I am not a number!!

[MajGenl.Meade]

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[Guinevere]

Again with the misogyny.

No, its not funny, and I'm pointing it out because it remains deeply imbedded in our society and culture. How many bazillion times has "girls" been used as an insult. How do you think that makes actual girls feel? I hated it then, and I still do. Just stop. Please.

[Lord Jim]

You know Meade, if you're not interested in a topic, there's absolutely no obligation for you to participate in the discussion...

(Right about now, I'm betting that you probably wish you had followed that course... )

Go start a thread about Dickheads Of Gangrene (Or whatever the hell that snorefest you mentioned earlier was called)

I'm sure that will attract a lot of interest...

[Big RR]

Jim--interesting take on it being a dream; personally, I thought the episodes changed so much and lacked congruity was because the inquisitors (number 2) changed each week, and they could design the village in a way they thought best to extract the "information" (or drive him crazy so he was no longer a security risk). The last episodes especially seemed to bear this out to me, although a dream is a distinct possibility as well.

[Lord Jim]

Meade, it looks like you're suffering from Post Regret Syndrome today...

I noticed that you also deleted a snarky follow-up in my thread about Dexter...

[Guinevere]

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Merci bien.

[Burning Petard]

Remove all girls? Philip Wylie actually made some money and got a conversation going by doing just that. From Wikipedia:

The Disappearance (1951) – An unexplained cosmic "blink" splits humanity along gender lines into two divergent timelines: from the men's perspective, all the women disappear and from the women's, all men vanish. The novel explores issues of gender role and sexual identity. It depicts an empowered condition for liberated women and a dystopia of an all male world. Wylie's setting allows him to investigate the role of homosexuality in situations where no gender alternative exists.

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[Bicycle Bill]

Remove all girls? Philip Wylie actually made some money and got a conversation going by doing just that. From Wikipedia:

The Disappearance (1951) – An unexplained cosmic "blink" splits humanity along gender lines into two divergent timelines: from the men's perspective, all the women disappear and from the women's, all men vanish. The novel explores issues of gender role and sexual identity. It depicts an empowered condition for liberated women and a dystopia of an all male world. Wylie's setting allows him to investigate the role of homosexuality in situations where no gender alternative exists.

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I remember that name.  In my younger years I came across some old 'Saturday Evening Post' magazines and found a series of entertaining and amusing short stories he had written about a couple of guys — Crunch and Des — who were partners in a charter-fishing boat business.  Never realized he was a serious author writing about more heavy stuff as well.

-"BB"-

[MajGenl.Meade]

Meade, it looks like you're suffering from Post Regret Syndrome today...

I noticed that you also deleted a snarky follow-up in my thread about Dexter...

Learning is always possible.... unlikely, but possible

Guin - c'est rien

[Econoline]

Philip Wylie also co-authored the SF novel When Worlds Collide (later made into a pretty good movie by George Pal in the 1950s) and its sequel, After Worlds Collide.

A couple of interesting bits of trivia I just now learned from Wikipedia: Alex Raymond took the basic premise of When Worlds Collide (i.e., an approaching planet threatening the Earth, and an athletic hero, his girlfriend, and a scientist traveling to the new planet by rocket) and used it as his starting point for the comic strip Flash Gordon. And "during World War II, writing The Paradise Crater (1945) resulted in [Wylie's] house arrest by the federal government; in it, he described a post-WWII 1965 Nazi conspiracy to develop and use uranium-237 bombs, months before the first successful atomic test at Alamagordo – the most highly classified secret of the war."

[Gob]

My take was this:


Drake dreamed or imagined the whole thing, and like most dreams, some bits seem more logical, and others less so...

My take was he'd been subjected to some "controversial psychological conditioning", as in "A Clockwork Orange".

[oldr_n_wsr]

A Clockwork Orange

I saw that movie.
And when I was in the nut-house 2+ years ago, they had that on DVD and I watched it again.
Seemed appropriate.


ETA
And as far as The Prisoner, after reading some of the dialog people posted, I definately never saw it.