I agree with the ferret guy. This guy seems to be screaming "LEMME OUTTA HEEAH!" every 30 seconds, whereas the original kept trying to beat them at their own mind games in his efforts to escape. Number Six Original Recipe is much more intellectual to Number Six Redux's emotional.
Giving the current residents of the Village identities beyond their numbers -- mother, father, wife, husband, child -- gives them too much of an identity and robs the current story of the insidious nature that played through the original. Granted, you did have doctors, shopkeepers, scientists, etc., in the original but that's all you knew them as. Here, 147 is father, husband, and taxi driver.
Too many people want to escape in this version. In the original, you had enough people who were content to stay that made you question why they wanted to, what was so gosh darn spiffy about the Village. You knew why Number Six wanted to book it, but what would have compelled him to remain?
And since Number Two wasn't very consistent, changing in almost every episode, you lose that sense of disconnect. If the Village is so gosh darn perfect, why the heck couldn't they keep a Number Two on the job for very long? Were they replaced each time Number Six managed to crack their veneer and Number One was impatient?
And if the redux goes the way I'm afaid it will, AMC will owe me a new TV because I will throw heavy objects at the one we currently have.
