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It just seemed like an unnecessary add-on and a distraction.
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Admittedly, this is written by Philip K Dick so you should expect a sci fi angle, but I would have preferred the series to just concentrate on alternate history, and the drama stemming from that, rather than introduce the sci fi drama.
Then there's the sci fi aspect involving the films. 50 Japanese soldiers barge into a club to catch a fugitive, they all go in the front door, leaving other exits unguarded, fugitive escapes through the back door man meets Yakuza boss, he's carrying a gun but henchmen don't frisk him, gun gets him out of a sticky situation. It is usually small things, but they are enough to undermine the credibility of the plot, e.g.
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After creating this great platform for drama and reimagining history and society, sub-plots are certainly not free of holes or contrivances. Easy enough to ask, right? Yes, but alas, difficult to achieve. All the series needed was solid performances and no superfluous or hole-filled sub-plots and it would have been perfect. This alternate world provides some great plot developments and backgrounds for many intrigues: the American Resistance vs the Japanese and Germans the friction between the Germans and Japanese and how they try to undermine each other, even potentially destroy each other, all while carrying on like loyal allies the factional in-fighting within the Nazi Party and the Roman-style politics involved. As far as I can tell, the earliest deviation is in Dec 1941-Feb 1942 when the Japanese manage to invade and occupy Hawaii. It became an enjoyable intellectual exercise for me, figuring out when the alternate history started deviating from the actual, and the events that took place, and didn't take place, for this to happen. As a student of history, especially military history, I kept expecting something to not add up, or not fit in with history's possible paths, but it all fits in perfectly. The events that took place to reach the alternative reality and how the world and society now look and function all make sense. The central plot, an alternate history where the US loses WW2 and is occupied by the Germans and Japanese, is a very intriguing one and is very well done. Based on a novel by Philip K Dick (writer of the novels and short stories on which movies such as Blade Runner, Minority Report, A Scanner Darkly, Total Recall and Paycheck were based) and produced by Ridley Scott, the series had massive potential and initially lives up to it. At the centre of the manufacture and distribution of these films is one man, a figurehead in the Resistance: The Man in the High Castle.
While largely viewed as propaganda, these films could be more than that. The Resistance's greatest hope appears to lie in films which show an alternate reality, a world where the US and its allies won WW2. Opposing her and her comrades are the most ruthless forces the Nazis and Japanese have to offer, lead by Obergruppenfuhrer John Smith of the SS and Chief Inspector Kido of the Kempeitai. When her sister is killed by the Japanese, Juliana Crain is sucked into the covert, dangerous world of the American Resistance. Germany occupies the eastern states and Japan the western, with the Neutral Zone in between. Having lost World War 2, the United States is now occupied by Germany and Japan.
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