Posted on 11/25/2015 4:10:01 AM PST by ScottWalkerForPresident2016
Alternate history series 'The Man in the High Castle' set in world where Allies lost World War II
Amazon has pulled ads for its series The Man in the High Castle plastered throughout the New York City subway system that featured symbols from Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, Variety reports.
The new series, based on Philip K. Dick's 1962 novel of the same name, is an alternate history that imagines a world where the Allies lost World War II. The American coasts are controlled by Nazi and Japanese puppet regimes, while a free section remains in the Rocky Mountains.
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Hits too close to home.
When you live under a fascist regime, it’s awkward to pull back the curtain.
The Allies apparently lost WWIII (the Cold War) what with all of the pinko Socialists in charge of the government, NGOs, corporations, academia, and media today.
“that featured symbols from Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, Variety reports”
The “Nazi” stuff was specious at best as the actual show used swastikas, while the subway ad used none. The Japanese stuff was completely fictitious.
I just finished watching the series on Amazon prime... Well worth the time. There are eight shows..... Don’t miss it!
The future of History Channel advertising is in serious jeopardy.
Amazon would have really freaked out these snowflakes (my new favorite term) if they had used the image of the American flag with the canton (union) replaced by the swastika as it appears in the opening for the series. Kudos to Amazon for producing this series. It’s in the best tradition of good sic-fi; it makes you think.
I liked the series very much even though I skipped some of the really dialog heavy scenes.
The cinematography is fantastic.
I’m looking forward to seeing more.
I’d better watch the series, before the leftists, who are trying to effectively make what happens in the series happen here, get it banned.
Something that REALLY hit me hard was during the pilot, where one of the characters, a truck driver, had a flat tire, and a police officer pulls over to help him, and even shares his lunch with the driver. A really nice guy. The driver notices some ash coming down, and asks the cop, who non-chalantly says, oh, that’s the hospital. Nazi elimination of the weak, and the people just go along with it.
Mark
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