John Smith Apologizing Danny｜The Man In the High Castle｜Season 4
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Wow John Smith couldn't even look Danny in the eye. The amount of guilt he must've felt, so sad.
Cowards die many deaths, the valiant face it only once.
@Nicholas Devin really? Is it that good?
@@ryanrusch3976 I don’t think John was a coward. He was doing everything to survive and to keep his family alive.
He knew they were practically dead and he would have killer himself and family as well if he tried to do anything about it.
@@SelfImprovement1111 1) He could have opened the truck, that was pretty much handed to him and he chose evil. 2) He could have fled to the neutral zone, when he joined up it was already clear what would happen to the Midwest. He could have even gone to the Japanese states, or south America. 3) He could have just said no. Sure he risks being unable to feed his family, but it's not a sure thing at that point. At the very least he could have, you know, not joined the SS voluntarily and orchestrated the western extermination camps.
This character is great but has no path to redemption.
@@ScenicAndrew John wouldve opened the back truck, but he would've been caught by the other sentries in eye and ear shot, and he and his family would've been put to death too
The most heartbreaking scene in the entire series.
piye kabare le ??
No other series ever made, ever made me as angry or sick to my stomach as this one. Not because it was bad, but because of the world that depcited. And no other scene made me hate the Nazis more than when John turned his back on Daniel after the surrender. The Holocaust happening on American soil was truly frightening to contemplate
Thomas’ walk to his death and this hit hard
By far
Imagine being in that situation. You lost the war, abandoned every ideal that made you not only American but a decent human being, and made peace with it. Only to find yourself in another world where everything you abandoned and lost was not only there, but thriving. That's one hell of a gut punch indeed.
And not only that, but this alternative world isn't safe. It may be physically real, but its still just an illusion. Nazi agents had already infiltrated this world, so no matter what, he can't just break from his dark past and try to restart in a world where things hadn't gone wrong.
Its like a cruel joke. Showing John what could have been... no, not just showing, literally letting him live in what could have been... but only for a short time.
Dude the alternate reality world scenes for John were insaneeeeee
Sounds like the Biden administration
@@justin8894 Yall making everything about biden administration lmao
Hes so disgusted with himself he cant even look at his friend who hes lost even though he has the never in a lifetime chance to see him again.
Plus he realizes what a horror he had made of his marriage in the other world, and how he sacrificed his son there. For no reason. This actually was the spark for his collapse in the High Castle world. He was going to do nothing at all except end his own life in the end.
@@anthonylegore1517 and at the end he redeemed him self general whitcroft gets to be in charge perhaps the new president of a new democratic united states
Imagine being able to access nearly infinite parallel worlds, and discovering that you are, without a doubt, the shittiest version of yourself it is possible to have become. That's the fate of the High Castle version of John Smith. It almost makes me feel pity for a nazi, which I would not have thought possible.
@@woodrobin Im probably in about the the 30th or 40th percentile for versions of myself in the multiverse , 22yo so theres still time to make it to 60th percentile
@@anthonylegore1517 He never redeemed himself because he was far past redemption.
He thought that he could just play "normal" and perfect life, that he could just move there and play along like in a dream. But the only thing not normal was himself. He was full of guilt and dark memories.
But even then he had to know that he would be found. His own agents found the "other" John Smith and ended his life. But I agree, his own guilt consumed him in the end. He realized all of the terrible things he had done and that there was no hiding, no redemption.
He's also traumatized by the horrors he and Wegener did in Cincinnati
Rufus Sewell nailed the complexity of John Smith. Totally underrated.
Underrated? its that word again? how? in terms of what is underrated? the guy was nominated for Critics Choice TV Award for playing John S. lol
@@macdee6040 it's his opinion he's allowed to have one
@@rc59191, Sure, Francisco A is entitled to his opinion. That doesn't mean it might not be an ill-considered one, the fallacy of which can't be pointed out.
This could’ve been a legit turning point for John’s Arc like how Kido began to reconcile with his own regrets and mistakes he made from the past, but nope, the writers just wasted all that character development up for a stupid suicide scene.
John and Kido are litterally the only ones that kept me watching.
