You Are Number 6!

Hadleigh!?

I had tried to forget that series . . .

Pep ( . . . although Hilary Dwyer was worth watching.)

PS I have just realised that there is a theme running through my responses.

Welsh Incident

'But that was nothing to what things came out
From the sea-caves of Criccieth yonder.'
'What were they? Mermaids? dragons? ghosts?'
'Nothing at all of any things like that.'
'What were they, then?'
'All sorts of queer things,
Things never seen or heard or written about,
Very strange, un-Welsh, utterly peculiar
Things. Oh, solid enough they seemed to touch,
Had anyone dared it. Marvellous creation,
All various shapes and sizes, and no sizes,
All new, each perfectly unlike his neighbour,
Though all came moving slowly out together.'
'Describe just one of them.'
'I am unable.'
'What were their colours?'
'Mostly nameless colours,
Colours you'd like to see; but one was puce
Or perhaps more like crimson, but not purplish.
Some had no colour.'
'Tell me, had they legs?'
'Not a leg or foot among them that I saw.'
'But did these things come out in any order?'
What o'clock was it? What was the day of the week?
Who else was present? How was the weather?'
'I was coming to that. It was half-past three
On Easter Tuesday last. The sun was shining.
The Harlech Silver Band played Marchog Jesu
On thrity-seven shimmering instruments
Collecting for Caernarvon's (Fever) Hospital Fund.
The populations of Pwllheli, Criccieth,
Portmadoc, Borth, Tremadoc, Penrhyndeudraeth,
Were all assembled. Criccieth's mayor addressed them
First in good Welsh and then in fluent English,
Twisting his fingers in his chain of office,
Welcoming the things. They came out on the sand,
Not keeping time to the band, moving seaward
Silently at a snail's pace. But at last
The most odd, indescribable thing of all
Which hardly one man there could see for wonder
Did something recognizably a something.'
'Well, what?'
'It made a noise.'
'A frightening noise?'
'No, no.'
'A musical noise? A noise of scuffling?'
'No, but a very loud, respectable noise ---
Like groaning to oneself on Sunday morning
In Chapel, close before the second psalm.'
'What did the mayor do?'
'I was coming to that.'

-- Robert Graves

Pep (This was the only poem I ever enjoyed doing my 'O'-levels.)

Well? Was it any good? If it is I'll catch a rebroadcast.

It was interesting. It isn't, though, a remake. The show seems to me to be about an incident similar to the original show's, but it is happening NOW to a totally different guy. So yes, it starts with an abduction to an eerie Village after resigning, and then departs for psychodramatic territory that is in some ways similar, and in more ways different, from The Prisoner.

Without spoiling, I think it can safely be said that this is a less sociologically intriguing show than the original; this is more a personal drama, it doesn't seem to have much to say yet about the nature of bureaucracies, although it has things to say about the Social Contract.

If you are the sort of person (like me) who doesn't watch even laughably bad horror films because they give me bad dreams, I wouldn't watch this immediately before bed. Particularly if you are from NYC.

I saw the first hour. I thought they did a pretty good job of capturing the essence of the first show while creating their own look and feel. #6's persistence is somehow more annoying than in the original (which I only watched during the original broadcast at age 12 or so, so the comparison may not be valid).

It was interesting, but I didn't find it compelling enough to move upstairs to an unused cable box when two shows we record started at 10:00. I may record a rebroadcast and watch the 2nd half some time.

The original was brilliant, if a bit odd. (Odd as hell, actually.)

I suspect this isn't original enough to really catch hold. If there's any new twist (other than placing it in the middle of a desert, rather than on an island), I missed it.

I never did see the final episodes of the original series. Did we ever learn what was really going on? I do remember something about #6 becoming #2, and managing to reach London (or thinking he did), but my recollection is very hazy.

Interesting. 'Goodbye to All That' was the only book I enjoyed at mine.

The choice wasn't great, mind you.

"I, Claudius"....now THERE was great television.

(The remake would probably star the Jonas Brothers.)

Starring who? No, starring Jim Caviezel and Sir Ian McKellen.

The original series is really weird. I know someone who's obsessed with it. The new version looks a bit different.

The original was filmed in the 1960s I think, and was supposed to be some big statement about 'the establishment' and 'secret government.'

I saw reruns; it just looked like one big long acid trip, to me.

Some probably do use the show that way. But it does make sense (of a kind) even to the non-chemically-enhanced. ^_^

Oh, it makes sense, so does a good acid trip (so I am told.) One can definitely see the "sixties" influence.

Well - a giant balloon floats through the desert - pig men - hallucinations - y'know?

I do. I DO know.