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Anyone watch The Man in the High Castle (hexbear.net)

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The premise of this show was great, the sets and cinematography were great, there’s scenes and whole episodes ghat are absolutely fantastic, show even starts off great.

But the liberal brainrot would never have allowed this show to become much more than low effort fantasy. Somehow turns an interesting setting of the US being occupied by the Nazi empire into some fucking Haruki Murakami esque fever dream about butterflies and time portals, without any mention of the soviets.

This show had so much potential

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I love dick, but I gotta say that one is by far his worst book imo. I think it's only popular because alternate histories capture the public imagination, regardless of how good they are.

Not a bad premise, and the idea that the US would integrate into a nazi-jaapanese-fascist system without much difficulty isn't a bad theme, but its just a very boring and meandering book without much else.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It was one of the first books I read by him as a stoned ass teenager and I fucking loved it. It’s definitely one of his more conventional novels I would say and honestly I find a lot of dicks books pretty meandering somehow he wasn’t a great technical writer, but he does pack in some insane ideas in his books and that’s why I always enjoyed them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

For sure, his books overall are pretty meandering, they're like a dream that takes you to different places so that you often forget where you just were.

I just got finished with a short story anthology of his, and finally finished a scanner darkly (unlimited genocide on the movie also) month ago, which was incredible.

Three stigmata of Palmer eldritch, ubik, and androids dream will always be some of my fav books of all time tho.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

He's got some real "horny pulp author" issues in some of those (though I otherwise quite like Ubik, for example), which might also be part of why Man in the High Castle is taken more seriously. Then again, there's lots of weird horny issues in other authors that get basically ignored, so I guess that's an unlikely explanation.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I like his short stories a lot as well

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Me too, paycheck was so weird but entertaining.

Minority report especially had a wild ending that was completely unexpected after watching the movie (both the story and the movie are great, just very different, ie loosely inspired by).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I felt the same way about that show where Lindberg becomes president