kingtycoon | Many Happy Returns

I just realized that the super bowl is happening now. Oh well!

#6 wakes up and looks at his watch like you wake up and look at your phone. Seriously - life in The Village seems totally relaxing & pleasant. Nothing but weird mind-games to overcome every so often - a new boss to undermine whenever you feel like it and wake up whenever you want. Soothing. I want to live in The Village. If that's not clear yet, I am saying it now.

Except there was that black cat- that part kind of sucks. I bet you wouldn't get in trouble for kicking it into the muddy ocean though. Not in The Village

So this is the Vanilla Sky episode where The Village is totally abandoned. Nice. I like that #6 is kind of curious about it rather than just straight running away. He wants to know for once & heads right to #2's office under the green dome.

Whaaa? Okay - so building a pontoon boat to escape is kind of inspried & also crazy. I guess he really thinks it's in the balkans still? Based on his experience from the Chimes of Big Ben. Smart that he takes pictures of the palce & so on - who would believe you right #6?

Lost at sea all alone... I think they spent the budget on filming at sea & so couldn't afford all the extras or a costar. He's got some survival chops at least - magnetizing the needle & whatnot. Shaving in the seawater is kind of delightful too. Plus the ersatz logbook. I like that there hasn't been a word said so far. Is this going to be the silent film episode?

He looks actually handsome in diffuse gray light, not at all blotchy or morbidly pompus - a british thing perhaps? Is he naturally selected for a particular lattitude? Anyhow, if these motherfuckers want to be pirates to you you'd better fuck them up hardcore- that's what to do #6.

Village Style canned goods - and still not a word said. This is a cool episode.

Now I have a machine gun. Ho Ho Ho.

Also may as well cook up a bomb in their kitchen. Fuck these guys. I had a professor. A polish guy - he'd been at the Nurenberg Trials in some kind of perfunctory official capacity - worked at the CIA after that. He said: "Zhe Piradte Isz Zse Enimee ofv All Mankint!" I like that still, that's stuck with me. The pirates talk but in some fake-ass jibjab that's probalby supposed to be polish. #6 is silent but deadly. I'm thinking...

The title is many happy returns. I'm getting the notion that he'll end up back in the Village (obviously, since there are like 10 more episodes) - but that it'll be even crazy-mysterious that he does so - like The Village can fuck with magnets & so on.

Poor #6. When you are merciful to your enemies you invite revenge. This is the sorrowfiul burde of the virtuous man. I sympathize here as his captives escape to fight again. They should have taken their beatings the first time and just trusted #6 to take them someplace nice.

Oh dang - swim away! Hypothermia probably won't get you if you wear a nice enough turtleneck #6!

White cliffs eh? I don't ive in a place with a lot of cliffs - that's an oversight on my part no doubt - a personal moral failing. Though - aha!

You should definitely talk to this nitwit with a flesh colored dog! That's a good first line to come in with 20 minutes in "Where is this." Meanwhile the nitwit appears to be some kind of gypsy. Horse, caravan & everything. Whatever, I'm american we don't have gypsies. Anyhow, they don't have horses & wagons.

Pirates & gypsies though - that's very adventurous - many trappings of adventure. And he's all wise to avoiding the police. Good for him. "institutional authority is the enemy!" It'd be pretty gross if #6 was saved by cops.

Meantime - he's in the moving van from 101 dalmations?

Fine. I guess that's a type of truck from the UK? And he jumps out in the middle of a city that's probably london? I know my tirumphal arches pretty good, and I've been to london, I don't know the one there though. I guess he's going back to his house? It's the DangerMouse letterbox and... Another maid in a uniform? What The Heck?

This is a good episode. Here comes his lotus again! Driven by some pants wearing lady - I think she was in the AB or C episode? Yes! It's the same lady, she's aged & sassy. Once I dated a lady in her 50's. She lacked confidence - but was excedingly self concious. She was worried all the time about if she was pretty enough or cool enough or what have you - this lady seems definitely like some fantasy older-lady cool-girl. You don't find super with-it ladies past middle age who are just flirty and gregarious without being super scared. Meantime - #6 is about to have a birthday?

Are they setting the stage here? With the recording of time's passage?

My boy can crush a sammitch or ten. I like him Eat the food like a madman, that's what you know about a dude who came through a bad situation with pirates & gypsies - he's hungry for sandwitches. Anyhow, racecar old lady's pants do her no favors. You'd think she'd put together a better look - given how she's got a fake tiger skin rug, you'd think she had a sense of pants.

Hilariously, she's Mrs. Butterworth - Do UK people have Mrs. BUtterworth? Do they even have maple syrup?

Shit! She's giving him her fucking lotus? My dude is smooth but who is that smooth?

Okay - well this is... Weird no? I like this. This is a good fucking show - here they're having him come back to home - & Is that the 3rd or 4th #2? THey're debriefing him back at the spy agency? He's gone back & is revealing all - he's back & telling it all. You know he's gotta go back, there are episodes to spare, but this is straight up DARING to have the whole thing seem to have ended- or anyway to have resolved.

So The Village is in the Azores? You can tell that shit has been resolved & calculated down in an official capacity because this is the 60's and there has not been a woman in any of these scenes. There is a jet fighter, but no lady to speak of. Men & technology are the basis of reason & accomplishment - you should know that you dumb ladies. Don't even imagine you could share a scene with a bunch of lumpy dull looking men. They have shit to consider.

And then there's the betrayal by the dick jet pilot/pirate? Naturally! It's checkov's guy- if you see a guy, he will be used. This black cat seems like he's not going to shoot anyone though.

So where do you suppose all the villagers are during these scenes? While it's abandoned? Do you think they just are at home hiding? Maybe they've been taken away? Mrs. Butterworth is in on it, naturally, and... Well I called it all - still, this is an impressive episode. You don't see shit like this - cool & novel reversals.