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- John Smith commits suicide after having lost everything.
Clip from The Man In The High Castle - Season 4 Episode 10
The Man in the High Castle is an Amazon Prime original series that portrays a post-war, dystopian world where the Allies lost World War II.
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God he’s such a good actor you could really feel how sad and depressed he was in the show
@Bernard de Fontaines If you haven't seen it already, I would recommend Charles II: The power and the passion. Easily Rufus Sewell's best performance.
Feel*
probably depressed on how shitty his ending was.....
Agree. One thing that I do not understand is why he has not been cast at Superman. He is a Christopher Reeve doppelgänger
Yea he is! I loved him in A Knights Tale! Shame this showed up in my feed tho, I wanted to watch this show. Sucks to know his character dies
Great show. Disappointing ending, but a great show. The fact he saw what his life could have been. America free and prosperous, a healthy and happy family and he has to return to a conquered America, a fractured family and a dead son, not to mention the guilt of his betrayal to his friends, his country and his basic humanity. Damn, was this a great show.
He felt disgusted by "this is the one you became"
The show overall was great and Rufus Sewell did a phenomenal job, but I feel like the scifi elements sort of ruined it for me. I personally would've preferred if the origin of the film reels was kept ambiguous and they focused on the political side more.
I think the ending is ok. There's too much séries that drag along indefinitely to the point i don't care anymore. Here the mystery was revealed and the stakes where clear. The nazis rule the world unopposed, there are other universes where they failed, we have to save those before they invade with their machine. It could have benefitted from the last few episode be expanded and made into a proper last season but it was ok overall.
Aye endings are always tricky even in well written shows.
I've always though the dialogue there could have been a little better... rather than 'this is the one you became' something like 'and I became the worst version of myself possible'
The AK-47's presence is this show is a bit odd since the Soviet Union in this universe was defeated therefore it would've not been created.
True , but if Mikhail Kalashnikov was still alive, he quite possibly could have still designed his rifle. It just might have been named differently.
i thinks it’s possible whatever was left of soviet industry could’ve been shipped to neutral central asia
Actually, the Kalishnikov was based on the German Sturmgewehr MP44. both are very similar.
Hugo Schmeisser very most likely designed it.
@@johndevries9573 Eh, wouldn't really call it "based on". "Influenced by", certainly, but the locking mechanism is completely different.
I never knew Rufus Sewel as this great and actor. I typically see him as supporting roles, all over, but in this, he really flexed his chops.
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A Knights Tale
Doesn't he look like an act like Christopher Reeve? Don't you think he would be a good Superman
Look up ZEN, he played a Italian police officer in Rome he was excellent as the Lead Role Aurelio Zen. They made 3 of the 10 books into 90 minutes films,and they actually filmed in Rome, an excellent series and he was great in the lead role.
5.0 out of 5 stars Rufus Sewell is perfect as Detective Zen in this cracking series of films.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 June 2019
Quite possibly one of the best 'cop' dramas ever produced by the BBC. Rufus Sewell is perfectly cast as the Venetian detective working in Rome, Aurelio Zen. Michael Dibdin's Zen stories are already a great starting point but the cast and crew here have produced a series of gems. The balance of tension, humour and romance is brilliantly handled and delivered at a perfect pace. The only downside is knowing that the man responsible for commissioning at the BBC decided that he would not give the go ahead for any more episodes to be made. I know the person in question had what they thought were sound and well considered reasons for his decision but it doesn't alter the fact the he was a completely short-sighted incompetent of unparalled magnitude. It's too late now for this cast and too late most certainly for the talented Francesco Quinn (the image of his father, Anthony) who tragically died of heart failure while out jogging with his children just a short time after this series was first aired. But all these sadness's to one side, this is a cracking series which will not disappoint.
“You Either Die A Hero, Or You Live Long Enough To See Yourself Become The Villain”
John Smith was never a hero
@@Excalibur01 he was before he became a nazi
@@Excalibur01 in an alternate world he died as a soldier instead of betraying them to the nazis
Quoting The Dark Knight, wow, so profound. So original.
