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Wish it were Netflix or HBO or even Showtime. Amazon has a history of giving showrunners much less creative freedom and I have less faith this will be a satisf
by nextstep 9y ago
Wish it were Netflix or HBO or even Showtime. Amazon has a history of giving showrunners much less creative freedom and I have less faith this will be a satisfying adaptation. :/
- narrator 9y agoMan in the High Castle was a bit of a let down. It didn't have the ambiguities of the book that made the alternate history complex and interesting. The TV show was too much of a comic book with nice sharp moral edges.
- hkmurakami 9y agoNever read the book (been meaning to!) but thought their cinematography was solid, and that the supporting cast puts on a strong performance. Agreed though that the protagonists' arcs are very cliche and flat.
- moomin 9y agoOh seriously, there were 100 great performances in TMITHC, but there were two aching voids where the lead characters should have been.
- rangibaby 9y agoThe book is pretty ...out there. It’s certainly not what I was expecting but it was interesting.
- uptownJimmy 9y agoHa! "Out there" is just par for the course with PKD.... Read "A Scanner Darkly", if you haven't already. That's one of the supreme weird tales.
- e12e 9y agoOr "Martian timeslip". In fact "blade runner" is a pretty poor adaptation of the book (but a great film, imo). I'm not sure most of pkd would benefit too much from a "direct" film adaptation... I loved the man in the high castle for many of the changes and the overall style - but it seems the writers got a bit lost trying to round off the open ended story and fill in some blanks. Small wonder, considering the book.
- falsedan 9y agoMost of PKD's stuff has a similar level of weirdness: paranoiac uncertainty in reality. They are fantastic at that. VALIS is on another level: PKD had a mental breakdown, thought a interstellar intelligent pink light told hime about his son's hernia, and wrote a book about the other things the light told him.
- ghaff 9y agoI like the MITHC series. But I admit that I have gone from must-see-TV to I'll get caught up one of these days.
- s_kilk 9y agoNot sure I agree, I thought High Castle did a decent job of undermining notions of historical and moral determinism, in that it manages to get the audience rooting for Obergroupenfurher Smith by the end, blurring the moral lines a fair bit.
- mswehli 9y agoAfter Deathnote I don't trust netflix to make anything anymore.
- y4mi 9y agoGeez, i watched that movie yesterday. What a disaster that was. Worst production I've seen in years. How the hell did they get the idea to make Kira into a misunderstood teenage boy? And the ending felt like a love comedy.