DARK
3x08 | Das Paradies

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DARK
3x08 | Das Paradies
hello jonas kahnwald, character whose bad days start and never get better. would you like to play a game? you can continue the cycle of generational trauma or you can continue the cycle of generational trauma or you can continue the cycle of generational trauma. You will always be the reason your father dies. You will even do it on purpose You will never forgive yourself and you will never make it better and it is all your fault and none of it is your fault. You were born in this loop and you can only act inside of it You started it anyways Every action you take has happened before Every action you take goes towards starting it all again. Would you like to continue? You already are.
Louis Hofmann as Jonas Kahnwald DARK season 2 [2019]
thinking about dark the show again and how it started because of a parent's love for his child (tannhaus to save his son from death), it continues because michael knows if he doesn't do his part jonas (his Son and friend) will never have been born and that's his boy he can't erase him. so he kills himself and the wheel keeps turning. noah and his desperate crusade are all for his missing daughter. claudia breaks the wheel and solves it and she is doing it all for regina, her daughter who she will do anything for, to give her a future free from death and darkness. by reuniting tannhaus and his family, by avoiding their deaths, winden is saved from the cycle, jonas and martha disappear. and at the end the only thing that remains is hannah and the name jonas. because he may not exist and she may not know him. but she will always love him. because that's her son that's her baby, and nothing trumps a parent's love for their kid
DARK: 3.08 'The paradise' (2020)
So I’ve just finished rewatching Dark (2017) on Netflix, and I think it’s proof that it’s possible to deliver a high-quality piece of art if that’s genuinely the goal, and if you don’t let the prospect of making more money get in the way, because that show is objectively fucking perfect.
There are no plot holes, no filler episodes, and no room for useless spin-offs, because everything is resolved. You get the sense that the writers knew exactly what they were doing and where the story was going at every single moment of every episode. It’s evident they did extensive research across several fields of study, and yes, it’s crazy, but they still managed to make it make sense. It was carefully and deliberately written, with the story meticulously planned from beginning to end.
The visuals, references, storytelling, mystery, pacing, and symbolism were amazing. The casting was mind-blowing. And the show also had a finale that couldn’t have been better. Not only did it wrap everything up perfectly, but there weren’t even any fan theories that could possibly top it. There couldn’t be. It had to be done exactly the way the writers intended.
And even if there were other ways it could have ended, you wouldn’t bother considering them... because it was perfect as it was. Nothing could have made more sense.
That’s something I’ve rarely seen, if ever.
That’s how a show should be written.
Some old Dark doodles because I miss this show so much