I think it's a great comparison. Both were high ranking officials doing what they thought was right. Both have terrible past demons but while one tries to ignore, kido accepts and tries to reconcile. They're almost foils of each other of how one's demons control them to dig deeper into a moral hole while the other seeks for redemption and acceptance
They were in a rush to end the series to divert the fund to next projects. Not much they could've done in that short of a timeframe
@@rv2167 nope... well cost him a great fucking ending of a series which ended like shit... Walter white character arc developed as hell during the seasons maybe in a bad way for him but it was great and it was a great ending while for john was a nazi bastard and dead like a nazi bastard everything happened doesn't change his character a bit... '' ı don't know how to stop '' dumbest line of all time
They set all of this crazy shit up, but only use it for a hand full of scenes, that also amount to nothing. Like why did I watch 30 hours of build up for them to not even use it.
Lack of appreciation in this comment for Trade Minister Tagomi, breaks my heart.
The best part of season 4 was easily John's trips. Shame how the season ended
I agree
Why do you think it's shame? John deserved this kind of end.
I thought the ending was good.
The end is...okay. A lot happens in a short amount of time. Togomi’s arc just ends abruptly too.
@@johnnydoe6696 Are you confused? Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa is the actor and he is still alive. Wtf are you talking about that the actor died?
If Danny knew what John did in the other world. I bet he wouldn’t have been saying “were brothers.” Thats what’s tragic about betrayal... it never comes from an enemy but from a friend.
Thats why it hurts the most. You expect your enemy to stab you in the back or throw you under the bus so when they do it never comes as a surprise. But when those whom you put your trust and faith in do that it hurts the most because its so unexpected and hurtful. I am also reminded of a saying by MLK
"In the end its not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends we remember the most". And that is what John was, silent when they drove the truck away to their deaths
It would've been interesting to find out what would've happened if John told Danny, and Danny believed it.
Silence of our friends… damn that hit home right there….
When danny screams "we were brothers" that hurt more than tagomis, franks or thomas deaths
We are brother*
What is so sad is that he has the ability to apologize through these alternate worlds but they mean nothing. It’s almost as if it’s a reflection of ones own guilt coming to pass
Interesting opinion
Imagine if John somehow realized he had to stay in this world and managed to sabotage the portal so he can stay and the nazis from his world can't come back in and bother him. I have a feeling for those 5 minutes that what he really wanted to do more than anything else.
i wish that had been the ending.
damn you amazon.
I wish john declared himself as the presidents of usa until next elections and declared independence from nazis abolish all nazi rules
That's what I was thinking when I watched this scene. That suicide scene was so dumb
I could have gone for either or really. He realized From all those lives he became the worse one. Then it ends with a suicide like how hitler first commited suicide. I expected as much. Doesn’t mean I wouldn’t have wanted him to unite america once he became the main leader.
Where's the portal from our real world located?
3:05 John Smith's eyes changed back to the cold blood Nazi. Maybe that's the point he realized he couldn't stay in this reality to face all the terrible things he had done, and he had to take Thomas back to his reality.
And/or the moment he realized there is no redemption.
Yeah I noticed that too. Amazing acting from Rufus Swell. Really chilling.
Which also makes the ending if the series null and void. What would the benefit be with all the people walking into an alternative universe be.
Smith avoiding eye contact till the end is so powerful
The extremes of emotion shown in this series is incredible.
It shows the breakdown of strong men in a way only possible through war.
This could've been the chance for John Smith to do a 180 and realize what he done all along was truly evil....
He realized, he just didn't care.
@@timothygalvin3021 i think he had an inner conflict. Maybe he would've stayed in the alt world with Helen if he wouldn't been killed.
But I think Smith is a psychopath. Addicted to power. Doesn't care about much more than power
@@alanario3738 simpler than that. He was a God damm Nazi true believer who deserved to be drug out into the street and shot.
@@timothygalvin3021 No?
@@andrewvo596 what I'm saying is he wasn't crazy, he didn't have a moment of weakness, he was just a racist bastard who enjoyed genocide, torture, and murder.
John Smith was a great character, but there was no way he was going to have a happy ending. No matter how many seasons this show got, Smith was going to die by violence either from others or by his own hand.
They could change that, don’t tell me that he could had a good ending wtf
@@hardwell2484
John's ending was exactly what it had to be. The more and more he became evil, the more and more it ate him and destroyed him from the inside. He had already killed himself long before he ended his own life. I don't understand all the complaints about the ending. John's whole story was that of a tragic monster.
One of the best scenes. I really wish they had focused mostly on Smith, instead of on other boring secondary characters. I am glad he didn't get a redemption at the end. He truly was way too far down that rabbit hole.
Juliana, Frink, Joe, Ed and so on are main characters in the book. John and Kido dont even exist in it...
@@muller2956 yes but it's only loosely based upon the book. Within the TV show Smith is a far more compelling character. Juliana is decent but Frank and his ugly little friend are just yawn.