@@too_legit_to_be_fit no he actually made it out of the war a hero. A nazi killed him later when he tried saving Juliana Crain.
All of these people complaining about him not having a redemption arc. I think this constitutes the best redemption arc he could realistically have. He came to terms with the monster he had become and ended his own reign of terror. He knew he did not have the strength to resist and would only continue being complacent and even a perpetrator of unspeakable acts. So he did the only thing left to do.
Agreed. Smith lost everything with no reason left to live while Kido went on living so his life in the post-JPS would allow his family to have a life.
He died when he realised he could not save his son.
Stupid stuff like having the leader's train line undefended, or why there's no escort (train, helicopter, plane or otherwise) to look out for resistance ambushes especially so close to an invasion of the west coast, etc. ruin the show.
Could've gone on for much longer & gotten so many viewers, making John Smith restore democracy & redeem himself in that sense. The only way to redeem yourself in that scenario is to stop the persecution you got involved with. Don't even have to change much of the plot, just make it so Helen doesn't contact the resistance but still confronts John. That way John sees the wrongs he has done & rectifies them.
In another world, he turned himself into a pickle.
@@dorpy5847 Funniest shit I've ever seen.
And then get this, the Nazi turns into a pickle, funniest shit I've ever seen.
You aren’t wrong
@@dorpy5847 That was a great and unexpected laugh. Thanks.
PICKLE SMIIIIIITH
Such a great series with such a terrible ending. They could have made it so much better and I was severely disappointed in the direction it took.
The show went downhill at a steady pace after the first season ended with a perfect episode.
The ending was a joke. When the portal opens and people starts walking out, that's just dumb AF.
@@SierraSierraFoxtrot gonna have to agree with you on the dumb ending ,that was the raisins in my cookie , along with frank his mouse friend and julzs , didn't like them at all to preachy and lame, Jon Smith and Inspector Kido were the best.
I agree. I was noticing the battle star galactica Storytelling similarities and I'm not just talking about some of the actors
Agreed
It went downhill long before the final season.
Great premise but what killed it for me was the multi dimentional stuff in season 2 I believe it was.
Yeah nah, I and everybody I know that watched it checked out at that point.
The switch from horror to fantasy was game of thrones level poor decision making.
the original premise was perfectly fine, make an alternate reality where the nazis win and go with that storyline. Adding all of the films and alternate reality teleporting shit was just fucking dumb
@@lingoringo2328 that’s how the book went though. Even though I agree with you.
@@TKinfinity01 well the books fucking suck then
@@TKinfinity01 Yeah, the book sucked too.
@ this was a good conversation
Damn tv series, didn't have the decency to use StG44 rifles.
The AK-47 was inspired by that rifle somewhat thats why it's in this show.
It wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility that the Germans stole/adopted the AK-47 like they stole/kidnapped half of the United States.
They moved on to mp5s and g3 rifles
@@Railhog2102 in astetics but in actual function it's closer to a M1 Garand
Punishment for inventing the world "assault rifle"
With Helen dead I was expecting him to get to the portal and disappear to the alternate world and family
I second this
that would have been the best ending, imho
That is what I thought was planned all along. It would have made more sense even though the Reich would not have let him do that without consequence.
They would still be hunted
I thought that too .. but what about his daughters. He can't bring them to the other world :/
That’s a great idea.
such a missed opportunity for this absolutely brilliant character. 4 seasons of building him up into this morally grey character, with the hints of a redemption arc... At the end of episode 9 I had hopes that he would unify the US and take down progessively the nazi system in america.. But no, they threw his character away. He was the only man capable of taking it all down, but for some reason he didn't. Sure he said "I don't know how to". Well maybe the writers should've made him realise how to. He had good intentions but idk why they made him do the concentration camps... That makes him an evil character and kills off everything they had worked on before. Too bad honestly. I wish instead of killing himself he had chosen to help the resistance and go back to his daughters...
