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The Season 4 is currently streaming in the Amazon Prime.
It is kind of amazing that they have managed to get so much material out of a PK Dicks standard length novel. Nobody thought that it would be this long. So let's be happy that at the end of this great series has finally arrived, even if the ending a slightly tilting towards Disney traditions. Maybe we'll have to blame the current culture about needing some hope, even though the final season dives deeply into the dystopian settings.
I won't say that what you'll see is as depressing as the previous three season, because it's not. In fact, I did find myself cheering for the BCR (Black Communist Rebellion) when they delivered the oppressors some 'Murican' freedom. It is even more intriguing, when you'll find out that they didn't think about the consequences. Nobody does in Dick's world. Not even the heroes.
Yet, as you progress through the episodes you'll learn that they actually learn from the mistakes after they've happened and they don't repeat the mistakes that got the people in trouble. Usually in Dick's worlds the troubles are the salt among the prose. The people get in the bad way, because it's what always happens.
It is as if there is no hope. Not for anyone. And funny thing is, the heroes create their own. They go down on floor, in some cases bleeding badly, but they don't give up. There simple isn't enough of people left in the world after the Nazi's has been in power for so long time. Hundreds of millions has been purged everywhere. Yet, neither the Nazi's or the Japanese Imperium has been able to conquer the whole world.
It might surprise you that some of the nations you'd have thought that perished are actively raising up to fight the injustice. It is these immoral stories that gets played around a lot as the main characters try to find a redemption for their souls. There just isn't any. The evil cannot win, because if it would, it would also mean a slow death to the multiverse.
The multiverse term get through around quite a bit in the final season, and for the first time in a long, long while they actually show an actual model and it is very unlike anything that you might have seen in the Back To The Future blackboard or in the recent SF series like The Travellers and Netflix Nightflyers. What they did correctly was that they didn't go all the way into the other worlds and all the possibilities that presents.
There is just ours and theirs and it's lovely that ours is so nice compared theirs. Nobody really know what lies in there as they are closed with the current technology. Speaking of which, the amount of high technology they show in the show that we don't have or it has just arrived is astounding.
Although I had a little giggle when Panzer IV did break through the resistance lines, and at the background you'll see classical Hind silhouettes coming in to do the Close Air Support operation. That giggle turned straight out laughter when you later on find out what the Herr Himmler has to say about it. But that is also the thing, even though the Nazi's has superior technology, they have also stagnated their development.
A lot of their leaders think that the fascism is the superior way to rule the humanity as it was back in the actual history. They don't see the dangers in the superior race ideas or even that how depressed the actual people living inside their regimes are. Not even in the Imperial side. There is no real happiness. Not until the last five minutes.
When you think about it and you compared it to our current world, you start to wonder will we ever be in the same spot?
I would give four out five stars for this whole series. If you haven't seen it, be aware that you're going to feel sick in places. But if the mystery and dark material tickles your mind, I warmly recommend you to check it out. Also you might want to reread the classic novel first. It won't be available in the every library, but you will certainly find in the Amazon.
It is kind of amazing that they have managed to get so much material out of a PK Dicks standard length novel. Nobody thought that it would be this long. So let's be happy that at the end of this great series has finally arrived, even if the ending a slightly tilting towards Disney traditions. Maybe we'll have to blame the current culture about needing some hope, even though the final season dives deeply into the dystopian settings.
I won't say that what you'll see is as depressing as the previous three season, because it's not. In fact, I did find myself cheering for the BCR (Black Communist Rebellion) when they delivered the oppressors some 'Murican' freedom. It is even more intriguing, when you'll find out that they didn't think about the consequences. Nobody does in Dick's world. Not even the heroes.
Yet, as you progress through the episodes you'll learn that they actually learn from the mistakes after they've happened and they don't repeat the mistakes that got the people in trouble. Usually in Dick's worlds the troubles are the salt among the prose. The people get in the bad way, because it's what always happens.
It is as if there is no hope. Not for anyone. And funny thing is, the heroes create their own. They go down on floor, in some cases bleeding badly, but they don't give up. There simple isn't enough of people left in the world after the Nazi's has been in power for so long time. Hundreds of millions has been purged everywhere. Yet, neither the Nazi's or the Japanese Imperium has been able to conquer the whole world.
It might surprise you that some of the nations you'd have thought that perished are actively raising up to fight the injustice. It is these immoral stories that gets played around a lot as the main characters try to find a redemption for their souls. There just isn't any. The evil cannot win, because if it would, it would also mean a slow death to the multiverse.
The multiverse term get through around quite a bit in the final season, and for the first time in a long, long while they actually show an actual model and it is very unlike anything that you might have seen in the Back To The Future blackboard or in the recent SF series like The Travellers and Netflix Nightflyers. What they did correctly was that they didn't go all the way into the other worlds and all the possibilities that presents.
There is just ours and theirs and it's lovely that ours is so nice compared theirs. Nobody really know what lies in there as they are closed with the current technology. Speaking of which, the amount of high technology they show in the show that we don't have or it has just arrived is astounding.
Although I had a little giggle when Panzer IV did break through the resistance lines, and at the background you'll see classical Hind silhouettes coming in to do the Close Air Support operation. That giggle turned straight out laughter when you later on find out what the Herr Himmler has to say about it. But that is also the thing, even though the Nazi's has superior technology, they have also stagnated their development.
A lot of their leaders think that the fascism is the superior way to rule the humanity as it was back in the actual history. They don't see the dangers in the superior race ideas or even that how depressed the actual people living inside their regimes are. Not even in the Imperial side. There is no real happiness. Not until the last five minutes.
When you think about it and you compared it to our current world, you start to wonder will we ever be in the same spot?
I would give four out five stars for this whole series. If you haven't seen it, be aware that you're going to feel sick in places. But if the mystery and dark material tickles your mind, I warmly recommend you to check it out. Also you might want to reread the classic novel first. It won't be available in the every library, but you will certainly find in the Amazon.
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