John Smith Saves the World (The Man in the High Castle)

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[@charles5895]

“You can’t build a better world if there’s nothing left of it” These are wise words

[@Freyia935]

Should be written on top of every nuclear suit case.

[@Emperor_Xander]

@@Freyia935 Very much so

[@rexcorvorum4262]

Using Joes authority to countermand his arrest and then expose his family for high treason. Smith was a genius

[@semdavidanger]

Nice

[@williamconto6977]

That’s the reason smith lied about Juliana’s death too. He knew that joe would help him if shit hit the fan with her as bargain, and he was also aware joe would had never ever considered step in there had he knew she was alive. She was crucial in joes narrative in both seasons, they were pretty much intertwined. he was a confused guy that didn’t follow ideals but people. This jointly reinforced smith as the master strategist he was and shows how dirty Blake was treated in season 3. Conditioned or not, the cold terminator that Juliana faced was completely out of character .

[@Ohhiohh]

@@williamconto6977 yea but then they made him shoot himself for no reason at all

[@squareprod_]

1k

[@bigbrossi2434]

one would say only the genius of an American..

[@JGlennFL]

This scene solidifies what a conniving devil Smith actually is. Just when you think he's done, he turns the tables.

[@kateli1880]

Not really.. a good person pushed to do unthinkable.. it’s how deep he loves his family and his County.. USA 🇺🇸 but got sidetracked.

[@bradleygalli7745]

Smith is an anti anti hero in my opinion. He seems like a great leader but at the end of the day he is self-serving man who thinks only of himself and has done unspeakable things to innocent people. Behind it all Smith is a coward. Of he was going to stand up to the Reich he would have done it before he joined them.

[@felixsteiner8320]

@@bradleygalli7745 Show ended on season 4 episode 9. The last episodes was pushed for an early final.

[@ei_ei5111]

Smith was a manipulative and cold but in my opinion he was the most real human like chareacter on the show. Many things he did he was forced to directly or by the pressure of his position in the nazi party.

[@Filip-dg6uk]

@@bradleygalli7745 coward? what a stupid comment.

[@sAmpY_wAmpy]

I like how the field marshal could've accidentally pressed the button which would've launched the nukes lmao

[@eliasziad7864]

The buttons do not launch the nukes, it just sends a message to the operators in the nuclear arsenal to launch the nukes, so if he accidentally pressed the button, the operators would get the signal and call if it is confirmed to launch nukes, the repliers would say no.

[@thomasvleminckx]

Hans... are we the baddies?

[@sAmpY_wAmpy]

@@thomasvleminckx I've had to do this bit so many times in comment sections I'm just gonna say no lol

[@millaz26]

@@eliasziad7864 yes that is very true especially the part where the operator will call for confirmation

[@jamesgoldring1052]

@@millaz26 Are you sure you want to launch the nukes?? Yes You will lose all unsaved progress? Yes This decision is final? Yes No backsies? Yes 100% (Chad meme) Yes. The line of prophecy is severed, persist in this doomed world, or return to a previous save

[@notaspecialuser]

"Your father was a traitor, Joe." So instead of Trader Joe's we have Traitor Joes. This timeline is truly god awful.

[@harz632]

Fun fact, Trader Joes is a german company, Aldi to be exact.

[@lufsolitaire5351]

@@harz632 Aldi Nord’s American branch. Aldi Süd is the one we consider Aldi’s today. Brothers Theo and Karl Albrecht split the company to market to different parts of Germany, Theo took Nord and Karl took Süd.

[@mjcandy9153]

Goddamn Barry Allen strikes again!

[@Mr.Ambrose_Dyer_Armitage_Esq.]

Yeah but, it's relatively Jew-free.

[@Baggerz182]

repent to God

[@TheRepty818]

John Smith was smarter than everyone else when it came to everything else aside from his family.

[@vicious_xdd2918]

The Heusmann actor could be a great portray of Dönitz

[@BravoSixGoingDark]

Uncanny resemblance eh?

[@yifengwang790]

i was thinking about the same thing lol

[@eternal5930]

Where is Donitz anyway?

