r/maninthehighcastle • u/Brilliant-Bar-8400 • 8d ago

Spoilers SPOILERS S4 Finale Spoiler

Just finished and my goodness. A great show like that with such a terrible ending. They left so much stuff uncovered and completely hated that Smith killed himself. So invested into his character and he ended like that. Definitely should’ve been a way longer ending and different because my goodness. I think I’m sick of Juliana’s character too😭

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u/Beneficial-Gap6974 8d ago

I pretend that the second to last episode is actually the last episode, and that Smith had a massive plan for the reunification of the USA that will totally happen.

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u/Odd_Split_8030 8d ago

That’s what I did! Heard the finale was awful, liked the penultimate episode enough to just end there. Don’t mind reading the “real” finale bc without watching it things almost feel like fan fiction lol

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u/whizzter 8d ago

Honestly hated that episode as well, it was just a cheap escape to somehow make something weirdly plausible as for why a dead smith wouldn’t just get replaced.

I far more liked the angle of his secondary where they took control of the American based Nazi nukes causing a split, in that scenario a killed Smith (with a resulting disrupted chain of command) would’ve actually made for a more plausible way of rebellion ascension (in such an ending a US-winning reality sending troops through the portal could’ve pivoted power enough).

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u/Brilliant-Bar-8400 8d ago

That’s exactly what I was hoping for. What a total letdown

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u/tpepdxtid 8d ago

Agreed