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** Rover operates as a psychic gestalt of the inhabitants of The Village, and introducing Number Six into the fray was intended to give it some nerve. Prior to that point it's a barely-stable devil, rage incarnate, because of all the requirements imposed on the Villagers: chiefly, a sizable portion of them must be psychic to a degree, and having to block it for everyone is detrimental to Rover's well-being.
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** Rover operates as a psychic gestalt of the inhabitants of The Village, and introducing Number Six into the fray was intended to give it some nerve. Prior to that point it's a barely-stable devil, rage incarnate, because of all the requirements imposed on the Villagers: chiefly, a sizable portion of them must be psychic to a degree, and having to block it for everyone psychic communication to save everyone's sanity is detrimental to Rover's well-being.well-being. This would naturally included that black cat working for Mary Morris' Number Two; some of that gestalt general intelligence has bounced back into its brain and made it smarter, such that it really is working as an agent of The Village.
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** Rover was also ''not'' originally intended to be able to scream-roar. It developed that on its own, mimicking the verbal communication of The Villagers.
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[[WMG: The cat is Number One.]]
* Look, it makes as much sense as anything else. I'm just surprised that no one's made a meme of the Number Two chair turning around to reveal the cat in the opening credits, with Number Six just as fruitlessly demanding "What do you want?" at it.
** (The answer is tuna.)
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** There are only a handful of actual human beings in The Village. The rest are simply aspects of Rover in humanoid form, not unlike Autons from that other show. (People whose heads contain useful information sometimes do go missing, but the result is usually an intelligence service, sometimes an ''all-of-government,'' response. That many Villagers present has always been highly suspicious.)
** The original "go-kart-wedding-cake" iteration of Rover existed, and was a prototype meant to gather movement data. (Imagine a Google Street View car, identifying physical locations so the Bouncy Blank Boi didn't get too lost.) When the newest version was activated, they simply disabled or dismantled it.
** The original "go-kart-wedding-cake" iteration of Rover existed, and was a prototype meant to gather movement data. (Imagine a Google Street View car, identifying physical locations so the Bouncy Blank Boi didn't get too lost.) When the newest version was activated, they simply disabled or dismantled it.
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** There Alternately, there are only a handful of actual human beings in The Village. The Village and the rest are simply aspects of Rover in humanoid form, not unlike Autons from that other show. (People whose heads contain useful information sometimes do go missing, but the result is usually an intelligence service, service or sometimes an ''all-of-government,'' ''all-of-government'' response. That many Villagers present in The Village has always been highly suspicious.strange in this regard.)
** * The original "go-kart-wedding-cake" iteration of Rover existed, and was a prototype meant to gather movement data. (Imagine a Google Street View car, identifying physical locations so the Bouncy Blank Boi didn't get too lost.) When the newest version was activated, they simply disabled or dismantled it. The technology and know-how from it was then used in The Village's vehicles, particularly in improving their remote operating abilities.
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* Rover is not Number One, and there is a real human being acting as Number One. The Number One that Number Six encounters is, however, a Rover-derived stand-in that has ''just'' gained sentience and is repeating a stripped-down version of Descartes' First Principle. ''Excitedly'' repeating it, and not really in full control of its emotions yet nor understanding how humor works (hence the gorilla mask and Number Six face).
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Number 6 was a toxically individualistic person whose ways caused much death and destruction, while most of the Number Twos were Control Freaks who were toxically conformist. They're now stuck with one another. "Fall Out" sees their souls permemently being destroyed.
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Number 6 was a toxically individualistic person whose ways caused much death and destruction, while most of the Number Twos were Control Freaks who were toxically conformist. They're now stuck with one another. "Fall Out" sees their souls permemently permanently being destroyed.destroyed.
[[WMG: The real Prisoner isn't Number Six.]]
* It's ''Rover.'' The Village is, in fact, primarily a test facility to see if their roaring ball of bouncing fury can operate in a real-world situation; being a place to break intelligence out of people and agents is secondary, and something they did since they had the lease anyway. The constant refrain of wanting "Information, Information, Information"? Putting a ''dangerously'' competent agent like Number Six in with the rest of the population? An ever-surrealistic series of situations and events? All there to test Rover and make sure it operates properly.
** Rover operates as a psychic gestalt of the inhabitants of The Village, and introducing Number Six into the fray was intended to give it some nerve. Prior to that point it's a barely-stable devil, rage incarnate, because of all the requirements imposed on the Villagers: chiefly, a sizable portion of them must be psychic to a degree, and having to block it for everyone is detrimental to Rover's well-being.
