[UA] You are... Number Six.

[Epoch]

On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Bryant Durrell wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 11:40:55AM -0800, Chad Underkoffler wrote:
> > The Village is pretty evidently an Otherspace. Rover's some kind
> > of Unspeakable Servant.
> > 
> > But what avatar was Number Six channelling? You'd THINK it'd be
> > the Masterless Man, but that doesn't exactly track. He's not
> > looking for something new to follow (or is he?), *he's* his own
> > master. ("I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed,
> > briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own.") 
> 
> Hm.  I thought perhaps the Rebel, but that's not quite right.
> 
> The Resistance would be more apt; might be the same as the Rebel, but
> there's been a contextual shift in the post modern age.  No longer do
> we rebel for, we rebel against?
> 
> Actually, that fits kind of well, if you look at the Village as a 
> gambit in the Archetype's battle against an ambitious Godwalker.

I've never seen The Prisoner, but, from what I've read about it, what
about the Martyr?  The guy's being persecuted -- tortured, really -- and
refuses to give up his principles...

Mike

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