Hey guys, Pete here. This will be my Dark (Netflix) season 3 ending explained video. I just
finished watching the series and I've got to be honest at the end of episode 5
I was really confused and borderline worried about whether or not I knew what
was going on. Fortunately the ending turned out to be
pretty straightforward though, and I can't wait to talk about it. Real quick
though - this is your spoiler warning. If you haven't finished watching the entire
Dark series this video won't be for you. With that out of the way let's get into
it. So, at the end of episode 7 Adam is basically all of us. He thought he had it
figured out, but it turns out he was wrong. His plan to wipe out the world
involves destroying alt Martha who is carrying their unborn child and the god
particle in one go. Adam believes their child must be the origin of the knot
because it is the origin of the time-traveller family tree. He uses the
force of both apocalypses through the portal to destroy her. It's almost
comical as he closes his eyes and waits there to cease to exist. He holds them
closed for a bit, takes a breath, and then nope, nothing, he's still alive and his
face resembles what mine probably looked like through most of the middle of this
season. Claudia then arrives to explain what
happened. She tells Adam that Eva used something called quantum entanglement -
which is complicated, but in this situation what's important is that it
leads to the overlapping of different realities. She explains that time stands
still for a second during the apocalypse which provides an opportunity for things
to proceed in two different directions. Tannhaus from the 1970s gives us a
description of this using the thought experiment of Schrodinger's cat in the
beginning of episode 7. Eva exploits this by letting Martha save
Jonas and bring him to their world in one reality, and having alt Bartosz stop
Martha and bring her back in another. This creates the situation where Jonas and
Martha are existing in two realities at the same time and ensures their child
will be born in the one where Bartosz brings her back. In that way Eva always
has an advantage over Adam, but all the advantage does is preserve
the loop. Everything continues as it was. Claudia learned this as she was trying
to figure out a way to save her daughter Regina who dies in both of their worlds.
Where Jonas and Martha's son turns out to be the thing that keeps the loop
continuing to happen, Claudia's daughter turns out to be the thing that is the
key to stopping it. She explains that both worlds, Adam's and Eva's, should never
have existed. They are the product of HG Tannhaus trying to save his family with
time travel in a third world - the actual origin world. we've been talking about
prime world, it turns out that neither of those are the real world.
Claudia figured out that things are deterministic in the worlds we've seen
as far as the outcome. things may develop differently, but no one can escape their
fate. she's able to exploit that same loophole of time standing still during
the apocalypse to come to Adam and tell him what he needs to do. he needs to send
Jonas and Martha to the origin world so that they can stop the event that led to
the creation of their worlds in the first place, Adam goes to the Kahnwald
house in his world as the apocalypse is happening. Marta has already been shot,
but since this is the reality where Jonas would run into the basement
there's no alt Marta coming to save him. He then explains that there is a way
that Jonas can stop himself from becoming Adam.
Jonas has to go to Eva's world and save Martha from the apocalypse before Magnus
and Franziska do. he's able to do this in dramatic fashion grabbing her at the
last second and taking her to June 21st 1986. that's the day the passage was
first opened, and when Adam and Eva's worlds were created. as mentioned the
original world Tannhaus created a time machine trying to prevent a car crash
which kills his family. in that process he splits time and that creates their
worlds. Jonas tells Martha that there will be a bridge between all three worlds for
a short period of time as the passage is being created. they can use that to
travel to the origin world on day of the car-crash to prevent it from
happening. they're transported from the cave onto the bridge and thus there's a
new parallel reality. to recap, in the first reality Martha saves Jonas and
takes him into her world. in the second Bartosz stops her from saving him and he
goes into the basement, and in this reality Adam intervenes and they travel
to the origin world. In one reality Jonas is killed when he's still a young
man and the other Martha is killed when she's pregnant with their son. in the
third they work together and they go to the origin world. the bridge sort of
looks like walking through space and they get separated at first. in that time
they see childhood versions of each other who can also see them. it's an
interesting way to show their connection in that each of the child's parents
can't see what they see. after that they come back together and
are able to make it into the origin world. they transport right in front of
the car which then has to stop. they talk Tannhaus' son into turning
around which stops the crash from happening. even though we didn't spend
much time in the origin world I thought they did a pretty good job of setting
things up with the family. there's tension but all the son really needs is
a push to go back the other way and we could tell that Tannhaus would have
felt terrible about it if that's the way it ended because he kind of wants to say
something and he can't find the words. so I think that part makes sense. after
talking to Jonas and Martha the family does return to Tannhaus' shop. he never
needs to make the time machine so the two worlds we've seen, Adam's and Eva's
Windens, are never created. technically they don't really die, they cease to
exist. since they never existed in Tannhaus'
world in the first place since time travel is never developed, they just
don't exist anywhere anymore. before that happens
they tell each other that they saw their childhood versions when they were on the
bridge. they think about what that might mean because they really don't know
what's gonna happen after they fix things. Martha says, "Do you think any of us
could remain, or is that what we are, a dream? we never really existed?" Jonas has
no idea what's going to happen either but it's fitting that he
tells her the same thing he told her on the beach the last time he thought he
was going to be erased from existence. "We're a perfect match. Never believe
anything else." they hold hands while they start to disappear. we see Adam and Eva do the
same in the Erit Lux room - her lair. we see stranger Jonas disappear holding the
pendant, stranger martha in the bunker in the desert, and i think it largely works.
