Comments on: Watch: Promising Trailer For Alt WW2 Drama ‘Resistance’ With Michael Sheen & Andrea Riseborough

By: Neal Scroggs

Neal Scroggs — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:45:35 +0000

There are two kinds of \”alternate history\” stories — those that derive from plausible scenarios and those that border on science fiction or more accurately fantasy. Plausible ALT HISTORY would be a story that would really complicate the subsequent history with only one change to real events, for example the Japan\’s decision to attack the US in December 1941. That decision could have gone the other way. The Japanese could have gone straight for the oil of Java and Borneo and not involved the Americans. Poor ALT requires time travel, like Harry Turtledove\’s novels, or assumes multiple changes of real events to set the scene like this Resistance movie. Amit Gupta needlessly sets this story in 1944, which requires the D-Day invaders and the Red Army to fail, not bloody likely. Didn\’t Gutpa read any history? The Nazis had a real, however slight, chance to invade Britain in the summer of 1940 and never again after that, specifically because Hitler shifted the bulk of his forces eastward in preparation for his attack on Russia in June 1941. Just change the prologue and the improbable fantasy becomes probable fiction; and trade the late-war Wehrmacht uniforms for correct 1940 kit if realism is important (Though it appears not to be important to Amit Gupta, he uses a Russian T-62 to represent a Tiger or Panther.)

By: Col Gubbins

Col Gubbins — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:45:35 +0000

Learn more about the REAL Welsh resistance here http://www.coleshillhouse.com/welsh-auxiliary-units-and-obs.php

By: Yessiree

Yessiree — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:45:35 +0000

tv movie of the week and do we really need yet another movie about the nazis?. Looks like a lot of bad acting too.

By: BuntyHoven

BuntyHoven — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:45:35 +0000

Could be okay, but very small-scale. Isn\’t the fault of the filmmakers, as that\’s the story they set out to tell, but I\’d have loved to see an epic big-budget film based on the same premise – with Germans marching into London, occupying the Houses of Parliament, etc. That would have been interesting.

By: Halesonearth

Halesonearth — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:45:35 +0000

How can a example of \”hacky\” science fiction become an \”acclaimed novel\”?