They really struggled to make it seem much different or worse.
“Hey, those new Wolfenstein games were received pretty well, I should probably finally check them out”
Wtf, the first one came out 7 years ago :what-the-hell:
I feel like Wolfenstein at least acknowledges this more than most alt history scenarios would. In the first game Jimi Hendrix says something like “before the nazis came you were the nazis” when he talks about his experiences growing up. The second game has BJ recruiting a bunch of leftists in Louisiana and an analogue of the Black Panthers both of which were presumably not fans of pre-war USA.
Also it’s a series where you shoot Nazis with laser guns on the moon. It’s great.
I don’t know how to think about there being an actual worldwide ancient secret Jewish society controlling advanced technology. I feel like that part could have been done more gracefully.
You know how in Smash bros when you have multiple of the same fighter on screen they give them a distinct palate swap to keep them apart?
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Man in the High Castle has this problem. too.
“Oh no, they’re learning about how the Founding Fathers had slaves - in a good way - instead of it being swept under the rug…”
“Oh no, the cops are all racists…”
"Oh no, the 1960’s US is eradicating people with disabilities…
“Oh no, the ghetto of Black Communists is being strong-armed by violent secret police…”
Props to the show for doing a 1-to-1 comparison between a child handing himself over to be euthanized and a child handing himself over to fight in the Vietnam War, though. Probably the only good thing to come out of it. The rest of the show is just “Return to the Normal of 1940’s America”.
PKD’s Man in the High Castle should at least be commended for having one of the only examples of an alternate-alternate history. There’s an in-universe novel, The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, that describes an alt history of the Nazi’s defeat and then a kind of glorious American future. I think PKD knew what he was doing here, because the alt-alt post-war America instantly starts colonizing Africa, the USSR is dissolved, and half the world gets American factories built within them. This is all described in positive terms and the book is read for comfort in Nazi America. Also there’s a Cold War… But it’s with the UK.
I haven’t seen the show though, only read the book.
