 What's up guys and welcome to one take I'm gill and today we're talking about dark season 3 episode 8 titled the paradise This is of course the series finale the final episode of dark So this video is going to be full of spoilers for all of dark Before we jump into the episode just a quick reminder to hit the like button hit the subscribe button And of course the bell icon so you get notified the next time we do a video and Even though dark is coming to an end. We're definitely not done talking about it So you'll want to stay tuned before we dive into the recap at the top I'll say that I thought this was an incredible hour of television. It was extremely memorable It was packed with meaning it was packed with Satisfying answers and conclusions to questions and plots that we've been following for the last three seasons Having said that I do walk away with some mixed feelings But that has less to do with the quality or the execution of this episode and more to do with how I just personally Subjectively receive what I think are some of the philosophical messages behind the show So I'll save all of that for the end of the video for now. Let's jump into it We begin with a glimpse into prime world of 2019 where we again see at Mica leave the letter behind Before he hangs himself and then Jonas wakes up I'm always a sucker for this sort of mirroring where the final episode of something in some ways mirrors the first episode and This leads into a monologue from Claudia where she's now speaking to Adam Telling him how most journeys have an end but his hasn't Jonas's journey has gone on Forever over and over in this infinite cycle Adam looking more defeated than ever is surprised to see that Claudia is alive Because to Adam's knowledge Noa already killed Claudia then Claudia says you still don't know how to play the game Something that she said to Noah right before Noah killed her She says to Adam you want to destroy the knot but everything you do is perpetuating it She explains that Adam thought the origin it was the connection between both worlds his and Martha's child But Claudia's realized that the origin truly exists Outside of these worlds and reveals that there exists a third world the origin world and we find out that the town house We saw in the previous episode Building a time machine in his bunker when I saw that I wasn't sure if we were seeing the alt world or the prime world It turns out that we were seeing the origin world in the origin world Just like in the prime world town house lost his son daughter-in-law and granddaughter in a car accident This led him to try and create a time machine so he could save them when town house finally completes building the machine and turns it on It ended up destroying his world Splitting off into two new worlds the two worlds that we've been watching this season If Adam wants to destroy the knot Claudia tells him that can only be done by preventing town house in the origin world From ever inventing time travel to begin with the two of them walk into the sick Moondis layer which has now been destroyed and Claudia goes on to say that she would have liked to have spared Jonas all of this awfulness But every step had to be repeated Exactly in the cycle so they could arrive at this moment Adam asks if this moment has ever happened before and Claudia says that Adam has tried to destroy the knot Meaning it tried to engulf Marta the origin in that energy ball Adam has tried to do that in Infinite number of times, but this moment now the two of them speaking. This is the first time it's ever happened I loved this moment in the episode on one hand It shows the human side of the bootstrap paradox if you think about what that paradox means is it implies an Infinite loop something without a beginning or an end that continues in a cyclical way forever If you focus on the human side of it It's extremely tragic and hearing them spell it out that Jonas has turned into Adam and gone through this an infinite number of times Just layers tragedy onto tragedy on the other hand I also love this moment because we've been watching these characters suffer through the same cycle Over and over everything they do is part of this predetermined path so to finally see something explicitly on-screen called out as This moment has never happened before That was an extremely satisfying thing to hear and see to really drive the point home Claudia says that the knot has existed for eternity upheld by Eva and Adam both completing the same tasks over and over Adam wants to destroy his son and the knot while at the same time Eva wants him to live and Uphold the knot eternally now I've mentioned a few times that I thought this season could have benefited from another episode or two This is one example of that I think following Jonas's journey following Adam for these last two seasons We understand his point of view we see how dark and horrible these two worlds are so we can sympathize with the goal of extinguishing both worlds However on Eva's side of things her son this lip-scarred trio We've only ever seen them as a monster and as a tool of bringing on the apocalypse and holding the knots together We've never really seen a relationship developed between Eva or Marta and her son Now to some extent you buy it implicitly a mother loves her son But if you want me to viscerally feel it and understand why Eva would go to such lengths To prop up her son's life and maintain the existence of these knots It would have been nice to see