** There are only a handful of actual human beings in The Village. The rest are simply aspects of Rover in humanoid form, not unlike Autons from that other show. (People whose heads contain useful information sometimes do go missing, but the result is usually an intelligence service, sometimes an ''all-of-government,'' response. That many Villagers present has always been highly suspicious.)
** The original "go-kart-wedding-cake" iteration of Rover existed, and was a prototype meant to gather movement data. (Imagine a Google Street View car, identifying physical locations so the Bouncy Blank Boi didn't get too lost.) When the newest version was activated, they simply disabled or dismantled it.
* Unfortunately, nobody told Number Six any of this. He was brought in through The Village's side-hustle (intel extraction and artist's colony) and became an enormously large wrench in the works; even though he provided the Rover project with invaluable Red Team situations and information, his succeeding at destroying The Village tanked the whole project.
** Worse, Rover patterned itself after Number Six's unbending individuality. The project's options became "shut Rover down" or "Rover shuts everyone down" because it started ''refusing'' to comply. (The shut-down process was the full events of "Fall Out".) Imagine that trademark roaring suddenly becoming: '''"I will not make any deals with you. I have resigned. I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered! My life is my own."'''
** In the end, Rover and Number Six ''are connected mentally.'' Should anything happen to Number Six, the world will have to deal with a ''very'' angry, indestructible Bouncy Blank Boi with all the skills, determination, and most importantly ''knowledge'' of a highly-skilled intelligence operative. Result: no government on the planet dares deny Number Six his vacation, and they even let him keep the services of The Butler.
[[WMG: The real Prisoner isn't Number Six.]]
* It's ''Rover.'' The Village is, in fact, primarily a test facility to see if their roaring ball of bouncing fury can operate in a real-world situation; being a place to break intelligence out of people and agents is secondary, and something they did since they had the lease anyway. The constant refrain of wanting "Information, Information, Information"? Putting a ''dangerously'' competent agent like Number Six in with the rest of the population? An ever-surrealistic series of situations and events? All there to test Rover and make sure it operates properly.
** Rover operates as a psychic gestalt of the inhabitants of The Village, and introducing Number Six into the fray was intended to give it some nerve. Prior to that point it's a barely-stable devil, rage incarnate, because of all the requirements imposed on the Villagers: chiefly, a sizable portion of them must be psychic to a degree, and having to block it for everyone is detrimental to Rover's well-being.
** There are only a handful of actual human beings in The Village. The rest are simply aspects of Rover in humanoid form, not unlike Autons from that other show. (People whose heads contain useful information sometimes do go missing, but the result is usually an intelligence service, sometimes an ''all-of-government,'' response. That many Villagers present has always been highly suspicious.)
** The original "go-kart-wedding-cake" iteration of Rover existed, and was a prototype meant to gather movement data. (Imagine a Google Street View car, identifying physical locations so the Bouncy Blank Boi didn't get too lost.) When the newest version was activated, they simply disabled or dismantled it.
* Unfortunately, nobody told Number Six any of this. He was brought in through The Village's side-hustle (intel extraction and artist's colony) and became an enormously large wrench in the works; even though he provided the Rover project with invaluable Red Team situations and information, his succeeding at destroying The Village tanked the whole project.
** Worse, Rover patterned itself after Number Six's unbending individuality. The project's options became "shut Rover down" or "Rover shuts everyone down" because it started ''refusing'' to comply. (The shut-down process was the full events of "Fall Out".) Imagine that trademark roaring suddenly becoming: '''"I will not make any deals with you. I have resigned. I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered! My life is my own."'''
** In the end, Rover and Number Six ''are connected mentally.'' Should anything happen to Number Six, the world will have to deal with a ''very'' angry, indestructible Bouncy Blank Boi with all the skills, determination, and most importantly ''knowledge'' of a highly-skilled intelligence operative. Result: no government on the planet dares deny Number Six his vacation, and they even let him keep the services of The Butler.
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The Number 1 under the monkey mask is Curtis, the Prisoner's doppelganger from "The Schizoid Man". After all, we know the Village is capable of resurrecting the dead. With all the other hallucinatory chaos, it's easy to forget that they do have an exact physical double of Six hanging around. Perhaps he CameBackWrong.
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The Number 1 under the monkey mask is Curtis, the Prisoner's doppelganger from "The Schizoid Man". After all, we know the Village is capable of resurrecting the dead. With all the other hallucinatory chaos, it's easy to forget that they do have an exact physical double of Six hanging around. Perhaps he CameBackWrong.
