just go with the flow, whatever direction it just happens to be going in at that moment.
Dave's Side: That would be telling. And as with this episode, there is no telling. That might be due to my two distant viewings of it though - one weeks ago and the other while i was making my sandwich/burger. Still, i found this one somehow disjointed, not flowing from plot-point to plot-point in a way that makes for easy recall. Number 6 is set upon by members of the Village who don't think he's being mutual - all of this is done in a rather unmutual way, i thought. Number 6's issue is addressed through predictably unsuccessful means (including observation of aggressive therapy on others), so he is brought in for such therapy (a lobotomy). But it's a fake lobotomy and he is drugged. Then he acts kind of weird for a while, maybe testing himself for aggressive qualities. Then he sees he's being drugged and pulls a switch. Someone is hypnotized, the tables are turned, and the Village goes after Number 2, believing he has been unmutual. So... this means the majority of the Village is not "in on the con?" That was almost as confusing to me (in the grand scheme) as it was confusing to see Number 6 fail to use his perceived state of being lobotomized to better effect (like, leading "them" on and somehow getting them to see the truth of his retirement... or some truth that would get him out of there... or would that be as likely as him pretending to join "them?"... and does he know better than us - as we are not spies like them - that most of these pedestrian efforts would result in his death, and that his only way out is by fisticuffs and straight-up escape from the Village?). I don't know. And i guess that's why we're watching 40 years later.
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