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Nordic » Sat Dec 12, 2015 9:02 pm wrote:I'm watching it and am almost done with the season. I like it quite a bit. A great deal of tension and suspense. Great production values. Rufus Sewell is pretty mesmerizing. Not sure why it put you to sleep!
I haven't read the book, so I have zero idea as to how true to the book it may or may not be.
of the best novels, and most important to understanding of the nature of our world, is Ursula Le Guin's The Lathe of Heaven, in which the dream universe is articulated in such a striking and compelling way that I hesitate to add any further explanation to it; it requires none."
Philip K. Dick
lucky » Mon Dec 14, 2015 7:55 am wrote:Seen the whole thing....now waiting for series 2..3...4.... which is my main problem with all American series, they just run and run with no ending bar a very few - Fargo/True Detective but even they are riffing on the same meme.
But as a stand alone production its pretty good and leaves no doubt that Hitler is the geezer in the castle.
Grizzly » Sun Dec 13, 2015 4:41 pm wrote:of the best novels, and most important to understanding of the nature of our world, is Ursula Le Guin's The Lathe of Heaven, in which the dream universe is articulated in such a striking and compelling way that I hesitate to add any further explanation to it; it requires none."
Philip K. Dick
Luther Blissett » Mon Dec 14, 2015 7:23 am wrote:Here's a previous thread on the adaptation background: http://rigorousintuition.ca/board2/view ... =8&t=29732
Funny how it was dead in the water there.
Amazon went about this in a way different than traditional television - as far as I recall, they pit several pilot episodes of series against one another to compete to see who would be picked up, based on total viewership. I loved the Man in the High Castle pilot but also liked a weird black market gun smuggling pilot, Cocked. I was glad that Man in the High Castle was picked up, but what struck me was that they basically front-loaded the big reveal of the book into the pilot. I assumed they did this in order to draw viewers in with an interesting premise.
Someone had told me — and I thought it was on that old Man in the High Castle thread, but it looks like I was wrong — that Dick was soaked in booze throughout writing this book, and couldn't even remember much of the plot after his editor had at it. Which in and of itself is pretty astounding. That could only be a rumor or a story, but his long passages about the details of every I Ching divination were trying, like Bolaño's passages about the deaths in 2666.
By front-loading the big reveal, and letting the I Ching factor in as a running background theme rather than total foreground plot device, the series really freed up the storytelling. I also thought the show improved greatly upon the Frank - Ed - Childan relationship, another patience-testing subplot of the book. While it probably could have been shorter or a little more faithful to the story, it essentially tells the same tale but in a different way, or by using different characters.
There were a few moments in the book that I missed not seeing, some big, some small, but other than that I thought it was great.
Joao » Wed Dec 16, 2015 7:49 pm wrote:PP93: Do you use the I Ching at all anymore? I've tried to "get into" it (via a Jungian projection-of-the-unconcious approach) but have never been able to really take it seriously. YMMV.
As an aside, PKD also often placed the the "critical event" of a story at the narrative's golden section point (ie, 62% of the way through the text).
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