Another one bites the dust...
I weep for McGoohan, he is dead. Coincidentally, I've been watching quiter a few episodes of Danger Man recently - half hour episodes of quality spy stories, in which, interestingly, the hero wins through wit and guile, rather than shooting out the bad guys (apparently McGoohan had moral issues with a lot of spy fiction, note the absence of girlie kissing and philandering). His role is Scanners was superb, and as well as Longshanks in Braveheart.
p.s. unrelated, but a text of mine has been posted over on the party's blog - on the Gaza question/issue/thing.
Labels: 929, Obituaries, Patrick McGoohan, Spy fiction
posted by Bill at 08:55
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Glad to see I'm not the only Prisoner fan around...
Numbner six has left the Village
Presumably, though, if the majority in the Village had democratically decided that Number six should tell them why he resigned, as a good Marxist you would have expected him to tell them? Otherwise it would be the rule of the minority... :)
Oh, and sorry for not continuing the pervious discussion as I was far too busy -- work keeps getting in the way of other things....
Iain
An Anarchist FAQ
as a good Marxist you would have expected him to tell them?
As a good democrat...and if he refused, they would have had the right to freely nto associate with him. Cf. Neurath's difference between democracy between friends and democracy between enemies...
Anyway, note the series ends with him accepting a number, Number 1, it is a critique of individualism as well. I note how Dnager Man often ends with John Drake calling the police, and they arrive just in time, his heroism tehre is of a collective nature disctinct from the usual "complete in himself" hero of derring do we see in, say, Bond or Bourne Movies...
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