I think in the eyes of many viewers he did to much cruel things/did nothing to stop any crime by the nazis he saw to "deserve" a redemption arc.
@@leonkleber5009 I think Whovians completely missed the point of the character. In John's OWN EYES he had done too much wrong to deserve redemption. He did not believe he could be saved, even by himself. That's the entire point of what he says about choices and other lives before shooting himself. Characters can be complicated and unable to save themselves. That's what makes them interesting. He would be so boring if he thought, "Oh wait I can just become a good guy now and everyone will forgive me."
@@Jester-uh9xg Yeah you said it even better. John is just so deep of regret and ashamed of himself, as you can see when he visits the parallel universe and he can't even look his old buddy in the eyes and starts apologising, completely breaking the "role" he is supposed to play in this alternate world. I still think he could've had a better death but it is what it is.
Well he actually planned conquest of Western coast and neutral zone, with concentration camps, purges of jews, people of color and all the other not very nice stuff. That's actually was the last drop that motivated his wife to betray him. And he did this already knowing that he will be the supreme leader of the american reich after the conspiracy. So not sure what redemption are you talking about, he was drunk with power and didn't plan to slow things down and reform a reich. At least till the last minutes when he knew he is basically a dead man walking and probably reconsidered his life choices
Helen confronted him with the reality of what he had done and what he had become. When he realised his justification for doing it all - keeping his family together and safe - was a lie, it destroyed him. I thought it was completely believable. Not every person can come back from the abyss.
Man this show was sooo great up until the last few episodes
More like the last few seconds. Season 4 as a whole was great, but the ending scene made no freaking sense.
They got cancelled after Season 4. I think the writers thought they had another 2-3 seasons, so they had to condense much of the story into 1 season & it looked sloppy. Much like Game of Thrones, when they cut the show down to a final season, when it was supposed to go several more seasons.
@@vindikaktus nah season 4 sucked generally
I think it would have been better if Smith had a redemption arc after killing "A failed chicken farmer" instead of this.
Nah that would have been way too cheap. Smith was a good guy trapped in a bad guy, and season 4 brilliantly showed how he over and over again made the worst possible decisions even though his hand wasn't forced. Not all likable characters deserve a redemption arch.
@@vindikaktus I agree. I think this scene is a parallel to the one where Himmler says he saw himself in John. John compares himself to Julia or at least tries to position himself as similar to her, “we’ve seen things, you and me” but it’s hollow and he knows it’s hollow. As much as he wishes he could have been a good person like Julia he can’t delude himself into believing it like Himmler did.
I enjoyed every minute of this series, it was just pure class.
Great acting, and also the director showed the utmost respect to the viewer.
Other than the crappy ending so did I.
I was honestly heart broken when John Smith killed himself but he would have gone crazy as he has seen other worlds.
I thought Man in the High Castle was just a cool alt-history story. I didn't know it had an unnecessary multiverse aspect tacked onto it.
@@kubli365 its Riddley Scott what did you expect. As soon as I saw him as a prouducer i knew there would be some time travel or paradox sort of thing. The ending was kinda sloppy and couldve been better, but the series as a whole was really good and unique. Every single episode had something unexpected happen and I was constantly on the edge of my seat.
@@Omgiamsotriggered awkward thing about this series is that they managed to make bad guys much better than the good guys. It was much more interesting to follow the arcs of Smith and Kido than follow rebels and specifically Juliana
@@Afdog it was supposed to have a fifth season but amazon said no and they had to wrap things up in few episodes so that was the outcome. Juliana plot was boring true. The kido/smith and the yakuzas was the only thing I cared about. Also somehow after Frank's deaths Ed hasnt been mentioned once? What was that all about.
@@Omgiamsotriggered lol I forgot about Ed. But yeah, he vanished after Frank death
john smith is by far my favorite character. john is a great actor but his story is what gets me. it shows how even a good person can easily go down a dark path.
I wish john smith got a redemption arc, however, i think johns ending shows how evil can take control. and in reality, name one dictator or leader who did bad things that redeemed them selves. once you go down an evil path there is almost no turning back.