everything comes full circle. that isn't the end of the episode though.
we get a glimpse of the origin world in what would be present-day I suppose.
there's a dinner party going on. in attendance
we have familiar characters whose family names could very well be different. we
see Katharina, Peter, Bernadette AKA Benni, Regina, Torben who is getting over an eye
injury, and a pregnant Hannah. at first glance this is an interesting bunch and
it's fascinating when it hits you that these are all people who were not caught
up in the looping parts of the family tree that existed because of time travel.
we can guess the characters like Ulrich, Charlotte, Elisabeth, and so on would
never be born in the origin world. it seems like claudia was right to think
Regina wouldn't get cancer in this world as well, and we get one more fake out in
finding out about Torben's eye injury just to rub it in a bit. Woller and
Hannah look to be a couple and we see the lights flicker and go out as
everyone's talking. just in time to interrupt the explanation for what
happened to his eye. it's not clear what's going on with the lights going
out, I mean in the other worlds this was a sign that someone was travelling. it's
possible that this is related to Martha and Jonas's transit into this world, but
they leave us to guess about that. this hits Hannah the hardest as she stares at
a yellow raincoat in the hall right after it happens. she writes it off as a
deja vu at first but then tells the others that this is exactly what she
dreamt last night. in that she says the lights were flickering there was a loud
bang and then suddenly everything was dark and somehow the world had ended. she
goes on to explain that this somehow felt like a good thing for things to be
over. it all sounds a lot like what happened
to Jonas and Martha and their worlds. in this world Regina owns the house that
was the Kahnwald house in Adam's world and the Nielson house and Eva's. we see a
picture on the wall that shows us that Claudia married Bernd
Doppler in this world and they look like a happy and loving family in the picture.
I was a little surprised when I went and checked the family tree on the official
website to learn that Bernd was Regina's father in all of the worlds. this wasn't
really a theory since they didn't set him up as a candidate. it turns out to be
important though since if Tronte would have been her father she would have been
connected to the heart of the looping family tree. finding out that he wasn't
makes her existence in this world make sense. this makes Claudia's motivation to
save her work and as mentioned before in a way makes her the key to figuring
things out. Regina poses a question to the others, "if
the world were to end today and you had one wish, what would you wish for?"
Katharina answers a world without Winden and as they toast that world without
Winden the lights come back on. Peter remarks that it looks like Winden
doesn't want to just disappear and that makes us wonder how everything might be
connected. this is all a callback to a conversation that teenage Ulrich and
Hannah had at the bus stop in season 1 episode 3. the wording is slightly
different but teen Hannah asked him what he would wish for and he says a world
without Winden. this is cool because it connects the ending of the show to the
beginning and we can ponder how these realities all influence each other. you
could say that even though the giant knot of endless pain, suffering, and loss
that was the world's we knew has been destroyed there are still connections
under the surface. we also get a thread of hope to weave in there when Katharina
asked Hannah if she already has a name picked out for her unborn child. Hannah
responds that she thinks Jonas is a beautiful name. this could mean that a
new version of Jonas might exist in this world where things will be very
different. so we get an ending to the suffering and we get some hope. the
worlds we knew no longer exists but everything still seems to be connected.
and that's where things are left. there were a ton of
answers to questions along the way as well. we find out that the trio are
called the Unknown and he is the author of the trinity knot notebook. they're
almost always together but we see them split up to set the accident at the
power plant in motion On June 21st 1986 in both worlds. this is responsible for
the yellow barrels and the god particle / apocalypses in both worlds. that date
is also the same date that Tannhaus opened the portal for the first time in
the origin world. the Unknown is the origin of all the family tree craziness
that we pored over for the last couple of years in Winden. he is Jonas and
Martha's son and the father of Tronte with Agnes in both worlds. Tronte is
Ulrich's father. Ulrich is Martha's father and Jonas's grandfather. everything
really is connected. Silja was Egon and Hannah's child. she got together with
Bartosz and they conceived Noah and Agnes. so that answers the question of who
their parents were. it turns out that Peter was just a guy whose mother died
and that Boris Niewald came to Winden on the run from what happened in
Marburg basically just like how they told us he did. no time-travel trickery
for those two. if nothing else this story and ending were well thought out, planned,
and executed. there's a good balance of answering the pressing issues while
leaving something to the imagination. the music cinematography direction and
acting are all top-of-the-line. this is consistent with previous seasons and I
think it's worth mentioning that Louis Hoffmann and Lisa Vicari both took it
up a notch and did a terrific job of carrying us to the end.
I'm sure this ending won't satisfy everyone but I'm liking it more and more
as I sit with it and am definitely looking forward to going back to rewatch
without the pressure of having to keep track of everything .season 3 was
incredibly complex but I didn't find it that difficult to keep track of where or
when or what world we were in. I've spent a lot of time digging deep into the show
though so I'm not sure how this is for a less obsessed viewer. there were a couple
of situations that threw me for a loop though the Tannhaus origin world certainly
but also when stranger Jonas didn't know alt Martha when she arrived in 1888. that
was such a revelation that it was almost distracting in those first few episodes.
to the writers credit though they did go back and explain those things in a
reasonable amount of time so it didn't actually ruin the experience and I think
that's as good as any place to bring this to a close. I'm very interested to
hear what you think about the way dark ended let me know in the comments what
you think if you have any questions on how things played out I will put out
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