Friday, 14 March 2025

Transcending Genres

Yesterday and today, I have been distracted from this blog not only by real life but also because a friend emailed me a link to a documentary about the making of The Prisoner TV series:

THE MAKING OF THE PRISONER: Don’t Knock Yourself Out (Documentary)

I have previously posted about The Prisoner on another blog:

Bond, UNCLE And The Prisoner

007, No. 6 And V

I think that The Prisoner and Alan Moore's V For Vendetta (for the latter, see the third link above) transcend their genres in the way that Poul Anderson's Genesis transcends other American sf future histories. I will return to rereading Anderson's future history, Starfarers, shortly (I hope).

2 comments:

S.M. Stirling said...

And oddly enough, the place the Prisoner was kept confined would be paradise incarnate to a substantial share of the human race...

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

I feel grumpy about the Bond movies. The later ones were terrible, with hardly any real connection to the Bond stories. And the best of the written stories had SMERSH as the villains Bond fought. I never thought SPECTRE a satisfactory replacement.

Ad astra! Sean