Amazing how thought provoking the show was for so many here and elsewhere online.

I didn’t like the last episode.

Once Michael realized the truth, he probably thought he had nothing to lose since he apparently was alone, possibly an alcoholic and resigned. He took one look at the real 313 and said “screw it, real life isn’t working for me anymore anyway.”

I am also a fan of Twin Peaks and find it sad that someone as imaginative as David Lynch is not able to bring to the small screen his wonderful ideas for television programmes. There are very few risk takers in this 21st century who seem willing to make artistic, ‘weird’, alternative television that would challenge our thought processes.

The companies that make programmes now, seem more interested in advertising revenue and viewing figures, rather than creating entertainment. The viewing masses have become brainwashed by all this BAd Television and the minority are left to rot. Now after watching the new re-working of ‘The Prisoner’, I am saddened even more.

While visually this remake is lovely to look at, it lacked the spark of the 60’s show, it held no surprises and certainly does not have any of the sense of the original show. Which had a feeling of anger and fury that was portrayed about a modern society and to how we are meant to live in that society.

I found the reworked version of the Prisoner to be somewhat shallow, pretentious and poorly written. What could have been a brilliant reworking just became another typical american TV show.

I shall just enjoy dEXTER and the final season of LOST and hope to whatever god i believe in that there will never be a reworking of the Avengers, The Saint, The MAN from UNCLE or dangerman. Because if the wrong people get to work on those, then all the good things that were forged from the ideas of the creative people of the past will be turned into just another piece of consumer trash.

I know that some people think that the original show is dated. Well let me remind you all, that when the Prisoner was first shown on Uk TV, it was considered to be bizarre and weird. The show even in todays ‘modern’ world is still al ot better than a lot of the shows that are currently being made, especially when you consider the technology they had back then in the 60’s. Nowadays a TV show seems to have plenty of special effects but little in substance.

So i suggest you watch the 60’s show again, look at it with open eyes and think about the messages that was in the 60’s show and look around you… we are not really living in ‘free’ society are we? ALSO the music in the original Prisoner is a lot better than the bloody awful music they played on the reworked Prisoner. (the beach boys, now that really is boring)

It’s like when you try to explain or look deep into a joke, you loose the meaning of the joke. In this case for instance did you like the photography, the acting, did you enjoy yourself watching it or did you say wow! Boring!

If you’ve enjoyed watching the series then it was a success.

So this series was never about his resignation (like in the original series), but about recruiting. A demoralizing recruiting at that.

Makes sense, but it’s a bit of a let down, it gives no hope to the viewer. It was a very pessimistic result. I am a very pessimistic person myself, by nature, but this felt heavy even for me.

…there might not be an easy answer, but maybe an imperfect solution is best in an imperfect world.

But I can also see it as a matter of Michael/6 realizing that so many of these people in the real world DID need help–as is hinted in the scene where he faces the real Sarah. And maybe, even though it’s not a perfect solution, it’s the best we can do. At least, unlike in the original, it’s not literal, real imprisonment, and there might be a way he can make it better. So he figures he can try to reform from within. It’s not an easy question, there might not be an easy answer,

Ron C.