@@muller2956 Ironic since i personally think those two where some of the best parts of the show. I really liked there arcs for the most part, shame John's ended the way it did.
@@muller2956 so?
@@TheVagaIlusion What "so"? Have you read the main comment? Read it again.
This scene was simple but one of the most emotional to me, just imagine yourself traveling to another universe and take the chance to say the same things to beloved people you know you cannot see again in your own universe, it's touching and frustrated at the same time because they cannot understand your feelings.
This was the only good thing in the final season. God, such a wasted potential redemption ark. The rest of this season is trash.
To be honest, just like the entire show. It has great, perfect, marvelous moments, but generally its boring shit. They really wasted such a great universe.
Smith basically rules the USA and could do what he wanted to change it all - but the writers had him doing the same old Nazi crap and then shoot himself
@@dirkbruere Doing the same shit isn't the bad idea at all. John was supposed to destroy the Reich but in the face of power he joined it. Thats fine with character development logic. The only bad thing is killing him just after. This entire transition was pointless because of that.
Smith understood that he was beyond redemption.
@@alex20776a So is anyone who cannot change
damn he's a good actor
damn this scene had me in tears
Man in the High Castle, what good is it for a man to gain the whole world and yet lose and forfeit his soul...
Notice when John goes into Alt-John's life he wears more dark executive looking clothes compared to the casual look Alt-John always had
Meanwhile, in an alternate universe, Danny went to New York and changed his name to Abe Drexler and then he met Peggy Olson.
The amount of guilt must have been weighing down on him like an anchor.
I wish they'd have given this a 5th season - so many things/characters that deserved to be fleshed out
It's so sad..
It wasn't until then when he realized that he was irredeemable
Damn that must suck seeing yourself in a better world happy with a happy family and just wishing it could be your own reality.
The writing is so good in this scene!
The writers wrote themselves into a corner. They wrote some incredible scenes in the ALT world to give John the chance to see he was capable of being a different man. John Smith always rationalized his actions by telling himself he did what he had to. I don't see John being evil by nature but by circumstance. To be clear, he WAS evil. But his evil came from his adapting to powers beyond his control and the ALT world scenes showed John under other circumstances he would not have followed that evil path. Logically once John became head of the North American Reich and was master of his own destiny he could have been true to his own better instincts and perhaps, gradually, undone the worst evils in the Reich. But the writers NEEDED to punish Smith because he was a Nazi. So they write a plot where Smith inexplicably decides to revive the Reichs mass extermination programs. They offer only the barest explanations for it because it just makes so little sense when taken with everything John had experienced and seen up to this point. But their motivation was "we can't let the Nazi just live another 20 years as fuehrer and imply gradual change" they needed to tie a moral bow around the series and that meant showing him as a true monster incapable of the change they had implied over multiple seasons and a quick comeuppence where he loses everything followed by a suicide. Then his second in command just randomly calls of the invasion. Yeah they flubbed the ball here.
Couldn’t have said it better myself. They tried to justify it by having him say in a defeated voice “i know” on the train when Helen called it a crime, as if to show that he still felt bounded by Berlin, but again that could have been Rufus keeping John’s actual character alive.
he was not capable of being different man. In that world USA won the war. That is why he did had chance in that world.
I think it shows that despite his still somewhat good qualities, he could not be redeemed. He has had hundreds killed or tortured, and he even let his close friend and brother die without doing a damn thing about it. He, in my view, was far too gone to help himself out of the darkness he had willingly sunk himself into, he even had his ALT self murdered by accident. At this point, he was just too far gone to save himself. When you’ve been surrounded by death, misery and extreme ideology for decades and you’ve participated in that ideology for a long time, it’s damn near impossible to leave it all behind, either because of you, or because of others affected by you.
@@acrazysheepdog1555 Yep, the thing that so many people in the fandom are missing is just how scared John Smith is of a world without Nazism. Because that's a world where he has to face the consequences for what he has done.
Imagine you're in Smith's shoes, or the shoes of any other participant in a genocide, and one day you are given 100% irrefutable proof that God exists and that heaven and hell are real. You now know that when you die, you are definitely going to hell, and there is no amount of good that you can do in life that can make up for the blood on your hands.
That's the same thing that confronted so many Nazis during WW2 once defeat became clearly inevitable. They knew that their chances of escaping justice for their crimes would be close to impossible. And so many of them doubled down, tried vainly to destroy the evidence even though the scale of the Holocaust made it impossible, and when they couldn't even do that, many Nazis killed themselves rather than face the music.
