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Off Topic => Off Topic => Topic started by: Mooning Freddy on May 31, 2016, 06:06:58 AM
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Have you guys watched Amazon's original series "The man in the high castle"? It's absolutely brilliant IMO.
As someone who read the Philip Dick novel and didn't like it, I think the series remade it into a much more accessible and thrilling story.
Yeah, it's not as philosophical as the novel and the plot is completely original, but it does borrow enough elements of Dick's novel that I think he would have been happy with it. For a novel that talks too much about I Ching, a book most Westerners don't know or understand, it's good that in the series they only mention it on a very basic level.
The original characters are awesome too. Obergruppenführer John smith is amazing. He's such a perfect nazi, yet somehow still manages to appear human.
Anyway, watch it if you haven't. It's dark, chilling, and incredibly realistic.
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I've heard very good things about it, but my Netflix, Crunchyroll, and DVD queues are pretty SET for the next few months I decide to give a screen my undivided attention (usually breakfast, lunch, or dinner).
What recently struck me the most, however, was this poster, which rings of a certain CastleVania ending:
(https://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.terriblehands.com%2Fpictureocity%2Ffotocity%2Fhisotnding.jpg&hash=416fc6a83c663845d001f35e0fa99b5e481ee182)
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Cool poster, reflects the spirit of the series rather than the novel (the good people in the novel seem completely impotent to stop the triumph of evil). John Smith on the poster is quite a damn evil nazi, but it seems nevertheless he's more of a grey character than a black one.