The Man in the High Castle - Amazon

[sidious618]

Frank Spotnitz has talked about a second season so this definitely isn't a one time thing.

I really enjoyed this. It's not perfect, maybe even far from it, but damn is it ambitious! I can't really think of much else like this and the last two episodes are simply masterful. I'd recommend everyone check it out.

In the book, do they ever reveal who The Man in the High Tower is (this isn't to imply the show does or doesn't)?

 

[Allyn Gibson]

In the book, do they ever reveal who The Man in the High Tower is (this isn't to imply the show does or doesn't)?

Yes.

Spoiler: Book

His name is Hawthorne Abendsen. He's the author of The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, the alternate history in the book in which the Nazis lost the war. (Though, Abendsen really views himself as the conduit for the I Ching, which he says really wrote the book.) He lives in a modest home somewhere in Wyoming, and Juliana goes on a trip to meet him. Along the way she discovers that Joe is really an SD agent, sent to assassinate Abendsen, and kills him, then continues the journey on her own. (According to a newspaper clipping, the police believe they're married, so they don't know who they're looking for.) She's surprised that he doesn't actually live in a "High Castle," but he explains that it's to keep people from looking for him.

 

[Starbreaker]

I watched and enjoyed the pilot last night. I'll definitely be checking the rest of the series out. I haven't read the book, so I'll probably be mystified by every plot twist.

 

[sidious618]

In the book, do they ever reveal who The Man in the High Tower is (this isn't to imply the show does or doesn't)?

Yes.

Spoiler: Book

His name is Hawthorne Abendsen. He's the author of The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, the alternate history in the book in which the Nazis lost the war. (Though, Abendsen really views himself as the conduit for the I Ching, which he says really wrote the book.) He lives in a modest home somewhere in Wyoming, and Juliana goes on a trip to meet him. Along the way she discovers that Joe is really an SD agent, sent to assassinate Abendsen, and kills him, then continues the journey on her own. (According to a newspaper clipping, the police believe they're married, so they don't know who they're looking for.) She's surprised that he doesn't actually live in a "High Castle," but he explains that it's to keep people from looking for him.

Thank you! If you watch the show, let me know so we can talk about this further.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Thank you! If you watch the show, let me know so we can talk about this further.

Sadly, I won't see TMITHC for a while, as I don't have Amazon Prime. I don't buy enough from Amazon to justify the expense, and my 'net connection isn't always robust enough for streaming video.

In short, I'm banking on an eventual home video release.

 

[sttngfan1701d]

Yes.

Spoiler: Book

His name is Hawthorne Abendsen. He's the author of The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, the alternate history in the book in which the Nazis lost the war. (Though, Abendsen really views himself as the conduit for the I Ching, which he says really wrote the book.) He lives in a modest home somewhere in Wyoming, and Juliana goes on a trip to meet him. Along the way she discovers that Joe is really an SD agent, sent to assassinate Abendsen, and kills him, then continues the journey on her own. (According to a newspaper clipping, the police believe they're married, so they don't know who they're looking for.) She's surprised that he doesn't actually live in a "High Castle," but he explains that it's to keep people from looking for him.

Well, one bit in that spoiler actually sheds some light on the show's ending scene, and it makes more sense to me. Thanks.

 

[sttngfan1701d]

Frank Spotnitz has talked about a second season so this definitely isn't a one time thing.

I really enjoyed this. It's not perfect, maybe even far from it, but damn is it ambitious! I can't really think of much else like this and the last two episodes are simply masterful. I'd recommend everyone check it out.

Yeah, the last two episodes crank it up a notch. It's part of the reason why I dislike the 10-episode format thatis en vogue these days. Most of the season was slow-burn (which is fine with me, but a lot of critics moaned about it), and then the last 2-3 episodes brought some awesome stuff. And then it ends.

Couldn't we at least get 12?

 

[Sci]

Part of the advertising campaign for The Man in the High Castle is causing some controversy:

http://gothamist.com/2015/11/23/nazi_mta_subway_castle.php

 

[JD]

People really need to think things through a lot more before they start doing these kinds of viral ad campaigns. A lot of them seem to cause more harm than good.

