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SCIENCE FICTION MUSIC REVIEW: "Free For All" and "Resigned" by Michael Penn

We haven't done one of these for a while, and this'll be a short one dealing with something that's stymied me as to how to deal with it for a bit.

Michael Penn (Brother of Sean, Husband of Aimee Mann) is the vaguely alterna- vaugely folkie- musician who had a big hit in the late eighties with "No Myth," an absolutely great song. Remember that one?

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EPISODE REVIEW: The Prisoner (Remake): “Checkmate” (Episode 6)

And it’s done. Finally, mercifully, it’s over. I’ve refrained from really judging this to see if they had some grand concept that would make it all pay off in the end. Did it work? Was it worth it? Find out in the observations below.

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EPISODE REVIEW: The Prisoner (Remake): “Schizoid” (Episode 5)

This episode is named after “The Schizoid Man,” probably my favorite episode of the original show, in which Six is abducted, renamed, his appearance modified and his habbits altered, then told he’s another person, brought in to impersonate Six. Meanwhile, an actual other person has been brought in and is acting as six. This is supposed to make Six (Who’s being told he’s another person) question his own identity, and thereby “Go fuzzy ‘round the edges” and crack.

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EPISODE REVIEW: The Prisoner (Remake): “Darling” (Episode 4)

Widely regarded as the worst episode of the original series, “Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling” tells the tale of Six being used by the village out in to the world to solve a problem for them. How do they know he’ll come back? Because they’ve done the old brain-switch-a-roo on him: His body is held hostage back in the Village while he’s running around in someone else’s skin. (Don’t ask.) In the process he meets up with his fiance, and we find out a few things about the spy’s heart.

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EPISODE REVIEW: The Prisoner (Remake): “Anvil” (Episode 3)

This episode started out much, much better than the previous two, with a tone that could almost - but not quite - be called ‘jaunty’, and for a while there, maybe twenty minutes, I thought “Say, this has some promise!” but then it all fell apart into a ponderous and portentous muddle, and kind of a disturbing one at that.

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EPISODE REVIEW: The Prisoner (Remake): “Living In Harmony” (Episode 2)

One of the intriguing things about the new Prisoner series is that, judging by the titles, they seem to actually be remaking specific episodes of the original series. “Arrival” was obviously the pilot or first episode, this one, named “Living In Harmony” is named after the Virtual Reality Western episode, then we’ve got “Hammer in to Anvil”, “Do Not Forsake Me oh My Darling,” “The Schizoid Man,” and “Checkmate.” It’ll be curious to know if these really *are* remakes, or just homage to similar concepts, using the same titles.

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EPISODE REVIEW: The Prisoner (Remake): “Arrival” (Episode 1)

“The Prisoner” is, in my mind, the best science fiction show ever made, possibly the best one ever made.

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QUANDRY: The New Prisoner

Okay. This looks interesting, no doubt. What do you think? Should we cover it? We're kind of at a loss on this one-- how do you, our loyal and regular readers want us to handle this?

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BREAKING NEWS: And now Ricardo Montalban has died (1920-2009)

…and now, in some crazy and sad coincidence, Ricardo Montalban has died on the same day as Patrick MacGoohan. According to legend, Aaron Spelling was watching repeats of “The Prisoner” on PBS in the mid-seventies, and while he didn’t care for the show itself, he liked a lot of aspects of it. “Fantasy Island,” then, started out as his attempt to build a show around bits he liked from the SF/Spy drama: The mysterious and always-classy #2 became Roark, the midget that was always following #2 around became Tattoo, “The Village” and its environs became Fantasy Island itself.

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BREAKING NEWS: Patrick MacGoohan has died (1928-2009)

I’m stunned. I’m speechless. The biggest of my three role models from sixties – in many ways, my model of how to behave politically – has died.

Owing to bad planning on the part of his Irish parents, MacGoohan was actually born in New York, during a brief and ill-conceived attempt to improve their lot in life. It failed, and they moved back to Ireland shortly thereafter. Some years later, they moved to Ireland. After University, he got in to acting as a trade.

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