Are they dead?

Nobody thinks they are dead?

No fat ghost sailor is going to tell me what type of biscuits I can eat ~ Grandma Huang

Seems possible and the final scene when Juliana is reunited with sister. TMITHC could also be interpreted as God with multiple story lines depending on what choices the characters make along the way.


"Your set up is getting tired, roll ze film"

Personally, I view that scene as a flashback, like the scene with Smith and his pregnant wife before Smith left the US side and joined the Nazis.

On a side note, I've read many Philip Dick novels, but I have NOT read The Man In The High Castle (I'm about to after watching the S2 finale). I would be more inclined to believe in a tangent universe theory.

The universe is one where the Nazis won the war (the majority of the show), and the tangent universe is one more akin to reality. Certain characters have the ability to project themselves into the other universe; like Trade Minister Tagomi. This could explain the existance of Juliana's sister in the final scene, despite us watching her die. It was heavily hinted that Tagomi killed himself in the tangent universe (where Juliana married his son), and he was able to visit that universe because his alternate self was gone.

I don't know though just a theory.

But I don't think you're a troll!

I think the trio of Jules, Frank and Ed at the table is merely a flashback based on things Ed said to the collectible shop owner - if you remember Ed said something about being in love once but "she just left" or something to that effect. I assume he was talking about Jules.

As for this tangent universe with the Trade Minister, I would love some further explanation on that one. I would call it a tangent universe if he didn't actually bring the real film of Hiroshima and Nagasaki being leveled back to what is supposedly present day within the realm of the show. I get that he's able to enter a deep meditation state and feel as though he's in a different time or dimension, but to actually transport back with a physical film? No discrediting, just wondering how that's able to happen beyond the explanation of "He has black magic powers."

One other theory could be - the Japanese Pacific States have already been leveled and this entire show is just one big hallucination. But that would be so utterly disappointing. The writers have evolved with Season 2 and have become IMHO too good for that.

As for Jules and Trudy - I wouldn't doubt for one second if Trudy was still alive. I know as a watcher of both seasons we could say "How on Earth" but the actual MITHC seems to be a few steps ahead of everyone else. Kind of like O. John Smith on the Nazi side.