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* It is common for fans to speculate about why Rover malfunctioned and killed Curtis in “The Schizoid Man.” Then you realize that there is no onscreen evidence of any such malfunction. The most straightforward explanation is that Rover did what it was supposed to, rendering Curtis unconscious, then 6 finished him off and blamed Rover so he could take his place.
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*** It is strongly implied that the maid in “Arrival” has been there since she was a child, along with her parents.
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*** Note that there's no "School" listed among the Village points-of-interest and civil service centers at the "Free Information" stand.
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* One strange yet oddly consistent thing about the episode titles - they don't always map to the one you'd ''think'' they are. Even the episode titles are trying to [[{{Gaslighting}} gaslight]] you! The episode where Number Two promotes social harmony in order to ostracise the Prisoner? "A Change Of Mind", not "Living In Harmony". The Western episode? "Living In Harmony", not "[[Film/HighNoon Do Not Forsake Me O My Darling]]". The one where they transfer his mind into a different person? "Do Not Forsake Me...", not "A Change of Mind" or even "The Schizoid Man". The episode where he tells some children a story? "The Girl Who Was Death", not "Once Upon A Time".
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* One strange yet oddly consistent thing about the episode titles - they don't always map to the one you'd ''think'' they are. Even the episode titles are trying to [[{{Gaslighting}} gaslight]] you! you!
** The episode where Number Two promotes social harmony in order to ostracise the Prisoner? "A Change Of Mind", not "Living InHarmony". Harmony".
** The Western episode? "Living In Harmony", not "[[Film/HighNoon Do Not Forsake Me O MyDarling]]". Darling]]".
** The one where they transfer his mind into a different person? "Do Not Forsake Me...", not "A Change of Mind" or even "The Schizoid Man".
** The episode where he tells some children a story? "The Girl Who Was Death", not "Once Upon A Time".
** The episode where Number Two promotes social harmony in order to ostracise the Prisoner? "A Change Of Mind", not "Living In
** The Western episode? "Living In Harmony", not "[[Film/HighNoon Do Not Forsake Me O My
** The one where they transfer his mind into a different person? "Do Not Forsake Me...", not "A Change of Mind" or even "The Schizoid Man".
** The episode where he tells some children a story? "The Girl Who Was Death", not "Once Upon A Time".
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** We don't know how long the Village has been up and running, but it has inmates and guards of both genders. What else to do with children born in the Village?
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* In the final episode when Number Six defeats Number Two, every time he tries to speak, he's drowned out by a chorus of "I, I, I,..." Represents the result if everyone follows his lead and cares only for their own individual expression. - Tropers/JoveHack
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* In the final episode "[[Recap/ThePrisonerE17FallOut Fall Out]]", when Number Six defeats Number Two, every time he tries to speak, he's drowned out by a chorus of "I, I, I,..." Represents the result if everyone follows his lead and cares only for their own individual expression. - Tropers/JoveHack
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* The episode "Hammer Into Anvil" gets deeply philosophical. Number Two quotes Goethe ("You must be Hammer or Anvil"), identifying himself as the Hammer who is going to pound on Number Six until he breaks. Number Two apparently never studied his George Orwell; Orwell pointed out that the Anvil is actually ''stronger'' than the Hammer. You can whack an Anvil with a Hammer all day and never break it; in fact, you might just break your Hammer in the process. This is exactly what happens to Number Two over the course of the episode: he becomes the Hammer, and shatters on the indestructible Anvil that is Number Six. Number Two was a poor student of philosophy. And blacksmithing.
** Also from "Hammer Into Anvil": At the end Number Six has utterly broken Number Two, who has alienated every subordinate and left the entire Village leaderless and defenseless. Yet at no time does Number Six even ''attempt'' an escape or trick Number Two into letting him go. It would have ruined the ParanoiaGambit.
** Also from "Hammer Into Anvil": At the end Number Six has utterly broken Number Two, who has alienated every subordinate and left the entire Village leaderless and defenseless. Yet at no time does Number Six even ''attempt'' an escape or trick Number Two into letting him go. It would have ruined the ParanoiaGambit.
