1899 is arriving on Netflix very soon, and we have a brand new trailer for the series,
one that makes Baran Bo Odar and Jantje Friese's show look like it's going to be just as good
and mindbending as Dark was.
The new trailer shows us more surrounding the prometheus ship incident and what might
be causing all of the chaos for this set of new characters.
In this video, I'm going to be breaking down the trailer
for 1899, alongside discussing my general thoughts and theories towards what we could
see in the Netflix show.
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it out yourself.
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But without further a do, lets dive into my trailer breakdown
and theories for 1899.
So 1899 is a new Netflix series that will interest fans of the time bending German drama
Dark, with the show being a multi-lingual narrative that is set on a migrant steamship
named the Kerberos travelling from London to New
York with a range of European travellers on board.
As usual creators Jantje Friese and Baran Bo Odar are making something unique, this
time with all the actors speaking in their native
tongues, and while they may have trouble communicating, they do have one thing in common.
And that is that their visions of the promised land of America will turn into a horrifying
nightmare.
Friese and Bo Odar previously stated that what really made them connect to the idea
for this show was the question of what unites and divides us, and how fear can be a trigger
for the latter.
Of course, the passengers are united by their hopes for the new century and dreams of a
better life abroad, yet with all the secrets involved, they are desperate to
keep hidden and avoid coming in contact with major problems.
They also encounter another migrant ship that has been missing for months
adrift in the open sea, and it's known that what they will find on board will change their
lives forever.
With a web of secrets beginning to unravel, the new trailer really hones in on
a lot of the early mystery and it gives a lot more to chew on in the buildup to the
release.
So lets go through the footage and discuss what we might be seeing.
The trailer begins with a message coming to the Kerberos from the mysterious and abandoned
Prometheus, and the captain Eyk Larsen, played by Dark's Andrea Pietschmann, takes them off
course in the hope of saving the lost ship.
He has a meeting with the upper-class passengers in the dinning room, to discuss the event,
and what should be done about the incoming message.
They debate whether they should change course to see what can be done to help the ship that
had been presumed sunken, or whether should they ignore it and continue on their
journey to pomised land.
Maura Franklin, who was a big character focus in the previous trailers, once again looks
at a newspaper with a headline reading that the Prometheus has been
missing for four months, indicating that this show will plays with time, even if it's just
in a few instances.
The trailer then shows their journey to the Prometheus in the dark ocean,
with red flares being shot into the sky, a small boat moving out towards the wreckage,
and then once on the ship, we get the images of abandoned bunks and empty environments.
They find out that the boat had sunk and resurfaced,
without a single person now on board.
But this is where the more mysterious events start taking place, with the ship's scouting
team finding black crystals, and then we get footage of
unknown devices and connections to the triangular symbol that begins to create some kind of
hold on the Kerbaros passengers.
Starting with those black crystals, there was a great bit
of insight from a user on the 1899 reddit page, as they state that these crystals may
have a connection to parralel universes.
The user said that they appear to be growing rapidly out
of the ships wall, being one of the supernatural occurences in this show that should be of
importance to the plot.
They say that judging by the color and texture, they appear to be black
tourmaline, also known as Schörl in German.
Apparently, if true, this belongs to the class of the ditrigonal pyramidal crystals and it
could relate to the symmetry and polarity of parallel universes, alternative realities,
or additional dimensions.
They say that the polarity would function as the connecting
line between one universe/dimension/reality and the other.
And of course, if we relate that the later image of a ship sailing straight into a whirlpool,
this could be the wormhole equivalent of this show, that allows for them
to travel to an alternate dimention or reality.
The whirlpool itself looks breathtaking in the trailer, really showing off what the volume
stage technology that they used on this show can do, and again, it highlights that the
main mysteries are still being kept a secret.
So that's why I currently think we might be looking
at some type of parralel dimension, connecting the crystals, the whirlpool and then also,
the triangulor symbols.
When it comes to those symbols, we see different versions, displayed as some sort of code and
on buttons that point either up or down.
Maybe these relate to the multiple reality theory,
and each of the symbols can be used to translate data or reflect the realities that they might
go to.
The symbols reflect some what of a symmetry operation, which is any reflection,
rotation or inversion of a geometric shape, that results in a shape that is identical
to the original.
So alongside passengers struglling to understand different passengers from
different backgrounds, they'll also struggle to establish the meaning of these symbols.
There is this theory about the different versions of the bermuda triangle and how it could link
to the different elements.
For instance, the upside down triangle with a line through the bottom is the alchemical
symbol for Earth, whereas if you remove the line, it’s the symbol for
Water.
And alongside this, the normal triangle equals fire, which could be a reference to hell.
