What a load of hypocrisy! Obama is a Muslim and Oprah has renounced her belief in Christ! We are truly in George Orwell country where the lie has become the "truth." Won't watch this. ABC execs will answer before God when judgment day rolls around.
Dawn, you are right. Obama's approval has fallen to record lows and Oprah's lost her audience. Ironic that both these fools have names starting with zero. No one will watch except crazy libs.
McGoohan created, directed and scripted most of The Prisoner. He was an individualist and had a strong sense of ethics. Ellison must be an individualist as well because he doesn't seem strongly influenced by any other writers and will fight for his right to OWN his work (and this makes it hard to understand his leftist take on society). Although they shared this respect for the individual, I'm not sure Ellison could have written anything that would have suited McGoohan enough to include in The Prisoner. If I remember correctly McGoohan never intended for The Prisoner to last beyond one season. He had a point of view, a vehicle, and he made his point in one season. I believe that McGoohan and The Prisoner will be remembered (like Ayn Rand is remembered for her writing) long after Ellison is forgotten.
I cried when I read the notice of McGoohan's death.
Yes, I always recommend people watch all the first season (which to me was fairly awful with Michael O'Hare wooden as Captain Sinclair) because if you don't see this season, you see things happening in the rest of the show that won't make sense. A lot of seeds are planted in Season One. This is one series where the characters actually grow.). Season Three is the most satisfying. But what happens in Season Four carries the story forward nicely. Season Five was a surprise to Straczinski. I don't believe he'd actually thought he'd have to carry the storyline through Season Five (I could be wrong here) which might explain your let down. I wasn't fascinated by it.
God bless you, Mr. Winecoff. May you have many more years of sobriety.
Harlan Ellison is a genius, but if he believes that Global Warming crap it's a sign he's getting old. I began reading his short stories and television criticism as a teenager. Somewhere along the way I left him behind, not because his writing deteriorated but because my interests shifted for some years.
My interest in Harlon was aroused again when I realized he was a consultant to M. Straczinski on Babylon 5 the television series. Babylon 5 is the most interesting show created for television. (The third [first is Patrick McGoohan's The Prisoner] most subversive series created for television is the show Firefly created by Joss Whedon which may be the reason it was canceled before a full season was aired. The execs must have finally caught on to what Whedon was doing.) History and politics and religion intermingled with no concession to political correctness or condescension.
If you haven't seen B5, try it, and you'll catch the occasional glimpse of Harlan acting as well as not feel like a dummy for watching something produced by television for intelligent viewers.
Shows like SNL helped put a Communist into the White House. May their advertising revenues go to hell.
Opinion Let me go all insane here and say that Pelosi is a Visitor. The only thing that contradicts that is that Pelosi is ugly as sin and all the visitors are pretty pretty. Still if Pelosi is ever autopsied, we might find a lizard inside.
I don't think V was written as a parody of Obama's first nine months in office. It's a remake of a twenty year old series that took aim at believing in false saviors, warned of the dangers of making oneself a victim of government. That said, the reimagine is full of parallels to Obama's methodology as a politician. And yes the communist sleeper cells have been around for decades (I'd like to perform the autopsy on Pelosi. Bet she has strange eyes underneath that robotic botox ruined face.)
When I saw the promo ABC put out for the new V, my jaw dropped. Then I started to howl with laughter. God does work in mysterious ways.
Brave new post, Victoria! Good luck with the college degree. It will be a good feeling to complete that.
Become a political activist or wait for Judgment day? Both I think. I always look forward to your thoughts here.
The network has already re-thought, cutting back production to the first 9 episodes before making a decision to continue or not continue the miniseries. Maybe they are already wondering what the WH will want to do with their FCC licenses.
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