The Prisoner: Arrival

Full disclosure, I've never seen the original Prisoner and probably will not bother going back to watch it.  That's why they make remakes!

The title of this episode implies that 6 (its' weird referring to a character as 6 who happens to be a he, and not a Cylon) has just arrived in the village.  2 seems to be the head honcho in the village and he is trying to convince 6 that he's gone crazy and needs to give in to the fact that the village is all there is in all the world.  524 sees the Statue of Liberty in her dreams and is inclined to accept that 6 is not crazy.  524 then explodes in an event that the doctor (whose number I forget) says happens not too frequently but sometimes does.  Also, there is a cab driver and number 2's protege (both of which have numbers that I forget).

I must say the title of this episode might as well have been disorientation!  The wife and I spent most of the episode confused and at points I was wondering if I should start taking notes.  That being said, I can tell that there is something of interest in this series.  It's got mystery, chase, danger, social commentary, great actors, and that is just what I can take away from the first episode.  

Additionally it has cultivated a definite Lost vibe!  The village itself reminds me of Dharmaville with the ways the houses are set up and the fact that the technology of the place is so obviously from a different era.  The flashback scenes to 6's life before the village were intriguing.  I liked that 6 and the mystery woman had a conservation about cell phones to at least show us that the real world is in a time/tech period more akin to our own.

Why is 6 imprisoned?  Did he kill someone?  Did he get into terrible debt after resigning from his job?  Is spray painting a window punishable by memory wipe and exile in his NYC?  Are the crystal towers supposed to be an allusion to the Twin Towers?

What was 2 doing to the nice, though misguided, doctor?  That was creepy.

Now for some wild speculation.  The village is like the island in the movie "The Island" rich people cloned themselves to grow spare parts so they would never die.  Though that seems a bit far fetched because it's been done, and if the village was in the business of making money off peoples organs I'm guessing they would go blowing people up on a sort of regular basis... Unless that's the way they keep the semblance of normalcy around the village, killing people off before they harvest their organs...

I have the next three episodes on the DVR and I plan on watching!