Patrick McGoohan passed away.
Never met the guy, but he's one of the people on a very short list that fundamentally changed the way I think.
"Once Upon A Time" was an hour of drama that only McGoohan could have written and performed. I don't anyone else who could have done it, or anyone who would want to. I have a hard time coming up with any other writers in television who have challenged me so directly. Rod Serling, maybe. Maybe Aaron Sorkin. But they had years, multiple seasons of working at their arguments. The Prisoner took only 17 episodes to shake me to the core.
The Prisoner asked the questions that we ask ourselves when no one else is looking. That's really what the show's about: who's watching us, and why?
Well, we are, and for no good reason.
It's the gutsiest show I've ever watched. Behind all the espionage, the paranoia, the double-crossing, the show was about having the guts to define yourself on your own terms. Who you are is nobody's business but your own.
Too many people know too much.
That's about all I can say about it.
Again, be seeing you.
1 comment:
Really was some sad sad news. Still after seeing him bedridden at the end of Braveheart, somehow I was emotionally prepared.
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