I det sista avsnittet av säsong 3 av Mannen i det höga slottet får vi veta att individer bara kan resa till en alternativ verklighet om
their alternate self had already died in the alternate reality.
Denna förklaring ges för varför
only one out of the four test subjects survived the Nazi experiment to travel to alternate realities -- the survivor, just an "ordinary" girl, was apparently the only one whose alternate self had already died in the alternate reality.
Denna förklaring verkar vara meningsfull som ett sätt att undvika
the possibility of an individual meeting an alternate version of himself from another reality.
Förklaringen överensstämmer också med vad vi vet om nästan alla andra karaktärer som reser mellan realiteter:
1. Trudy was killed in the reality in which the Axis won so her alternate self from "our" reality (in which the Allies won World War II) can travel to the Axis-conquered reality.
2. The alternate Trudy who traveled to the Axis-conquered reality tells us that Juliana was killed in her reality, so Juliana can travel from the Axis-conquered reality to that reality.
3. The dark-skinned woman Mengele was performing skin-pigmentation experiments on was killed an experiment gone wrong so her alternate self was able to travel to the Axis-controlled reality, where she too was captured and experimented on by Mengele.
3. Tagomi's assistant, Kotomichi, was injured in our reality by an atomic bomb and managed to travel to the Axis-controlled reality while meditating to endure the pain from his wounds. We don't see an alternate Kotomichi from the Axis-controlled reality so Kotomichi's case at least does not contradict the explanation that you can only travel to an alternate reality in which your alternate already died (presumably the original Kotomichi from the Axis-controlled reality was killed earlier, perhaps during World War II).
Tagomos fall verkar emellertid motsäga förklaringen. Under säsong 2 såg vi Tagomi besöka vår verklighet, där han ses och erkänns av hans fru och son. Tagomi från vår verklighet är utestängt från sin fru och son men Tagomys familj
clearly think he's alive (they don't act like they've seen a ghost) so apparently Tagomi's alternate self is still alive in our reality and the Tagomi from the Axis-controlled reality shouldn't have been able to travel to our reality.
Det har varit ett tag sedan jag tittade på säsong 2 så kanske jag glömde något om Tagomi som inte skulle motsäga förklaringen i säsong 3 finalen. Jag hittade ett sammanställningen av ett av säsong 2-episoderna där Tagomi reste till vår verklighet som bekräftade vad jag kom ihåg men nämner inget som skulle förklara hur Tagomos fall inte strider mot begränsningen av "resenärer".
Hur var Tagomi från den Axis-styrda verkligheten kunna resa till vår verklighet? Var det en indikation i showen att
Tagomi from our reality had died just before Tagomi from the Axis-controlled reality traveled to our reality, and Tagomi's family in our reality hadn't learned of his death yet?
Finns det någon annan förklaring som inte strider mot vad vi fick höra i säsong 3 finalen?