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* The episode "Hammer "[[Recap/ThePrisonerE10HammerIntoAnvil Hammer Into Anvil" Anvil]]" gets deeply philosophical. Number Two quotes Goethe ("You must be Hammer or Anvil"), identifying himself as the Hammer who is going to pound on Number Six until he breaks. Number Two apparently never studied his George Orwell; Creator/GeorgeOrwell; Orwell pointed out that the Anvil is actually ''stronger'' than the Hammer. You can whack an Anvil with a Hammer all day and never break it; in fact, you might just break your Hammer in the process. This is exactly what happens to Number Two over the course of the episode: he becomes the Hammer, and shatters on the indestructible Anvil that is Number Six. Number Two was a poor student of philosophy. And blacksmithing.
**Also from "Hammer Into Anvil": At the end of the episode, Number Six has utterly broken Number Two, who has alienated every subordinate and left the entire Village leaderless and defenseless. Yet at no time does Number Six even ''attempt'' an escape or trick Number Two into letting him go. It would have ruined the ParanoiaGambit.
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* The episode "Many Happy Returns" seems odd because the Village willingly lets Number Six escape back to England, revealing their very existence to people that could well help Number Six exact revenge. But it makes perfect sense with the final scene of [[spoiler:Number Two showing up at Number Six's apartment with a birthday cake.]] The entire incident wasn't just to demonstrate that the controllers of The Village didn't ''care'' if Number Six revealed them or tried to wipe them out, and it wasn't just to make Number Six despair. It's worse: [[spoiler:''The whole thing was a birthday present.'']]
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* The episode "Many "[[Recap/ThePrisonerE7ManyHappyReturns Many Happy Returns" Returns]]" seems odd because the Village willingly lets Number Six escape back to England, revealing their very existence to people that could well help Number Six exact revenge. But it makes perfect sense with the final scene of [[spoiler:Number Two showing up at Number Six's apartment with a birthday cake.]] The entire incident wasn't just to demonstrate that the controllers of The Village didn't ''care'' if Number Six revealed them or tried to wipe them out, and it wasn't just to make Number Six despair. It's worse: [[spoiler:''The whole thing was a birthday present.'']]
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* It's just a comedy framing device for a particularly extreme BizarroEpisode, but the revelation at the end of "The Girl Who Was Death" that there are '''young children''' in the Village is stuffed with so much Fridge Horror about why they might be there and what might be happening to them that it's best just to forget about it.
** Well, they were clearly brought there to get Six to lower his guard a bit in what's probably the lamest attempt to get Six to confess yet. There's never any sign of children otherwise in the Village.
** Well, they were clearly brought there to get Six to lower his guard a bit in what's probably the lamest attempt to get Six to confess yet. There's never any sign of children otherwise in the Village.
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* It's just a comedy framing device for a particularly extreme BizarroEpisode, but the revelation at the end of "The "[[Recap/ThePrisonerE15TheGirlWhoWasDeath The Girl Who Was Death" Death]]" that there are '''young children''' in the Village is stuffed with so much Fridge Horror about why they might be there and what might be happening to them that it's best just to forget about it.
** Well, they were clearly brought there to get Six to lower his guard a bit in what's probably the lamest attempt to get Six to confess yet. There's never any sign of children otherwise in theVillage.Village.
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** The intro also takes its time recounting the opening to the series, seemingly ending when Number Six wakes up in the Village, only to continue on, symbolically showing it's not over when we expect it to be.
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** Many times in the show they reference the saying "Six of one, half a dozen of the other", often just as "Six of one..."
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* In the final episode when Number Six defeats Number Two, every time he tries to speak, he's drowned out by a chorus of "I, I, I,..." Represents the result if everyone follows his lead and cares only for their own individual expression. - Tropers/JoveHack
** And you notice what a difference a comma makes when almost every episode begins with 'Who is Number 1?' 'You are Number 6.' and you realize it could easily be 'Who is Number 1?' 'You are, Number 6.' - Tropers/GarrisonSkunk
*** And, of course, "I" is also a Roman numeral...
*** ...chanted six times whenever he mentions the word.
* The episode "Hammer Into Anvil" gets deeply philosophical. Number Two quotes Goethe ("You must be Hammer or Anvil"), identifying himself as the Hammer who is going to pound on Number Six until he breaks. Number Two apparently never studied his George Orwell; Orwell pointed out that the Anvil is actually ''stronger'' than the Hammer. You can whack an Anvil with a Hammer all day and never break it; in fact, you might just break your Hammer in the process. This is exactly what happens to Number Two over the course of the episode: he becomes the Hammer, and shatters on the indestructible Anvil that is Number Six. Number Two was a poor student of philosophy. And blacksmithing.
