November 1st, 2009
Answers are a prison for oneself…
McGoohan as Number Six
…But Moor Larkin at the blog Number Six Was Innocent seeks to answer them anyway. He’s been slowly putting together quite the oeuvre on Patrick McGoohan and The Prisoner, starting a series of “polemic” essays in May that cover “arcane matters of Prisoner Lore and Fandom.” I personally think it looks like a book in the making.
In any case, the posts are rational, researched, well-composed, thought-provoking and potentially controversial. Of the essays posted so far, subject matter includes:
- Why Six was not John Drake
- Proofs that Six liked women
- How The Prisoner was actually derived from Danger Man
- Where the concept of The Village came from
And if you like those essays, you’ll likely also enjoy Larkin’s reviews of McGoohan roles at the IMDB.
