What do people think of it? Is it better than the original or does it make you feel like it shouldn't have been made in the first place? How do you feel about the ending?
Thoughts on the Prisoner remake
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The ending was the only remotely satisfying part of the whole affair. The original was very much superior, even with an ending that was slightly incomprehensible. I'd consider picking up a version that had an extensive writer/critic commentary on Blu-Ray, but I'm entirely disinterested in bothering with a DVD version.
MeanJoePhaser
Admiral
Never saw the original.
The new one seemed like a lot of effort put into mediocrity, if that.
The new one seemed like a lot of effort put into mediocrity, if that.
I liked the remake. Especially how the Village was something *different* than the original...
Another plane of existence, as it were. And not only that, but everyone in it - except for 11-12, who was born there - has a counterpart in the real world. So it really is impossible to escape from it. I mean, nobody expected it to be an actual place, like the original, did they?
I liked the way they inverted the message of the original and still came up with something that made sense. But it was too padded - they could have just done the first and last episodes and told the whole essential story. Maybe they should have just taken the name - The Prisoner is as generic a name as they come, and I don't see why it locks them into any reference to any other TV show by that name - and not bothered trying to ape all the window-dressing elements. Just start entirely fresh and tell the story they want to.
Oh please...
Why even bother to use the original title then, if it's not even trying to be a new version of the same thing?
I loved the original and I really, REALLY wanted to like the new one, but.........eh. It just lacks that certain passion, the drive that the original had. I don't really care about new-6. I don't understand him, and I'm not sure I even like him. He's just......there. And despite how cool and retro the new-Village is, the episodes are, frankly, kind of boring. It's not bad, per se; technically, it's very well done and it had Ian McKellan, one of the coolest guys around. But the mini-series itself is just lifeless.
I thought the new version contained some interesting ideas, but I wasn't thrilled with the execution. The middle two episodes were incredibly dull, and I didn't feel that, once the explanation was revealed, that everything we had seen up to that point really held together. The Rover part was especially disappointing and just seemed like a throwaway line to try to explain it that didn't work at all.
It didn't hold a candle to the original BUT I still enjoyed it immensely. I liked some of the directions they took it in and I didn't see that ending coming (well, I saw elements of the ending coming). I think the show might have played better as 6 episodes rather than 3, though.
Alex
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