** Also from "Hammer Into Anvil": At the end Number Six has utterly broken Number Two, who has alienated every subordinate and left the entire Village leaderless and defenseless. Yet at no time does Number Six even ''attempt'' an escape or trick Number Two into letting him go. It would have ruined the ParanoiaGambit.
* In the title sequence, on his way to resign Number Six leaves the parking garage through doors labelled [[DoubleEntendre "way out".]]
* The episode "Many Happy Returns" seems odd because the Village willingly lets Number Six escape back to England, revealing their very existence to people that could well help Number Six exact revenge. But it makes perfect sense with the final scene of [[spoiler:Number Two showing up at Number Six's apartment with a birthday cake.]] The entire incident wasn't just to demonstrate that the controllers of The Village didn't ''care'' if Number Six revealed them or tried to wipe them out, and it wasn't just to make Number Six despair. It's worse: [[spoiler:''The whole thing was a birthday present.'']]
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* It's just a comedy framing device for a particularly extreme BizarroEpisode, but the revelation at the end of "The Girl Who Was Death" that there are '''young children''' in the Village is stuffed with so much Fridge Horror about why they might be there and what might be happening to them that it's best just to forget about it.
** Well, they were clearly brought there to get Six to lower his guard a bit in what's probably the lamest attempt to get Six to confess yet. There's never any sign of children otherwise in the Village.
* In the final episode when Number Six defeats Number Two, every time he tries to speak, he's drowned out by a chorus of "I, I, I,..." Represents the result if everyone follows his lead and cares only for their own individual expression. - Tropers/JoveHack
** And you notice what a difference a comma makes when almost every episode begins with 'Who is Number 1?' 'You are Number 6.' and you realize it could easily be 'Who is Number 1?' 'You are, Number 6.' - Tropers/GarrisonSkunk
*** And, of course, "I" is also a Roman numeral...
*** ...chanted six times whenever he mentions the word.
* The episode "Hammer Into Anvil" gets deeply philosophical. Number Two quotes Goethe ("You must be Hammer or Anvil"), identifying himself as the Hammer who is going to pound on Number Six until he breaks. Number Two apparently never studied his George Orwell; Orwell pointed out that the Anvil is actually ''stronger'' than the Hammer. You can whack an Anvil with a Hammer all day and never break it; in fact, you might just break your Hammer in the process. This is exactly what happens to Number Two over the course of the episode: he becomes the Hammer, and shatters on the indestructible Anvil that is Number Six. Number Two was a poor student of philosophy. And blacksmithing.
** Also from "Hammer Into Anvil": At the end Number Six has utterly broken Number Two, who has alienated every subordinate and left the entire Village leaderless and defenseless. Yet at no time does Number Six even ''attempt'' an escape or trick Number Two into letting him go. It would have ruined the ParanoiaGambit.
* In the title sequence, on his way to resign Number Six leaves the parking garage through doors labelled [[DoubleEntendre "way out".]]
* The episode "Many Happy Returns" seems odd because the Village willingly lets Number Six escape back to England, revealing their very existence to people that could well help Number Six exact revenge. But it makes perfect sense with the final scene of [[spoiler:Number Two showing up at Number Six's apartment with a birthday cake.]] The entire incident wasn't just to demonstrate that the controllers of The Village didn't ''care'' if Number Six revealed them or tried to wipe them out, and it wasn't just to make Number Six despair. It's worse: [[spoiler:''The whole thing was a birthday present.'']]
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* It's just a comedy framing device for a particularly extreme BizarroEpisode, but the revelation at the end of "The Girl Who Was Death" that there are '''young children''' in the Village is stuffed with so much Fridge Horror about why they might be there and what might be happening to them that it's best just to forget about it.
** Well, they were clearly brought there to get Six to lower his guard a bit in what's probably the lamest attempt to get Six to confess yet. There's never any sign of children otherwise in the Village.
