DBWI: Less popular Alternate History genre
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Honestly pretty good, especially since every character that had POV in the series were able to act reallistically and play their emotions, conversation, thoughts and actions spot on throughout the dynamic plot of the series and are able to keep the dynamics of their relationships with other character in their respective relations well.
Very impressive considering the large number of charaters with POV and others who had relations with these characters in the Clash of the Worlds series points out how large a cast of actors, who were also billiant in their own right, were needed for the to film it for five whole complete seasons up until now with the sixth and latest season still ongoing even today.
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In that case, who are your favorite cast members and why? Aside from Sophie Turner (who played Kira Antonova as she distinguished herself during the war against the AANW Americans), I would say that Emilia Clarke also distinguished herself playing Elizabeth Wayland and Fan Bingbing in playing Melanie Song.
Well honestly it is very hard to choose given the large members of various cast members whom many were simply brilliant in their own right that I simply can't choose, for example, the actor who played as Marek Stepien was brilliant in playing the emotions and actions of his character. When he was introduced at the beginning of season 3 of Clash of The Worlds, he was a young man who enlisted in the AANW Polish Army during the war, and this was played brilliantly. Patriotism and zeal at the start of the war, the hatred towards Germany and later GDI, the anguish and desperation when AANW Poland fell, the fear then sorrow when seeing the death of his best friend and comrade who was killed by a plasma round fire from a German walker ( amazing and incredible CGI and special affects by the way though also dark and horrifying seeing an entire squad of soldiers screaming and melting in anguish onscreen), weariness from the war and fighting far away from ones home, camaraderie with the other soldiers of the AANW nations including the one Indian platoon who volunteered to travel and continue fighting alongside Mareks battallion when their own country surrenderd to the Coalition, further sorrow and anguish as his comrade were killed off as the series progresses, yet in rare moments brigthened alongside his friends during the downtimes of the war, and finally shortly before the last stand in Washington D.C, clarity on what they had been doing, the true nature of the war, and the scale and scope of the atrocities and crimes their side had commited and how truly futile it was to continue and yet decided to keep on fighting and finally died alongside the members of his battallion.
His character lasted barely two seasons before being killed off, but the impact on the series and the audience he left through his point of view alone was absolutely astounding through showcasing the series famous and highly successful dynamic shifting story line , character and relationship development amd dynamics, as well as showcasing the brutality and horrors of war.
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And to make things more interesting (especially due to the memes after the episode of said battle), he is played by Richard Madden, considering what the climax of his story arc features in the final stand in Washington D.C as he ends up facing a company led by Kira Antonova (played by Sophie Turner), who was now a Shaoxiao (Major) in the National Revolutionary Army with an epic climax involving Marek Stepien, who was now a Lieutenant in the United Nations Armed Forces (towards the end, the AANW countries centralized their forces into a single military after India and the United Arab Republic both defected/surrendered to prevent any other instances) being amongst the soldiers, largely Poles and Russians, even if there were some British and American soldiers, making a last stand in the ruins of the Capitol building. The last stand of the forces in the ruins of the White House was a climax which was highly appropriate for the series as Kira Antonova and her battalion stormed the Capitol Building and ended with a scene where the Dragon over the Five-Races Flag was unfurled over the ruins of the Capitol after every Polish soldier in the Capitol was killed, along with most of the non-Polish soldiers, including Marek Stepien, who died in the final hand-to-hand combat with Kira Antonova personally dispatching him.
I did like it. It also has been reported that Clash of the Worlds' next season will feature it and Return of the Rodina.
Well the Five race Flag along with the German Empire tricolor flag over the ruins of the capitol that is. I always found it interesting that Kira Antonava battalion was assigned alongside with main German force on the AANW USA East Coast invasion including the Panzer divison supported by other imperial German divisions launching the final assault on Washington D.C, and vice verse with an imperial German detachment being assigned to the GDI in charge of the push on the West Coast.
Too bad such cooperation between the two superpowers did not last long after the end of the war though.
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I would be deeply unsettled without my favorite series Alexander II and Polonia Restituita, in spite of all the criticism of implausibility both series get.
Which is honestly a result of how the post-war elections were a major victory for the Patriotic Labour Party with Claudia Wong being elected Grand Chancellor of the Republic of China in the elections that followed the final American surrender and the Hamburg Conference. Claudia Wong was always sceptical of the Sino-German alliance and was closer to the Russians and Indians, who saw the alliance as a temporary measure and wanted to pursue an ideological conflict with Germany after the common enemy was defeated, while Svetlana and the Kuomintang (along with the Liberal Labour Party of Long Min) believed the alliance between China and Germany was necessary to ensure that order across the three worlds was secured.
Also, your thoughts on how the final battle between Kira Antonova and Marek Stepien was a battle which saw quite a few memes after the episode was up owing to who played the two and on the plans for the next season for Footprint of Mussolini and Return of the Rodina to be added to the universes of said world?
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What of the two do you like more? I would say Alexander II, considering its ending implies there would be a "reverse cold war" in the future of the universe as socialism grows more prominent in the United States.
Oh joy, this is going to add even more chaos and I am getting excited for it.
Well good news for the multiverse in the series as of now, currently it seems like both GDI and the Reichspakt are seemingly moving for detente with each other, which kinda make sense given that Wilhem III is still a reformist at heart and has successfully integrated the German colonies as close and tightly knitted dominions and form the German Empire into a commonwealth system and establishing closer ties with her allies while Republic of China and most of GDI are still liberal democracies, even if there are quite a few stains with the AANW nation. LOFN now under a peaceful and liberal government is encouraging reconciliation between the two power blocs and promote peace between the worlds.
On the other hand though, the AANW world outside of the reformed German Empire, China, Japan and former CIS nations is a third world hellhole rife with poverty, conflicts and terrorism with many of the nations still under occupation by both GDI and the Reichspakt and are all basically Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam combined on steroids. TTA USA is also still bellicose and I doubt their ambitions would end so easily
Throw in two new vastly different worlds and I don't know what will happen yet at the same time I am looking forward to it.
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Especially considering Russia in Return of the Rodina nuked Israel eighty times during the Sixty Minute War under the leadership of an insane Russian President and how people in Footprint of Mussolini view any attack on the Jewish people. Also, your thoughts on what I said about all those memes and jokes about the Battle of the Capitol, considering who played the Chinese POV character and the Polish POV character in said battle?
I mean, it does paint it the rise of Socialism in the US as a bad thing. If nothing else because it's implied that Socialists bungled in every step of the way and basically never had a single long-lasting success story to show for it.
Both hilarious and ironic given the actor, and don't get me started on the memes. There is like 12 different versions of it on the Internet and who knows how much more outsides it.
Well this is going to be interesting in the Chinese sense, especially how the nations of the AANW world would react to this.
For context, the Russians were trying to give humanitarian relief towards the Palestinians and an Israeli attack on said relief convoy turned into a massive disaster.
Yeah, what's your favorite of the memes, then?
I did.
Too many too decide.
Yeah, that will go well with the others. "I was trying to help a bunch of poor people but I end up committing a nuclear holocaust, oops.". Then again, it would probably be viewed as okay by the AANW nations given their past record of "disproportionate amount of force".
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