“Alternate-Universe Sci-Fi Channel Show Asks What Would Happen If Germany Lost War”There may come a day when the entertainment mojo of The Onion fails, but it is not this day: NEW MUNICH—The new Sci-Fi Channel series Fallen Axis, which eerily depicts a world in which Germany actually lost the Second World War, premiered Tuesday evening to high ratings in an alternate universe to our own. Alternate alternate history? *snort* There’s more. It’s funny. support
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posted by JoshDM (Tue Nov 10 09, 1:48PM)
Too soon.
posted by Tonio Kruger (Tue Nov 10 09, 2:05PM)
It looks like someone at The Onion has been reading Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle...
posted by RogerBW (Wed Nov 11 09, 7:05AM)
It's one of the classic ways to present alternate history - for example, Winston Churchill's If Lee had not Won the Battle of Gettysburg, Ward Moore's Bring the Jubilee, and Samuel Carter's If the North had Won the Civil War.
Yes, that Winston Spencer Churchill.
posted by Paul (Wed Nov 11 09, 7:06PM)
That entire issue is above the Onion's usual standard. I actually thought a couple of the other stories were even funnier, maybe because I've read too much alternative history, so the Axis or the South winning their wars is a little old hat for me. Still, President Fonda standing in for Reagan and the Bushes was cute.