{"id":671,"date":"2009-07-27T22:38:28","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T02:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=671"},"modified":"2009-07-27T22:38:28","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T02:38:28","slug":"the-prisoner-reboot-on-ae-could-be-awsome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=671","title":{"rendered":"The Prisoner reboot on A&E – could be awsome?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There will never be another Patrick McGoohan<\/a>.\u00a0 He was the coolest, the hardest, the baddest.\u00a0 To try and take his creation and his character and remake the monster that was ‘The Prisoner’ is sacrilegious, at best.\u00a0 It’s not like Battlestar Galactica where, despite an amazing premise, the show was poorly executed.\u00a0 On the contrary, ‘The Prisoner<\/a>‘ is easily the greatest TV show I have ever seen.<\/p>\n

But with all of that said, I am intrigued by the massive task that A&E has set for itself with the mini-series\/remake that is airing this November.\u00a0 And now, finally, we get a good look at what it’s going to be all about.\u00a0 Caviezel’s No. 6 appears to be similarly defiant, but without that extraordinarily suave sheen.\u00a0 The show deals with memories that have been erased, which was not part of the original, and, as Dorothy suggested, the show may venture into ‘Lost’ territory with the questioning of whether any of this is real, blah, blah.<\/p>\n

Looking at this lengthy trailer, however, git the hair on the back of my neck standing.\u00a0 Yes, there are things missing, as stated above.\u00a0 And there are scenes blatantly copied, like buying the map or riding the taxi.\u00a0 But look at Rover!!\u00a0 No longer a beachball with a string attached, he is now a menacing baddy, ready to wreak real havoc to the delight of fans new and old.\u00a0 And, more importantly, I get a strong sense of the chemistry between Caviezel (trying so hard to look like Christian Bale) and Sir Ian McKellan’s No. 2.\u00a0 If it works between the two of them, then the whole thing will work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There will never be another Patrick McGoohan.\u00a0 He was the coolest, the hardest, the baddest.\u00a0 To try and take his creation and his character and remake the monster that was ‘The Prisoner’ is sacrilegious, at best.\u00a0 It’s not like Battlestar … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[223],"tags":[625,624,144,145],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":672,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions\/672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}