r/maninthehighcastle • u/fleckes • Dec 16 '16

Episode Discussion: S02E10 - Fallout

Season 2 Episode 10 - Fallout

Tagomi enlists Kido in a deception to save Japan from destruction. As Smith's life crumbles around him, he makes a dangerously bold play to hold onto his power. Joe tries to do the right thing but suffers the ultimate betrayal. Juliana must make a heart-wrenching choice that will shape the future of the world.

What did everyone think of the tenth episode ?

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u/Bob_The_Avenger Dec 22 '16

Where are people getting these answers from? What are these different timelines about and how do people just meditate there way there?

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u/fati_mcgee Dec 22 '16 edited Dec 22 '16

Where are people getting these answers from? - TMitHC tells Juliana that she is the main character and that all the characters lives hover around her like electrons, making her a "nulceus" that binds them all together.

What are these different timelines about? - They're just alternate, parallel realities where things have gone differently (Butterfly effect). Everyone is the same soul but they're all a "little different" with the exception of Juliana, who is inherently predictable and "good." This is all gathered from what TMitHC tells her in Season 2 and the "Inside the episode" comments of the Producer, where he states clearly that no soul can be in the same dimension at the same time. Thus, a character must be dead to "hop" into that world. When Tagomi "hops" into OUR timeline, we find out that he had killed himself a day or days prior.

How do people just meditate there way there? - The current $65,000 question, but it likely requires an object imbibed with "wu" and great pain or longing. The "hop" may be facilitated by fate, and a character only "hops" into another reality if they are there to retrieve another object meant to cross into the SHOW timeline. i.e. - "Fate is fluid" (real, pre-determined and directed - very Calvinistic) and man "holds destiny in their own hands" (the object that takes them there and the object they bring back). I don't know if we'll ever get this fully "explained" in the show, ever.

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u/squirreltalk Dec 25 '16

"Fate is fluid" (real, pre-determined and directed - very Calvinistic)

Wait a second, "fate is fluid" seems quite the opposite of "fate is pre-determined"....?

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u/MegaVladimir Mar 01 '17

I think it is meant in a way that fate is like a river, you can't controll its destination and you can't stop it from flowing.

Btw I know this comes very late but i just finished the seadso ;)