Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Questions Are a Burden to Others, Answers a Prison for Oneself

Now this is some awesome fucking news: The Prisoner Remake. If you've never seen the series -- and really, unless you are a big NPR fan or love 60's scifi/intrigue etc then there'd be no reason to -- the short version is: a nameless spy quits being a spy and gets kidnapped, woken to find himself trapped on an island, ("the Village") interrogated in most bizarre manner about his motives for leaving his job. He's referred to as "Number 6" and the person running the Village is always Number 2. I'm doing a bad job of explaining it, but cf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prisoner. Note that while number 6 is nameless, the obvious implication is that he's "Danger Man". This shit was the LOST of it's day and seeing as how it has an end, for my money, it wins out over LOST.

Here's a fan-made video of Death Cab For Cutie's "We Looked Like Giants" that is made up of video from the series.

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