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> 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 charac
by 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 agoFrom 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 agoVery 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 agoTBH, 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.