some love from Marta or Eva towards her son So we could better feel and understand her point of view the same way we do Adams So I wouldn't call it a major distraction It's more of a minor complaint or just something I would have liked to have seen developed further as Claudia Ruminates about the horrible things that Adam and Eva have both done in the name of their two different goals We see a prime example of that on the Altsworld 2019 We see Eva tell a now scarred Marta that they almost die so they can be reborn Meaning the apocalypse in her world needs to occur so the cycle can reach its end and restart So everyone can have life again Until it all as it has an infinite number of times before Until it can all go horribly wrong again Eva tells Marta that she carries the origin in her womb her son then the lip-scarred trio appears and greets their mother the youngest of the trio hug her the middle-aged one sort of Comforts her and strokes her chin and now this Marta has to kill Jonas as we saw previously Why does Marta need to kill Jonas? It really just comes down to the fact that they're trying to perpetuate the knot Everything that happened before including Jonas being killed by Marta needs to happen again Middle-aged Marta walks out and hands the younger Freshly scarred Marta the clothing that she was wearing when she killed Jonas Hands her the gun and preps her to commit her murder We then see a portion of the murder that we already saw back in episode five We see it again from this Marta's perspective Previously I said that episode five was the hardest episode of dark to watch Seeing Peter killed seeing Catarina killed by her own mother seeing Jonas killed by Marta That was really hard to stomach But this scene and I think this episode as a whole ended up being more stomach-turning than that episode Seeing the murder this time from Marta's perspective. I think was even worse Partially thanks to Lisa Vickari's acting you can see the turmoil on her face You can see her hands shaking as she needs to go do this horrible thing that she really doesn't want to do And for reasons she's probably just barely starting to comprehend She has to do it anyway, and she has virtually no time to think about it Lisa Vickari totally sold that and as a result like I said my stomach was turning pretty badly during this episode Back in 2053 on the prime world Claudia and Adam continue their conversation She says to Adam your two worlds should never have existed Adam asks how Claudia knows all of this How does she know about the origin world? She explains that she's been on a 33-year journey To understand how everything happened. How can a family tree be born from itself over and over in this endless cycle? During that we cut to a scene of Claudia and Tront by Regina's grave Claudia realized that not everyone is part of the knot Both worlds are a cancer and as she says that we cut to a photo of Regina by her own grave Both worlds are a cancer that grew from something else If you destroy the knot everything that already existed in the origin world gets to continue living And then we get a small piece of good news Claudia and Tront standing by Regina's grave Tront says all these years. I thought I was the father Claudia says for a long time. I wished you were the father What they're saying here is that if you are part of the knot Meaning you are part of the lineage that traces back to Jonas or Marta. That means you really shouldn't exist If Tront were Regina's father that would mean Regina is part of the knot because Tront's father is the trio Who is Marta's son? His lineage is part of that cyclical family tree He's part of the knot if these two worlds are destroyed Tront will disappear because he is not Regina's father She is not part of the knot which means that if the worlds are destroyed Regina gets to continue living in the origin world now. Who is Regina's father? Funny enough if you look at Eva's family tree That's on her marble floor the one we get a very clear image of in episode 2 if you look closely It does show that Tront is Regina's father So it looks like Marta herself Eva actually got some bad information however when we visit the origin world at the end of this episode we see a family photo of Claudia with burned Doppler and their daughter Regina So it turns out that Helga's father burned is Regina's father as Claudia and Tront stand by Regina's grave They finished her conversation with Claudia telling him you know what you have to do do it quickly Don't let her suffer and then in another heartbreaking moment You realize that Claudia is sending Tront back in time back to 2020 in the post-apocalyptic world To kill Regina as we saw earlier in the season. Why does he have to do this? It's the same answer we have to a lot of our why questions in this endless cycle Regina always dies at this point So Claudia needs to ensure that Regina dies again So the cycle can continue as it did previously and Ultimately bring Claudia to the point She's at now where she's standing with Adam She has the knowledge of the origin world and she can put forward the plan to once and for all Destroy the knots and this is exactly what Claudia tells Adam just like you and Eva I had to preserve everything so I could become what I am today And then she goes on to remind us that in both Adam and Eva's worlds Everything that will happen happens in both of them Even if it's in slightly different ways or slightly different times as she speaks We see an example of it on