Comments on: Revisiting The Prisoner, part 5: Wherein McGoohan chews up twice the amount of scenery as usual http://www.josephdickerson.com/2009/11/03/revisiting-the-prisoner-part-5-wherein-mcgoohan-chews-up-twice-the-amount-of-scenery-as-usual/ Information. We need... Information. Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:06:32 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Moor Larkin http://www.josephdickerson.com/2009/11/03/revisiting-the-prisoner-part-5-wherein-mcgoohan-chews-up-twice-the-amount-of-scenery-as-usual/comment-page-1/#comment-862 Moor Larkin Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:06:38 +0000 http://www.josephdickerson.com/?p=13053#comment-862 This episode is actually quite complex. I should point out that Number Six, in his first meeting with Number Twelve, says *I am Number Six* too. When they fight with swords etc., Number 12 challenges Six - asking him if he still claims to be Number Six.... Then after their fight, the village immediately beat up Number 12 as if he were Number Six, presumably because he won the competitions - proving HE must be Number Six !?! This leaves Number Six being encouraged to pretend to be Number 12 pretending to be Number Six..... *head explodes*......<br><br>I often see reviews of this episode suggesting it's just the old doppelganger trick, but it is actually much more complex. For instance: why put 12 in a white jacket so it is very obvious to everyone who is who, if all you are trying to just fool Number Six. They actually make Number Six pretend to be Number 12. Perhaps one goal is simply to make Number Six pretend to be somebody other than himself and so weaken his resolve to be Himself..... Schizoid is the word.... This episode is actually quite complex. I should point out that Number Six, in his first meeting with Number Twelve, says *I am Number Six* too. When they fight with swords etc., Number 12 challenges Six – asking him if he still claims to be Number Six…. Then after their fight, the village immediately beat up Number 12 as if he were Number Six, presumably because he won the competitions – proving HE must be Number Six !?! This leaves Number Six being encouraged to pretend to be Number 12 pretending to be Number Six….. *head explodes*……

I often see reviews of this episode suggesting it's just the old doppelganger trick, but it is actually much more complex. For instance: why put 12 in a white jacket so it is very obvious to everyone who is who, if all you are trying to just fool Number Six. They actually make Number Six pretend to be Number 12. Perhaps one goal is simply to make Number Six pretend to be somebody other than himself and so weaken his resolve to be Himself….. Schizoid is the word….

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