Talk:Fall Out (The Prisoner)

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I removed the link to the Straight Dope article discussing the episode. Cecil shows a poor understanding of the show, and little effort to actually provide a cogent explanation -- not surprising, as early on, Cecil dismisses the show as "absurd." I don't think he bothered doing anything mroe than watching the episode once and then dashing off a few dismissive paragraphs. Really not worth linking to.

[edit] number six using gun

"(For the first and only time in the series, Number Six is shown shooting people, as "All You Need is Love" plays on the soundtrack"

this is not true, number six uses a gun in 'living in harmony'

yes - but as the whole LIH set-up isn't real (it's all a drug-induced hallucination, ultimately), he doesn't actually use the gun. It's much harder to argue the unreality of his gun-use in "Fall Out" - it's as real as anything in the series. 2fs 04:56, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Blowing up the switchboard

The claim that the episode generated so many complaints to ITV that it 'literally blew the switchboard' needs substantiating or clarifying. There were over 20 regional ITV programme companies in the UK at the time, and no single "ITV" entity that viewers would have called about things like this - calls would have gone to the programme companies instead, so claims that it caused phone system problems "at ITV" need to be referenced and clarified. I'd guess that the programme would have gone out with an ATV frontcap on it as it was produced by Lew Grade's ITC so some viewers may have called the originating company direct, but most people would have called their local ITV company. In other words - reference, please! --Mike 19:09, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

There is another factor working against the claim---that those various ITV companies didn't all air "The Prisoner" simultaneously, as is more-or-less done in the US (there is the matter of the many time zones covered here, which doesn't apply in the UK, of course). Some sources have indicated that there were variances of several days. Ted Watson 20:01, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fourth Wall

"As he descends, Number Two becomes the only character in the series to break the fourth wall when he appears to turn to the camera and says, "Be seeing you". "

Apparently untrue - Sonia in The Girl Who Was Death smiles at the camera during the car chase scene's back-projection gag. Lee M 03:32, 5 November 2007 (UTC)