[@Coco-df6mi]

@@eternal5930 Dönitz was already old in 1945 (54 years old). In our timeline he died in 1980. Since this plays in the 1960s, we can assume that he already retired.

[@wisdomleader85]

I'd say he's more of a portray of Albert Speer, an engineer who was in Hitler's inner circle throughout WW2.

[@shoukatsukai]

1:16 Minor historical oversight: the ship on the right is the Nagato, the long-time flagship of the Japanese Navy. It is suspicious and unlikely the Japanese would have used their old flagship in a nuclear test, considering how the Navy was revered and how Mikasa was converted into a museum ship. Luckily for John Smith, no one in the war room recognized this detail.

[@No-bi3pb]

Wow neeeerrrddd

[@georgeousthegorgeous]

by any chance, have you been playing with time machines recently?

[@MikeTheGamer77]

@@georgeousthegorgeous Silly older, time travel doesn't exist.

[@mnspstudioful]

Why would they? They have such little respect for anyone not German that they believe them all to be stupid mongrels and dogs with no ability to threaten Germany. The men in that room wouldn't have memorized the layout or silhouette of their enemies ships. They're politicians at this point, not military leaders.

[@stvdagger8074]

Well they could have thought that it was Nagato's sister ship, the Mutsu which may have been deemed not worthy of preservation. Unless in the High Castle timeline, the Mutsu also suddenly exploded while in port. Of course the Nazis might think that the Mutsu accident was a cover for her being used as a target

[@Apollo-vc6sc]

After playing TNO I find the idea of Himmler stopping a nuclear war rather than trying to start one to be hilariously ironic

[@rpgeek22]

Well he was fine with the nukes flying he just didn't like that Hitler was assassinated.

[@colonelsmith7757]

TNO is a stupid meme, nothing about it is accurate.

[@colonelsmith7757]

@Blender With Kaiser! Oh yeah we would surely return to the stone age, suuuuuuuure.

[@buttnutt]

oof, TNO is cringe, why would anybody gleefully admit to playing it?

[@MarcosAlexandre-no3qx]

tno is a mod that has an artistic vision and really exagerates the personalities to make it's story. Anybody that take it or any game serious really should search psychological help. Hell they are trying to pass a message about war a extremism even thought the devs sometimes are assholes, stop taking it serious and have fun

[@Samboy666]

I loved Smith he was Ace

[@dinkydoinkdinkydoink378]

@Julian Honts tha boi tagomi was a real one and baynes

[@Samboy666]

@Check yes. I felt they ruined him too. He so should have become the Head of resistance. Made his own state and broke off from the Nazis and rebuilt it all as the USA.

[@Samboy666]

@Check I hated the last few episodes. It was lost. If I win the lottery I will pay whatever it takes to rewrite this so it ends the way it should be hahaha

[@lillimarq]

@Check Have you learned nothing from history ever. Nazis literally are the baddies.

[@mr.mintman7545]

@Check You don't like that NAZIs are the baddies...? Eh? Is your head screwed on right?

[@herbet3011]

0:17 Plot twist : the guy accidentally pressed the button

[@braydenlom8328]

1:55 you could see it just this once Himmler was scared

[@wisdomleader85]

Notice Himmler didn't even bother to read the report Smith gave him attentively before he decided to arrest Martin Heusmann? He was scared partially because he felt his power was threatened by the latter. It was foreshadowed in the war room scene when Heusmann hard-rejected Himmler's proposal to spare the Japanese emperor.

[@allninelivez7631]

Trading is banned under the Reich.

[@trinitee9049]

Love you babe

[@realLuisGiordano]

Imagine if Smith showed them the Castle Bravo explosion instead of the Baker test

[@frankgesuele6298]

Or the Tsar bomb.

[@richardl9014]

The best episode in the series.

[@peterlongden243]

Best programme out ! Need another season please 🤗

[@lucianamassaad8958]

One of the best scenes of the show

[@delpheus7658]

imo, THE best!

[@FelixVW]

Indeed. I like John Smith as a character. Rufus Sewell nails the part. I also like Chief Inspector Kido as a character. Joel de la Fuente does a fantastic job. Their scenes are highly enjoyable to watch (and to learn -> for me as a player of role-playing games).