screen in a split screen We see Ulrich go back in time to 1953 and try to kill Helga as a child in our world in the alt world Simultaneously Ulrich goes back this time to 1986 Instead of trying to kill Helga as a child he tries to kill him as an adult of course he fails and disfigures this Helga over his eye instead of ear and then Ulrich himself gets killed by the older Helga who also Just time traveled to 1986 while an elderly Helga is standing in the bunker Over the scarred body of his younger self and the dead body of Ulrich Claudia shows up the older Helga has taken the two Identical pennies off of Ulrich that were being studied by the police and I assume from this point Helga will leave one in the bunker to be discovered years later by Charlotte and leave one with the scarred Helga Who will hold on to it until it's taken from him by the police when they're doing the analysis of Helga's penny and the one discovered in the bunker then we get another revelation from Claudia where she finally tells Adam What the true loophole is when the apocalypse occurs time stands still for a fraction of a second Something that we heard earlier in the season over the radio after the apocalypse occurred in the moment when time stands still So too do the rules of cause and effect meaning in that split second You can actually change things Adam doesn't know this but Eva does and she has used that moment to send Marta one way Or another specifically in the moment where Marta shows up during the apocalypse grabs Jonas and brings him to her world Eva uses that split second loophole to either send Marta in to grab Jonas or not The moment that resulted in two Jonas is being formed to Marta's being formed and Claudia Explains that she's used a loophole herself to change her own path Which explains how there can be two Claudias one that that gets murdered by Noah and one that's having this Conversation right now with Adam Claudia tells Adam that he needs to use this loophole to send his younger self Jonas To the origin world where he can stop townhouse from ever creating a time machine to begin with and prevent these two Horrible worlds from ever coming into existence. So we're back on the prime world 2020 the apocalypse is happening Adam has just killed Marta and Jonas is holding on to her telling her Promising her that he's going to make things right and then Adam shows up from Jonas's perspective He just watched Adam kill Marta and moments later come back into the room Jonas yells at him Why are you still here? She's dead. What more do you want from me? And this was a brilliant moment of acting to me from Lewis Hoffman One of the moments that sticks with me just his absolute rage at seeing Adam again was very affecting Adam teleports Jonas and himself to the cave in the alternate world 2019 We don't see their entire conversation But presumably Adam informs Jonas of everything Tells him how he has to go to the origin world and stop townhouse Then specifically Adam tells Jonas that he needs to save Marta From being recruited by older Magnus and francesca Adam tells him what we know is a drop what we don't know is an ocean Which is a recurring line? We heard the trio say it earlier in the season to the official that they had sign The nuclear plant building permit throughout this episode and throughout the season I think I was holding out some hope that they would find a way To destroy the knots while at the same time rescuing Jonas Marta and some of these other characters that never should have existed I thought of the name Noah and thought maybe there could be an arc of sorts that could somehow protect A handful of characters from being destroyed when the cycle ends of course that physically doesn't make any sense And I think around this time in the episode I realized that wasn't going to happen and ultimately we were heading towards the total obliteration Of all of these characters. I mentioned this was one of the more stomach-turning episodes This was around the time where that discomfort amplified as I realized where we were heading So Jonas is now on a mission. He needs to go grab Marta They'll be able to travel to the origin world before we follow them on their mission Let's jump back to 2053 and the prime world where claudia is speaking to her older self She asks her older self to tell their father. She's sorry Which we've seen older claudia do when she visited young egon in the 50s Then older claudia reminds younger claudia that if all goes right regina will get to live Now when younger claudia asks older claudia to tell their father. She's sorry That's a line I don't fully understand yet Because i'm not sure why younger claudia would think that older claudia will have the opportunity to do so Once the worlds are destroyed as far as I understand both of these iterations of claudia will cease to exist A version of claudia will exist on the origin world because she's not part of the knot But to my understanding the origin world claudia is not really this older claudia or this younger claudia She is a different iteration of the same character So i'm not sure if claudia asking older claudia to pass on this apology is just an irrational emotional thing to ask Or if there's more to it that i'm just not seeing yet in 2019 altsworld We see adam burning down the paintings in eva's lair and then use the god particle to travel to post apocalypse To where eva greets him. She was expecting him and was expecting him to kill her Just as he's done in every