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Two thumbs up for 'The Man in the High Castle'
« on: June 07, 2015, 12:22:05 PM »
If you have access to Amazon video, then the adaptation of Philip K. Dick's  'The Man in the High Castle' is well worth a view.  Based on the initial reception, Amazon recently ordered a full season of episodes.

Some of it is being filmed in this area, and it was interesting for me to see the set locations.  Good photography, acting and plot.
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Re: Two thumbs up for 'The Man in the High Castle'
« Reply #1 on: June 07, 2015, 04:17:05 PM »
Quote from: MillCreek on June 07, 2015, 12:22:05 PM
If you have access to Amazon video, then the adaptation of Philip K. Dick's  'The Man in the High Castle' is well worth a view.  Based on the initial reception, Amazon recently ordered a full season of episodes.

Some of it is being filmed in this area, and it was interesting for me to see the set locations.  Good photography, acting and plot.

Thanks for the heads up, I thought I remember seeing a trailer for the movie a year or two ago and wondered if the movie ever came out.
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Re: Two thumbs up for 'The Man in the High Castle'
« Reply #2 on: June 07, 2015, 05:51:20 PM »
We've got Prime.  I will give it a look.
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Re: Two thumbs up for 'The Man in the High Castle'
« Reply #3 on: June 07, 2015, 08:04:50 PM »
I watched the pilot when it was released and liked it. Happy to hear they picked up a whole season. I bought the book after watching the pilot and was fairly disappointed. It was very anticlimactic.
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Re: Two thumbs up for 'The Man in the High Castle'
« Reply #4 on: June 07, 2015, 11:15:56 PM »
Watched the first episode tonight.  Pretty decent, looking forward to the next one (though the audio effects guys were off on some stuff as they typically are these days on period shows).
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Re: Two thumbs up for 'The Man in the High Castle'
« Reply #5 on: June 08, 2015, 11:13:56 AM »
Waiting with much anticipation for the rest of the series.
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Re: Two thumbs up for 'The Man in the High Castle'
« Reply #6 on: October 25, 2015, 08:06:17 PM »
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Re: Two thumbs up for 'The Man in the High Castle'
« Reply #7 on: October 25, 2015, 08:09:58 PM »
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Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzz_6dmv03I

Thanks for the reminder! Watched the first one when it came out, now it looks like the whole season will drop in a couple of weeks.
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Re: Two thumbs up for 'The Man in the High Castle'
« Reply #8 on: October 25, 2015, 08:16:07 PM »
Yeah. Been seeing the add for it on youtube. Looks like it will be pretty good.
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Re: Two thumbs up for 'The Man in the High Castle'
« Reply #9 on: October 25, 2015, 09:52:23 PM »
Watched the second episode last night.  An interesting premise, decent acting.  I'll keep watching.
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Re: Two thumbs up for 'The Man in the High Castle'
« Reply #10 on: October 25, 2015, 09:57:43 PM »
I watched both eps last night and enjoyed it. Man in the High Castle was not my favorite PKD novel by a stretch but I can see how it would play out better as a mini series. Terrifying idea, America being run by Japan and NAZIs. Perhaps this will series will help motivate it's viewers to rise against?
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« Reply #11 on: October 26, 2015, 02:56:27 AM »
Looks very interesting.  I love alternative history.
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Re: Two thumbs up for 'The Man in the High Castle'
« Reply #12 on: October 26, 2015, 12:06:12 PM »
Sweet, will try out.

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Re: Two thumbs up for 'The Man in the High Castle'
« Reply #13 on: October 26, 2015, 03:49:09 PM »
I found it compelling.  Will definitely watch the rest of the season.
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Re: Two thumbs up for 'The Man in the High Castle'
« Reply #14 on: November 20, 2015, 10:49:12 PM »
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Re: Two thumbs up for 'The Man in the High Castle'
« Reply #15 on: November 21, 2015, 12:43:22 AM »
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Re: Two thumbs up for 'The Man in the High Castle'
« Reply #16 on: November 22, 2015, 03:36:01 PM »
I saw the series dropped and started watching. I'm just through episode three right now. I recommend that anyone who saw the pilot when it first came out rewatch that before starting the rest. I should have done that.

I'm liking it so far. My only nits to pick at this point are a couple of the Marvel comic style over-the-top bad guys.  Obergruppenführer Smith somehow was the only one to live through an ambush involving like eight resistance fighters with machine guns, and also managed to take all of them out with a Luger (except the one guy he wounded and left alive for interrogation). "The Marshal" is also a bit over the top. All somebody needs to do is what Kevin Costner did in "Open Range" -- walk up to the guy, don't bother with small talk, and just shoot him in the head.

Then also, though I'm not prudish, it seems out of place to have the F-bomb dropped so much in the 1960s environment. Amazon must have some HBO writers working for them.

Anyway,  I still like it a lot so far and am trying not to binge watch to make it last, especially since shows like "The Walking Dead" will probably be taking breaks over the holidays.
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Re: Two thumbs up for 'The Man in the High Castle'
« Reply #17 on: November 23, 2015, 11:14:00 AM »
Quote from: Ben on November 22, 2015, 03:36:01 PM
I saw the series dropped and started watching. I'm just through episode three right now. I recommend that anyone who saw the pilot when it first came out rewatch that before starting the rest. I should have done that.

