Posted on 12/17/2016 7:50:55 AM PST by mad_as_he$$
The Second Season of "The Man in the High Castle." dropped on Amazon yesterday. It is a very well written, directed and visually stunning series. It will go down as one of the great series in entertainment.
Thanks for posting this.
I’m still in Season 1.
It’s a bit dark for my tastes but I find myself drawn in.
It’s hard to judge yet whether Man in the High Castle will end on such a hopeful note, or if it is ultimately setting viewers up for a steep fall. But the lesson for those of us terrified of Trump’s America has to be in those words. Even if we don’t know if we can change the racism, the sexism, the xenophobia or prevent our government's descent into a shameless kleptocracy, we still must fight.
I can only hope they encounter a cliff while looking at the world through the wrong end of the telescope.
Just read that yesterday.
Don't touch the Dick (Phillip K... what did you think I meant? ;)
Actually Bibles are illegal ... in the series.
The idea seems to be that the regime and the Resistance are fighting for possession of a set of films. The films represent alternative histories, some of which have the Allies winning the Second World War. The Man in the High Castle screens the films for individuals who are key to the different scenarios, apparently so he can intervene in those persons' lives, or something. Maybe it will be revealed, but I don't get how the films were generated or how the past and future can be changed. Good science fiction will at least give the reader/viewer a coherent explanation of premises of that kind.
Don’t flip another man’s meat?
It wasn’t all that clear why that part happened when it did.
It’s set back in the early 60’s with the premise of what the United States would be like if it had lost World War II—Imperial Japan in control of the west coast, Nazi Germany in control of the eastern side, and a neutral zone in the central Rockies.
The story starts off with a young woman who is secretly given a film that shows footage of the United States actually winning the War, and she is tasked with delivering the film to ‘The man on the high castle.”
So the mystery begins...
It’s set back in the early 60’s with the premise of what the United States would be like if it had lost World War II—Imperial Japan in control of the west coast, Nazi Germany in control of the eastern side, and a neutral zone in the central Rockies.
The story starts off with a young woman who is secretly given a film that shows footage of the United States actually winning the War, and she is tasked with delivering the film to ‘The man on the high castle.”
So the mystery begins...
Actually the Japanese Trade Minister had a strange dream that it was America which had won the war. Then he woke up and went back to work.
I honestly don’t want to know just yet.
Knowing all of that in season one takes all of the mystery out of it, and makes good plot twists harder to pull off. It just becomes a bunch of people going through to motions one the big HOW and WHY are revealed.
I mean how many people are convinced that at the end, it was Hitler that was the Man in the High Castle? I’m sure that will be another big twist in the 2nd season.
Thanks, we will try it when we finish our Midsommer Murders binging.
I’d love to understand why PKD gets the Hollywood treatment over and over again and most other classic scifi authors never get even one. Force of habit at this point? Why branch out when it seems to be successful?
Freegards
More like different timelines that are loosely connected. It is scifi.
Yup, Trump did it. /s
I really enjoyed the Night Manager!
Your take is valid. Most of it comes with a shock at the end of the 10th episode.
Good question. I never understood that either and some treatments of his work were just awful.
I re-watch the previous season as well. It brings me up to speed, plus I always miss something the first go around.
I’ll jump in here to mention The Magnificent Century also on Netflix. I’m trying to quit watching but some how can’t. It is Turkish with English Sub titles
It is the story of Suleiman the Magnificent and the establishment of the Ottoman Empire. To my disappointment, the series is Turkish soap opera set in the Harem of Topkapi palace in constantinople. The man had one wife but several concubines that are a wonder to behold. They are all cooped up in splendor and excess and have nothing to do but war with each other.
There is from time to time some serious mention of the world diplomacy and the real war of sovereign competition and trade. However, the harem prevails for most of the minutes.
It is a very lavish TV production that portrays Islam in a manner ISIS would hate
I have watched some of the MIdsummer series but I sometimes got to sleep aqnd then don’t know who dunit
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