I think except the doctor, he only killed evil nazi officials. He could easily beat Juliana in this scene but he didn’t and chose to suicide
I honestly wish Smith was given some kind of redemption arc. You know, after seeing who and what he could have he rethinks what he has done? At least Kido got a little bit of one
The producers completely ruined the show with the fourth season. The entire other 3 seasons you could see John had doubts about the Party, about the Reich. They made it seem as if John wanted to be free from Nazi rule. But then they came with this garbage season and made John go full Nazi
What a lazy ending, but Rufus Sewell’s acting is amazing.
Who else wanted to see John Smith go full evil and win? I did lol. This bullshit where the bad guy always has to lose or turn good is bs.
the logical ending would have been John Smith supreme dictator of the US
He's not turning good ... he lost everything he want to save. So, wife ... Family.
The preise was to cooperate with nazi germany, to kill, and to be the best nazi. He was the devil himself all the time, but for a good reason he lost all the way.
I always want Nazis to lose.
Yea it's not realistic to reality. Show me a show where the villain wins and not simply wins but overwhelmingly. As if to highlight how little chance the dissident group ever had.
Everyone sayn that John's ending has no sense, but his character arc was totally coherent through the seasons. He has always acted to protect his family, and in order to do so he has betrayed his country and war friends, which build deep regrets in him. He tries to save his son, only to discover he cannot, nor in his reality nor in all the others. He has no interest in power, but he's forced to rank up to protect his family from Himmler, and in the end he's crushed by his own role as Fhurer and lose every bit of control he had on things. But most of all, he's crushed by the fact that he has been struggling so hard and yet made all the wrong choices, making him the worst version of himself. This is a masterpiece of character, played by a very talented actor.
him allying with the german nazis even after the death of the german high command (effectively returning all North American power back to American born nazis) made no sense. He saw the opportunity to stop being a nazi but he continued to do so. Thats the part that makes no sense imo. I mean you could say he was looking out for his family but NA had enough firepower to rival nazi germany, so it prolly woulda looked like a cold war instead; although there would be death, he'd have his family protected as the leader of new america. I personally loved his arc, he was probably my favorite/the most interesting character in the show (except dor maybe Joe who's ending was real fuckin shit even tho it aligns with the book), although I think his ending coulda been better. I also think most people were just upset the show ended that way. There was so mych more story to tell, and all the unanswered questions were rushed to a conclusion like someone wrapping a present real sloppy like because they're late to the holiday party.
@@tylerjohnson6455 he had no choice, even after becoming Reichsführer of America. Everyone around him was a true, loyal Nazi willing to slit eachothers throats for power at the sole sign of weakness except his old, close friend Bill Whitcroft, who (as a second to the RSF in command) later recalled the attack on San Francisco when he was told about Smith's death
@@realLuisGiordano not true. his second in command made it clear that everyone in power was loyal to john smith, not the nazi reich. thats why after john died his second in command (i forgot his name) who took over didnt invade the west and broke away from being a nazi puppet.
His charactec is good. The ending of the show that's bad
No one is arguing John shouldnt have died. Just not like this. Come on.
I just love his caracter he had a wonderfull development and arc so its time to cry now
this me resigning before my opponent checkmates me in the next move
So sad they ended this great show like this.
The ending to this show was so shit. Treating it like North America not being Nazi anymore meant the whole world was saved.
We save the world, the world: USA
It’s heavily implied that the Reich is basically crumbling on its own. All of the major leadership is dead, and with nukes spread around the Reich, different factions are claiming independence. Starting with the USA.
Does leave sequel room though, theoretically. An alternate Cold War.
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This is supposed to be the final fight between hero and villain. Their final forms? She became a revolutionary, despite rejecting the resistance throughout the show, and he became a full-fleshed Nazi despite walking the thin line of good and evil. Amazing show, but there were two seasons crammed into one.
“I’m Rey”
“Rey who?”
