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THE PRISONER DEMO
BY THE PHENOMINAL SHORTS COMPANY
Review by The Schizoid Man
of the PSC
Now, before I begin, I want to make it totally clear that I
have been forced into writing this doc against my will. Any
complaints about how boring it is should be addressed to Wheee the
fibble.
So, as for the Prisoner Demo, it might help if I could be sure
that you all knew exactly what the Prisoner was, but I can't. To
begin... NO, 'NOT PRISONER CELL BLOCK H' seems like a fairly good
start. This is the mistake that most people make, so a short (or
as short a humanly possible) summary of this surreal, cult-ish,
60's TV series starring Patrick McGoohan and Leo McKern may be in
order.
McGoohan plays a secrety-type agengt fellow who has resigned
from his top-secret job (he had last played John Drake in 'Danger
Man' - a sort of Bond prototype) and wakes one morning to find
himself in a place called The Village, from which he cannot leave.
This he sees as something of a disadvantage, primarily because of
the Village's attempts to 'extract or protect' information, for
the benefit of one political side or the other.
Over the course of seventeen episodes, the village uses lots of
bizarre and high-tech (or rather 60's visions of high-tech)
methods to crack Number 6's will through their obsession over why
he resigned.
The last two episodes are a masterpiece - Number 6 and Numebr 2
are locked together in a final confrontation, part of a process
known as Degree Absolute... a process which only one of them can
survive.
Back, for a moment, to the demo. We have tried to follow this
story in three basic sections - beginning, middle and end.
Original, don't you think? That was always the way my old
primary school teacher taught me to write stories, and I'm not
going to give up the habit of a lifetime just for some old demo.
The beginning, of course, is Number 6's abduction, incarceration
and introduction to the village. The middle - being based on the
following fourteen episodes - is squeezed into about three
pictures, so as to give a bumper of an end section, which follows
the Degree Absolute process, and some of it's... er... slightly
out of the ordinary consequences.
With it's stunning digi-pics, startlingly good sampled speech
and music, brilliantly super and excellent 'spinning head'
sprites, and marvelous, thrilling, unbearably orgasmic doc on the
second disk (Billy wanted me to mention that incidentally...),
this demo breaks all bounds of art, music, culture, and human
advancement. This highest summit of man's endeavour is already
being considered for recognition in the form of several Nobel
prizes, and of course Knighthoods for the members of the
Phenominal Shorts Company are an inevitability.
GO OUT AND BUY IT!!!
PS.
The Skunk has, of course been tabled for summary execution by
almost every European government for his trash-effort Prisoner
Demo. Unfortunately Britain is lagging behind in Europe once
again, so it is left to you decent, clean-minded computer users to
bar him from civilised society for all time.
P.P.S Hey, Skunk! You're crap.