[@krishnamante22]

This show is underrated

[@patt8682]

Yah but the ending was super shit. They pretty much pulled a GOT ending on us.

[@imstillalivedontworry1303]

Amogus

[@someguy9293]

Season 1 was ok. 2 was sorta trash. I didn't even bother watching the rest.

[@Kbarz]

It had a rough start, solid middle - late middle, and a trash ending

[@danilsmith7292]

4:19 Me and the admins coming and arresting 2 discord serial raiders

[@johnpaulabocad6941]

More like overthrowing the new admin

[@josephstalin6549]

0/10 you're supposed to be morbidly obese

[@DoctorDeath147]

@@johnpaulabocad6941 more like arresting the scheming mods planning to overthrow the admins

[@lord.d1_]

Their uniforms look extremely cool and sharp

[@Johnny24rs]

Well, the uniforms of the nazis were made by Hugo Boss

[@ZipSnipe]

this is up there as one of the greatest sci fi series ever

[@ninaa4192]

I remember watching this and just thinking "Johnny boi u fucking legend"

[@richardl9014]

Joe Blake when from second most powerful man in Nazi to nothing.

[@semdavidanger]

True

[@IrishCarney]

It happened before. Rohm, Hess. And in our timeline, Goering was fired and arrested days before the end.

[@knuckle12356]

@@IrishCarney kinda the Murtaugh of the Nazi party... Almost made it to retirement.

[@charles_0017]

That’s the Nazi Party for you. One wrong move and you’d be reduced from a powerful position to a private in the army.

[@charles_0017]

That was the Nazi party for you. In both the German army and the Nazi party, your rank was very unstable, one wrong move and you’d be a goner.

[@angelking.91]

0:27 i love that part. Pulling rank is always my favorite scenes. like "i out rank you, so stop talking before i take your tongue"

[@devanosaya2517]

When you got a helicopter scorestreak but the enemy team has VTOL

[@ronandynan1228]

This is what TMITHC was all about for me, big yet intricate plots and power struggles

[@Ivory207]

finally, i was hunting for this scene

[@nikolaizetrov617]

How can you build a better world from radioactive ashes and nuclear winter?

[@StumpfForFreedom]

Nanobots!

[@eliasziad7864]

But the reich is only going to launch like ten nukes to japan, that footage you saw about japan's hydrogen bomb is completely fake, japan cant retaliate if reich used nukes against them, john smithshit showed them the fake footage so they wouldnt provoke a war and kill millions of lives, but even if it happened it wont be effect to world you shitlocker.

[@mercury7192]

You can build a radioactive snowman!

[@knuckle12356]

@@mercury7192 it doesn't have to be a snowman.

[@juanitogonzalez496]

Why did arrested Joe when he the one was loyal to john

[@semdavidanger]

By association with his father

[@camerongreene3357]

Guilt by association

[@georgehoffman3439]

The nazis also punished generations under collective punishment.

[@Young_Baller7]

Nazis were like North Korea that time. Arrest the whole family

[@szymonpinkowski256]

@@Young_Baller7 and then shoot ther or send them to camp

[@EthanKnight97]

My favourite part of the whole show.

[@delpheus7658]

Mine too. This was the peak.

[@EthanKnight97]

@@delpheus7658 I'm the only one who was left confused, underwhelmed and disappointed by it's ending?

[@delpheus7658]

@@EthanKnight97 ​@EthanKnight97 no, season 3 and after was a downhill slide and a crash, ending sucked, I hated how the show runners ruined Smith. They were like "oops, we made a Nazi human..."

[@epramos6800]

240P? It's 2020... It's like watching through a glass of water at 240P..

[@LostSpringBand]

Dude, it's 2020 - this is the least of our troubles!

[@geronimowatson.j.4359]

@@LostSpringBand nice one =)

[@corradosoprano5408]

Pay for Amazon prime then bro

[@IceAlvaro13]

I agreed with John Smith for that.

[@occidentalodyssey3028]

You misspelled “John Smith saves the Empire of Japan that was about to collapse anyway”

[@WelloBello]

David Jones Thousands of nuclear bombs have been detonated historically, over 1000 by the USA alone. The relatively few, albeit spread targets would not cause significant worldwide damage. Atlantropa however... yeah that would’ve been a very bad idea.

