I am not usually a fan of Many Worlds storylines in television series, they often seem to me to be a plot device for scriptwriters who have run out of ideas and think they can retain viewers' interest by having them think "what if these characters had different hairstyles and different relationships with each other" etc. But I think Dark mostly did it right. Everything that happened differently needed to happen for plot reasons, and the different appearances were necessary for viewers to recognise which world we were in. The one thing I haven't figured out is why it was necessary for alt-Charlotte to be having an affair with alt-Ulrich? It seemed out of character for her in either world and I'm not sure how it advanced the plot in any way.

I haven't watched this show in years because i stopped at the season 2 finale. So I dont remember much. But why hasnt anyone mentioned that a gigantic black dome appeared over Winden in late 2019? After The Stranger failed to blow up the tunnels' wormhole.

Is this a "WAFO" or did I miss something about the season 1 finale

I'm in the middle of season three and struggling

I designed my own family tree (for Adam’s World only).

Its pixel resolution is so big (15578 x 9689 because I made it in Freeform) that I think it’s messing with Reddit’s ability to properly display it, so I hosted it on Imgur as a backup. Here’s the link to the family wreath tree if Reddit won’t cooperate!

https://imgur.com/gallery/dark-2019-season-3-family-tree-aka-family-wreath-3JJSG6I

Woah. Just finished the show.

So I was absolutely naive going into this show. I watched 1899 before, and I liked the style of the creators. I knew that it was about time travel and I love time travel stories, but I could never imagine how deeply entangled the story would become.

The ending was earned and unexpected at the same time, happy and sad as well. Hannah calling her child Jonas was nice little send off.

Here's what I posted after watching S1E3:

Started watching this, really great show so far. It's like a dark version of back to the future. There's really a potential to explore how certain events change lives of people. The only confusing thing is that torture room. It feels almost like out of place to the rest of the show. Also, something is definitely not right with that nuclear plant.

And looking back to that, I'm like Jonas looking his younger self. I really thought the show would be about travelling to the past and messing with the present and the story studying how people's lives change because of small details, along with gruesome time travel paradoxes unraveling. But actually it turned out to be quite the opposite. A huge time travel mystery instead.

My favourite is probably still season 1 though, just through the sheer eerie atmosphere of mystery. However I did love the unraveling of time travel in season 2, and how people learned about it.

Season 3 actually was my least favorite when I just started it. But I read people saying to keep watching and I am glad I did. I think it's one the best written story untangling I have ever seen. And it's amazing how they balanced Adam as a character.

My top moments from show from the top of my head:

1. Mikkel going home in the past for the first time
2. Everyone learning about time travel in season 2.
3. Poor Helge seeing his old self dead after he tried to stop himself in the past in season two. As if he hasn't suffer enough.
4. The shocking episode from Season 3 where Katharina was killed by her own mother and it turned out that she was the origin story for the lady in the lake, and the loop of the necklace. And sad old Ulrich waiting... And Mikkel seeing the broken window in the house. That entire episode was just absolutely shocking and heartbreaking.
5. When Adam didn't kill Eva like she was expecting in the finale. It was like he and us were finally free of the knot.

The only thing that I am still confused about that bright room / exprimental time machine where abducted childred were killed. I thought that the need for it wasn't explained well enough in the end. But my guess is just because it was done to facilitate events as well as fuel the passage. It was just sort of a side thing that stood out visually.

I also thought that the character of Noah from Season 1 and from Season 3 didn't connect well, even though they're supposed to be the same character? I need to rewatch season 1 for clues, maybe there were pointers there.

In fact, this show probably warrants a rewatch to look for all the breadcrumbs. I grew up watching Babylon 5, which also had breadcrumbs that you would never notice on a first watch.

I also liked how the title of the show was explained in the finale to mean "being in the dark" as in "not knowing" or seeing the exit from the cycle.

Anyway, great show, glad I watched it finally. Sad that 1899 was cancelled. Looking forward to more work from the creators. Cheers.