Diary of a Prisoner Virgin – The scary white balloons are suddenly named
(Episode 8 – “The Schizoid Man” & Episode 9 – “Many Happy Returns”)
The series is definitely getting better. As I said before, what’s neat about The Prisoner is that each episode, so far, is self-contained. For the most part, nothing we’ve learned from previous episodes carries over into the present, other than the general premise. You could catch the pilot episode and then skip a whole slew of episodes within the series, then hop right in here, at the eighth and ninth episodes, and not feel out of place. Well, “out of place” is a relative term when it comes to The Prisoner.
Diary of a Prisoner Virgin – Number Six gives one Number Two a one-two punch
(Episode 6 – “A, B and C” & Episode 7 – “The General”)
I fully stand by my assessment of the episode “The Chimes of Big Ben” being the episode where The Prisoner Blew the Hatch. Since then, the show’s continued to get better. What I especially admire about The Prisoner is that it doesn’t try to be something it’s not. There’s no secondary or even tertiary plots thrown in to confuse or bore the hell out of us. No romances, no parallel character plots to follow. It’s just about Number Six and how he’s trying to get the heck out of The Village, while the Guardians try to extract information out of him.
Chuck – Slumber party at the Buy More
Things are getting serious in the world of Chuck Bartowski. So serious, in fact, that the General actually showed up in person at Chuck’s apartment complex. The build-up to the promised “game changing” finale is clearly upon us. With Intersect creator Orion in the equation and Fulcrum closing in it’s looking less and less possible for Chuck to maintain his normal life as well as his spy one.
The shenanigans of the episode involved the addition of the Beverly Hills Buy More, and saw Big Mike take things into his own hands in a very unexpected, and slightly out of character, way. I guess Morgan’s mother is a bad influence on him. Hell, he’s acting positively fatherly toward Morgan!
Notable computers on TV, from Omnitrix to Earth
Computers are my life. Well, a big part of it anyway. And since you’re reading this, chances are they’re a big part of your life too. We use them for work, school, play and everything in between. Then again, you could be someone’s technically unaware grandma who found this printed out on some crumpled up paper used as packing material for your newest Hummell.
Not only are computers part of our lives, but they consume the lives of those we watch in movies and TV. Some of them are as large as cities, some of them talk and have personalities, and some of them even have pet names. Here’s a list of some of the more notable computers on TV (and before you whine, this is not counting robots):
ARDVARC (Get Smart)
The Automated Reciprocal Data Verifier And Reaction Computer is the central computer owned by Max’s employer, CONTROL. Its best friend is a cigarette machine — how quaint for a show of the ’60s. And let’s not forget the lack of political correctness of the time: on episode number 50 (”The Girls from KAOS”), ARDVARC scans its databases for a particular Asian KAOS enemy agent, but eventually concludes it can’t find the agent because “they all look alike.”
Sadly, on episode number 109 (”Leadside”), ARDVARC blows up. Rumor has it the cigarette machine, overcome with grief, traveled to Japan and now dispenses iPods and eyebrow trimmers in downtown Tokyo.
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