[@Thurnmourer]

Alantropa is hit or miss, if the Nazi's have an effective plan to deal with the salt piles and the solar issues caused by the lack of water, then they could do it. Chances are it would most likely have been a steady expansion of these new farmlands. Create Nile-bank esque areas and then expand upon it with the water in the Sahara serving as a buffer to the Sun and its issues. Alatropa would fail, however, if it was just all dumped in one go. But, the scientific capacity of the Nazi's in this alt-world very clearly shows them as being more than capable to deal with and plan around it all. Even if oddly their nuclear arms were behind ours... Guess arrogance of the power of the Heisenberg Device lead to little development on that front. Or a lack of Japanese bombs to encourage competition.

[@bluechair9172]

@@WelloBello Those bombs tend to be spread out over time and in barren areas (Nevada Desert, Bikini Atoll, the Ocean, Siberia for the USSR). Drop them all at once and where things get set on fire, that is when all the effects pile up.

[@hectoralbert9885]

@Arya Apollyon: War can have a really bad impact on Earth's environment. Think about that! ☮️☮️☮️☮️☮️☮️☮️☮️🌎🌎🌎🌎🌎🌎🌎🌎🌎

[@joshuajoaquin5099]

​@@hectoralbert9885lets say give war a chance

[@comm154]

Wonder where Rommel was throughout this series... he is mentioned to be alive at least during the end of the war parading the streets in the US. Might be in Africa still lol.

[@jyt_-]

in season 1(or 2)when Frank,Ed and Juliana was talking in the bar,frank mentioned that Rommel has retired and never take part in politics,even Ed suggest that Rommel has many influence that he can just go and take over as chancellor if he wants

[@NicholasSteMarie]

Sorry maybe I’m dumb but who is Rommel

[@comm154]

Nick Marie he was one of the best of the German Leadership, earning the title the Desert Fox in Africa for his great use of tank warfare. He also assisted in the landings of D-Day, and actually could have prevented D-Day has Hitler gave him full command over the German defenses and allowed him to move his tanks up to the beaches. He was killed by the Gestapo after a member of a plot to kill Hitler mentioned his name as a possible successor to Hitler, even though he didn’t have any part in the plot. He was given the choice to save his family by taking a Cyanide Pill, and was given full military honors by the Nazis. He also was one of the few who Hitler was willing to listen to during their military campaigns.

[@joeyreidelbach5509]

@@comm154 Rommel did had full control of the German defenses, It was the 5 elite SS Panzer division that he needed which he wanted near beach head to reinforce German defense incase the Americans/British stared to make progress which in turn would use the defenses and the reinforcements to push the Americans and the British back to sea. True Rommel killed and had Nazi honors but it was Heinrich Himmler who order his death cause didn't like competition at all cause wanted the leadership role he even planned to kill Donitz even tho Hitler elected him as the successor.

[@sonofjack6286]

@@NicholasSteMarie One of Germany's best commanders in WW2, he fought well against the Allies in North Africa, stopped what could've been a curbstomping of Italy. He also wasn't a Nazi, and he eventually served in the Western Front, where he got wounded by a fighter that strafed his car, and after a failed assassination of Hitler, the perpetrators dropped his name, don't know why, and they gave him a choice, commit suicide with a cyanide pill, or his family would die, he chose the former and I'm pretty sure he was given a funeral with full honours.

[@eternal5930]

What if they made Donitz acting Chancellor instead of Martin

[@henrikkjuus90]

your fathers a Trader Joe

[@debh6304]

Laughing

[@HermitagePrepper]

The music really sealed the deal

[@johnecoapollo7]

Imagine if the show had stuck with these style of stories and not turn fully into Nazi Sliders

[@ThePlayground33]

If anyone wondering what is the soundtrack in the background is Verräter Dominic Lewis

[@TheAlexagius]

Its a real shame season 4 sucked

[@glitchdilemma4200]

season 4 was the best season so far

[@TheAlexagius]

@@glitchdilemma4200 so far? The show's over

[@LucasiaOfficial]

I feel like Leonardo Dicaprio could do a good as joe

[@SeanA099]

John Smith prevents a global nuclear war and we’re supposed to hate him somehow

[@salutic.7544]

He should have become the dictator of North America smh

[@michaely409]

man

[@TimesFM4532]

Wise this was the show not alternative world stuff

[@WarzoneCrack]

i feel bad for joe

[@debh6304]

Rufus Sewell is a hottie !