iteration of this cycle Once adam kills eva in the normal cycle young marto will find a dead eva And that's the thing that ultimately turns her against jonas However in this iteration of the cycle adam hesitates So eva grabs the gun herself points it at her chest and pulls the trigger when the gun doesn't go off adam opens his hands to reveal that he's holding a handful of bullets Eva says this isn't right. It never happened this way and sort of freaks out Then adam reveals what's going on the knot is finally being destroyed He gives a speech about how life is a labyrinth. We search for a way out But the path only leads to the center death is incomprehensible But one can reconcile oneself with it This is the same speech that an older jonas gave to young jonas when he was sitting by michael's grave Back in season one once eva fully comprehends what's happening and accepts it adam and eva embrace And i thought that was another incredible moment because these two characters have been so cold And calculating to finally see some warmth between them was a great emotional release And then adam says something which i think gets at the core of what dark is all about He says every pain entices us to act shapes our will he mentions cause and effect And i think that is what dark is all about Cause and effect drive everything we see in the world one of the most powerful links in a cause and effect chain Is human will if we want something we will Unrelentingly pursue it. But if that will is born out of pain and suffering It begets more pain and suffering townhouse lost his family that pain led him to create the time machine Which led to the creation of jonas marta and these two awful worlds Ultimately an eternal cycle of damnation and these two awful realities pain leads to human will pointing in the wrong direction Leads to an enormous amount of pain suffering and tragedy By the way before we continue just wanted to quickly remind you if you're enjoying this video Please go ahead and hit that like button hit the subscribe button and the bell icon So you get notified the next time we do a video back to the show back in marta's alt world 2019 jonas is on his mission We see bartosh and marta on the bike on their way to the nuclear plant when they're stopped by the older Magnus and francisca from the prime world then jonas leaps to action and in a very cool moment Activates the orb device puts it in his pocket then runs and tackles marta just as the machine activates and transports them to the prime world 1986 this was another fantastic moment in the episode because after watching these characters for three seasons Suffer through predetermined fates with no ability to alter any of the events of the cycle To finally see jonas get a moment where he can actually enact some sort of real change in this world Was incredibly satisfying transported now to 1986 we get a very emotional reunion between marta and jonas From marta's perspective. She's surprised to see that jonas is even alive versus jonas Who is meeting this alternate marta for the first time jonas explains that they're in 1986 june 21st The day the townhouse created the time machine in the origin world barely giving any explanation jonas tells her They need to stop the machine from ever being invented I think you can tell that jonas doesn't want to tell her the truth Because it's a tough thing to admit I am about to enact a plan that will erase you and me and our entire realities from existence But he finally admits it he tells her you and I are the reason everything happens the way it does why it happens again and again Because you can't let go of what you want and I can't let go of what I want But we are the mistake the glitch in the matrix. That's about when march realizes He wants both worlds to cease to exist But she accepts it because I think she understands It's what needs to be done They go down into the tunnels go through the sick mundas kriatas est tunnel doors And they wait for the passage to be opened when the passage opens There will be a bridge between the alternate world the prime world and the origin world Which they'll be able to use to go into that origin world and stop townhouse as they wait jonas asks marta jonas the one in your world was he different that line really got to me because of course That is the question that a few episodes earlier marta asked jonas asking him If the marta of his world was different from her and that is what led into their night of passion And the fact that this jonas here is asking the same question Feels like a moment of fate or another moment of deja vu And here instead of leading to any sort of passion It leads to them staring at each other sadly and crying And just a very hard to watch emotional moment We see townhouse in the origin world activate the machine We see the tunnel begin to open And then jonas and marta enter the bridge jonas wakes up in a very 2001 space odyssey looking Light bridge same thing with marta They can't see each other they seem to be separated, but they both call for each other Then jonas sees a window sort of open And through it he sees marta as a child with katerina staring at him Marta and katerina are both staring into a closet But through the closet marta child marta sees the light bridge. She sees jonas katerina doesn't At the same time marta has a similar experience where she sees a young jonas with his father michael For all intents and purposes i see this whole sequence as being a cross between science