hey guys, Pete here. today I'm gonna do another dark season 3 video about some of
the theories that are popping up and some of the ideas that are out there
after the trailer dropped. there was also some additional new footage that got
released on the German Netflix channel after I had already started editing my
first video. it's really interesting so we'll take a look at that as well. I'm
also gonna talk about some of the behind the scenes photos that have been posted
on Instagram like I did in my season 3 spoilers video from last year. that means
there will be spoilers and of course I'll be discussing everything that's
happened in dark in the first two seasons. if any of that raises red flags
for you now is your chance to leave. as for the additional footage we see this
new trio again in some of the same shots we saw from the teaser. I still tend to
think this is happening in the past based on the lanterns they're carrying
but we did also see these guys out in the world in the 80s. one of the things I
didn't touch on before is that the Sic Mundus lair looks abandoned and it
makes us wonder where Adam traveled after the apocalypse. it also calls into
question where the rest of Sic Mundus are especially the older Magnus and
Franziska. and then we get a shot of old Helge and he has an injury to his eye
rather than his ear this seems like a pretty good indication that he is alt
Helge of alt Martha's world. just like the way we see Martha has a different
haircut and Magnus has a different hair color and tattoos alt Helge is saying
tick tock tick tock much in the same way he did in the Winden we already know.
this hints that he was involved with Time Traveller's in both worlds. after
that we get a shot outside the caves with alt versions of Bartosz Magnus
Franziska and Martha. we also see another teenager with the gang that's
conspicuously missing Jonas and Mikkel. the new character is an actor who had a
small role in Martha's play in season one and he showed up in a lot of the
behind the scenes photos. based on old Claudia's statement that she's seen the
world without Jonas we expect that he was never born in this world. Martha is
wearing the yellow raincoat which makes us think that she is the Jonas
replacement in this world and the new character is probably just a friend
from high school to fill out the group. the teens are all carrying flashlights
and we see them turn towards the cave like they're startled by a sound inside.
we can only speculate on what's going on here but since they're startled by a
sound someone may be traveling through the passage. then we get what is probably
the most interesting shot for me. we see a workshop in the past where stranger
Jonas is working on something. what's really crazy about this is that alt Martha
is standing behind him and we get a close-up shot to confirm it's her. this
appears to be in the distant past and there was a clear shot of this on
instagram that makes it seem pretty certain that he's working on the god
particle twin machine under the church. the big question is what does alt Martha
being there actually mean? obviously she saved Jonas when he was younger but
this looks like the stranger post-apocalypse. if he's working under
what will eventually be the church it's safe to say he's accepted his path in
founding SiC Mundus and ultimately becoming Adam. Martha looks different than
she did in the season 2 finale and there were some shots from filming that were
posted that were captioned with the question a new look for Marta which kind
of draw a distinction from the Martha we saw at the end of the season. after
thinking about this the shot of the letter burning in the teaser came to
mind young Noah did say it was written by Martha which wouldn't make sense if he
was talking about Martha prime. the popular theories were that Adam wrote it
himself or that it had to be sent by alt Martha. seeing these two characters
together at this point makes me lean towards it being the latter and that
could add an interesting layer if she was warning him about the trio. either
way these two interacted beyond her saving his life during stranger Jonas's
transformation into Adam. so the letter could come from her and Adam could have
given it to Noah. beyond that the german teaser is mostly just recycled shots but
there is this one of the Jonas that's slightly different and we get a better
look at those golden lights which seem to be tied to travelling between worlds.
we saw them in the other teaser when Claudia used the golden orb to travel
Helge showing up does confirm my guess that it was him in the shot in
the teaser and as mentioned the scar on his
eye confirms he's an alt version. did he get this scar by being bashed in the
head with the rock? we don't know yet but there was this shot of a woman
bashing someone and Reddit has identified who she is. this photo of a
bloody woman with an 80s looking pink jacket has been up on Baran bo Odar's
website for a while. this actor played a minor role in season 2 as the nurse in
the facility where Ulrich is currently growing old. the character's name is
Helene Wolfe which doesn't connect her to anything I can think of. I imagine
that this is similar to the new teenager and that they used an actor who had a
small part in previous seasons to play something different in the alternate
world. if that's the case she could be assaulting alt Helge but there's some
problems with that. first the shot is purposely cut so we can't see who she's
hitting and also in the prime world Helge was a boy in the 1950s and her
clothing doesn't match that. when I saw where this was I thought about Hannah
because of the theory about the woman in the lake. I talked about this theory in
my spoilers video which stems from Bartosz's story while they were swimming in
the lake in season 2 episode 6. remember we saw in photos that Hannah who's in
1954 is wearing the st. Christopher pendant when it's brand new.
she appears to be the first owner and years later
Jonas and Marta will find the pendant on the shore. the lake is the only common
denominator here though. it's hard to connect the dots so that it makes sense
that Hannah is bludgeoned to death in the 80s by a minor character and then
later the legend becomes a woman in a dress drowned in the lake. that doesn't
mean this isn't Hannah or that this isn't how the pendant ended up there but
if that's the case the woman in the lake theory would be wrong. people also think
Helene Wolfe could be Katharina's mother based off of this photo there is a woman
behind the teen and a pink coat hanging there.
