![]() ![]() But Frank isn't the one with the idea to start a jewelry business or the one with the designs for new jewelry. So Frank can make good stuff, whether it's fake guns or authentic jewelry. Even the lab that examines the fake gun for Childan says it's a great forgery, done by "a real pro" (4.133). When he's making fake Civil War pistols for "Wyndam-Matson," he does it all: "he had made the molds himself, done the casting, and had been busy hand-smoothing the pieces" (4.32). Although Frank is very important for the arts and crafts plot (see our " Brief Summary") and he gets the most POV sections (tied with Tagomi), he doesn't seem to be doing very much here-and what he does seems motivated by other people.įor instance, Frank is important to this book because he creates authentic American jewelry with "Ed McCarthy." And Frank is very good as a craftsman. ![]() He changes his name from the Jewish-sounding "Frank Fink" to the silly-sounding "Frank Frink," so he can hide from Nazis. The themes of redemption and karma course through this final season, and become the final message of the show.When we try to list all of Frank Frink's important actions and decisions in this book, we get… actually, we don't have a list at all, just one entry that happens before the book starts. While the series does a good job of showing that none of these people are purely bad, they’ve done terrible things, and now they’re paying for them. It’s also just the hallmark of a satisfying ending that the bad guys get what’s coming to them. Frank Frink and Tagomi certainly didn’t deserve to die, and I’ll never get over Joe Blake (Luke Kleintank) being brainwashed into being a true Nazi believer, but with this being the final season, the show clearly wanted to make a point. It’s not that everyone in The Man in the High Castle got the fates they deserved. He knows it’s much more than he deserves, and accepts his fate quietly. At least he gets to save his son and patch things up in their relationship before he has to say goodbye. So he goes from being a top government official to being a thug. He doesn’t get to go back to Japan, keep his position, live with his son. Perhaps it is because of these reasons that Kido gets to live. He also realizes that he has to find and save his son, and tell him all of the things he never told him, like how much he loves and cares about him. Kido winds up being instrumental in freeing the Pacific States of the Japanese occupation, as he recommends to the Princess that she tell the Emperor that they evacuate. He brings down the people who killed Tagomi, and who are inhibiting peace talks with the Black Communist Rebellion by imprisoning the CrownPrincess (Mayumi Yoshida). He’s relentless in investigating who killed Tagomi (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa), and when he realizes that it was a government conspiracy to kill him, he, ultimately, decides to do the right thing. One thing that’s constant about Kido is that he believes in his duty to the crown. ![]() Kido has done many terrible things, and without remorse, but in the final season, he gets a little bit of a redemption plot. But there’s no more gas in the tanks, and he gets away. He gets put in the room where they gas people, and as he’s eyeing the vents, we know he’s thinking what we’re thinking, that this would be an extremely karmic way to die. There’s a moment in the series finale where it looks like Kido is going to die in the same way he killed Frank Frink’s (Rupert Evans) family in season 1, episode 2. When Helen finds out that he’s planning on making all of the same mistakes again - killing the Jews, blacks, and other “undesirables” of the Western States - perpetuating the same beliefs and practices that killed her son, she agrees to help the Resistance kill him. In the new season, Helen (the fantastic Chelah Horsdal) gets a redemption arc, as she starts to realize what terrible mistakes they’ve made, while John digs his heals in to the ways of the Reich, because he doesn’t know what else to do. This show says, yes, they’re Nazis, but did you not expect them to be humans too? That’s what’s special about this show, it never shies away from showing the human side. And when they’re mourning in season 3, and their marriage is fracturing because of it, it’s impossible not to feel bad for them. When Thomas Smith (Quinn Lord) gets sick in season 2, we feel his parents’ pain, no matter what terrible things they’ve done. ![]()
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