![]() ![]() He takes the film he sees of a test detonation of a hydrogen bomb with him, hoping to show it to Kido who will hopefully put an end to the Pacific States nuclear program. AmazonĪfter doing some I Ching-inspired interdimensional traveling throughout Season 2, Tagomi decides to come back to his reality after seeing the true destruction of the atomic bomb. Tagomi has seen both sides, and his reality isn't pretty. But before the big Kempeitai bombing, Frank convinces them to leave San Francisco for their own safety, with Childan last seen peering out of a coach bus window going over the Golden Gate Bridge as smoke billows from the Kempeitai HQ in the distance.Ī ‘Childan and Ed in the Neutral Zone’ subplot can go one of two ways: It will either be an annoying and superfluous tangent to the important narrative, or it will build upon their Season 2 significance to the Resistance and turn them into true leading men, making a serious impact in the coming conflict. While Frank was off being an ornery Resistance operative, Childan and Ed found themselves embroiled in some bad Yakuza business and weaseled their way out when a merciful Yoshida discovers their involvement and lets them go free. Somehow The Man in the High Castle made tangential and mostly annoying first season characters Childan and Ed into the subtle everyman heroes of Season 2. How on earth will Childan and Ed survive in the Neutral Zone?Ĭhildan and Ed watching their friend (potentially) go up in flames. Joe’s been arrested by Himmler along with Heusmann after Obergruppenführer Smith names him as a traitor to the Reich, which should make for some good drama since Blake and Smith aren’t the best of friends. Season 3 needs to keep him important to the plot instead of background dressing. Beyond that emotional turmoil, he was just kind of coasting along as a VIP after Heusmann is made Acting Chancellor in the wake of Hitler’s death. AmazonĪfter gallivanting around the Neutral Zone and the Pacific States with Julianna in Season 1, Joe Blake headed off to Berlin in Season 2 to confront his estranged father, Reichsminister Martin Heusmann, only to find out that Blake was a Lebensborn, the SS-initiated and state-supported eugenics program meant to create so-called racially pure “Aryan” children.Ĭonfronting his birth and the morality of his existence was the extent of Joe’s character arc. We see Kido and Trade Minister Tagomi alive but badly injured in the aftermath, but there’s no sign of Frank or Sarah.įrom Resistance double agent to Acting Chancellor's aid. Chief Inspector Kido sees them try and escape but gets caught in the blast before he can do anything to stop them. He and Japanese-American Resistance fighter Sarah leave a homemade bomb in the parking garage of Kempeitai HQ in the appropriately named episode “Detonation,” but the bomb goes off before they can flee the building. The big climactic event of the last couple of episodes of Season 2 impacted a whole bunch of characters, most notably our erstwhile antique-maker turned Resistance fighter Frank Frink. Is Frank dead, because Frank can’t be dead, right? Here are 7 questions we hope Season 3 answers when the show hits Amazon Prime sometime in 2017. Not only will the show get to purposefully tackle the rise of xenophobia seen across the world, we’ll also get some answers about the huge cliffhangers we ended Season 2 on. The show was just picked up for a third season, which is great news for fans of the alt-history series about what the world would be like if the Axis powers won World War II. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle has taken on a tragic relevance in 2017, a year already so absurd you might think we’re all living in an alternate history. Amazon’s adaptation of legendary sci-fi author Philip K.
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