That's the dilemma facing John Smith by the end. Sure, he has the power to change the country. But once he restores democracy and the American way of life, there would be calls for the chief Nazis at least to face some sort of justice.
But worse than that (from John's perspective), it would mean that he participated in a regime that killed millions of people, including his own son, for no reason. He would have to face up to the fact that he could have fought the Nazis from the jump, and never surrendered. That's a level of introspection that very few people could face and survive, and John isn't exceptional, he's an everyman (hence his name being synonymous with "a generic human").
I almost thought John was going get turned here. He was so emotionally wrecked between seeing his son and Danny again.
The best part of this show was Kidos and John's character arcs. The resistance stuff was just a side show.
Its amazing to see how complex was John Smith when it comes to his character. He was a good guy traped in a bad one.
john smith really carried this entire show
Agree
I like how he can never stand to look at him
It would’ve been nice of John to bring him back to his world to make him understand, but then again I also wanted him to get Thomas, and Helen too lol
The crows caw in 2:56 really hit me.
Beautiful details.
I did some research into who they sent to the camps and 45% of my school is In that category
This actually makes me cry
What a trippy scene.
I don’t get peoples thing about saying he was pure evil for letting his friend get taken in that truck. It killed him on the inside but he knew he and his family would be killed for letting them all go. Unless ur in the same situation u could in no way judge someone’s decision like that
You'd like to think that. But the fact remains, there is an absolute when it comes to truth. These shows teach you how to behave. Rufus has always played these roles. Television is a weapon. You always have a choice. No matter what.
@@jeffmorin5867 That's a very reductionist viewpoint. Sure, you technically always have a choice. But if the choice is between saving a friend, and saving my family, is that really a choice?
@@attackmaster519 If you always believe you are the exception to the rule, you never learn anything. Evil comes from evil. Participating in any form of it automatically brings more of it. Regardless of your "good intention". If you always focus on the exception instead ofbthe rule you are always going to be stuck in an endless loop, not realizing that you should never have been there to begin with. Hence, why you see it as an impossible situation. You're own logic is actually the narrow view of the greater picture...but go on believing in non-sensical arguments if that's how you have to continue to exist... the truth doesn't need you to stand, it doesn't need me to stand...the truth can clearly defend itself....
@@jeffmorin5867 So I just want to be clear on this. You would happily kill your entire family for the potential chance that your former comrades might be saved?
This is the very moment he looks in the mirror and realizes what he ends up saying to Julianna in the end
I literally cried watching this it’s heart breaking
He looks so happy about sports while that gave John a heart breaking memory.
I think if they had given the show to finish out this season as it should have and then given given it an extra seadon of 3 or 4 episodes with a bit more running time they could've really reached it's full potential..
It is a shame they ended it the way they did but my god, Rufus Segwell and cast did a truely remarkable job!
At 1:05:13 in the movie The Blues Brothers, there is a picture on the wall that looks a bit like obergruppenführer John Smith.
this show deserves it all
If only Danny knew what John did he wouldn't be so nice.
The Dan scenes were right in the feels
This is the best reality without a doubt. A reality where you get to stare at the TV for hours and hours watching all the sportsball teams play each other while getting nonstop advertisement of superfluous things to buy in between
Tells you a lot about people when it comes to family people betray their closest friends
I commend Rufus for playing John as humanly as possible. The writers of season 4 wanted to portray John as purely a bad guy, but Rufus fought to show the grey area. In these scene and the ones following, all the way until the end, you see John wrestle with his decision. He's dying inside, seeing the plans for Phase 5. He's dying inside when he orders the Luftwaffe to attack the west coast. He doesn't want to do it, but he's been playing this role for so long, he can't see his other options, if there are any. I wish he'd have been able to throw off German rule, but still have to face justice for all the crimes he committed. Maybe he's too...cowardly for that, but it would have been a better end for his character. I think because people were so freaked out about Trump being "literally Hitler, oh my god!" the writers shied away from making John sympathetic. They got too real-world political at the end of the series.
Between this and the following flashback sequence I was certain that Smith was headed for a Darth Vader type redemption arc. Would have been much more satisfying than what we got.
Well when the show ended their was no way that they would have ever done that since Twitter would have crucified this show
@@Shablimbles very true. Can't have complex villains, redemption arcs, or morally gray characters anymore.
@@ga7027 what? this is completely false.