And the mystical you can create a sort of pseudoscientific explanation For why marta sees a glimpse of young jonas and vice versa You could say the quantum entanglement that connects these two characters physically manifest in the bridge To show them this glimpse of their younger selves at that point though in my opinion you're entering a realm Where you go so far beyond known science you may as well be discussing the supernatural Or the mystical i think there are a couple of things at play here In this moment jonas and marta both get one last glimpse at these knot worlds And when they have that glimpse they're seen by a child Who as they grow older will write off what they saw in the closet As the overactive imagination of a child or a dream and ultimately that is what they end up being both these worlds cease to exist and only stick around as a sort of dream Or a sense of deja vu for hannah and others in the origin world I also think seeing each other as children Just further is the idea that they have this eternal bond that has existed forever Even since they were children and hadn't yet formed this strong relationship As they back away from what they're seeing the two bump into each other on the rainbow bridge They both came from two different paths that intersect in the center and point towards a third Middle path would say both walk down as they activate the orb and disintegrate fade to black fade back in We are now in the origin world in i believe 1974 We fade in on the clock shop with a very striking sound of many ticking clocks We see hg tonhouse fighting with his son It seems like they're arguing over tonhouse assuming that his son will want to essentially inherit the store Inherit the works that tonhouse is doing the son feels like his father has never paid attention to him He's always focused on these big scientific ideas But never his own son his own family in the middle of a rainstorm his son Merrick storms out with his wife and daughter Before doing so Merrick says to his father you told me the world outside was full of secrets And what we know is a drop in an infinite ocean at least you were right about that You may know everything about einstein rosen bridges and black holes, but about me You know absolutely nothing about me to be honest I thought that line was sort of cheesy It kind of felt like something you would have seen in a biopic about steven hawking or albert einstein But putting that aside the line drop in an infinite ocean is of course very similar to the line Adam said to eva earlier in the episode and the trio said in a previous episode I'm betting that this is a line That is paraphrased in tonhouse's book a journey through time And that's how jonis and the trio would have picked up on it in their worlds as merrick and his wife sonia Drive to what should be their deaths Of course jonis and marta appear in the middle of the road So merrick has to swerve out of the way for a moment I'm sure i'm not the only one who got worried that jonis and marta appearing Was going to be the very thing that caused the car accident. Thankfully they swerved out of the way They were fine merrick gets out of the car to confront these two strangers that got in the way in the middle of the road So at first he's angry then when he sees how messed up they look He asks is everything okay at that point I got a pretty big lump in my throat because is everything okay Is sort of the biggest understatement ever and in this moment I thought luis hoffman played the scene perfectly He's so unsure of himself because he knows what he needs to do There's this inner turmoil Where he is about to do something that erases him and all his loved ones from existence But he knows he has to do it so hesitantly he says the road is closed There was an accident as merrick ignores him essentially and walks back to the car jonis yells What we know is a drop what we don't know is an ocean Echoing his father's line getting merrick's attention Bringing it home marta says your father loves you. He would do anything for you. That's when merrick realizes He's got to turn around. He needs to go back to tonhouse He tells his wife the bridge is closed when him and his wife return Sonia tells tonhouse that your son thinks he met a pair of angels Which in a way he did because when all is said and done jonis and marta's only Existence will come down to the brief moment that they were there on the origin world But for all intents and purposes They never existed and they never will but somehow they still were able to have this small impact in the origin world Coming back to marta and jonis marta asks. Do you think it worked? He says inside the light. I saw you as a child You were looking towards me as if you could see me too marta says in the closet. That was you It wasn't a dream jonis shakes his head and then marta says Do you think anything of us will remain or is that what we are a dream and we never really existed? jonis says I don't know Then as gold embers start to float and we realize that these two characters are starting to disappear from existence jonis says the perfect thing We're a perfect match never believe anything else and he sort of half smiles I think the closest thing we get to a smile from anyone this episode Then the two of them hold hands as they begin to disappear Then we begin what has to be the most bittersweet montage we've seen on this show Set perfectly to a haunting rendition of the song. What a wonderful world This version of the song