They're just using him again to break the Prisoner's mind.
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[[WMG: Number 48 and Number 8 ''are'' the same person]]
Why? Because "48" is a combination of Number 8 and FourIsDeath. Obvious really. Plus if Number One is actually a resurrected Curtis, we have a clear trend - resurrectees tend to have a screw loose (Curtis/48) and tend to sympathise with the Prisoner (2/48). It couldn't be more clear!
Why? Because "48" is a combination of Number 8 and FourIsDeath. Obvious really. Plus if Number One is actually a resurrected Curtis, we have a clear trend - resurrectees tend to have a screw loose (Curtis/48) and tend to sympathise with the Prisoner (2/48). It couldn't be more clear!
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* So the real Number One was never revealed? It is quite believable that the Village presented Number Six with a fake Number One who was a double of his (possibly Curtis) as one more mind screw.
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* There is a fan theory that [=McGoohan=] denied that Number Six is John Drake to avoid having to pay royalties to Ralph Smart, creator of Series/DangerMan.
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** I mean, technically you're not wrong... but ''The Prisoner'' is definitely a TV series. Otherwise it'd be like calling ''The Persistence of Memory'' (the one with the melting clocks) by Dalí "a surrealist work of art, not a painting"... when it's most definitely a painting. Those aren't mutually exclusive categories. You're definitely right about ''The Prisoner'' being more about [[AnAesop What It's About]] than what actually happens, though.
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** I mean, technically you're not wrong... but ''The Prisoner'' is definitely a TV series. Otherwise it'd be like calling ''The Persistence of Memory'' ''Art/ThePersistenceOfMemory'' (the one with the melting clocks) by Dalí "a surrealist {{surrealis|m}}t work of art, not a painting"... when it's most definitely a painting. Those aren't mutually exclusive categories. You're definitely right about ''The Prisoner'' being more about [[AnAesop What It's About]] than what actually happens, though.
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[[WMG: (For the new 2009 series) Number Two is Magneto post X-3]]
Not only are they played by the same actor (Ian [=McKellen=]), they act very similarly. Given that the purpose of the Village in the new series can be summed up as 'Using Psionics to help people heal', this is quite possibly actually true.
Not only are they played by the same actor (Ian [=McKellen=]), they act very similarly. Given that the purpose of the Village in the new series can be summed up as 'Using Psionics to help people heal', this is quite possibly actually true.
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[[WMG: (2009 remake) The new Number Six is [[Series/PersonOfInterest Mr. Reese]].]]
I haven't seen the new "Prisoner" remake yet, but it would seem to make sense...Number Six, the former spy, leaves the Village and drifts off as a vagrant until Mr. Finch finds him and gives him a much more benevolent direction and purpose.
I haven't seen the new "Prisoner" remake yet, but it would seem to make sense...Number Six, the former spy, leaves the Village and drifts off as a vagrant until Mr. Finch finds him and gives him a much more benevolent direction and purpose.
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[[WMG:The Village is all an IronicHell for both sides]]
Number 6 was a toxically individualistic person whose ways caused much death and destruction, while most of the Number Twos were Control Freaks who were toxically conformist. They're now stuck with one another. "Fall Out" sees their souls permemently being destroyed.
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** The two Number Twos in It's Your Funeral are different people existing at the same time.
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[[WMG: Number Six is being used as a test for the Village]]
In order to see how effective the Village actually could work as, as Number Two put it, [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans a perfect blueprint for world order]], the superiors running the Village intentionally abducted a man so [[TheDeterminator stubbornly individualistic]] that he would refused to answer a question as simple as why he resigned to see if the Village could break him. If they couldn’t, it’s a failure. If they could, [[TakeOverTheWorld they can move on to phase two.]] [[TheBadGuyWins Depending on your interpretation of the finale, they might have succeeded.]]
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[[WMG:Number One is a clone of Number Six]]
Or perhaps not even a clone. After all, we know the Village can resurrect the dead, and they have the Prisoner's impersonator Curtis lying around. If you subscribe to the theory that Alexis Kanner's three characters are the same man, it might even indicate a general trend that those "resurrected" are somewhat loopier than than they were before their deaths.
Or perhaps not even a clone. After all, we know the Village can resurrect the dead, and they have the Prisoner's impersonator Curtis lying around. If you subscribe to the theory that Alexis Kanner's three characters are the same man, it might even indicate a general trend that those "resurrected" are somewhat loopier than than they were before their deaths.
