Okay, I'm finally caught up with the show.
A few questions/thought:
1) Why doesn't anybody think of breaking a window in this show?
2) Why aren't they all more freaked out by the incident where the van was driving away from the village one minute and the next it's driving towards it after a flash of light? That would be
super weird and totally worthy of at least a little conversation. They talk in detail about every other aspect of there imprisonment.
I guess we can assume that the talked about it during the 5 days they were digging the tunnel off camera... still, i hope we come back to that.
There's a bit of the Dome going on here too - the teleporting technology seems a bit out there. Are there aliens in the attic?
I am betting against aliens.
3) I don't think any of the 'prisoners' is a mole, but if they went that way it should be Joe Tucker. That would be the most shocking.
4) Totally saw the reverse gas mask thing coming.
5) Enjoying the show for the most part. Not totally on board with the stuff going on outside the village, although the creepy grandma thing is kinda cool.
6)
Anyone else catch this? From the previews it looked like Saw II without the traps and gore. Thought it was a decent episode, it got me hooked.
What else is there to the Saw movies? Does this show star a crazy clown doll riding a tricycle?
Have you ever watched the SAW movies?
As much as this reminds me of the Prisoner, it reminds me the most of SAW for the following reasons:
-SAW is
always about teaching the protagonists a lesson, and as others have commented
Persons Unknown seems to be headed in that direction.
-The victims in SAW always have a way out and the show has given us the impression that they could leave if they play the game right (as in the case of Janet with the 'kill Joe and you will be free' fortune.) Which leads me to the next point:
-Strangers are thrown into a situation where they are prisoners and have to find there way out by 1) interpreting riddles, 2) killing another 'contestant' 3) injuring themselves. We have seen all of that, and that is the meat and potatoes of SAW.
-Regarding the torture that is featured so prominently in SAW: Janet Cooper did make a reference to how they were being tortured and their captors must be 'getting off on it.' It can't be denied that they have all been tortured mentally/emotionally/physically though not so overtly as in SAW.
Anyway, I am in for all 13 episodes and look forward to being able to finally watch one on my 50" instead of on-line!
..and thats why i brought up that puppet show and asked "what is this show you are talking about"
