"Ein Fehler in der Matrix"
Dark. The show that will make you use your brain more than you've done in years. I really missed the feeling of confusion this show gives. If my mind had subtitles when watching the show, I don't know if I'd even understand what I thought.
Let's try to recap. So, mirror universe, Martha is Jonas, Mikkel is alive, Franziska changed places with Elizabeth, Ulrich is still cheating, Katharina has a new look and divorced Ulrich, Bartosz has long hair and looks like the kid of a wealthy family, Erik's still missing, Kilian is dating Martha, Regina is dead and Jonas' more confused than he's even been before.
Also, I couldn't help but laughing with the long shot of two-eyed Wöller and that slow zoom out showing he's missing a limb. Over my laughter, all I thought was "damn, writers! I want to know the story behind his eye". I always thought it was supposed to be important for the plot and, at that moment, I thought it was gonna be nothing. And then they showed us Helge missing an eye instead of his ear and I thought that the eye, somehow, is still important.
Also, if Mikkel doesn't travel back, Ulrich doesn't, so, who destroys Hemge's eye, in this case?
Now, one thing I loved was the weird generation trio. Traveling together with yourself from different generations and killing people in the process with choreographed gestures sounds like a nice trip. The trio crepped me out but somehow I was drawn to it. Like I need to see them more often. The kid freaked me out. He doesn't even blink! And I loved how he and the old version just made the same gesture at the same time.
I just recall that Noah said the same exact words to Helge as middle-aged trio said to Bernd. "Nothing is in vain. Not a single breath. Not a single step. Not a single word. Not pain. An eternal miracle of the One"
I loved that the ending confirmed my suspections last season. Young Jonas was given two choices: stay with Martha or follow Adam. He chose the former and Alt-Martha brought him to Alt-World. Buuuuut Fremder Jonas doesn't know she's not the real Martha because he's never been to Alt-Wolrd soooo, we've got two different timeliness with one Jonas traveling and meeting Alt-Martha (which will turn out to be Eve) and Fremder Jonas traveling supposedly following Adam. And this is only the first episode.
Do you know what's sad about Ulrich and Hannah? That no matter the universe, Ulrich never says "I love you" back to her. I get that Hannah was a manipulative bitch in our universe, but she seemed sweet in this one. I can't believe I just said that. Also, instead of rich and Hannah I want to know more about Egon and Hannah. I really need to know what happened then.
I'm no expert on pregnancies but Hannah looked very pregnant. Maybe it's twins? Agnes und Noah? I don't know. My theory that everyone is a Nielsen will still be real until they tell me it's not. But after Elizabeth being her own grandmother, I can believe anything. Well, that or that she gives birth to the creepy trio.
Overall, great episode. Quiet for a change but it's just the beginning and the mirroring is just so compelling to me. I'm not so sure about the whole whoosp thing to tell us when the worlds change. But let's see. I could be talking for hours and hours but I've made a commitment with myself to just watch an episode a day. Otherwise, I'll feel guilty once I finish it.
I just feel bad for that poor guy. In one world is his eye, in the other, his arm... I really wouldn't like to be him across the multiverse
This show makes my brain hurt.
I will be extremely impressed if this show wraps e v e r y t h i n g up nicely. They’ve got a lotta work to do...
Shit! I don't remember anything...
So the new world mirrors the previous one and pretty much everything is the opposite. Down to the staircase in Jonas' (previous) home. Here it faces the other way. Yet few events stayed the same, like the disappearance of Erik and how the black hole spat out Mads, WHY? And did we really get an explanation of how they died and their bodies travelled in time? Yeah, I'm still not sold on the show's brilliance just yet. Just cause it leaves you confused with all the loose ends and plot holes doesn't mean it's smart.
So, on top of creating bullshit twists and turns every five minutes, that don't need to make any sense because of the very convenient concept of a self-consisting universe, now they just thought there's no solution to the apocalypse and we just introduce some 'parallel world'. Great, now we get another dozen of random twists. I don't care about them, because anything is possible. No need for any kind of causality. And furthermore the writing in this episode was extremely poor: Martha and Magnus verbally fighting in the school like some very poor cliché.