[@lifeofranco]

did John know this oil was from alt world when Kido passed it to him? or was he tricked too by the Japanese?

[@HobbyAsylum]

Last good episode

[@cncmne7404]

Was this really a Japanese test or did Johns Weltkommandos smuggle a tape from the US in our timeline when they done their tests.

[@michaely409]

It was a film of an American bomb going off in the Pacific in our real world timeline, John passed it off as a Japanese nuke as they controlled the Pacific in this timeline to stop a war that might go nuclear

[@stevekillgore9272]

Spoiler alert !

[@zachhoward9099]

The latter, that actual test footage that’s shown was actually I believe of a large scale atomic bomb test done in 1946 at Bikini Atoll in the middle of a fleet assembled of decommissioned US and captured Japanese and even a few captured German warships like the Prinz Eugen so military planners could get an idea of how an atomic bomb set off over a naval force would be like

[@rohesilmnelohe]

@@zachhoward9099operation crossroads. Nevada and Prinz Eugen survived both detonations.... Which is insane

[@BD-cm7xc]

Red LED seven segment display in 1963! They should used blue VFD or incandesnt displays instead.

[@ost2life]

They have supersonic passenger jets and rocket powered monorail.

[@DasYorgo4000]

They put in a Ford motor co ignition key switch so when you activate the bomb a crown vic somewhere starts up.

[@megumin1054]

The series could have ended here and been perfect.

[@pin0ystud]

The scene right after this was epic. 150k Germans chanting

[@blip1]

1:13 So he got alt-world film of the U.S. Ivy Mike nuclear test at bikini atoll. But how? (That film footage in the movie come from that exact test. The movie used film straight from the U.S. archives, to make this scene)

[@michaely409]

It's a little glossed over but, Smith got it from Kido, who got it from Tagomi who got it when he went to the alt world, from his son

[@blip1]

@@michaely409 so he lied about it being a Japanese test?

[@sirken2]

@@blip1 Yes he did and he used it to get in to show the footage when he should have been arrested and then uses the time it buys him to prove the conspiracy to kill Hitler and to start WWIII with japan saving his ass.

[@zachhoward9099]

I think part of that film is actually from the 1946 Operation Crossroads tests at Bikini where 2 atomic bombs were detonated in the middle of a fleet of decommissioned and captured ships, you can see snippets of ship silhouettes in the foreground of the blast.

[@koheimori6878]

You’re father is at trader’s Joe:)

[@way2muchNFO]

Dark CitY

[@1y167]

Supervilains missing lightening

[@flukeman022]

How did John and Joe get hold of the film? Did the the Trade Minister secretly handed it to them? If i remember correctly he said something like "War with the Reich could bankrupt Japan"

[@Pierluigi_Di_Lorenzo]

You commited a clip to YT in 2020 with 240p??

[@nocturnalrecluse1216]

Where's Aaron Burr when you need him?

[@jaralara6429]

Burr in the place of Smith? Sry I don't get it

[@nocturnalrecluse1216]

@@jaralara6429Sigh* John Adams ... HBO series. 🤦‍♂️

[@jaralara6429]

Nocturnal Recluse ahh ok lmao

[@indigohammer5732]

The Strangelove War Room

[@U_Jelly]

Based smith

[@gianlucadi-benedetto6914]

I WAS THE 1,700 LIKE ON THIS VIDEO

[@juanchester1997]

What would Hitler do if he miraculously marched through the doors with elite german forces squad.

[@DistributistHound]

So they just watched a film and they decided that was true without any other intelligence gathering... aren't they supposed to have satellite tech by then?

[@xJohnny_Ax]

The whole show is an alternate timeline, so maybe not? No space race between USSR/USA = no satellites

[@mlgmake]

@@xJohnny_Ax The German V2 rocket technology from 1944 provided the basis for all global space programs after the war even in the real world. I'm sure especially a world power like this fictional Reich would jump at the opportunity of the new frontier of space, the propaganda value of it was massive during the real space race too.

