Diary of a Prisoner Virgin – The Prisoner thinks it’s Star Trek (or the other way around)
(Episode 14 – “Living in Harmony” & Episode 15 – “The Girl Who Was Death”)
Remember in my last Prisoner diary post, when I noted how things started to switch gears? It turns out I was right, as things still haven’t switched back to the way they used to be. Rather than episode after episode of watching Number Six in the same ol’ Village, going about his business (or at least making it appear so), the locales have changed and the methods the new Number Twos are using to attempt to extract information from Six are growing more absurd … or are they ingenious?
As with all of the Virgin Diaries, I’m not going to get into the exact details and plots of each episode — if you’re reading these, chances are you’ve seen the series (or at least these episodes) already. If you haven’t, then shame on you, you spoiler-peeking fool!
Diary of a Prisoner virgin – Getting to know Number Six
(Episode 12 – “Hammer Into Anvil” & Episode 13 – “Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling”)
Things seem to have been kicked up a notch with these past two episodes, and I almost wonder if this is the point at which the series was slated not to continue past this one season. I’ll explain later.
In “Hammer Into Anvil,” Six clearly gets the upper hand on the Guardians, in particular Number Two and the creepy Supervisor. This is where the constant ousting of Number Twos hurts the mission of those in charge of The Village: if they keep putting new people in place to watch over and attempt to extract information from Number Six, each successive replacement won’t learn from the mistakes of the past. Number Six clearly is now using this to his advantage, and it’s probably his motivation for making this Two resign on his own — out with the old, in with the new and uninformed.
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 – Information: by hook or by crook … or by breakfast?
(Episode 2 – “Free for All”)
So early in the game, this is where things get really strange, and I’m not talking about the show content itself. The DVD set has this set as the second episode, whereas the “real” second episode — the one that aired on television — was “Chimes of Big Ben,” which doesn’t come for several more episodes on the DVDs. So, I decided to take the DVD set route and watch “Free for All” first. I’m not sure yet if it was the right choice.
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