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Showing posts with label the prisoner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the prisoner. Show all posts
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FREE: Characters: The Prisoner aka The Prisoner of Time
also known as
The Prisoner of Time, The Man Who Has Not Tasted Death
The World of Mystery
Family:
It is believed that The Prisoner is an orphan, whose family died during the Vazeer raids during the final phase of the War of Seven Sides.
Background:
The Prisoner obtained his unusual power after being betrayed by his fellow rogue and best friend Aelvon during a dungeon delve. Shot with a handbow and left for dead, The Prisoner stumbled into a nearby river, eventually being washed down into a lagoon that was home to a hedge wizard. This hedge wizard found the nearly dead rogue, placed on him a magical amulet, and the amulet restored The Prisoner to life, at the cost of being unremovable. The amulet also conferred on The Prisoner his known magical powers.
Known Power and Abilities:
Magical AmuletThe prisoner wears a green glass magical amulet with a yellow cat-like eye embedded in it. This amulet is unable to be removed and its origin currently remains obscure.
Rogue
The Prisoner goes up levels as a Rogue, a footpad thief with excellent hand to hand, knife and improvised weapon fighting skills. He has no coordination or skill with heavy weapons other than improvised attacks and has no ability whatsoever with Knight weapons and armour.
Toughness
The Prisoner regenerates physical harm swiftly enough so that normal stunning or crushing damage is ignored.
Immortal
The Prisoner is immune to life threatening effects short of total disintegration or beheading followed by permanent separation of his head from his body eg placing the head in a solid container.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
B C ing U 666 The Prisoner Doppelganger Mirror
It is the devil eye, symbolising six six six, and it is meant as such when someone does it. To put one's eye through the loop makes the all-seeing eye. Many a cod musician has taken up the gesture, as both an attempt to join the masonic movement and also to witness, much as christians do, only in the case of the peacock eye / 666 gesture it's witnessing to Lucifer, their half-inflated dark lord (half inflated just like Rover?).
And let's follow the trail of feathers, even if they are horse )Denver Mustang( feathers... Peacock Eye, Peacock Angel, Melek Taus... LUCIFER Rising.
Monday, September 19, 2011
Reading meaning into Moffat's Doctor Who: a cautionary note: "An Interview with George Markstein
"An Interview with George Markstein
Q. What do you think about the fact that it was later discussed in universities?
A. Mmmm. ... yes ... amazing and ridiculous and a sad commentary on our day and age I would have thought, that a television series has been elevated apparently - by some people into a cult. What a pathetic thing. I mean, one is delighted that it amuses people, and one is delighted that it entertains people and it's a very satisfying thing to have originated something which has left such a mark and I'm very humble and very pleased about that. But having said that, when I hear that some benighted university in Canada is holding some sort of course for its students about the significance of THE PRISONER and when I hear people pontificating about its meaning ... the thing is a bizarre and unusual television series, no more, no less. It had some good things in it. It had some ridiculous things in it. It's fun! But the PRISONER "cult" is a terrific case of The Emperor's New Clothes quite honestly and if it gives people pleasure then so be it ... but it is the Emperor's clothes ... I mean ... how do cults grow? They're frightening, I think - they are really frightening. It shows how poverty-sicken people must be to have to cling to this kind of absurdity.
I think that in many ways THE PRISONER is a tragedy ... because McGoohan became a prisoner of the series and it's never nice to see that happen to a human being, the combination of ambition, frusation, wanting to be writer, director, actor - you name it. It was sad, it was very sad I think. It did something to him that wasn't very good and it was reflected in the series and that's why the series ended like that and that's why people have said "I don't understand the end". Of course they don't understand the end, because there is no end ... I don't think even McGoohan understood the end, or if he does, well, perhaps he does, but that is the biggest tragedy of THE PRISONER that Patrick McGoohan became a Prisoner himself.
THE PRISONER is really the sum total of the work and devotion of a magnificent team and they were all towers of strength. David Tomblin, I mean, there couldn't have been a PRISONER without David, Jack Shampan, the art director - what he contributed! He was way ahead of television design. And of course the writers, naturally I'm prejudiced about the writers who played the absolute key role ... people like Tony Skene, Louis Greifer, Gerald Kelsey and others. You know, it's not the McGoohan opera, it really isn't.
McGoohan is a brilliant actor - was a brilliant actor - and without McGoohan there would have been no PRISONER, but without the art director there wouldn't have been a PRISONER, without David Tomblin there wouldn't have been a PRISONER without the scripts there wouldn't have been a PRISONER. It's not a one man show, any more than it should be a cult of deep meaning to our day and age. It is not a solo effort, it was a team effort and I was very lucky to be a member of that team and, by God, McGoohan was very lucky to have that team round him.
Q. What do you think about the fact that it was later discussed in universities?
A. Mmmm. ... yes ... amazing and ridiculous and a sad commentary on our day and age I would have thought, that a television series has been elevated apparently - by some people into a cult. What a pathetic thing. I mean, one is delighted that it amuses people, and one is delighted that it entertains people and it's a very satisfying thing to have originated something which has left such a mark and I'm very humble and very pleased about that. But having said that, when I hear that some benighted university in Canada is holding some sort of course for its students about the significance of THE PRISONER and when I hear people pontificating about its meaning ... the thing is a bizarre and unusual television series, no more, no less. It had some good things in it. It had some ridiculous things in it. It's fun! But the PRISONER "cult" is a terrific case of The Emperor's New Clothes quite honestly and if it gives people pleasure then so be it ... but it is the Emperor's clothes ... I mean ... how do cults grow? They're frightening, I think - they are really frightening. It shows how poverty-sicken people must be to have to cling to this kind of absurdity.
I think that in many ways THE PRISONER is a tragedy ... because McGoohan became a prisoner of the series and it's never nice to see that happen to a human being, the combination of ambition, frusation, wanting to be writer, director, actor - you name it. It was sad, it was very sad I think. It did something to him that wasn't very good and it was reflected in the series and that's why the series ended like that and that's why people have said "I don't understand the end". Of course they don't understand the end, because there is no end ... I don't think even McGoohan understood the end, or if he does, well, perhaps he does, but that is the biggest tragedy of THE PRISONER that Patrick McGoohan became a Prisoner himself.
THE PRISONER is really the sum total of the work and devotion of a magnificent team and they were all towers of strength. David Tomblin, I mean, there couldn't have been a PRISONER without David, Jack Shampan, the art director - what he contributed! He was way ahead of television design. And of course the writers, naturally I'm prejudiced about the writers who played the absolute key role ... people like Tony Skene, Louis Greifer, Gerald Kelsey and others. You know, it's not the McGoohan opera, it really isn't.McGoohan is a brilliant actor - was a brilliant actor - and without McGoohan there would have been no PRISONER, but without the art director there wouldn't have been a PRISONER, without David Tomblin there wouldn't have been a PRISONER without the scripts there wouldn't have been a PRISONER. It's not a one man show, any more than it should be a cult of deep meaning to our day and age. It is not a solo effort, it was a team effort and I was very lucky to be a member of that team and, by God, McGoohan was very lucky to have that team round him.
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