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[lady_t_220]

Well bugger me, ITV have actually, finally made something sort of worth watching.

Kinda' liking their new version of The Prisoner.

Yes, yes, I know, it bears only tenuous resemblence to the original, I have SEEN the Patrick McGoohan version, it was a staple of my childhood. I even named one of our dogs after repeatedly-number-Two Leo McKern. (Leo the dog was also quite large and very hairy about the face.)

But I'm kind of enjoying this new one in a slightly trippy alternaverse kind of way. It's like ITV wanted to make a Lost/LoM/A2A type unfoldable drama of superb oddness and... ok, it was a little heavy-handedly trippy at points but then so are all of the other examples of the genre.

But anyway, it has Jesus and Gandalf in it. And 2 has a drugged wife and random son. That's new. And there are sparkly ghostly NY towers and weird spacial crossover issues but oh yes, I sure did squee when a Rover made its appearance. Rover are HUGE now!
And the giant foldy-outy map in the village shop was kind of fabulous, and number 93's echoes back to the original number 6 were kind of sweet. He had the blazer and the lava lamp and the dangly light fitting...
Though I think this Village is more literally in number 6's brain. OK, yeah, so was the oringal village but in a slightly less... literal way. Somehow I don't see this ending with Jim Caviezel doing a rendition of Dem Bones and waltzing back into NYC with a dwarf buttler and a Scammell Highwayman low loader...

That said though. Ian McKellen looks like the Man from DelMonte in it. (He says yes... but only to cake with cherries in damnit!)

Comments

[hermit.livejournal.com]

OMG, I caught the entire marathon here in November. LOVED it. Sir Ian totally owns the show.

[lady-t-220.livejournal.com]

Sir Ian totally pwns pretty much everything. Even when he's dressed like the man from Del Monte.

[deke.livejournal.com]

I had no idea Leo was named after Leo McKern. This makes me laugh. HAHAHA!

I missed the first episode when it aired here and zet924 panned it so hard I didn't even bother to try it. :/

[lady-t-220.livejournal.com]

Well, it's kind of nothing like the original, and at points so blatantly *trying* to be trippy it has moments of being weird just for the sake of being weird. But overall I quite liked it. Just don't expect anything but passing nods to the original.

[deke.livejournal.com]

Well, I've never actually seen the original...so that may be a plus. :P

[jaguarx13.livejournal.com]

I liked it too, even though I too grew up with the original - when it was originally aired even :P.

[lady-t-220.livejournal.com]

Heh. We recorded the whole series off C4 when they repeated it some time in the late 80s. Those VHS tapes lingered around for yeeeeeears...