I'm liking it so far. My only nits to pick at this point are a couple of the Marvel comic style over-the-top bad guys.  Obergruppenführer Smith somehow was the only one to live through an ambush involving like eight resistance fighters with machine guns, and also managed to take all of them out with a Luger (except the one guy he wounded and left alive for interrogation). "The Marshal" is also a bit over the top. All somebody needs to do is what Kevin Costner did in "Open Range" -- walk up to the guy, don't bother with small talk, and just shoot him in the head.

Then also, though I'm not prudish, it seems out of place to have the F-bomb dropped so much in the 1960s environment. Amazon must have some HBO writers working for them.

Anyway,  I still like it a lot so far and am trying not to binge watch to make it last, especially since shows like "The Walking Dead" will probably be taking breaks over the holidays.

I cannot find the pilot, do you have a link?
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« Reply #18 on: November 23, 2015, 12:26:56 PM »
Quote from: adively on November 23, 2015, 11:14:00 AM
I cannot find the pilot, do you have a link?

It's actually just episode 1. They released it during the last pilot season, but a lot of time has gone by since then, so it's easy to miss some of the background that sets up episode two and after. I went straight to episode 2 and saw that I had forgotten some of the character connections.
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« Reply #19 on: November 23, 2015, 08:03:03 PM »
Quote from: Ben on November 23, 2015, 12:26:56 PM
It's actually just episode 1. They released it during the last pilot season, but a lot of time has gone by since then, so it's easy to miss some of the background that sets up episode two and after. I went straight to episode 2 and saw that I had forgotten some of the character connections.

Cool thank you for clarifying that. 
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Re: Two thumbs up for 'The Man in the High Castle'
« Reply #20 on: November 25, 2015, 07:16:32 PM »
if anyone else finishes it, see if you can give me a clue what the ending means.
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Re: Two thumbs up for 'The Man in the High Castle'
« Reply #21 on: November 26, 2015, 09:55:50 PM »
SPOILER ALERT

Earlier, we saw that the German agent and Japanese Trade Minister Tagomi conspired to plant microfilm plans for a "Heisenberg device" on another Japanese official to achieve a balance of power and avoid another war.  Werner Heisenberg was a pioneer of quantum mechanics.  From Wiki:
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The many-worlds interpretation is an interpretation of quantum mechanics that asserts the objective reality of the universal wavefunction and denies the actuality of wavefunction collapse. Many-worlds implies that all possible alternate histories and futures are real, each representing an actual "world" (or "universe"). In lay terms, the hypothesis states there is a very large—perhaps infinite—number of universes, and everything that could possibly have happened in our past, but did not, has occurred in the past of some other universe or universes.

Tagomi apparently transported to an alternate universe.  Earlier, his assistant told him that perhaps he was "too good for this world". Earlier, we also saw scars (radiation burns?) on the assistants wrist, who later told Tagomi he was from either Hiroshima or Nagasaki- perhaps he is from another universe as well.   Does the necklace or the box it was in have anything to do with this transportation?  Is it a Heisenberg device?  Guess we will have to wait for Season 2.
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Re: Two thumbs up for 'The Man in the High Castle'
« Reply #22 on: November 27, 2015, 12:40:39 PM »
Quote from: JN01 on November 26, 2015, 09:55:50 PM
SPOILER ALERT

Earlier, we saw that the German agent and Japanese Trade Minister Tagomi conspired to plant microfilm plans for a "Heisenberg device" on another Japanese official to achieve a balance of power and avoid another war.  Werner Heisenberg was a pioneer of quantum mechanics.  From Wiki:
Tagomi apparently transported to an alternate universe.  Earlier, his assistant told him that perhaps he was "too good for this world". Earlier, we also saw scars (radiation burns?) on the assistants wrist, who later told Tagomi he was from either Hiroshima or Nagasaki- perhaps he is from another universe as well.   Does the necklace or the box it was in have anything to do with this transportation?  Is it a Heisenberg device?  Guess we will have to wait for Season 2.

Damn. Thanks for pointing that out. And therefore the Wu in the necklace seems to have been the means of transporting Tagomi into the alternate universe.

I need to go back and watch the first episode try and understand what the I Ching was saying.

Good call on the scars. I believe he said he was from Nagasaki. Which, in Tagomi's native universe, would not have been nuked...
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Re: Two thumbs up for 'The Man in the High Castle'
« Reply #23 on: December 03, 2015, 10:09:29 AM »
Quote from: JN01 on November 26, 2015, 09:55:50 PM
SPOILER ALERT

Earlier, we saw that the German agent and Japanese Trade Minister Tagomi conspired to plant microfilm plans for a "Heisenberg device" on another Japanese official to achieve a balance of power and avoid another war.  Werner Heisenberg was a pioneer of quantum mechanics.  From Wiki:
Tagomi apparently transported to an alternate universe.  Earlier, his assistant told him that perhaps he was "too good for this world". Earlier, we also saw scars (radiation burns?) on the assistants wrist, who later told Tagomi he was from either Hiroshima or Nagasaki- perhaps he is from another universe as well.   Does the necklace or the box it was in have anything to do with this transportation?  Is it a Heisenberg device?  Guess we will have to wait for Season 2.

I also picked up on that he was from Hiroshima or Nagasaki, but I am trying to wrap my head around on how Tagomi was able to jump from his universe to the parallel universe?  In fear that the show won't be renewed for a second season, I went ahead and bought the book and have started reading it... maybe I'll have answers to my questions sooner than expected!
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Re: Two thumbs up for 'The Man in the High Castle'
« Reply #24 on: December 23, 2015, 09:55:01 AM »
The series has been picked up for a second season.  It was the most streamed original show of Amazon.
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