Just started watching on Crackle and finished the second episode. I like it so far. Surprised I never watched it until now but I’ve seen references to it in other shows like the Simpsons episode when Homer gets sent to the island for exposing that Flu shots are used for mind control and then there is the pinky and the brain episode
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We could use a bit more "I am not a number, I am a free man" these days.
"How many people who would say that as a rallying cry wanted to ban me from going to the grocery store for not getting an injection?" is something I think about from time to time.
that works for white men with IQ above average but everyone else misunderstands the quote. misunderstands the drive and the motivation. only is able to reference it back to their loser and commie/socialist tendencies.
Great show. The bluray HD restoration looks fantastic. The last episode is on a whole other level of weird from the rest of them.
They did a mini-series remake in 2009 with Jim Caviezel and Ian McKellen that plays around with some of the concepts from the original. It's a much more straight-laced show than the original. I really want to like it but can't quite bring myself to.
Patrick McGoohan, the actor/writer/director from that show, did an earlier show where he played a spy, called "Danger Man". It's not officially connected and it's much less unusual, but it's still a solid spy show.
I’ve heard of that show. Dont some people theorize it was connected?
Patrick is the same character in both, just for legal reasons they couldn't use the Dangerman names for anything. The Dangerman creator was getting ripped off on the money side of things by the studio so stopped making the show, but Patrick wanted to keep going.
Great Song at least.
Wtf is the balloon/bubble?
Something to chase ppl who escape. It is an odd concept.
I want one.
In the Simpsons episode he simply pops the bubble with a pin. lol.
I watched some after Doomcock kept recommending it. Not bad. Very weird.
Yes!
At one point in my misspent younger days, CBS was running it really late at night. I taped all the episodes I could (it got kind of hinky when NCAA basketball was on). Later on, I bought the blu-rays…
My own personal favorite is “Hammer Into Anvil”, which is episode 10, so you haven’t seen it yet.
Look forward to it. Also, your username is a book reference right? I know have have that book or is it a series?
Yes. The “Stainless Steel Rat” books by Harry Harrison. Intergalactic con-man is blackmailed into working for the government…but continues to pick up more than a little on the side. It is a series: my personal favorite is “The Stainless Steel Rat For President. I think you can read them out of sequence without losing the thread.
I think I’ve posted this quote from the first book here before, but I can’t find it. I suspect it might resonate with some people here.
“We are the rats in the wainscoting of society – we operate outside of their barriers and outside of their rules. Society had more rats when the rules were looser, just as the old wooden buildings had more rats than the concrete buildings that came later. But they still had rats. Now that society is all ferroconcrete and stainless steel there are fewer gaps between the joints, and it takes a smart rat to find them. A stainless steel rat is right at home in this environment. It is a proud and lonely thing to be a stainless steel rat – and it is the greatest experience in the galaxy if you can get away with it. The sociological experts can’t seem to agree why we exist, some even doubt that we do. The most widely accepted theory says that we are victims of delayed psychological disturbance that shows no evidence in child-hood when it can be detected and corrected and only appears later in life. I have naturally given a lot of thought to the topic and I don’t hold with that idea at all. A few years back I wrote a small book on the subject – under a nom de plume of course – that was rather well received. My theory is that the aberration is a philosophical one, not a psychological one. At a certain stage the realisation striked through that one must either live outside of society’s bonds or die of absolute boredom. There is no future or freedom in the circumscribed life and the only other life is complete rejection of the rules. There is no longer room for the soldier of fortune or the gentleman adventurer who can live both within and outside of society. Today it is all or nothing. To save my own sanity I chose the nothing.”
Can’t wait to read them. I know I have at least two
Harry Harrison wrote other fantastic stuff.
Bill the Galactic Hero. Fantastic satire of the armed forces and more. It was a very excellent series of graphic novels too.
West of Eden. An alternate history where humanity evolved beside a race of reptiles who mastered genetic engineering while humans were still hunter-gatherers. A series of novels that have a satisfying ending.
Death World. A man winds up on the most hostile world in the galaxy attempting to help the hold-out colonists who are losing a war of attrition against the ecosystem.
IMNHO Harry Harrison is one of the greatest science fiction authors of all time, with a fantastic scope and variety of his work. West of Eden is truly a masterclass in world building SF, and remains gripping despite (mostly) being about cavemen and lizards.
Thanks! Sounds really good
Me and my cousin watched it through a couple years back. Such an interesting, psychological show. I'm still not sure I really understand it, but I'm definitely glad I watched it.
Be seeing you.
Be seeing you. That Asian lady driver in the first epics was pretty hot lol
Susan in The Schizoid Man was my favorite, but if she's still alive she's older than my mother.
Are you watching the original or remake?
Original. Is the 09 remake any good? That was pre “update for modern audiences” mindset
Yeah it's not too bad - Jim Cavaziel is always good (if you haven't watched Person of Interest I highly recommend that)
It's not "updated for modern audiences". They tried to do something different with the core idea of the original. Two major things that are very different in the remake (trying not to spoil):
Yea. I want to watch it after I watch the original. I was saying it was made before remakes became an excuse to inject modern day crap into it.
Well...they kinda did inject some circa 2009 "modern day crap" into it (OWS type stuff, since all the 2008 stuff had just happened) which wasn't present in the original, but it's not nearly as heavy-handed as you get now.
Yes. Absolutely the original. Been one I’ve been wanting to watch for a while