The Man in the High Castle: Was the ending for the characters fitting?

The Smiths and the Nazis

The Nazis were weakened. I wouldn’t say they were completely destroyed but they were weakened. In the end, the call to bomb the west was called off. With an American man in charge, he wants to make sure the country is unified under the original flag.

There isn’t a chance of that happening, of course. The BCR doesn’t want the flag, so the country will remain divided.

Then there’s the issue of Berlin. The Nazis there will continue to remain a threat. And let’s not say how many of the younger Nazis in America will want to follow the old ways. There are a lot of men and women who have grown up under the Nazi regime.

Right now, it seems like the perfect ending for the Resistance. However, this isn’t the fairy tale ending you think it will be.

But as for the Smiths, they certainly did get what they deserved. In the end, the life they gained was on the suffering of others. They didn’t think about the people who were dying or suffering because it wasn’t affecting them.

Helen was brilliant at the end. As John wanted to bring Thomas to their world, Helen refused. This alternate boy wasn’t her son. He was her alternate version’s son, and that alternate version deserved to have him. The Smiths in the other world were clearly better people.

In the end, Helen chose to help bring John Smith and the Nazis down. She knew it would likely end her own life.

As for John, he knew it was all over. Just before Juliana could kill or capture him, he shot himself in the head. In a way, it was a mimic of Hitler killing himself in our own world, bringing an end to the Nazi regime.

My only wish was that the alternate Helen would find some sort of happiness. Now she’ll be alone, losing her husband (and she doesn’t even know he’s dead!) and her son (assuming he dies in Vietnam).