kingtycoon | The Chimes of Big Ben

Every time I look at #6's lotus it makes my knees hurt. Tiniest car ever then? All popeyed in your resignation speech? If I were a spy I feel like my last day of work would involve a lot more punching. You know how you make these dares with yourself about what you'll do on your last day at work?

I would not work at a place where they had the possibility of key-hold-druggings either.

Yes! Best #2. So falstafian.

By hook or by crook. They will.

I can't remember if he ever meets the voice of the village - the squakbox lady.

Oh dang! Art projects?

I have to say - I want to also make putitng on my dressing gown appear to be an act of defiance. More personal defiance, that's what I'll do.

Does anything happen with this admiral? What navy is he even in? What hat is that? Soviet? His moustache is pretty british though. I guess it's supposed to be ambiguous - also now he is a general?

Oh, new hot lady, here to recuperate. It's relaxing on the mud beach.

tea-service dwarf never fails to be a visual foil. Good work. This #2 is so fukkin great. He's all jovial menace - that's basically impossible to pull off and he's got it all over the place - eat that scenery up.

#8 sounds familiar, I think #8 is always #2's confederate? Maybe lieutenant?

Oh, this lady with the preposterous haircut - she's Russian, eastern-bloc? German? #6 seems pretty thoroughly habituated now. I think.. There are different commentors who've advocated different viewing sequences - I'm not that cool, but I don't think this is much of an episode 2 - except - well #6 is recapitulating his own 1st day for this lady - so that's not a terrible bookend - still, maybe not second episode tuff.

The fact that this lady was once pretty enough for TV and that her outfit was on prime time tells you everything you need to know about your grandma's fashions.

You'd think #6 as a spy in the cold war would be able to distinguish between Estonian and Russian... Then again - she has a russian name - and the whole system of ethnic relocation & mixing under the soviets? Do you think they were so sophisticated to know about these things in the BBC? mabye!

Goddammed the new #2 is great - this guy is the best. A perfect new order! I like his hope. It's a good hope, that the future would be the village. Cold War! Well, the cold war. I grew up with it so it makes the most sense for me - It's one of those things you couldn't explain to someone younger. How do you say - "I thought the world would end and used fantasies about that to prevent me from caring deeply about the circumstances of my own life" to someone?

Oh this lady... She really does remind me of my gramma - same makeup and bathing suit. Oh! ow the balloon has babies? It defeats you no matter how great you are at swimming. Fuck you greg louphelps you are ballooned.

The hospital is this castle. I feel like I see a castle like that in life- I guess at the weird old graveyard down the street. Everytime I experience things that are really european I get so happy that I'm not from europe.

Electric floors are pretty cruel. I knew a guy - he had an ossiliscope- (however you spell it) it was part of his stage show. He married the lady I went to the prom with, and I think, cheated on her with HurricaneLaura? I might be talking out my ass. I don't know.

Time for more booze.

Abstract art! #6 makes his own tools. I gotta say - this is the inspiriing aspect of #6 - the primitive autodidact- caveman cunning. Stone axe. he made a stone axe & this Estonian lady knows how to swim away from the village. He's a caveman in the best members only jacket! Race your lotus and eat grubs! The prop treefall is ludicrous though - it's like there's a lord of the rings component to this whole scene.

I have to say: this boat is absurd. I mean - I get that they have ot make a boat of a kind that's somewhat visually boat-like for TV - but I also know how to make a dugout canoe with a stone axe - because of... It's pretty weird that I know how to do that, but I do. His boaty-boat that he improbably made out of a chopped down prop tree is just preposterous.

Oh boy, magic trick hands and an awkward discussion of sides, weird reminisces of West Germany... I wonder if htis lady is real & true - The Village is near Poland?

This general was an admiral last episode right? I feel certain he was.

It means what it is. I like that McGoohan throws in his acutal manifesto in making The Prisoner right here. It means what it is. Human aspirations - Knowledge & escape... Okay #6. I believe you.

Dang...

#38 should get a prize - weaving is hard as fuck. Textle arts require such a supreme concentration - I'm always impressed & forever pleased by good weavers. #6 knows what I'm talking about. That's some dilligence.

Now here, he flirts with some kind of shatnerian deliery - I mean, it's absolutley superior, but still. I would like to use these work units, to, 'BUY', the work of #38. AGREED!?"

Geez lady, it's good that you know how to get bronze medals in swimming - if you're sailing the North Sea in that boat.

Really, why don't they have any suspicions about the mean old balloon? And they don't call on the mean balloon to get them?

Oh, it only comes out during orange alerts. I get it - well, there must be a big sporting event happinging! Orange alert. Seriously - it gives me flashbacks to 2004. Orange alert! Beware of everyone, all are enemies.

Cripes. I can't even imagine how preposterous all this fake russian is. I know legitimately 10 russian words and these accnts are making me feel embarassed.

I'm pretty sure that during the cold war though - a guy couldn't ship a big crate full of people from Poland to London without a lot of customs forms.

Is that the same watch he used to smugly pilot the helicopter last episode?

It's weird watching this dude have a romantic comedy with my grandmother while escaping The Village. This airplane/boffin montagemeans fuckall to me. She calls him bigben like it's one word- people get all particular about what means what - big-ben the clock, the tower... When I went to london I noticed the statue of Abraham Lincoln - How fucking cool is that? I took in a lot of sights in London, but they straight up have a statue of Abe Lincoln by parliament.

Oh dang. surviving in those crates was a taxing affair - he's spent and my russian gramma is leaving. These doors look like an 80's dentist office.

Oh Fuck - don't talk to this dude. He... he's got a picture of Nelson on the Nile on his wall? With like? What? legal books? Don't talk to this guy. Lithuania.

Okay - it's a lot of information but this guy he's talking to is just too comically television british for me to care. I hate him so.

Old boy. Old boy. You know, FordmaddoxFraud calls you that and you feel postive, good about yourself, this guy though.

Well I envy his desk anyhow.

Do you think McGoohan cast these bit players with little actors so you too would feel a special desire to crush them all like tiny weaklings? i like it - effective camera work.

This big reveal involving timekeeping & traffic noise is kind of a let down though. It's probably a satisfactory letdown - but maybe it's the pacing of the episode that makes it seem more comical than evocative. Probably they should have made this two episodes - pacing it that way would have made it seem cliffhanger-ey anyhow.

So #8 reports on #2. That's the actual big reveal here.

I'm kinda drunk now.