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John Smith dying is a metaphor for the show
The most senseless and useless end episode ever. The series was great until they received a lot of pressure to cancel it, and so this last episode makes no sense at all. Pity.
Did they really get pressured to cancel ???
@@winterwonderwasteland I wouldn't be surprised, considering the political climate today.
@@winterwonderwasteland yes there was a lot of pressure to end the serie. The story was inconvenient, as it was depicting the Third Reich as an unbeatable force, too powerful and too glorious. I suppose that the episode where they destroyed the Staute of Liberty was the last nail in the coffin.
The best actor by a mile on this show. Although it's a bit strange that Smith did not have more guards with him and decided to kill himself. He should have won in the end instead of usual Hollywood bull or at least gone to another world..
My guess is that director wanted to make some reference to a real life event at the end of WW2, when Hitler was capsized by a Red Army and ended his life the exact same way, nothing more, nothing less.
I mean how did the American Reichsfuhrer have no real guard, quick response task force, or anything to save him? That should have been an armored luxury train car with his most loyal troops as body guards troop's on each end of his car there should have been armored fighting train cars with guns, cannons, anti-air and American Luftwaffe escort in the form of a combat helicopter or something. I'm not for fascism I'm just interested in this alternate reality it's bizarre and it should have been given another season or two to finalize it and if they were going to have the rebellion win make a better story than what Amazon screwed us out of with this cop out ending we got for "budget reasons" from a company like Amazon? Yeah right...
They have to show the Jerries as incompetent and doomed to lose while amerikwan golems have to come out on top all the time. It's that simple.
@@qarmatianwarhorse6028 Oh look an actual Nazi, that's so adorable. Hello little Nazi, do you know your ABCs?
I though the ending would make Smith a traveller like Tagomi.
It was so bizarre how sudden and out of nowhere the ending felt. I went into it knowing it was the series finale and it just sort of... does? The whole last 15 minutes or so felt like a rushed episode tacked onto the end of another one.
The thing about John Smith is that for him it was always about protecting his family.
Tell yourself that, Adolf.
I feel like the portal (and portal base) turned into something that was too difficult to end properly. On one hand I didn't like that the rebels just destroyed the base without showing how exactly (as far as I know they only have small arms and improved explosives), but on the other hand how the hell are you supposed to wrap it up. I'd imagine that it's one of the most imporant bases that they have, so the military pressence should have been enormous (+ they stole all that tech from other universes, no doubt they already developed some new superior weapons or equipment from it).
As I recall only a relatively small circle within the party knew anything about the base or the portal. paranoia kept it small.
AMO THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, ES EXCELENTE!
2:12 that was absolutely mind blowing
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This show died when they started to focus too much on all the parallel universe bullshit instead of exploring how a world in which the Axis power won really would've looked like. Especially after the old guard of leaders died or eliminated each other. Wasted potential.
Yeah they lure you in with that fictional goldmine of a story just to flip you off and make it a sci-fi series about multiverse theory.
Shit, I hate multiverse so much, can't describe how disappointed I was when they came up with it.
@@chriseffpunkt4333 I don't dislike multiverse plots but it doesn't fit in here. This seemed like a realistic take on alternative history but they turned it into a boot-leg Wolfenstein with Nazi-super-science which is massive BS.
@@chriseffpunkt4333 Smith seeing himself in another life, being a genuinely good person was a great plot thread. it got too far up it's own ass like most of these sorts of plot lines do. That was a flaw i was willing to live with, but season 4 is where the writing just died.
That is the direction the book goes in though. If you want action all the time then you go for it. But this is a Philip K. Dick adaptation, so deals more with mind-bending sci-fi themes. The Nazis are quite inconsequential in the grand scheme of things. It's far more than that.
Which shows that Nazi Germany had always been nothing but a personality cult of Hitler and was one of those organizations that only worked when the guy who founded it was running things.
I like how the Show shows you that around Season 1 & 2 The Reich gets more powerfull as in Seasons 3 & 4 we see how it starts to crumble from the inside out.