 

[E-DUB]

Maybe they're getting the movies from these guys.

http://reocities.com/joegrotowski/quinn/sea1-3cast.jpg

 

[Shawnster]

Re-watched the pilot again last night. It's really, really high quality in terms their attention to detail. One thing though is notably absent in this scenario is if the Nazi's and the Japanese 'split,' the United States, what happened to Canada and South America in such a scenario?

I'm up through episode 4. Not binge watching. This is a really high-quality production and I'm enjoying it. I've not read the book, so I'm going into this without any preconceptions.

I, too, wondered about Canada. That was one of my gripes with Enterprise when they did the Space Nazi 2 parter. The map in one scene showed occupied USA with a distinct line at the US Canadian border. Yeah, right. As if the Nazi's were only interested in conquering the USA and not anywhere else. "Oh, your Canada? OK, free pass.)

I can see a situation where the Nazi forces take the major cities in the east, like Toronto, Ottawa and Quebec. It would be an extreme burden on the resources to conquer all of the US and Canada. Maybe they would take it in name only or with minimal presence, but I imagine a vast portion of Canada, especially farther north, would be sort of a neutral area nominally under German control.

 

[Bisz]

I can see a situation where the Nazi forces take the major cities in the east, like Toronto, Ottawa and Quebec. It would be an extreme burden on the resources to conquer all of the US and Canada. Maybe they would take it in name only or with minimal presence, but I imagine a vast portion of Canada, especially farther north, would be sort of a neutral area nominally under German control.

Just FYI, Quebec is a province, and Quebec City is overall fairly minor, did you mean Montreal?

 

[Sci]

I can see a situation where the Nazi forces take the major cities in the east, like Toronto, Ottawa and Quebec. It would be an extreme burden on the resources to conquer all of the US and Canada. Maybe they would take it in name only or with minimal presence, but I imagine a vast portion of Canada, especially farther north, would be sort of a neutral area nominally under German control.

Just FYI, Quebec is a province, and Quebec City is overall fairly minor, did you mean Montreal?

Wouldn't they still need to seize Quebec City? That's still where the provincial government and bureaucracy area.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

In the book, I seem to recall Canada is neutral and unconquered for unexplained reasons. Perhaps the Nazis gave it to a restored Edward VIII to rule over. In "Fatherland" by Robert Harris set in an alternate 1964, Elizabeth Windsor is in exile in Canada and her uncle Edward has been restored by the Nazis to the UK throne.

 

[bigdaddy]

In the book, I seem to recall Canada is neutral and unconquered for unexplained reasons. Perhaps the Nazis gave it to a restored Edward VIII to rule over. In "Fatherland" by Robert Harris set in an alternate 1964, Elizabeth Windsor is in exile in Canada and her uncle Edward has been restored by the Nazis to the UK throne.

That actually makes complete sense and is as likely as the Nazis and the Japanese sharing the USA. King Edward was one crazy fuck.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

It was Wallis Simpson and the Baltimore clinch of her prehensile vagina that ruled Edward Windsor.

 

[arch101]

Excellent series. Streaming is the future for scifi

This is what I've been telling people over on the New Trek Series forum.

 

[publiusr]

Excellent series. Streaming is the future for scifi

This is what I've been telling people over on the New Trek Series forum.

That's not as it should be--it destroys a sense of community.

I wonder if I might have turned into just another mindless jock had the Apollo Moon Landing not been on all three channels.
The USPS has mailmen who check in on the elderly.

The computers aren't giving us more choices, they are giving us less--letting folks stay in cysts.

Blind market forces make the History channel show NAZIs and UFOs, The Discovery channel sucks, folks want to kill PBS-ugh!

I shouldn't have to be a slave to a thousand different companies who each want a bite out of my paycheck to show me one thing on their inflated streaming service, or a cable company that wants to charge me more for the Smithsonian channel.

Gadzooks

 

[A beaker full of death]

It was Wallis Simpson and the Baltimore clinch of her prehensile vagina that ruled Edward Windsor.

This is the best damn thing I have ever read.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

It was Wallis Simpson and the Baltimore clinch of her prehensile vagina that ruled Edward Windsor.

This is the best damn thing I have ever read.

I wonder if my vagina is prehensile...