was done by soap and skin who were also involved in the opening theme of the show But through the montage we see all of our characters in the world Fading from existence then as we think the episode is over and we'll never see our characters again We cut to the origin world to what in the prime world was the conwald residence What in the alternate world was the neilson residence? And here it appears to be the doppler residence as we see a family photo of claudia with burn doppler And their daughter regina. We see a bunch of our cast together having dinner having a good time We see regina there a pregnant hannah peter and bernadette together Catarina and torben torben's eye is starting to heal up. They ask what happened And he makes them promise not to tell anyone else. He begins to finally reveal what happened to his eye He says last summer then of course before he can finish the power goes out And hannah gets a very disturbed look in her face She sees a yellow raincoat and a memory stirs They ask if everything is okay And hannah explains that she's having a sense of deja vu What is happening right now is exactly what she saw in her dream last night She says that in the dream lights flickered There was a loud bang and then darkness as the world ended But strangely it was good that the world ended and the other characters seem to be affected by this as well My sense was that hannah although being the only one vocal about it She wasn't the only one having a sense of deja vu regina asks if the world ended today and you had one wish What would you wish for catarina says a world without winden? They all drink to that and then in the end ask hannah if they have a name picked out for the baby yet And hannah says of course I think jonis is a beautiful name and we end with a song we've heard before Called somehow somewhere sometime the same song that played when eric was in the bunker Way back when and that is how it all ends So like I said at the beginning of this video, I thought this was an incredible hour of television It was incredibly moving in a lot of directions sometimes positive Sometimes it was really hard to watch when they ended up in the light bridge I started to get a sense of claustrophobia and I felt kind of sick to my stomach That's a feeling that really never went away Until maybe the final moments where I think there are a few drops of optimism to be found What does it all mean? I alluded to it earlier But my current interpretation of this show is that it's really all about cause and effect And specifically when pain and suffering is the cause the effect is human will And as taun house said in episode seven, we can do what we will but we cannot will what we will Basically human will is an extremely powerful thing when it is set in a direction it will move Unrelentingly in that direction So if pain determines the direction of your will and then it becomes unstoppable That begets tragedy and begets more pain and suffering As I said earlier the pain of marix sonia and charlotte's death Leads taun house to create the time machine that is where his will takes him Which leads to the not worlds which leads to the endless cycle of tragedy that we've watched for these last three seasons Now the proximate cause of taun house's pain is the death of his family But taking a step back that death was caused by the broken relationship between him and his son If he had paid more attention to his son and reconciled that relationship Merrick would never have stormed out into the rain and got him and his family killed So I think the most positive message that you can take away from all this Is that if you and your life are creating your own suffering by for example not paying enough attention to your son Or a loved one you need to correct that because if you don't that pain will grow Like a festering wound and point your Very powerful human will in the wrong direction Which is likely not for the best you may not end up destroying the world and creating an endless cycle of human tragedy But in the real world it will likely lead to bad behavior And tear your life apart. I think that's a beautiful message and I think it's I think it's right I think to the extent you are causing your own pain You should try to exercise your human will To stop that where I do feel a little mixed is I personally think It is a little bit of a tough message That you can't will what you will it feels like they're saying that once tonhouse is grieving for the loss of his family There's no turning back and in reality. I don't think that's exactly right in the real world If tonhouse suffered the loss of his family human will is a powerful thing And he could use it to find peace with the tragedy and build some version of a good life That honors the memories of his family I personally and this is where it gets subjective find a little off-putting to create Such a negative connotation With human will because I agree that will is super powerful And can be dangerous when pointed the wrong way But I think focusing on that negative aspect without highlighting the positive side is a tough idea to hold in your head So that's where I get mixed feelings. I think there are some very positive messages in this ending But I do find myself asking If absorbing all the tragedy of this show putting myself through that and swallowing this bitter pill Is all of that worth it? And I don't think I have an answer to that question I want to say I love this show overall. I will rewatch bits