What I hated most was I loved his arc so much, where he naturally learns how evil Nazism is, and as the show continues starts to resent it in a way that feels believable. The show takes one of the characters you hate and begin to make him sympathetic.
Then they just throw that in the dumpster, he still tryna be a Nazi in America after it becomes independent and hasn’t learned a thing
So. I think one more season could have made this one of the best shows to date. The last season felt so rushed.
Despite many flaws in the last season, most of them due to the fact they had to wrap things up fast, there was some brilliant moments. The attack on the train and Smith's death are so powerful. Being able to realize all the evil things he did while serving the Nazis, how bad a person he had become, how the state took all his children and his wife, how ideology killed his world, that would be nice if all people realized that before supporting far-right extremism and theses.
This was the best part of the ending, a tragic but well played out ending for John....realising how evil he had become and how much he had lost despite his position. Other than this, the ending was pretty disappointing.
Until the whole BCR and Alternate Worlds thing this show was pretty good
The whole point of the show was the alternate worlds my guy
@@ye_clapped_6974 I’m talking about the several alternate worlds and the whole dimension travelling thing. At first this show was more like a “what if” scenario but near the end it just went downhill
@@mrslavinator1057 oh ok yeah my bad but yeah I agree with that
This show was always about alternate worlds. Did you not have any familiarity with the source material? Or are you saying you liked the show while it was just portraying a world where the nazis won World War 2, and didn't like anything beyond that.
@@woodrobin I liked it until it became unrealistic. I loved seeing how the world was with an axis victory.
so much wasted potential because of the rushed ending. Really thought Smith had a better fate than this
I wish I could forget this clip. A crappy ending to what could have been a great series. 4th season was a mess.
You know out of these 3 characters Juliana, John & Hawthorne they represent the 3 mortis gods from the clone wars series. Hawthorne = The Father, Juliana = The Daughter & John = The Son
Man, this is one of the cheapest deaths in the series.
Rufus Sewell is a very underrated actor.
She’s carrying a Yugoslav M70B1 rifle.
Didn't see this particular show but I've seen various movies etc. where they seem to have good writing throughout but screw up the ending...it's really a shame to the viewers when they can't figure it out..for me the worst was LOST..since I invested so much time into it
Smith is a true tragic hero. He has remarkable intelligence, and yes, even natural virtue... all of it ruined by the flaw of ambition and misplaced loyalty. In the end, he comes to self-knowledge of a kind that only Inspector Kido can match.
Gran serie.. la mejor que he visto en años!
You have this quiet moment in a serene forest and SOMEHOW THERE'S A RAGING INFERNO THERE THE WHOLE TIME. Way to take the wind out of an amazing performance.
Fuck that's a powerful fucking line
The thing that was the saving grace in this whole show, was John Smiths borderline Shakespearean story. A man capable of incredible deeds brought down by his inherently flawed character, and meeting a grisly end.
The political situation of this season makes absolutely no fucking sense though, and I really hate the implications of the many factions involved.
Like for instance the Japanese empire falling because apparently too democratic to beat the Nazis at anything, despite that making zero sense on multiple levels. Given that democratic countries tend to excel technologically over authoritarian ones, and the Japanese Empire was literally the farthest fucking thing from democratic.
The BCR attacking the Japanese before fighting the fucking Nazis, like, seriously? Why? The Japanese were literally their ONLY PROTECTION in this world from just getting genocided completely by the Reich. Why on gods creek earth would they not cut a deal with the Japanese? The Empire in this world would have been more than happy to use the BCR as proxy fighters in the American Reich. It’s common fucking sense. This happened all the time in the real world. The Japanese literally had the Yakuza and an anarchic zone between them and the Reich. Just give the BCR some guns and send them into the Reich by smuggling them in via the Yakuza.
Finally WHY ARE THE NAZIS SO FUCKING STUPID? Like, I understand that they are Nazis. Not exactly people with any common sense. It’s the reason why they lost the war to begin with. However, THEY NEVER SHOW THAT. Throughout the series the Nazis are portrayed as insanely competent, and not just because of John Smith. All despite their insane infighting at the leadership level. Like honestly, how has this empire not crumbled already? You have coups and assassinations happening left and right, and yet somehow they are able to control half the fucking planet?