We have the lower deck migrants praying, cult like gatherings and even a shot of fire
spreading amongst a room full of drawings, with them all being slightly different.
So I think there's definitely this idea of something either multiplied or varied, whether
that be to do with multiple realities or something else.
And what we do know is that it will likely all be connected and create issues for those
on board the Kerberos, somewhat delaying their journey to America.
This trailer does put a big emphasis on the Prometheus and the questions surrounding what
is really going on, and we do learn some more about it, with one character saying that the
same thing that happened on the Prometheus is now
happening on the Kerberos.
We see passengers drop to the ground and it looks like the same things will be spreading
amongst those on the ship.
This has me believing that maybe what happened on the Prometheus was in the past or the future
and we're going to get some reveals as it spreads to passengers on the Kerberos,
alongside that idea of multiple realities.
But what propels this interesting idea into chaos, is that we also get several clues towards
a darker conspiracy behind the ship.
A man takes a small black pyramid out of his bag,
and several passengers of different backgrounds are shown with that black triangle tattoo
from before.
Amongst the cult-like gatherings and armed revolts one crew-member hints at the
horrors below depths, saying, “We all wear masks while we try to hide who we are.”
And from the other trailers and footage we've seen we know
that a group of characters are literally running from their past traumas and sins, and this
idea that some of them may be frozen or being replaced, like with say Maura's child, only
adds to secrets and weirdness involved.
The name Prometheus actually comes from the god in Greek mythology who stole fire from
the other gods and gave it to humanity.
The name has since resembled the inherent good and evil,
or essentially, the humanness that none of us can escape from.
So whatever is going on here, it looks like we're going to be getting a story
surrounding passengers that must work together to escape a psychological and supernatural
fate.
And the conspiracy and repeating incidents create connections that will likely reveal
more to what really is going on.
While that's really all we take from the focus on the prometheus and the footage we saw,
there is another thing that I wanted to bring up surrounding the song choice in this recent
trailer.
The use of Jimmy Hendrix's Along the Watchtower, on one side, works with all the thrilling
aspects seen in the new footage.
But it also could have a meaning that connects to
the characters on display.
This particular song can relate to a cultural change over time because Hendrix's track focuses
on two people who are considered outsiders by society in the
joker and the thief.
The joker gets agitated by the status quo and the thief asks him to stop complaining
because great changes to the structure are approaching.
So this song could be referencing the overthrow of an established
order and I think if you connect that to what we're seeing, it may be a reference to the
migrant passengers, who've gone through a lot in
the past, stepping up to change the current one.
We do see a man who looks to be apart of that revolt, and while we're not sure who he is,
it does look like we're going to get passengers going after others, following coming
in contact with the Prometheus.
Not to mention that this show is set in 1899 which is just before the start of a new century,
and that could again link into this idea of an established
order being replaced by a new one.
We'll have to see, and I must say that the creators and Netflix are doing a great job
of keeping all the mystery under wraps whill still getting
us really excited and intrigued, just through the imagery on display.
This trailer really focused on the discovery of the prometheus and how those on the other
ship start to react to all the weird things happening.
It really looks like it's going to be dipping into multiple genres, as there's plenty
of horror, mystery, sci-fi and drama just in the small footage we've already had.
Again, I loved the use of Hendrix's song and how all
the visual cues and smaller details really reflect on the type of work that we're used
to seeing from these creators, so hopefully we're in for another mindboggling experience.
The shot of the whirling portal towards the end
shows off just how groundbreaking the volume technology they shot this on will be, allowing
for some great visual effects in big moments of
the series and the potential for twisting environments and perspectives.
But most importantly, I think this show looks like it's going to have all the mystery and
integral themes that we want and would expect from the creators
of Dark.
They know how to really build out a show's ideas and make those ideas crucial to everthing
going on with the more reveals we get.
The focus that seems to be placed on a range of international characters and with how they
interact is going to really be a big part of that and I think 1899 can really deliver
on how each of the main figures come together, and
then the fear of being divided as things get more complex and chaotic.
We'll have to see, but overall, this new trailer just really builds
my anticipation for what Baran Bo Odar and Jantje Friese will do, and whether they can
once again, get us all talking about another mind-bending world with extremely fascinating
characters.
But that was my breakdown and theories for 1899.
Overall, the trailer was another great piece of marketing for this upcoming show, and while
I'm already super excited to check it out, I find myself anticipating it even more after
all of this new footage.
I love the msytery involved, the range of characters we're seeing and the overall potential
for a new groundbreaking show, so count me in as being
there day one to check out what 1899 brings us.
But to those who saw the trailer, what are your theories for the new Netflix show and
are you excited for this brand new story from
the creators of Dark?
Let me know down below in the comments section.
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