A few days ago, I saw the last episode of The Prisoner, called "Fall Out." In it, a whole bunch of crazy stuff happened that didn't resolve the plot at all. I tried to figure it out for a while, and eventually turned to the Internet for help. Though I found a few fascinating fan pages, nobody could solidly say what it was supposed to mean. Even the best one I could find had some critical holes.
Then it hit me: it doesn't mean anything. This might sound a little postmodern, but people think that everything has meaning when in reality a lot of occurrences are truly coincidences, simple white noise. It is known that the writer of Fall Out wanted to be done with the series (he had received a lot of evidently annoying fan mail already) and therefore probably destroyed the plot in a blazing glob of nonsense, basically saying "ha, here's what it all means!" and presenting total insanity.
Another thought I had was that logic was somehow distorted to make this all work. (Perhaps some kind of meta-logic?) Then I realized that such an idea is just taking the arbitrary nature up another level and that allowing the rules of logic to be bent takes it out of the real world and makes it all pointless.
Side note: I would be very happy to play a puzzle game in which meta-logic and postulate distortion happen, assuming it was well thought out.
So, in short, Fall Out means nothing and there isn't guaranteed to be meaning in any given place. It's possible and quite easy to produce total nonsense from mental fluctuation, and trying to interpret it according to the real world is a waste of time.
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