A's recollections: having been six months (almost to the day) that we orignally viewed this episode, my memory is a little hazy on the details, but not on the episode overall. If this was Number 6's childhood, it's no wonder he ended up leading a life that ended him up in The Village! The episode was intense and claustrophobic and it didn't surprise me that
McGoohan was taking us down this path to the grand finale. Perhaps my only surprise was that this episode seemed quite so improvised, so uncertain of how to get to actually get through to its final scenes to connect us to the end. I can't say that I enjoyed this episode much - in fact I was happy enough to prepare the final sandwich battle without having this on in the background (this may be the only episode that we didn't watch twice). Once was enough. But I suppose it served its purpose and at its end I was ready and curious about how it would all end.
D's re: collection, of a falling out at the centre of being where all points in time fall in. McGoohan's embryo, the prisoner's black board, his foil's chalk-dusted hands scrawling on the surface scraps of possible past, digging fingernails deeper, scraping away down to the core of it all in this last ditch effort. Existence itself is on the line in this ultimate test for both 6, 2, and we who wonder what's what and where it could go. Tumbling forward in trust, we barrel at top speed, crashing into the finale of it: death gives rise to birth: the end of the first 2-parter > promise of answers > to be continued. I do hope that from this chaos comes substance.
A's recollections: having been six months (almost to the day) that we orignally viewed this episode, my memory is a little hazy on the details, but not on the episode overall. If this was Number 6's childhood, it's no wonder he ended up leading a life that ended him up in The Village! The episode was intense and claustrophobic and it didn't surprise me that McGoohan was taking us down this path to the grand finale. Perhaps my only surprise was that this episode seemed quite so improvised, so uncertain of how to get to actually get through to its final scenes to connect us to the end. I can't say that I enjoyed this episode much - in fact I was happy enough to prepare the final sandwich battle without having this on in the background (this may be the only episode that we didn't watch twice). Once was enough. But I suppose it served its purpose and at its end I was ready and curious about how it would all end.
D's re: collection, of a falling out at the centre of being where all points in time fall in. McGoohan's embryo, the prisoner's black board, his foil's chalk-dusted hands scrawling on the surface scraps of possible past, digging fingernails deeper, scraping away down to the core of it all in this last ditch effort. Existence itself is on the line in this ultimate test for both 6, 2, and we who wonder what's what and where it could go. Tumbling forward in trust, we barrel at top speed, crashing into the finale of it: death gives rise to birth: the end of the first 2-parter > promise of answers > to be continued. I do hope that from this chaos comes substance.
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