Unmutual……Shattered Visage
So for Prisoner fans, there is so much, yet so little. Here we have a great, completely enigmatic series that only lasted one season and was on tv the year I was born(!). So far ahead of its time, yet its prescient story is (literally) ever more real to us today, whether people choose to admit it or not.
But with all good stories, we are left wanting far more, and Patrick McGoohan – now sadly no longer with us – largely clammed up on the topic in his life and career after The Prisoner. And the recent 2009 attempt at an AMC remake of The Prisoner – despite a great Six (Jim Caviezel) and a potentially great Two (Ian McKellen) largely foundered in my view – too many attempts at distracting side plots without the deeper meaning(s) of the original, sadly.
But….in the late 80s, DC Comics published a mini-series that purported to ‘explain’ what happened to Number Six and The Village post-TV series. It was later put into a graphic novel – Shattered Visage – in 2000, which I only recently became aware of – I got a copy and have now read it twice (it’s a quick read). But it took the Wikipedia article to really begin to dig beneath the surface – like the series, I think the story is fairly deep, and actually even may shed some light on the VERY enigmatic (and often heavily criticized) ending episode of the series (Fall Out).
I won’t recap anything here, save to say i’ll need to re-read the story multiple times to dig through all the stuff noted in the Wikipedia article, to be sure. But for Prisoner fans, I think this definitely merits a read – or Six. 🙂
candybowl
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