Ghostlike: Swazy

also. my #6 costume is way better than yours.

and the worst bit is that i can still wear it every halloween, and since the redux was so fucking far from the original, everyone will continue to have no idea who i am.

not a number. a free man. (with a number buttoned to his badass sport coat with that dope white piping on it.)

and all is well… the cycle repeats.

blah.

fuck that.

for those of you who can appreciate the original, it wasn’t about salvation, or chemically (or whatever) tampering with memories and emotion…

IT WAS ABOUT THE ULTIMATE REBEL REFUSING TO GIVE IN UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE.

it wasn’t about the particular “information!” they wanted, or the answers to the secrets in the village. those were simply vehicles for #6 to get where he needed to be.

it was (on the surface) about triumph over all odds. against the highest hurdles and the most unforseen obstacles.

i can see how the redux was it’s own story, and i can enjoy that.

but the series from 1971, that was just too perfect.

and the ending to that was simply brilliant.

they didn’t even have #1 in the 2009 version.

in the original, #6 comes to completely different realizations about ‘freedom’ and ‘self’ and finally faces #1… himself.

for there is nothing for the ‘ultimate rebel’ to rebel against if he is only rebelling against himself. and he suddenly becomes unhinged. something all of the #2’s and etc. had tried in vain to accomplish for the duration. and it was inside #6 all along.

the simple truth is that there is no prison when you see the microcosm as the macrocosm. when you see the piece as the whole.

another two cents here, in my opinion- macgoohan did a much better job as #6. caveziel was just whiny and confused the whole time. magoohan was a badass.

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