I'm still trying to get through season 2. I read that they fired the showrunner midway through and yeah I can tell they did as the season just sucks. I like the concept, but the execution is just poor.

I am not a legal expert, how many times do I have to say it?

I enjoyed Season 2 much more than Season 1.

There is not a damned thing wrong with people who are bull shitters.

Agreed. Once they got rid of the showrunner things kind of picked up and made much more sense.

How long will the show last? Would like to see how they end it, since the ending of the novel is horseshit (which is typical for Phillip K. Dick).

I read that Dick had actually written most of a sequel to the book before his death and that is what a lot of this series going forward will be based on.
I believe it has already been greenlit for a 4th season.

Interesting! I thought I heard that one of Dick's daughters is involved, so it makes sense that they'd have access.

Also, and I hate to say it because I am usually kidding when I say someone is hot, but whoever plays Juliana must be hot in a Zina Bash way. (The novel's narrator describes her as being quite zinabashinian.)

I finished watching this and boy was I spot on with the David Lynch analogy. They spend nine episodes telling you a story and use the last one pointing to a sub rosa storyline that was their principal story from the beginning. I would really like to discuss this if any of you ss it because this is now one of those shows with which I could become obsessed

SPOILERS

The movie moves from a broken history to a science fiction in the final episode. I couldn't even tell you what really happened in the end. The first nine episodes might be nothing more than the fanciful thoughts of a Japanese American. They may also be the experiences of a person who can travel into different historical timelines like a quantum plain traveler. Maybe he is a person who scrub history like a blackboard when it doesn't play out as he wishes. It's also possible that 99% of the show should be taken at face value and the final scene is simply his dream as he is dying after consuming poison as part of a ritual suicide.

I think you could largely accept any of these explanations...and many others

I'm in season 2 now and option 2 appears to be the path they have chosen.

Is this how it is written in the book?

I still don't understand how the films are created. I thought the man in the high castle was telepathically imposing them onto the film like the girl in The Ring. That doesn't seem to be the case, although he did say that he keeps them all in his head.

The story also seems to be displaying multiple forms of paranormal psychic abilities:

-there is the man in the high castle who somehow sees several streams of reality while only existing in one
-there are people who can teleport from one stream of reality to another and exist in both at their choosing
-there are people who appear to have precognition that is limited to the stream in which they are currently living

Correct me if I am wrong, but did they say John Smith was a US Marine in the battle in the pacific before he eventually became Obergrubenfuhrer in the Reich?

I just don't see that being a possibility either from his or Nazi leadership's perspective.

In fact, I find the assimilation into Naziism of that generation (and older) implausible. Sure, there are some who would be sympathizers with their occupiers and the generation that grew up under Nazi rule would have not known differently. However, the generation that just fought a bitter war would not so easily be turned. Eliminating religion at that time would have been a major issue in the US. Practicing would be a symbol of defiance, much like we saw in some Eastern European countries under communism. Additionally, a place like NY would have undergone significant purging of both ethnicities, orientations and academia. Twenty years is not enough to have washed that from memory.

Who is the hero of this story for you?

I'm not interested in a future with the relativism of the Resistance. Nazis are Nazis. The Japanese are racist and have a brutally rigid social hierarchy. Smith is a traitor. Julianna has a proper moral compass but no ability to consider macro level results.

I think the hero is Quito or Tagomi.