![]() ![]() Within that moment, a person can create alternate, simultaneous timelines within a single universe. Just in case Dark didn’t give us enough things to keep track of, the third season also reveals that there is a loophole within the knot: When the apocalypse occurs (which happens days apart in the two universes), time stands still for a fraction of a second. Wait a second! What about alternate timelines? In another, their child is born and we see him creeping around as a child, an adult, and an old man doing Eve’s bidding, murdering and/or manipulating people to preserve the knot. In one reality, Adam kills pregnant Martha. Adam and Eve are constantly trying to outmaneuver one another to get what they want. Martha, however, wants to protect her son, which means she believes she must preserve the knot and the endless cycles at all cost. He is Jonas’s great-great-grandfather and Martha’s great-grandfather.) After lifetimes spent investigating the loops, Adam and Eve determine that their son, this bridge between two worlds, must be the origin point of the knot.Īdam wants to stop his son from ever being born, thus destroying the knot and ending the cycles of tragedy. (Tronte then grows up to become Ulrich’s father, which means that Jonas and alt-Martha’s child is also their ancestor. As a child from both universes, their son grows up to become the root of Winden’s extremely knotty family tree: As a young man, he hooks up with Agnes Nielsen, who then gives birth to Tronte in both worlds. After alt-Martha saves Jonas from the apocalypse, she ends up having sex with him and getting pregnant. the specific event that kicked off the time loops. To answer that, we have to talk about the moment that Adam and Eve believe is the origin point of the knot, a.k.a. But while Adam wants to destroy the knot and end all of the suffering and tragedy, Eve wants to preserve the knot. Where our Winden has Adam, alt-Winden has a mysterious figure named Eve … who turns out to be alt-Martha! The two worlds are bound together in a knot that perpetuates the endless cycles we’ve seen play out. However, that doesn’t mean someone isn’t moving chess pieces around in the battle with time. The biggest difference in alt-Winden is a huge one: Mikkel never traveled back in time, therefore his son Jonas/Adam doesn’t exist in this universe. Also, in this alternate universe, Ulrich has left Katharina to be with Hannah, but he’s still off having an affair - this time it’s with Charlotte Doppler. For instance, Ulrich once again follows Helge through time, believing he is wrapped up in his son Mads’s disappearance, but this time Ulrich travels to 1986 and attacks Helge as an adult, not a young boy, and leaves his eye disfigured instead of his ear. It turns out that this alt-Winden is almost exactly like our Winden: Things may happen in different ways or at different times, but the same result occurs. We spend a lot of time in Alternate Martha’s universe, where Winden looks very much like the rural German town we’ve come to know over previous seasons. But also, just typing that sentence made my brain melt a little, so who knows? Let’s untangle what befalls our Winden residents in the Dark series finale. ![]() ![]() Even through all the twisty revelations about who is related to whom, which parents kill their kids, which kids kill their parents, and more than one timeline existing within each universe, season three provided a conclusive ending that made sense. And holy hell, did series creators Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese pull the whole thing off. With the third and final season premiering over the weekend, Dark had eight episodes to conclude its trippy sci-fi saga - that, yes, now included not just multiple timelines to track, but multiple universes - in a satisfying way. The second season of the German-language series left off with a character from another universe showing up to save time-traveling teenager Jonas Kahnwald, just moments before the apocalypse. With a show as complicated as Netflix’s Dark, you’d think it’d be impossible to wrap up every story line - but Dark has a character who gives birth to her own mother, so doing the impossible is pretty much its thing. But can you tell which universe they’re in? Martha and Magnus in Dark’s third season.
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