So, did the Axis Powers win the war or not? The status quo says yes, but that film roll says otherwise. Please don't tell me they've lost and no one in North America knows it. Because that would require a lot of suspension of disbelief. With P.K. Dick, who knows where this is going. Which also has me worried. Because so far, I haven't finished watching anything based on his work.
I'm kind of caught in the middle right now. I think the setting of this series is interesting, but there's not much more going for it in my opinion.
Zzzzzz this is boring af
It truly irritated me that she left her personal belongings unattended while on the bus, specially while on a mission, like who does that in any scenario? I get maybe your carry on with only clothes but your handbag with your wallet??? And she was lucky they didn’t take the film too!!! I’m so mad about that.
boring, bleak, poor acting, no set up or build up, slow pace that lacks tension or emotions to justify it
I was really looking forward to this as had been looking for it for ages. To say I was a bit disappointed is an understatement. Great story line but very slow.
Fairly average pilot.. a bit far-fetched. None of the actors speak German or Japanese, which kind of kills the realism (some of the soldiers are supposed to be American Nazi's, which is fair enough).
I might come back to it eventually.
I have already seen season's 1 and 2, but in order to finish this series, I need to go back to the beginning. It must makes everything fall into place. #TheManintheHighTower
Good pilot. Waiting for the second to arrive soon.
I hope this series isn't going to require a lot of martial arts scenes like the one in the first 10 min, because that scene was awful.
Review by Carlos TeranBlockedParent2015-11-08T17:40:46Z
Something very interesting happened between the time I did stream this pilot from Amazon Prime for the first time, and eight months later, that I'm checking it out again. In the weeks following the premiere, writer Agness Kaku complained about that many of the japanese signs in the show were utter non-sense, like the word "Respect" written all over the place, an ad for "Viper Pharmacy" hanging in a place of honor in the Aikido dojo, the fact that naming San Francisco's International Airport as "Hiroito" and the bus station as "Imperial" violates Japanese naming customs and Joel de la Fuente delivering a line that was apparently written using Google Translate ("Yes, let us go then, you and I, when the evening is spread out against the sky. Ta, my good suspect!"). Well, the producers made a different cut, that's the one available for streaming now: the scene with the badly translated line was cut entirely, and several signs on the street (and the one in the dojo) were digitally changed for something more realistic. The Hiroito International Airport and bus station stayed, oddly. Also the Blade Runner homage in the Sunrise Cafe was cut short, and the pilot now has a different narrative, adding more bits here and there, and a whole different ending, with more scenes mashed up to add exposition and increase the story's relationship with the I Ching (as in the source material). Isn't a bad cut at all, and it feels different, probably better than the original.