Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rtech.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!cord!ihnp1!ihnp4!zehntel!vlsvax1!qantel!dual!unisoft!mtxinu!rtech!daveb From: daveb@rtech.ARPA (Dave Brower) Newsgroups: net.tv Subject: Re: The Prisoner Message-ID: <183@rtech.ARPA> Date: Thu, 28-Feb-85 02:28:50 EST Article-I.D.: rtech.183 Posted: Thu Feb 28 02:28:50 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Mar-85 04:25:15 EST References: <607@ccice2.UUCP> <691@ccice5.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Relational Technology, Berkeley CA Lines: 18 > By retaining his individuality, #6 beats the system. In doing so, he > becomes the new "system" (hence the scene of everyone returning to > London and their appointed places in society). The sound of the door closing on 6's London flat at the end of the last episode and it's mechanical motion are identical to the doors in The Village. Given his non-reaction, I always took it to mean he *THOUGHT* he had escaped, but had not since in fact *THEY* ran everything, even The Outside World. I expected the `next' episode to reveal him as much a Prisoner as before... (but I got better! :-) -dB -- ---------------- {ucbvax, decvax}!mtxinu!rtech!daveb "The closer you look, the worse it gets."