For fans of "The Man in the High Castle" which city would you have rather been in?

[e2ksj3]

Although not an option in the poll, i would be in Canon City in the Neutral zone. I am a minority and wouldn't have lasted in NYC with the Nazis or the Kenpeitai in the Pacific States.

[Bubb Rubb]

Originally Posted by e2ksj3

Although not an option in the poll, i would be in Canon City in the Neutral zone. I am a minority and wouldn't have lasted in NYC with the Nazis or the Kenpeitai in the Pacific States.

I wish it took place in Denver, but I'm assuming that Denver didn't really exist in this alternate reality. I could actually seeing a place like Denver or SLC being the biggest city in the former United States because of all the people fleeing the Japanese and Germans. Canon City seemed underdeveloped, almost like the Germans and Japanese kept it that way to keep the neutral zone dependent on both of them.

BTW, new season is coming out October 6. I'm excited for it.

I just became addicted to this series and have watched a bunch already. I find NYC very depressing and industrial looking, except for Long Island where the collaborators live. SF looks like Chinatown all the time, but the hills and sunshine look nice and the downtown, but with loads of I guess re-settled Japanese everywhere.

Yeah, I don't know whether it was a lack of imagination on the creator's part or lack of resources or whatever, but they really didn't do too much with NYC except putting German signs everywhere and swastikas. SF they took time with, but that's probably because there was more detail about it in the book. I would have loved to see what DC/Philly/Boston would have looked like, but DC was nuked. And LA/Seattle/San Diego could have had lots of potential.

The inspiration for the original 1962 book was a book titled "Bring The Jubilee" which had an alternative history where the Confederacy defeated the Union Army at Gettysburg and went on to occupy the Western US and all of South America, and aligned themselves with the Nazis of course.

I just looked it up. I'll order a copy of the book! Western North America under a Confederate administration would have most likely left it much less developed since the South was not nearly as dependent on industrial goods as the North was, bringing on less of a need to build railroads out in that direction. But thankfully, we never had to find out.

[Bubb Rubb]

Update: Chicago and Denver have now been featured on the show.

Denver is probably my choice.

[Drewjdeg]

Originally Posted by e2ksj3

Although not an option in the poll, i would be in Canon City in the Neutral zone. I am a minority and wouldn't have lasted in NYC with the Nazis or the Kenpeitai in the Pacific States.

I didn't think the Kenpeitai persecuted minorities? Could be wrong.

But overall, Japanese > Nazis. Unless it gets nuked in season three, San Francisco all the way.

[jpdivola]

Originally Posted by Drewjdeg

I didn't think the Kenpeitai persecuted minorities? Could be wrong.

But overall, Japanese > Nazis. Unless it gets nuked in season three, San Francisco all the way.

They certainly didn't have a genocidal Holocaust. But, Japan was a brutal colonial occupier that certainly viewed non-Japanese as inferior.

Of course, in practice it is hard to know how Nazi or the Japanese would have controlled the US. Nazi's viewed Slavs (central/eastern Europeans) as racial inferior and planned to enslave them. Its unclear if that would have carried over to the US? Fortunately we never found out.