Katharina's story made this season memorable. Jonas and Martha here there and everywhere drove me insane.
Damn! Dark, the trilogy as a whole is a very well written show with a captivating story. This only becomes more apparent when you realize how consistent the series has been throughout the three seasons and how everything was so well thought out beforehand. Granted, calling it immensely complicated would be an understatement as it may require careful attention or multiple viewings to grasp and remember everything but once you clear this hurdle and understand this show, its brilliance will readily become apparent.
This show may very well go down in history as one of the greatest Sci-Fi content both in terms of films/tv ever made. We will be darn lucky if anything ever comes close to the greatness of this show in future. Or maybe considering how it is a sleeper hit, it inspires studios to order more thought provoking contents, but who knows.
I think , once they prevent the deaths and time-travel from being invented, Jonas'(Split Reality 1) and Martha's(Split Reality 2) universes(realities) are annihilated, the Scientist's "Original reality" splits/branches again, to form another "3rd" Split Reality which is the one shown in the end.
Since "Endings are beginnings and beginnings are endings or everything is predetermined and past/future can't be changed", this would make the most sense without breaking the show's rule because if the Scientist didn't try to invent time Travel, there wouldn't be 2 split realities and with that no Jonas or Martha coming to change the past, and if they didn't come, he would invent time Travel, a Paradox.
So the original reality still exists alongside the new 3rd reality. However Jonas and Martha are erased from existence since their universes no longer exist.
Hannah deciding to name the unborn child 'Jonas' was also a nice way to spare us a completely sad ending.
But hey who knows! The series is open for multiple interpretations.
Here's something you might find helpful:
How To Understand Dark
1. Determinism:
I. Watch Predestination (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2397535 ) to acquaint yourself with the general idea of a closed time loop. Also maybe give Triangle (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1187064 ) a shot.
II. Arrival is also great.
III. Watch Devs (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8134186 ) [Ignore the last episode, unfortunately Alex Garland still can't stick a landing] to really get the essence of a deterministic universe on the quantum level.
2. Split/Parallel Realities:
I. Rick&Morty has several episodes dealing with the concept. However, S02E01 A Rickle In Time(https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4462494 ) and the recent S04E08 The Vat Of Acid ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10655692 ) both do the best job of explaining IMO.
II. Steins Gate is a masterpiece if you are into anime (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1910272 )
Well it’s come to an end of the dark franchise and i can say I’ve enjoyed the dark head fuck Journey and it truly was some beautiful work.
Did it answer all my questions from the last two seasons, it did and it didn’t but what wasn’t answered was only small and not that important and paradoxes being involved it would probably end up not making sense and best letting it pass.
I recommend after watching having a look at dark wiki and looking up all the relations between all the characters because it will help a lot :)
10/10 thanks for everything
This is by far the greatest TV Show of all time. No other Show started amazingly, got better in the second season and finished even better than that in the final season. Absolutely phenomenal.
This show should have been 2 seasons long, keeping the first and mixing the second and the third without a lot of stuff like peoples starring at paintings, entering rooms silently, and declaim pretty bad written redundant dialogues and monologues.
I think this show did put some useless complexity for comlexity's sake.
Get rid of the Adam and Eva religion inspired bullsh** and focus on the third world plot, and you'll have a solid show... but not this time i may say unfortunately.
Dark’s third season supposedly gave most of the answers we needed, yet I couldn’t be more confused. The multiple dimensions gimmick introduced at the end of the second season was a major turn-off, but thankfully they managed to keep the tone consistent with the rest of the series. The problem is that they spent too much time re-introducing and exploring characters and situations that in the end have no real purpose in the story. At the same time, characters that had extensive story arcs in the first two seasons got mysteriously abandoned or killed off for no reason. More than a lack of time, it felt like the time they had was poorly managed. The solutions provided in the end almost came up out of nowhere, and we don’t even get to see how people came to those conclusions, nor how the “villains” became the people they are through time. Things got so convoluted and contrived that all we could do was trust the writers without questioning further.
There’s not a huge gap in production value or direction, but it just felt like the whole show was poorly plotted, leaving too many contradictions behind. The biggest one is definitely the role of destiny. At this point, it’s clear that no matter how hard a character may try to change things, destiny will fix everything so that the loops can repeat as always. Yet, we keep being shown characters devoting their lives to making sure that each loop goes as it should have. Maybe I missed the whole point, but the writing feels more confusing than cryptic.
Love how difficult to follow this third season was but how clear it all becomes in the end. Superb writing!
Shout by Leo MartinsBlockedParent2020-07-06T19:37:51Z
What an absolute amazing show, telling a story with elements of Time & Universe is very complicated but DARK managed very well, i've never seen a show so good written, all the details are there and they all make sense in the end. Once again Amazing Show!