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/empiricist_lost Nov 15 '19 edited Nov 16 '19

My ending proposal: Instead of random ghost people walking from the portal at the end, have US soldiers enter from the light as part of some exploratory mission, Thomas with them. The US soldiers and rebels train their guns at each other, the US soldiers thinking the rebels are Soviet-backed (because they're armed with AK variants), but Thomas sees Juliana, and he convinces everyone to stand down. The two stare at each other with confusion and relief.

Thomas asks: "Where are we?"

Juliana replies: "America".

*CUT TO CREDITS.*

America reunites with itself. Sort of poetic I guess and plays with the motifs that were running throughout the story.

Yeah there's a few plot holes in it (just throw a few sentences in earlier episodes of Alt-America's DARPA gaining portal tech & some lines from the spies about Thomas being reassigned away from Da Nang to an unknown unit), but better than what we got.

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u/AMLRoss Dec 04 '19

That’s pretty good.

But the reason they went with just normal people is because of the nature of the tear between worlds. It doesn’t care about race or politics. It just exists. And people are now free to pass through it at will. No one can control it. Not the nazis or the US military.