Man, this show just drives me nuts.
Yeah this show could have been better.
"democratic countries tend to excel technologically over authoritarian ones". While true, you would typically think authoritarian government would exceed democratic government but they don't. Because of corruption and inefficiency.
The borderline Shakespearean story is kinda why i kept watching it.
Season 4 just felt like a race to the finish, I mean I love John so much, but there was so much more that could have been done with his character and Kido, along with their children, also it genuinely pisses me off how they portray the bcr in a positive light especially considering what the C stood for, lastly the ending with people walking through made no f*#%*# sense
Where did they get AK-47s? The Kalashnikov was made in 1947, but in this timeline the Soviets were long gone by then.
The resistance got the guns from the Black Communist Rebellion, who issupplied by Chinese Rebels in Manchuria, probably communists too. So it would make sense that some russian soldiers like Mikhail Kalashnikov may have been able to flee east (since west was not a possibility). So he could have developed it for them.
Yes but the AK is thought to be based on the STG-44, but the STG closer resembles a G3 or a G36. The AK gets a lot of it's inspiration from the M1 Garand. So it's possible that the AK could have seen very limited trial runs as a result of controlling most of the US and most of Russia.
If you look closely on a lot of the Nazi’s medals you can see “1947”. So I’m guessing WW2 ended in 1947 which is enough time for the USSR to develop the guns and issue them
For what it’s worth, the prop this girl is lugging is not even an “AK”: it’s a Yugoslav/Serbian M70B1 rifle. Hand guard with 3 vents, grenade sight folded on top of the top half of hand guard/gas valve protection, shape of the front sight as well as the shape of the wooden stock gives it away.
Yo John, with the threat of another season - I’m with you on this one
She is honestly my least favourite character ever
Smith was always in denial of what he became. He thought he could work inside the system and he would be safe with his family, but it just got them all murdered. And he’s left to watch. There was no redemption for him here and knowing there’s a life where he had everything he wanted was too painful. Suicide was his only option
i think after meeting the other John, he realised that he had become the worst version of himself by choice and he didnt want to live with that
I never read the book but do Julianna Crane exist in the book or something made up by the tv show director?
She is in the book. John Smith don't exist however....
@@sweetballs4742 well hello there, we meet again
@@sourballs1248 it's you again, Sour Balls! I didn't expected you to be here xD
@@sweetballs4742 gotta watch these videos to see what we’re fighting against 🤷🏻♂️
@@sourballs1248 I'm glad we have something in common. Especially on why we're watching tv series like this.
He died when he realised he could not save his son. The curse and the fear of every father ever.
People begging for a smith redemption arc are naive, the only version of himself capable of rising against the Nazi’s disappeared when the Americans lost the war
Easter egg of Adolf's death
“Other worlds, other lives, this is what we became”. Yes we are all immortal in the spirit. Some of us will live many lives till we either live the final good life and come to our reward of Love and Joy or fade into the background of fear and anger of those who will not listen and learn of the Love of God.
It's Blade Runner all over again. "I've seen ships off the..."
Did the book end the same way?
The worst part of this alternate history? No AR platform rifles.
This ending made no sense and was dumb really dumb the show was going places until this
*wow* 😳
Why's this so QUIET?
This death pissed me off big time.
You can really tell they were rushed for time in the last half of the 2nd season.
did anybody else notice that he holds different arm sleves in his hand at 1:17 and 2:32?
Yes
I was so sad to hear that he had to cancel playing Elvis Presley's Father. He's such a great actor
kido, smith, joe and frank have all the potential but we keep cycling around juliana
The ending didn't give justice to the whole series
I like to believe that episode 9 is the actual ending it's so much better than this
POOR JOHN 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
I love John Smith's work ethics
i feel like this scene was a call back to blade runner like tears in rain speech
The worst collapse of a good show in history. Had one of the best build ups and character arks of any character maybe ever, beautifully acted, and this is how they ended his story. They tried so hard to be morally preachy with their social Justice they stepped on their own toes instead of creating something amazing. Typical modern bullshit. I’ll be glad when Humanity gets out of this era of sound bites and public statements. I just hope I’m alive to see it.
