Comments on: Good day, Number Six

By: Tscott

Tscott — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:07:12 +0000

I took this news, plus the fact that DeepDiscount has its 20% sale going on right now, as a sign to buy The Complete Prisoner DVD set, a set that I'd almost bought many times before. I've seen a few episodes on TV a while ago and liked it. Finally, I'll see it all.

By: Daveman

Daveman — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:21:52 +0000

Bah… weren't there early reports/rumors that Christophen Eccleston was going to be #6?

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:03:22 +0000

I'll watch it. I'm sure it won't be as good as the original, but I'll watch it anyway.

By: tgb

tgb — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:35:05 +0000

I agree with Patrick (as he well knows) regarding the fact that any "reimagining" of the Prisoner will only end badly. Eliminating both the mystery of the real-life location of The Village, and not having different No. 2's each episode are both ill omens of things to come.

By: Grandy

Grandy — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:45:18 +0000

I watched the original in the earlier, glory days* of the sci-fi channel. At first I was like "WTF?" and then I was hooked and made sure to watch it from start to finish. I think remaking this might be risking some seriously bad karma. I try to keep an open mind, though. *Sci Fi, despite the large volumne of crap movies that it airs, actually produces and shows quality programming. And has for some time. It's had some up and down eras to be sure. Back when we first started getting it, it was airing lots of old classic shows and even went out of it's way to do things like "classic shows beginnings" and "classic shows finalies" marathons. It was worth it, even with some of the childhood favorites that I knew wouldn't (and didn't) age well. I miss that Sci Fi isn't doing this as aggressively as it used to. Topic for another time. Anyway, it was not long after this era that they started showing B5, which I hadn't seen. Good times.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:32:31 +0000

You SO blew it on your post title.

I dread this remake. I surely do. The Prisoner is the best episodic television show of all time, and a perfect thing cannot be remade.

And of course they're not making it in Portmeirion ("the Village"). Gah! I encourage any of our English/Welsh readers to visit the place if they've never been. The combination of architecture, setting, and history makes it one of the most remarkable tourist traps on earth.