[@xJohnny_Ax]

@@mlgmake that’s a good point but here’s my line of thinking of this, was there a “need to” for this universe’s Reich to reach into space and have a space race? The NASA program was built with help of not only Nazi scientists that defected, but Jewish scientists that survived the Holocaust and they were probably purged in this timeline.

[@user-lp7tx1fe6t]

@@xJohnny_Ax the Germans in this show have reached the moon so surely they have satellites

[@DoctorDeath147]

Satellites can't detect everything. Especially in the 60s where satellite tech was still primitive

[@GuardianComplex]

Audio quality straight off Limewire in 2003.

[@1AstralKing]

Jerry Jax is the acting Fuehrer?

[@juanchester1997]

What would Rommel do?

[@sonofjack6286]

Probably a mix of this and Zhukov in Death of Stalin. Rommel by this point would be an old man that wouldn't give two shits if he was stepping on some people's toes. And he'd still be loved by the Wehrmacht, and probably plenty in the SS too, so he'd have been able to arrest Heussman and prevent WW3.

[@stephanierwanchartier4525]

...🇫🇷20🧔22🇺🇦...

[@pizdanpula223]

*Except for the insane nuclear attack decision , Heusmann actually was a true world leader. Producers decided to make him look like a mass murderer for this twist, but he was better for a Reich World and for humanity . And I hated what they did with Heusmann character .. His thoughts about economy , politics and devolopment were great .. Consider that all the world was ruled by one nation and 1 man . ( In this case 2 nations ) but still .. his ideeas about transportation , inovation and technology would have skyrocketed human civilization far ! And the race ideology didn't actually suit Heusmann , he was more of a visionary industrialist . Of course american producers had to tear down the nazis for the narrative and political correctness but in all fairnest Heusmann was the man for that world and actually could help change the Reich for the better !*

[@beepboop9974]

At what cost

[@mrvulture8981]

Was Heusmann even a real human?

[@pizdanpula223]

@@mrvulture8981 Not the exact same individual but there were people like him who helped built the Hindenburg zeppelin like Lehmann who had an industrialist futuristic view

[@ikBONK]

At no cost will freedom of speech be taken away as injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. However adoration of a forsaken ideology hellbent on killing people who are seen as a disgrace, filtered solely by the single most powerful person in that hierarchy of Ideology is absolutely wrong and mustn’t never be shed any light as to find any perspective to make it somehow right. Your opinion is noted and preference to such known.

[@natesturm448]

Bro, why is this in potato mode? If you wanted to upload low quality you should have just stuck with 144p xD. Not knocking anyone but uploading in 240p is insane nowadays.

[@ironsandwich739]

Trader joe's

[@StrickerRei-Chn]

Using a video of the US military from a different dimension is a smart move?

[@thedon1570]

Sound quality SUCKS

[@magazinewspteam4114]

มีพากษ์ไทยไหม

[@ClassyAssassin0]

This show would have been so much more interesting without the scifi portal shit.

[@delpheus7658]

Completely agree. Should have just been a "what if" alternate history. Anything WITHOUT the scifi part is freaking good, like this scene.

[@scottm8292]

S2 E10

[@jarrodyuki7081]

i see.

[@josephzepeda7608]

This show wasted Rufus Sewell's awesome character on a garbage plot, and wasted so much time on boring-ass Joe, who couldn't act his way out of a paper bag. Just excruciating how much potential was squandered.

[@The_Honcho]

It’s funny to think about, since Germany had no real “Cold War” they didn’t put any effort into H-Bomb research

[@tomasjr1564]

Psychology

[@exposingproxystalkingorgan4164]

Smith is a Machiavellian genius. 😂

[@bobdickens3674]

Would heydrich actually betray Hitler and thus also Himmler? I always had the impression that heydrich was one of Himmler’s close confidants and goons

[@Bitchslapper316]

Interesting how Smith uses video of the U.S nuclear arsenal to scare off the Nazi's.

[@SleekMouse]

Bomb edit bro