The Man in the High Castle

[The Wiser Hatter]

New Amazon tv series pilot.
http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/amazons-new-series-the-man-in-the-high-castle-is-amazin-1679714503

[video=youtube_share;J_Y697LmYiI]http://youtu.be/J_Y697LmYiI[/video]

 

[Worf]

The premise is fascinating. I think I'll look this up! Thanks.

Worf

 

[Wally_Hood]

Saw just the beginning, will watch the rest later.
I remember reading the book in the early 70s and thinking it was really a cool premise

 

[Worf]

Saw this the other night. I'm not sure if it'll catch on but I enjoyed it. I think the idea of the "learing Germany's WWII-era leadership's" is a bit played but who knows. I did notice a complete absence of "under menchen" in the East Coast scenes which was a nice way, to me, to imply that the ovens were still in use.

Worf

 

[Wally_Hood]

Watched the rest of it the other night; really liked it. Not quite sure what the neutral zone is (the Rocky Mountains). A buffer between eastern and western occupied lands? The one character paid for a meal in the diner using marks, Deutsche marks I guess. It seems from the dialogue on the bus that the zone is sort of a hideout for those "undesirables" hunted by the Germans.

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

They are going to Make it as a series.
http://arstechnica.com/the-multiverse/2015/02/amazon-orders-full-season-of-philip-k-*****-man-in-the-high-castle/

 

[Worf]

Funny I just got through playing a Computer Game with similar themes. It's called "Wolfenstein - The New Order". Using stolen tech from a secret cult of Jewish Scientists, Germany's WWII-era leader conquers the world, uses atomic bombs to force the U.S.'s surrender. A former soldier who's been in a 14 year coma awakens to find the Germany's WWII-era leadership's in control of the world. He immediately goes on a murder spree, freeing imprisioned resistance fighters even traveling to the Third Reichs bass on the moon in an effort to break their grip on the world. It's a FPS but I haven't had so much fun killing pixels in years.

Worf