color of badges PLUS A bit about Mrs Butterworth
dave pierson
writes, in aprt:
>In article <1992Sep9.2...@umbc3.umbc.edu> han...@umbc4.umbc.edu
>>(Mr. Scott Hannon; PHYS (GRAD)) writes:
>> Perhaps (I'm guessing) it is an indicator of what side the prisoner
>> was really on before being confined in the village. Possibly free
>> world and communist, but I favor village and non-village. The
>> negative badges thus indicate the wearer is a prisoner, but was
>> once a village insider, and thus is to recieve different treatment
>> (because they know more about the running of the village).
>> Maybe someone with more familiarity can shoot this idea down?
>I believe I can blow this one soundly out of the water: in Many Happy
>Returns...oops, hang on, major spoiler for this episode follows...
>
>
>
>In Many Happy Returns, the new number 2 (Mrs. Butterworth) wears a
>black badge. Therefore it can hardly mean she is a prisoner.
Wellllll. We are getting a bit away from badges when I inquire:
Really?
Perhaps Mrs B IS a Prisoner. I'd have said one of the "themes" of T_P
is that wee are ALL Prisoners. Some of us have a bit of authority,
but many prisons use a trustee system.
Some of us come and go, but many prisons have paroles and furlough
schemes.
thanks
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Gavin Inglis
In article <1992Sep14....@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> pie...@empror.enet.dec.com (dave pierson) writes:
>>In Many Happy Returns, the new number 2 (Mrs. Butterworth) wears a
>>black badge. Therefore it can hardly mean she is a prisoner.
>
> Perhaps Mrs B IS a Prisoner. I'd have said one of the "themes" of T_P
> is that wee are ALL Prisoners. Some of us have a bit of authority,
> but many prisons use a trustee system.
Now there's a thought. But if you're going to pursue that line of
thinking, why shouldn't the other number 2's be prisoners too?
"Has it ever occurred to you that you are as much a prisoner as I?"
"Of course, we're both lifers..."
- conversation between 6 and 2, Chimes of Big Ben.
And what happens to the number 2's when they get replaced? They haven't
all failed miserably, and at least two (Colin Gordon, Leo McKern) come
back for another go. They don't appear in the village. Presumably they
aren't simply murdered.
You could theorise for ages, BUT, I think there isn't enough evidence to
point to Mrs B. as the sole "Number 2" prisoner. I still subscribe to
the "goes nice with light clothing" black badge theory.
(Could you blatantly point out spoilers for the last couple of episodes,
for someone who is desperately trying not to hear _anything_ until UK TV
Falls Out in about seventeen weeks :) )
Be seeing you,
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dave pierson
>This features a major spoiler for "Many Happy Returns"...
>In article <1992Sep14....@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
>pie...@empror.enet.dec.com (dave pierson) writes:
>>>In Many Happy Returns, the new number 2 (Mrs. Butterworth) wears a
>>>black badge. Therefore it can hardly mean she is a prisoner.
>> Perhaps Mrs B IS a Prisoner. I'd have said one of the "themes" of T_P
>> is that wee are ALL Prisoners. Some of us have a bit of authority,
>> but many prisons use a trustee system.
>Now there's a thought. But if you're going to pursue that line of
>thinking, why shouldn't the other number 2's be prisoners too?
Indeed. P'raps they are. P'raps the only "non prisoners" are the
non-numbers. Clearly several of the number two's feel themselves
under threat. I seem to recall a bit from Hamlet, about prisonership,
roughly:
Why then 'tis only your thinking its a prison makes it one.
(Which of course stands the Village==Prison=="bad" concept on its
head...)