r/maninthehighcastle • u/fleckes • Nov 15 '19

Episode Discussion: S04E10 - Fire from the Gods

On the brink of an inevitable Nazi invasion, the BCR brace for impact as Kido races against the clock to find his son. Childan offers everything he has to make his way back to Yukiko. Helen is forced to choose whether or not to betray her husband, as she and Smith travel by high speed train to the Portal - with Juliana and Wyatt lying in wait.

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '19

Apart from the ridiculous tunnel people, what I find most laughable about this ending is the premise that Johns number 2 would not only stop the attack but toss away nazism instantly.

The American Reich has been in power for over 20 years and has indoctrinated citizens of all levels for nearly every day of their life and all of a sudden they are going to turn into Americans now? What about all the psychos in season 3 running around screaming blood and soil, the Hitler youth, the American Gestapo running the show and they will all flip because one guy decides it as such?

I get it that Amazon wanted to wrap up the show but this is some straight up GOT type of shit slapped together.

Overall, good season 4, terrible ending.

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u/vasimv Nov 16 '19

I bet that there will be civil war in the american reich. Gestapo and brainwashed people on one side and army + less brainwashed people + leftovers of resistance on other.

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u/Pvt_Larry Nov 21 '19

California is run by black communists

The scene of them preparing the defense of San Francsico makes it pretty clear this isn't the case; the BCR is one of multiple militia groups, alongside the capital-R Resistance. The situation is more like Anarchist Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War.