Re: The Prisoner: "Schizoid" & "Checkmate" 11/17/09 - Grading & Discus
Thoughts -
What happened to Lucy when she fell down the rabbit hole? Did we ever see her out/back in the real world? I guess 6 just kind of forgot about her when he turned to 313.
What was the point of Schizoid 2 - that when his wife was awake, he was somehow not altogether himself?
Why were they spying on/killing the dreamers if you needed a dreamer to keep the Village alive? Because they might try to break the illusion/therapy? What was 'treatment' for - part of therapy presumably?
Why did 6 have 11-12 kill 909? A loyalty test? An attempt to turn him straight as 6 later pretty much demands that 11-12 procreate (with a female)?
Did all the people who 'died' in the Village just go back to their normal lives? And if they had an unpleasant death in the Village, was their therapy incomplete?
Just passively and patiently letting 313 take the pills undercut 6 as the hero - bad editing. 2 should have offered the pills, 6 reach for them, but 313 grab them first and take them before 6 could stop her. As it's edited, he doesn't seem bothered to react or try to stop her which is just bad for a hero/lead.
Elements of Wonderland (people falling down the rabbit hole), Oz/Dallas (it's all a dream), Star Trek's "The Enemy Within" (Schizoid's bad 6 and good 6 must combine to be a whole 6). Also the ending was very "Devil's Advocate" (ah, vanity, definitely my favorite sin).
In the end, in the real world, did he go to a new job on the Purpose floor? Doesn't look like he went back to his old job on the lower glass-window floors. So he's higher up in the company now that he's running the Village? Or just because he's now specifically looking for people to recruit there and 'fix'?
And yes, the ending image of 6 and 313 was very disturbing, presumably deliberately so.
As others have said - doesn't touch the original. But I found it pretty interesting unto itself.
Thoughts -
What happened to Lucy when she fell down the rabbit hole? Did we ever see her out/back in the real world? I guess 6 just kind of forgot about her when he turned to 313.
What was the point of Schizoid 2 - that when his wife was awake, he was somehow not altogether himself?
Why were they spying on/killing the dreamers if you needed a dreamer to keep the Village alive? Because they might try to break the illusion/therapy? What was 'treatment' for - part of therapy presumably?
Why did 6 have 11-12 kill 909? A loyalty test? An attempt to turn him straight as 6 later pretty much demands that 11-12 procreate (with a female)?
Did all the people who 'died' in the Village just go back to their normal lives? And if they had an unpleasant death in the Village, was their therapy incomplete?
Just passively and patiently letting 313 take the pills undercut 6 as the hero - bad editing. 2 should have offered the pills, 6 reach for them, but 313 grab them first and take them before 6 could stop her. As it's edited, he doesn't seem bothered to react or try to stop her which is just bad for a hero/lead.
Elements of Wonderland (people falling down the rabbit hole), Oz/Dallas (it's all a dream), Star Trek's "The Enemy Within" (Schizoid's bad 6 and good 6 must combine to be a whole 6). Also the ending was very "Devil's Advocate" (ah, vanity, definitely my favorite sin).
In the end, in the real world, did he go to a new job on the Purpose floor? Doesn't look like he went back to his old job on the lower glass-window floors. So he's higher up in the company now that he's running the Village? Or just because he's now specifically looking for people to recruit there and 'fix'?
And yes, the ending image of 6 and 313 was very disturbing, presumably deliberately so.
As others have said - doesn't touch the original. But I found it pretty interesting unto itself.
So is Summakor just using this as an end unto itself? Meaning, are they acting as an agent of the government? Or are they a private company that people can willingly go to, to get therapy? 