Count Adhemar is down on his luck
John realizing how pathetic he is and killing himself is honestly like the best possible ending for the character. John gets an iota of moral clarity, which is about all the redemption or self-reckoning he really deserves, with what was shown of him throughout and the room the show had left to conclude things. He always completely deferred on the moral question of what he was doing by appealing to the Nazis might or control, and in the process propped it up and held it together. Maybe we want to see him as strong because he accomplishes a lot of things in the show and is a character with a lot of agency and competence, but he's too distracted from or too much of a coward to think of what the meaning of his actions and support of the Nazis really is or means, and this is the natural consequence of 'enabling' that. You don't get to just appeal or avail yourself to evil because 'evil won and therefore it's right', that's just a way of fleeing from the responsibility of having to adjudicate between right and wrong, and that was something *consistently* shown in John's character throughout the show, no matter how 'personally hard' any one particular decision or moment may have been on him. He didn't really have an inner compass or authenticity, and largely let his environment dictate his values and what he did, without any real complaint or resistance at any point.
Nope disagree 100% they fucked the show rushed the ending sticking to the shitty Hollywood logic that the good guys always win they fucked John they done him dirty and he didn’t see how pathetic he was he was the most powerful man in America he could do as he pleases he had the power to go to other universes the only reason he killed himself is because the writers like fucking the good characters they killed the trade minister they made the chief Inspector join the yakuza and then they make it so that hellen hated John what is total bullshit
If they wanted to even be semi realistic they would of wiped out the resistance mainly and focused of the Cold War between Germany and the japs
without a doubt a worse ending than game of thrones
So Mikhail stuck around long enough to create the Kalashnikov in this time line? Should have been an StG-44
@Nicolas no it isn’t the ak 47 and stg44 are 2 different guns with 2 different mechanisms
For the World War Two portion of Harry Turtledove's Timeline-191 saga it's said that the US is flying renamed versions of the P-38 Lightning, P-40 Warhawk (now called "Wright-27") and Messerschmitt-262 (now called "Boeing-71 Screaming Eagle"), while the Confederacy is flying versions of the P-39 Airacobra (now called "Hound Dog") and Stuka (now called "Mule" and nicknamed "Asskicker"). Plus the cover art to Stoney Compton's Russian Amerika and Alaska Republik novels show the California Air Force flying P-51 Mustangs but they're now called "P-61 Eurekas." So sure, somebody in this timeline made the AK-47 whether it be Mikhail Kalashnikov himself or someone else.
soviet weapons destroying nazis even in alternate universes.
New subcriber idk
I was always thinking he had something up his sleeve to bring down the Reiche instead he was only interested in getting more power
I really hated Juliana throughout the show
Good character
Seeing as there are other realities, he might even come back.
If Smith survived I wish the season keep going and at the final season he decided to restore America and he tricks the Germans
besides the story and character decisions, whether he did something good, or bad....
i loved and enjoyed evry single scene with him! can't say that about any other character.
i liked Juliana, Kido and Takomi and Joe, but they all had like half of their scenes boring me to death....
Poor John
The end is so unrealistic. Why would a bunch of Resistance fighters be able to storm a Nazi base?
Let's face it: Season 1 ended with the impression of this alternate-reality Hitler being an absolute beast and a mastermind, John Smith being literally the human incarnation of all good espionage/counterintel/detective work skimms combined... season 2 was real authentic battle for power with all the bells and whistles of a very deep conspiracy/thriller, and the later episodes just became some washy antihero resistance soap with this crown jewel of a turd ending.
I mean of ALL the endings they could have picked they made this. John got killed allright... but not by bullet, but with the script.