Unless this is a lesson in how not to write an OP, please expand.

Unless this is a lesson in how not to write an OP, please expand. — Baden

I'm just wondering about other's thoughts on The Man in the High Castle. I think I will watch it.

"I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favourable presumption that they did no wrong. If there is any presumption it is the other way against holders of power, increasing as the power increases. Historic responsibility has to make up for the want of legal responsibility. Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority. There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it. That is the point at which the negation of Catholicism and the negation of Liberalism meet and keep high festival, and the end learns to justify the means. You would hang a man of no position, like Ravaillac; but if what one hears is true, then Elizabeth asked the gaoler to murder Mary, and William III ordered his Scots minister to extirpate a clan. Here are the greater names coupled with the greater crimes. You would spare these criminals, for some mysterious reason. I would hang them, higher than Haman, for reasons of quite obvious justice; still more, still higher, for the sake of historical science." - Acton.

Unless this is a lesson in how not to write an OP, please expand. — Baden

He he, ok this post made the thread worth it. :smile:

I'm just wondering about other's thoughts on The Man in the High Castle. I think I will watch it. — Wallows

We watched the first few episodes. Not bad, not that good, in our experience. However we are considering giving it another chance given that it now has three seasons, and plugging in to a series means you don't have to figure out what to watch every night.

I am reading the book for the first time.
It is dark.
I thought I knew Philip K. Dick.
But this is different from the other stories.

I finished the Philip K. Dick story.
It is perfect.

Now, time to watch the series?

I will check it out someday.
There is a peculiar quality to PK Dick's writing that is at odds with film narratives. Descriptions of fact are woven into supposition and uncertainty. He is naive and impossibly complex at the same time.
In the Minority Report movie, Dick's story line is followed closely but the voice is somehow missing.
Maybe if Kurosawa had had a chance at doing it....

Just finished first season. Finding it entirely watchable, but not a classic. As TV shows go, pretty good.