No, it doesn't make your brain hurt. There's nothing to understand in this show. Without temporal logic and causality you can tell every story you want to, you can make up any twist and turn you want to. But it makes you believe there's some extremely complex logic underneath you want to wrap your head around. There isn't, it's a clever disguise, that's all.
Okay so now there's a different world too. This doesn't make things easier to understand, that's for sure. But I think they did a great job with all the small changes in the parallel world. Nevertheless I feel like as this sets the story back in a way. Season 1 and 2 had quite a straight-forward story telling and this completely derails the flow but nevertheless let's see where it goes. Otherwise the acting and execution of the show is still amazing.
Amazing! This show just gets better and better. I loved all the subtle changes in the parallel world. So simple but effective. Alesander’s parting was on the other side, Möller’s arm gone instead of his eye, Helge’s smashed in eye, Ulrich in charge and Charlotte having the affair. Even Jonas’s house had the entrance on the right instead of the left. Really clever stuff. I have no idea where it’s going to end up but I am excited.
yoooooooo tf is going on, my mind is going to be a burnt toast.
So many parallels with the pilot! I love how detailed this show can be.
I believe the show lost control of its ambition...
My confusion peaked by the end of season 2... I guess the creators have a plan for us to lose our sanity :grin:
The transition from season one to season two was handled amazingly well despite all of the subtle and not so subtle changes. The transition from season two to season three here is not handled quite as well, and the episode seems to drag in spots. It's the first time that I've EVER noticed any pacing issues, in fact. Hopefully it's just a one-time thing and the narrative gets back on track right away, and I'm confident that it will if those last few minutes are any indication.
So, instead of starting to wrap everything in a neat and awesome package, they just reseted the whole show, but in a "parallel world". Great... Sigh! This show better have one hell of a finale to make up for this shameful cop-out.
I definitely should've rewatched / recapped the previous seasons first haha!!
A rumor has it that the third season will release on the 27th of June 2020
After S1 I thought it was good but confusing show, after S2 I thought it was great and really well thought out one. Now after rewatching both seasons for the first time I think the show is fucking masterpiece. If they stick the landing with season 3 it could be up there with the best ever.
God, I'm excited for this.
2 days to go. Excited doesn't even begin to describe how I feel
one of my best tv shows i have seen please make a spin off of this some how this is just to great just to let it ens now
In other shows, I would be more hesitant when they brought in multiverse stuff considering it's the hot thing these days. In Dark, I have more faith that what we're seeing probably has a good deal of purpose and sense that will come from it in the long run. That said, I can't help but feel as though we're jumping the shark slightly--similarly to how it felt when LOST decided to introduce time travel. These big, mysterious, sci-fi shows love their side-steps, whether to add meaning and sense onto the conundrum or just to complicate things further. And I can't help but feel like some of the shot design in this episode is heavily hinting toward the former because of how much it held your hand (arguably out of place in the context of the show as a whole, but when adding on such a massive layer I get it) even though I found that to be a little shallow--the way it's revealed that Hannah is pregnant in this timeline felt a bit like being hit over the head with it. But you don't do things like that if you just want to be complicated, you do things like that if you want to say "I know this is a lot to handle, but just stick with it and it'll all make sense."
But, all that being said, the base of the series is still here and it's still compelling as ever. I'm exceedingly curious as to how we continue with this season because I'm extremely invested in what happens in the A reality and it will inevitably have to lead to a conclusion there primarily if the series wants any sort of satisfying conclusion.
i paused watching at 32.00
great start of the season!! i'm so excited to watch the rest
This is like the last season of LOST.
I've no idea where this is all going.
Deja Vu seems like an ode to LAX in Lost Final season opener.
I've a feeling the series finale is going to be as dividing as that of LOST.
I just hope Martha doesn't commit genocide. That would be really bad way to end things.
End with the dog and eye closing
Much better.
But, No DARK screen please.
9,5 more days till Season 3 :tada::purple_heart:
Can’t wait for this season!
Shout by noorBlockedParent2020-06-27T09:15:54Z
i typically struggle remembering the family trees but now there's a whole ass new world with different families and damn... i'm gonna struggle big time