I'm not sure though I mean the evidence is pretty weak but there were a lot of
pictures of teen Katharina on the Instagram account so we're likely to
learn more about her. the problem was speculating on that is that we don't
know what that'll be connected to for me the most compelling mystery from all
this new footage remains who are the trio. I stand by my thinking that they
our brand-new characters that we haven't met before but there are a lot of
theories out there that disagree with me the ones I see repeated the most are
that it's the real Aleksander Kohler or alt world's Mads Nielsen but I've also
seen people who think it might be Peter or even a child of Jonas an alt Martha
the Mads theory seems to hinge on a resemblance between the child actors who
play them which doesn't really convince me
Mads role in the story was to give Ulrich a personal history that makes him
question a connection when kids start to go missing again I don't really see how
an alt version of him becoming these characters would be a bonus
the Aleksander angle also is based on the resemblance of the middle character in
the picture of Clausen's brother and the question of why Boris knew Walt took his
identity is a more compelling mystery that needs to be explained again the
evidence here doesn't really get me excited
the trio all have this cleft lip that connects them and none of the photos
that exists of the original Aleksander Koehler have that for me Boris Niewald
who later becomes the central character Aleksander Tiedemann is the more
interesting part of that mystery it's not to say that these theories aren't
possible because certainly they are and they are popular I just haven't jumped
on board with any that I've read to this point and I'm not trying to be glib
there are other pieces of circumstantial evidence that pop up to support these
ideas if you use them as your starting point
things like Mads being sacrificed by SiC Mundus in the prime world because of
his importance elsewhere based on what we've seen though these guys give me a
vibe that says that they're from somewhere else they are three versions
of the same person 33 years apart in age that operate as one we see them destroy
the lair under the church which is essentially SiC Mundus' collection of
time-travel knowledge and they seem to be intervening in a way that shows they
know what's going on one of the theories I've seen is that they are from a third
world which could be related to the Trinity knot imagery that sort of
naturally builds off the infinity symbol imagery representing the two worlds
connected to each other I've even seen people go as far as to say that they are
from the world without time which Adam has said he wants to create but I think
it's too early too tell I do wonder if these guys might be
behind the triquetra notebook since its origin is still a mystery but it's a
leap to get there from watching 25 seconds of them in a trailer the other
thing I decided not to bring up is this idea of Adam and Eve I actually started
writing about it but found myself going in circles because the idea brings up
more questions than it answers for me the gist is that in the world where
Jonas doesn't exist Martha leads a life similar to his where
she grows old to become Eve after all if we have someone who changed his name to
Adam and hangs around with this guy whose name he changed to Noah well then
why not have an Eve especially when you have a character in a room that looks an
awful lot like the Sic Mundus lair except that it has a painting of Adam
and Eve on the wall instead of the fall of the Damned not to mention the first
time the character shows up she's carrying a time machine more advanced
than anything that we've seen that also happens to resemble an Apple Plus in the
casting news we had an actor who could be used to portray and Eve that is 33
years older than alt Martha beyond these obvious connections I'm just left with a
bunch of questions I can't answer yes it does seem like in the alt world Martha
has a past similar to Yona tsa's in the prime world but why why does this world
exist in the first place is it occurring naturally has it always
existed or is it a result of time travel in the first place if it's a product of
that then are we dealing with a universe where when something happens that
affects the past a new timeline or branch then exists we don't really know
at this point because we've been presented with a deterministic system
where nothing could be changed plus there's a whole bunch of other
things like you have to ask are Adam and Eve working together or are they enemies
how does Claudia fit into that picture and it just keeps going from there
there's also this much repeated idea floating around about the tic-tock
voiceover at the end of the trailer it goes tick-tock then talk tick and then
just talk the idea is that things go in Reverse in the alt world as in literally
in Reverse like the shots in the trailer of Jonah's running backwards and Martha
with the tear running up her face so you would have the prime world
where things go one way Marta's world where things go the other
way and then the final talk would be a representation of a world where time
doesn't exist everything in the alt world playing in Reverse seems
completely impractical from a viewing perspective though and the shots of alt
helga and the cave from the German Netflix video aren't presented that way
they go forward I mean call me old-fashioned but I sort of expect that
scenes including dialogue would be presented in a way that we can easily
understand what's happening so in the end I'm curious about how these worlds
exist how they are connected and what it all means but I don't think we have the
answers and honestly I like it that way and with that I will bring this video to
an end let me know in the comments what you think about what we've seen of dark
season 3 so far and which of these theories get your wheels turning and let
me know what kind of dark videos you'd like to see in the coming month while we
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