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Don't forget The Man in the High Castle, pretty much the best Amazon show IMO until The Expanse came over from Sci-fi - though they could have done a lot more w

Don't forget The Man in the High Castle, pretty much the best Amazon show IMO until The Expanse came over from Sci-fi - though they could have done a lot more with the ending. Have the Nazis go to a universe where Mars or Venus isn’t a rock and slug it out over who will rule the solar system, have political intriegue with a bunch of Hitlers plotting against each other, have the communists using dinosaurs as weapons, have the Nazis encounter an very advanced Egyptian civilization that never fell, endless possibilities!

dmitriid 6y ago
> The Man in the High Castle It was very good in its first season. Then it rapidly lost steam, since the writers had no idea what to do with the amazing characters they brought to life and the moral dilemmas they inevitably ran into. As a result you had most of the characters just aimlessly wander around looking forlorn.
- gwd 6y ago
  From what I've heard, the first season of the show very closely follows the book of the same name, which was written by Phillip K. Dick (who also wrote the book on which Blade Runner was written, as well as Minority Report, and loads of others). So probably the writers are OK at translating someone else's characters from the page to the screen, but not that good at actually writing them. EDIT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_adaptations_of_works_by_Philip_K._Dick https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_adaptations_of_works_b...
  - zxcvbn4038 6y ago
    Very true. House of cards definitely wasn’t the same once they exhausted their source material. The plots weren’t as intricate, having Frank and Claire at odds didn’t really work, Frank and Freddy at odds didn’t really work, and personally I would like to have seen the Zoey/Rachel story lines fall off - sort “little people” fading to obscurity as Frank marches on to his next conquest. Maybe they will do a reboot one day.
- Chris2048 6y ago
  TBH, did the story need the supernatural/sci-fi element at all? It felt like a totally different story when that started to kick in. An alt-history imagining would have been intriguing enough.
confidantlake 6y ago
I would watch that show!

dmitriid 6y ago

> The Man in the High Castle It was very good in its first season. Then it rapidly lost steam, since the writers had no idea what to do with the amazing characters they brought to life and the moral dilemmas they inevitably ran into. As a result you had most of the characters just aimlessly wander around looking forlorn.

gwd 6y ago
From what I've heard, the first season of the show very closely follows the book of the same name, which was written by Phillip K. Dick (who also wrote the book on which Blade Runner was written, as well as Minority Report, and loads of others). So probably the writers are OK at translating someone else's characters from the page to the screen, but not that good at actually writing them. EDIT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_adaptations_of_works_by_Philip_K._Dick https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_adaptations_of_works_b...
- zxcvbn4038 6y ago
  Very true. House of cards definitely wasn’t the same once they exhausted their source material. The plots weren’t as intricate, having Frank and Claire at odds didn’t really work, Frank and Freddy at odds didn’t really work, and personally I would like to have seen the Zoey/Rachel story lines fall off - sort “little people” fading to obscurity as Frank marches on to his next conquest. Maybe they will do a reboot one day.
Chris2048 6y ago
TBH, did the story need the supernatural/sci-fi element at all? It felt like a totally different story when that started to kick in. An alt-history imagining would have been intriguing enough.

confidantlake 6y ago

I would watch that show!