Posted on 11/18/2019 4:48:27 PM PST by LS
Following the plot is hard work but I’m on Ep 7 of S4 so I’m going to stick it out.
I stick by my comment that the last half of season 4 is a PC, black communist party wet dream. The ending for the Japanese occupation is so ridiculous that not even a LSD induced crazed PKD would have been capable of such hallucinations. The ending in the Reich is a non ending (I would assume there’ll be some kind of sequel). I’m a big PKD fan and really enjoyed seasons 1-3 but the last half of season 4 pretty much ruined it for me.
Does Dick write a real resolution in his novel?
My memory is that the novel does have resolution, but I haven’t read it in decades.
I would encourage anyone to read lots of PKD stuff. His short stories are totally amazing, and the novels like Time Out of Joint and Ubik are wonderful.
Another great science fiction writer influenced by PKD is Robert Charles Wilson—every one of his novels are great stuff.
If you click on my name you will see my discussion of a bunch of science fiction classics.
Nope. The problem I have with it is the literal PC insanity. There are scenes that are so bad I wanted to retch. Like others said seasons 1 and 2 were very good. It really starts to go off the rails in season 3 but still good. First half of 4 your reaction will be, what the heck. When you start to ask yourself, why am I watching this, just quit. If you do it that way you’ll just miss the non ending and gut curdling PC.
The series becomes a grindingly emotionally tough to follow-— kind of looking for a plot line (not in the books this way at all, in spite of Philip K. Dick’s personal lunacy and drug abuse and a lot else)
First two parts told a story and quest and the “neutral zone” concept that is Colorado. Politically it would NEVER have happened that Japan and Germany would divide up the US— no, they would have continued the fighting— because that is who they were— constant militarists and expansionists.
The characters are not well filled out— they seem cardboard, or even “stereotypical”. Overall, a very depressing series— makes one glad the history turned out the way it did, and for all the right reasons— America’s greatness and worldwide teamwork.
I liked season 1 and 2. I couldn’t make it through the first episode of season 3 when the serious PC kicked in.
If you enjoy the production quality and the acting I would stick it out through 2,3. Season 4 sucks rocks, oh and I never read the book.
One of my all time favorite books. The series got boring midway through season 2.
Should have given it to Ridley Scott for a three hour movie.
It is very lossely based on the book. The book is a thing of wonder.
Thanks. Look like I found a new author.
BTW, even though it’s “Stephen King,” the series “Mr. Mercedes” was pretty good through three seasons, as was “The Expanse.” Right now doing “The Dublin Murders.” Hard to follow cuz of the damn accents, but pretty good.
It follows the same trajectory, at least through season 1 and most of 2, I think. No idea about 3 and 4.
The High Castle should never have seen a 2nd Season. I was quite surprised to realize a 2nd and 3rd.
I watched it because I absolutely loved that whole June Cleaver being a Nazi business. The Main Street in the 50s and the Eisenhower Era technology being congruent with the Third Reich ideals was simply compelling.
It was for me fun in a perverse way.
Yes, I liked the TV miniseries “Fatherland” as well. Counterfactual history is just interesting at all levels, and indeed WW II was a close run thing in so many ways.
"It Happened Here", about a fictional Nazi occupation of Britain was very well done.
I disagree. I’ve watched the previous episodes and am half way through the latest season. This is art.
The Black Communist Rebellion seems, to me, like the only ideology left for the black characters, to participate in this drama. After all, this program IS the actual Nazis, against actual Imperial Japan, against actual American resistance that isn’t Communist.
I suppose to somebody that the Black characters got screwed for having to play the Communists, but that suggests that the White characters that played Nazis were also screwed. It’s a TV show, and it’s fun, and I have no idea how it will end. That’s what I ask from a TV show.
Y’all have a good night.
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