@@ZephyrFate what's false? If your characters aren't morally aligned with a certain modern culture then crucified
@@ga7027 morally ambiguous characters are still present in all media, many are celebrated. Just because they’re not written to be homophobic or racist anymore doesn’t mean you are correct whatsoever. You can get your bigotry from 4chan or something if you really need it.
If the Danny in our world only knew what happened to him in John's world
TBH, it better he didnt. the betrayal, being in the deat-camp and dying in the gas chamber? Better not to know.
@@DaveDoom Your right
John seeing the life he wished he could’ve had is heartbreaking. He could’ve been good under different circumstances.
In the flashback he has here, this is the only time we see John cry... its so clear there was supposed to be a different ending to the series, I wish we got to see what it was...
Absolutely heart breaking
John Smith tirned into the monster that even made his former enemies seem pale by comparison. 😮
I love John
This scene makes me shit rivers of tears every single time.
I was so hoping for a John redemption arc. THe guilt and regret he conveys in this scene is stunning. Why did the writers fuck up it so badly.
I never had a friend like that....I was always surrounded by back stabbers.....
This must be what hell is.
Cuando descubres que la serie el protagonista no ea Juliana... Smith se convirtió ennla estrella de la serie
I never remember seeing this scene, I owned it on Amazon. Then I buy the DVD version and this scene appears.
When will the series come out on blu ray? Some don't have internet or streaming
Amazon prime
Lmao get with the times mate, another decade and DVD's will be as vintage as the cassette player
@@markdgama5000 True, but something feels nice about having a hard copy instead of being beholden to internet connection.
You don't have the internet but how did you post this comment 😂
@@lndingalle9605 he proly has internet but its very slow like in india or whatever they get like 50kb speed streaming a show with that looks like 240p and torrent one will take him a month probably
I also had no choice brother
They should have killed off Juliana and let John Smith’s story keep going.😔
John hugging Danny, knowing its unnatural for him to be there and do that, is the same kind of thing we fantasise about in real life. Wishing we could have done, or could be doing something different than in the reality of our lives.
Travelling to another universe where one, or multiple aspects of our lives and the world are better in THAT universe than what they are in reality.
Its the same as when Rose met her father in the universe where the cybermen got constructed(Doctor Who: Season 2, Episode 5).
Or when Barry travelled to earth 2, and spoke with his mother on the phone(The Flash: Season 2, Episode 13).
Or when Virginia Travelled to (probably) The Nixonverse and met, then fell in love with Leonard(The Monument Mythos: ROCKEFELLERTREETRAGETY, WASHINGTONWONDERLAND)
Smith He didn't know
John Smith is such a kind hearted man! The last scene shows everything.
"Hey. Hey, We're brothers, right?" DUDE I'M FUCKING LITERALLY CRY T-T) this is SOOOOOOOOOOO SAD
They should've made him restore things in the final episodes.
Yep
When he betrayed Danny, John Smith realized he damned himself. Now in this alternate world he sees what he could've had. I too would feel guilty and condemned if I saw what could've been.
To me this shows peoples lives do not depend entirely on their actions, but others too, no matter how you think. Is destiny already written? Guess not
I don’t believe in hell. I don’t believe in Being burned and tortured by demons for an eternity I believe this is worse than the original concept of a “ hell”Like John said seconds before his death. “Seeing through those other lives and seeing the better Person you could’ve been, and out of all of them, this is the one you became”
He was right about Gary Wood, though he was a helluva an athlete. Nothing was going to save that season for the Giants.
Going off the story a bit but could you imagine going to a parallel world where loved ones are alive and well only knowing in your reality that they are gone that would just eat you from the inside out psychologically
Has it ever occured to you that the character was named " John Smith" to represent how by far most average US citizens would have acted if the U.S. had lost the war under the same circumstances? "John Doe" would have been too open. In this context: also consider the " Hausfrau" hostess. She, too, had grown up and been socialized in the U.S.
If we'd had one more season, this character development could have actually led somewhere. It was so obvious we were heading towards a Smith redemption moment. Maybe a heroic sacrifice at the end. Not this, "meh, guess I'll stay Nazi for literally no reason" crap. Reminds me of Jamie Lannister's fate in GoT. Seasons worth of character development thrown in the bin for that "nope, I'm the bad guy, I'm going back to my obviously deranged sister" moment. What a crying shame.
such a good show. but could have had a better ending.
I still say a show just about the smiths would have been the best
John is a good guy inside
Why couldn't John have just stayed in the Universe instead of the other one?
