Fully agreed! This looks like a limited series run, and I applaud it. I like that they killed great characters (still recovering from Wesley's death myself :( ).

I think Leland shares the name of a superpowered villain but he wasn't meant to be one in this show. It's clear he lacks powers and he was meant to fill the stock role of "weaselly mob accountant", which he did brilliantly. So I expect he is dead forever on this show.

Karen is indeed annoying, but there is good rapport between Foggy and Matt. Also, I agree the priest is actually a good character for Matt to have conversations with. I quite liked him, he manages to be a good interlocutor without becoming an annoying preachy character like TV show priests are prone to.

Well, despite being more restrained than the typical customed superhero fare, this IS a show about blind superheroes, mystical ninja clans, and mysterious dragon ladies, is it not? Expecting The Wire levels of gritty realism from a superhero show was probably mistaken. This show shares a setting with Jessica Jones,…

Genji: I don't think it's a "severe" movie. Yes, it's dark, and yes, it has some brutal characters, but there is also comic relief. For example, the (great) character of Bob (aka Marco the Mexican) is hilarious. About the gore, I think its over-the-topness actually *detracts* from the severity of the movie. At some…

So there IS going to be a mirror universe? How disappointing. I've already watched (and loved) Fringe, I've no need to re-hash it with Nazis.

Hmmm… no. The book has very little sci-fi feel to it. For example, it features the I Ching ever more strongly than in the TV show. The book is all about the nature of reality, what is fake and what isn't, and is there even a difference? You know, the usual things that mattered to PKD. Some of it is hinted at in the TV…

In the book? No. There is no *literal* universe-hopping in the novel (yes, even taking Tagomi into account). In the TV show… who knows?

That explanation never made sense. The fact they are movies — with impossible imagery from alternative realities — means they simply cannot have been produced in the same way as in PKD's novel.

Interestingly, the provenance of the films should be a surprise even for fans of Philip K. Dick's novel. In the book, "The Grasshopper Lies Heavy" is a novel-within-a-novel, and the explanation of who wrote it only works if it's textual. I cannot say more without spoiling the book — well, actually it's not *that* big…

Probably here the source material doesn't help. PKD's novel is totally uninterested in showing what is happening in Nazi-controlled territory, and so it doesn't. At all, if my memory serves. The book is more focused on the nature of reality and on the I-Ching, and almost nothing on Nazi atrocities, or the adventures…

I disagree. PKD's characters were often stereotypical and paper-thin (in one prologue of his collected short stories, someone aptly describes them as characters out of an American sitcom), but they are *never* boring. One-dimensional and boring aren't synonyms.

This is not what's said in Wikipedia at least (and they do quote references). Heydrich was a monster and the world is better that he died, but he was also (reportedly) blindly loyal to Himmler, and Himmler in turn trusted him and believed he wouldn't betray him. Also, Hitler reportedly was infuriated at Heydrich for…