A very interesting premise that the USA is split into the western states of Japan and the eastern states are the American Reich in post World War II......we lost.......what makes it kind of interesting are the weapons featured in the first season. A colt SAA plays prominently and of course Japanese and German guns are seen throughout the program.....not to mention the cars. Lots of MBs, and VW's seen in the show......I am not sure if the program is that great but it is interesting if nothing else. At first I thought it was going to be just random killings of Nazis and Japanese but it evolves into more that that.........just watched the first season and will start on the second season later this evening...but some very interesting weapons.
Is anyone watching season 2 of Man in the High Castle?
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susieqz
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i read the book as a teen. i found it dull. i wonder if it would be better now?
The TV series expands on what happened in the book, and supposedly includes some ideas that Philip K. Dick had planned to include in a sequel to the book, which he never completed. Season three will get into entirely new material, but I am looking forward to that. I think the show is well done and I like the unpredictability of the story line.
Cheers,
Whisper
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Whisper
Absalom
SWCA Member, Absent Comrade
The book was interesting, but somewhat oddly written and not something I'd want to read again.
The show is considerably more complex. While it uses Dick's character's in the basic roles he wrote for them, additional interesting main characters are added, creating a really multi-layered story.
They did a great job giving even the "bad" guys, like the American SS officer Smith and the Japanese Kempetai inspector, complex personal back stories so you sometimes root for them when they confront even worse guys, even though most of the time they are persecuting our main heroes.
One thing I found a bit amusing is that a lot of their budget went into CGI rather than real locations. Outside filming happened in the Pacific Northwest, on a fairly limited budget, so pretty much every outdoor scene, no matter whether it is supposed to take place in central California, Colorado, outside NY City, or Nazi Berlin, looks like it was filmed along some logging road a few miles outside our town here. The CGI reconstructions of fictional Japanese-occupied San Francisco, Nazi New York, and Hitler's vision of 1960s post-war Berlin, are really impressively done, though.
The show is considerably more complex. While it uses Dick's character's in the basic roles he wrote for them, additional interesting main characters are added, creating a really multi-layered story.
They did a great job giving even the "bad" guys, like the American SS officer Smith and the Japanese Kempetai inspector, complex personal back stories so you sometimes root for them when they confront even worse guys, even though most of the time they are persecuting our main heroes.
One thing I found a bit amusing is that a lot of their budget went into CGI rather than real locations. Outside filming happened in the Pacific Northwest, on a fairly limited budget, so pretty much every outdoor scene, no matter whether it is supposed to take place in central California, Colorado, outside NY City, or Nazi Berlin, looks like it was filmed along some logging road a few miles outside our town here. The CGI reconstructions of fictional Japanese-occupied San Francisco, Nazi New York, and Hitler's vision of 1960s post-war Berlin, are really impressively done, though.
I thought the show got off to a slow start, with some bad decisions being made by characters that really weren't that sympathetic or compelling. I almost gave up after the first couple of episodes but the concept kept me watching. By the end of the second season it has become much more interesting, and as stated the filling in of the back story on a few of the protagonists has helped make it so. Looking forward to Season 3.
