The Prisoner Remade on AMC

[Secretagentnumber6]

The new show will never be as good, because you cannot match the real life setting of Port Meirion. That place is so awesome and really exists. Nonetheless I will watch the new one and I figure it will be pretty good.

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by Secretagentnumber6

The new show will never be as good, because you cannot match the real life setting of Port Meirion. That place is so awesome and really exists. Nonetheless I will watch the new one and I figure it will be pretty good.

The new setting is visually suburbia-cliche' good, but in trying to go for an overly allegorical "Everyman vs. Evil Oppressive Psychiatry" theme, they've stripped the specific MI5-paranoia secret-agent-cool out of it.

C'mon, would McGoohan have been half as cool or resourceful if he hadn't really been John Drake (shh!), and had just been some vanity martyr-complexed Jim Caviezel shlub?

[Secretagentnumber6]

Originally Posted by EricJ

The new setting is visually suburbia-cliche' good, but in trying to go for an overly allegorical "Everyman vs. Evil Oppressive Psychiatry" theme, they've stripped the specific MI5-paranoia secret-agent-cool out of it.

C'mon, would McGoohan have been half as cool or resourceful if he hadn't really been John Drake (shh!), and had just been some vanity martyr-complexed Jim Caviezel shlub?

I cannot believe McGoohan denied forever that Number 6 was Drake. Everyone knows that the fact is even if it was not supposed to be Drake, it obviously was just because of the fact they were played by the same actor and the same job for both characters and it just fit for it to be that way.

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by Secretagentnumber6

I cannot believe McGoohan denied forever that Number 6 was Drake. Everyone knows that the fact is even if it was not supposed to be Drake, it obviously was just because of the fact they were played by the same actor and the same job for both characters and it just fit for it to be that way.

As mentioned in the documentary on the A&E set, one early script draft ("Chimes of Big Ben"?) had his British home contacts refer to him as "Drake", but was changed for the final script--
More likely due to copyright ownership (PMcG hadn't created Danger Man) rather than McGoohan having gotten sick of the old series.

[iori]

I absolutely love this show, the original obviously. I'm currently on ep9 so far. I think if I have made it as far has he has I would have snapped like a twig in ep7, Many Happy Returns. That was just brutal.

[Clark Kent]

I just hope the remake brings more attention to the original series. A truly great show that many today are unfamiliar with.

[iori]

The remake is tonight, so don't forget if you are gonna watch.


After watching the original, I see where "lost" got some of it's ideas.