and pieces of it over time I'll continue recommending it to people But it just leaves me wrestling with some ideas and I'm sure the creators of the show would actually love to hear that I'm sure they don't want people to finish watching this show turn it off and then just move on with their lives I used the word haunting to describe this finale And I think that's a good word for it because it will haunt me It is something I will continue to wrestle with and think about for a long time And I think that's exactly what the creators want now I'm sure I'm going to completely mess up the pronunciation of their names But I'll do my best Jean-Claire Frazier and Baron Beaudard the creators of the show I think they pulled off something incredible. I've never seen a show that was this well Planned and thought through I've never seen a show that did a better job of packing in sci-fi big philosophical ideas without forgetting about human drama and real emotion So overall it's been an incredible experience watching this show So when I say I have mixed feelings about the show that has nothing to do with the quality of it Or the talent that's on screen. Actually, it's the opposite It's so well done And it's so moving that it was able to push me into some pretty no pun intended dark places And that's where I walk away with some mixed feelings I think that's an incredible thing. I think these two creators are incredibly talented people And I'm very excited to see whatever they do next Anyway, I could keep going. There's a lot more to talk about when it comes to dark So I'll definitely be doing more videos Try to understand this show picking out the themes and just spending more time in this world One example I want to call out is a commenter on the channel Milo's vitten pointed out that there are a lot of Illusions to her medicism in this series. That's a school of thought which brings elements from various religions together And has influence in the scientific world. So it's something that fits very nicely into the tapestry of dark I have noticed symbolism from that school of thought in the series Specifically the emerald tablet the tattoo that Noah has which in the center says sick mundus criatus est And has the triquetra on it But it's not something I've talked too much about because it is something I'm still learning about right now My recognition of it would be pretty surface level I can see symbolism from her medicism and ideas from it presented throughout the series But it's a school of thought I want to read more about and I think it's going to help In breaking down the series, but a few things I want to pick out I know that in this school of thought they talk about how wisdom of the universe is subdivided into three categories And we know how much they love threes in this show I also know that although it's not a tenet of her medicism the idea of reincarnation is present So if you want to believe that marik and sonia hg tonhouse's son and daughter-in-law Carry on the essence of jonas and marta in some way and people have pointed out to me that marik is a pretty similar name at least in the first three letters to marta And sonia is an anagram of the name jonas if you want to believe that those two characters carry on the essence of jonas and marta You can believe that if you want to believe that baby charlotte in the origin world is our charlotte Or you want to believe that hannah's child who looks like is going to be named jonas is a reincarnation of our jonas I think the show gives us enough breadcrumbs enough illusions to mysticism perhaps Specifically her medicism it gives us enough illusions to those ideas That if you want to find some additional optimism in this ending and believe that these characters will somehow reincarnate in the origin world You can believe that i personally like to believe that jonas and marta have an eternal bond That continues to exist even after these two worlds are destroyed their essence will somehow Reincarnate in the origin world and they will find each other once again, but anyway enough from me I'm curious to know how all of you received the ending I heard from some of you after the live stream But now that we've had a chance to sort of process the ending further Did a lot of you have mixed feelings like i did it did you interpret the ending any differently? What did you think let me know in the comments and we'll keep the conversation going I also just wanted to extend a thank you to all of you that have participated Along the way as we've watched the series by either contributing in the comments Or even just watching along for me one of the biggest bummers when netflix or another streaming service Releases a season all at once is you lose a little bit of the conversation Whereas a community we experience the show together And talk to each other about it analyze it together speculate together And I think doing these videos helped to bring a little bit of that back Thanks to all of you who participated along And were really respectful when it came to spoilers You can go back to the episode one episode two episode three video etc And it became a space where you can discuss that episode with other people And not be exposed to any spoilers from future episodes or from the finale And I think that's an incredible thing So I want to thank everybody for preserving that experience and just giving us that communal experience Of watching the show together. 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