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 – 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 carves a boat out of a single tree in an afternoon
(Episode 4 – “Checkmate” & Episode 5 – “The Chimes of Big Ben”)
I have to admit that, going into “Checkmate,” I wasn’t digging this show. I loathed to hear the awful “music” again, and … well, that’s about it. The music really is that bad. Fortunately I seem to have gotten somewhat used to it and have somehow allowed myself to ignore it for the most part.
After hearing basically the same episode intro for the fourth time, I’m finding myself analyzing it more. The show opens the same way, with Number Six (we never know his real name, at least not yet) racing in his cool-ass car to what is presumably his boss’s office to resign. Thunder booms and awful music plays over whatever he’s ranting about to his boss, he walks out in a huff to his car and speeds off home. There, he’s packing his things for what looks to be a getaway somewhere tropical, someone gasses his flat and he passes out. Then he wakes up in The Village and we hear the same dialog again and again (from Wikiquote):
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