Danny probably wondering if John had slept with his wife or something 😂😂
The whole show should have just been John and Kido, like these two men all the only reason I come back to this show even with how much of a let down the final season was.
I never understood why John never considered living in this univers instead of trying to bring the second Thomas in his own, knowing he would hate them.
Ok maybe his devotion to the Nazi cause but he does keep a US medal from WWII in his office and he does speak of his life in Cincinnati with regrets.
He could've just snap double-Helen's neck, dump her body somewhere (he'dd probably be capable of doing such thing) and bring his own Helen in this universe. Even her would be happy, by this point she have allready lost her faith on national-socialism and sees the monsters they've become because of it.
This sense tells me that he find himself to be a monster. He changed from a loving respectable family man too a cold blooded monster.
By killing Alt-world Halen, and replacing her with his wife, they be doing far more harm then good. And we see that John himself can't even live in this World under false pretenses.
The Nazis changed him, and he realizes that he can't escape from who he has become.
Because his real wife and daughters are still alive, because the parallel portal from which nazi tanks can fall out at any time still exist, because the SS will react if their leader escapes to another world where he pretends to be a simple seller
Your description is wrong. This isn't a dystopian world, it's a utopian world.
a John could have reedemed himself as seeing that the allies won in another dimension and use the american reich forces to overthrown the nazis and ask help from the allies dimension.
but no. xD
He wanted to keep it quiet and forget that dimension. That is too dangerous knowledge.
Plus allied technology level is significantly lower.
But axis world is better
@@noone3272 i dont know current tech looks a lot better than the one the axis had in their dimension.
@@danielsuarez9851 depends on what kind of tech. The nazis deliberately will not want their people to have these fast communication and social media stuff.
But military and transportation theirs was definitely way better.
Their cities were definitely better looking
@@noone3272 mmm i dont know their tech look like between future and the 80s
@@danielsuarez9851 yeah this show didn't explore or deliberately left off stuff
So what did happen to Danny?
He's Jewish
@@Ghostkilla773 So he ended up ruling the entire world via the IMF? Amazing! 😊
@@haitolawrence5986, What a hilarious and self-aware comment. 🙄 🙄 🙄
Propaganda...exists. Stay frosty. 😉
This is the moment when I started to think John would do the right thing and join the rebellion… then the show took a massive shit on that idea. lol
It would have been good either way but at least they could have made it good. Either he commits to rebelling or go full on villain and accepts the role he placed himself it but they took on dump on making him compelling in the end
How many of us would have acted otherwise than John? People are more conformists and cowardly than they realise
I swore after this scene we were gonna see a huge character development ans turn around. Then we got nazi john
Every time I watch the show I just get so frustrated. I genuinely get angry thinking that the greatest generation would yield to Germany.
So, he (Daniel) is Jewish and he got killed by holocaust at the perel world?
The basic fallacy about this series is that it's based on a false
premise: that the Nazis and Japanese desired and had the means to
conquer the world. The Nazis did not think in Geo-political terms but
Eurocentrically. Hitler thought in World War One terms, seeing the
conquest of France and Russia as his ultimate war aims. The Nazis had no
workable plan for even invading England and put no real energy into it.
Nor did they have a navy capable of crossing the Atlantic against an
America with three times their industrial plant. Hitler feared America.
Similarly the Japanese limited their war aims to co-opting southeast
Asia and China into their Greater Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere. They had
no wish to go after America and could not support a cross-Pacific
invasion of America with their minuscule industrial plant, barely 10% of
America's. World conquest by the Nazis and Japan was simply not
possible given the political-economy of their nations. But it's a nice
and entertaining fantasy, which is what Hollywood is all about.
In this book much is different even before the war, the united states doesn’t come back from the depression and plunges deeper into isolationism because of it. FDR dies before he becomes president. Key events during the first World War are different as well, germany being better off than it had in our universe
Key events happen in favor of the axis powers historically from an early point, making them much more powerful than they are in this universe. The US didn’t control the oil industry in this universe for example and never had the industrial revolutions like mass assembly
Kevin A, If he truly feared America, he was kind of foolish in declaring war against it, as he did. What leverage did the Japanese actually have to force that decision, despite their pact?
season 4 was a flop overall, i only watched for Kido / Smith Family storyline, BCR was completely out place added by the producers to appease to the new Hollywood Woke Standard. You'd think that after John Smith sees his best friend who he betrayed in the other universe, he'd have a change of heart when he becomes reichsfuhrer, but no the writers thought its a brilliant idea to make him extra evil... The ending of the show made 0 sense with the NPCs marching out of the portal.