3/27/2023 0 Comments Frank frink glasses![]() (“Jews don’t get to decide if they’re Jews.”) If Frank doesn’t reveal where Juliana went with her sister’s package, Kido will execute his sister and her children for being Jewish. Frank tries to protest, but Kido isn’t interested. Kido asks Frank why he’s not circumcised, then reveals that he knows his grandfather was Jewish. After he’s stripped, we get our first notable encounter with Inspector Kido (Joel de la Fuente), the terrifying head of the Kempeitai. Smith isn’t happy: “Satisfy yourself with following orders.”īack to poor, doomed Frank. When Joe returns Smith’s call, he reveals that he learned the cargo is a film. His boy, though, will make the world better. As his son reads a textbook at the breakfast table, Smith gives him a speech about the moral decay that threatens to take over the country. We get a bit more background on this terrifying Nazi: He lives in Long Island, where he runs an characteristically disciplined home. Juliana gets a job at the Sunrise Diner, while Joe goes to a bar and discovers that he missed a call from Obergruppenführer Smith (Rufus Sewell). Kleintank and Davalos seem more comfortable here than they did in the pilot, which is a thankful improvement. They drive out of town, then watch the sunrise from a nearby dam. Joe (Luke Kleintank) buys a hotel room for Juliana (Alexa Davalos), and we notice an unexplained scar on her back. “Sunrise” pulls The Man in the High Castle toward dark directions, setting the stage for grim stories to come.Īfter the tragically-named Frank Frink (Rupert Evans) is taken into custody and beaten by Japanese soldiers, the episode heads out to Canon City. So, when a show like The Man in the High Castle returns ten months after its first episode, it must accomplish two things: re-hook viewers who saw the pilot nearly a year ago, and confidently define the identity of the series. Each pilot is crafted to hook an audience, but there’s no guarantee of more episodes to come. ![]() Although Fargo, The Leftovers, and other prestige shows tend to get multiple-episode orders from the get-go, Amazon’s “pilot season” green lights a show differently. The second episode of an Amazon-produced show is a unique thing. Number of ships and aircraft needed, provisions on said ships and aircraft, deciding who gets to go back, what to do about those who inevitably choose to stay behind, living space for the influx of new residents in the Asian territories of the Empire, etc.Rufus Sewell as Obergruppenführer John Smith. The imperial government would also need to figure out the logistics and internal mechanics of how to evacuate as many of their assets, personnel, and civilians wishing to go back to Japan as possible. Most importantly, properly plan and figure out this logistical nightmare of epic proportions of a nation-wide strategic withdrawal thousands of miles from Japan/Asia for the military and government. Gradually withdrawing from the JPS would’ve given the Japanese more time to:Ĭraft a more favorable deal with the Reich concerning the future of the Pacific States instead of just literally handing over all of this valuable resource-rich land to your direct peer competitor (the Empire must’ve still had some interests in the Pacific States that they either wouldn’t want the Reich to control and/or want to continue monitoring for themselves).Įxtract whatever remaining resources they want until the last possible moment.įigure out a system of staggered, gradual withdrawal so that it doesn’t flip over tens of millions of people’s lives within the span of a 2-3 minute speech (what is Sato the ramen shop owner suppose to do now that his livelihood is at risk of never again being what it once was due to being forced to relocate back to Japan after spending 20 years establishing his roots in the Pacific States?). ![]() After Emperor Hirohito declared on live TV that the current situation in the Japanese Pacific States was not in Japan’s present interest and that he’s ordering the immediate withdrawal of his forces from the West Coast, why did the Japanese initiate an immediate withdrawal when it would’ve made more sense to strategically withdraw from the JPS in a controlled manner?
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