 What's up guys and welcome to one take I'm gil and today we're talking about dark season 3 episode 2 titled the survivors this video will of course have spoilers through season 3 episode 2 But that's as far as I've watched into the season So no spoilers for the rest of the season Overall, I continue to love this show and I'm so bummed that it's coming to an end What struck me most about this episode is how well dark is able to balance character development and sci-fi intrigue Some scenes are dedicated purely for example to Exploring Tront Nielsen's family drama other scenes are dedicated to Delving into the sick mundus mythology and its origins But both are interesting and everything in the show has a solid through line of emotion Running through it. So I haven't seen anything quite like this in the past And I'm really going to miss this show But without further ado, let's jump into the details of the episode And I'll break it down year by year and character by character to kind of keep track of everything Also, I should know everything we saw in this episode I'm assuming took place in our world with the exception of the final scene Between Jonas and the older Marta starting out in 1888 our world Marta wakes up Older Jonas is there waiting for her Holding the letter that supposedly came from Marta. He introduces her to Bartosz Magnus and francesca They're excited to see her until Marta explains again that she is not from their world She is not their Marta and then she says I promise to make everything right again So none of it happens in that moment I really feel the tragedy of her character because it seems that she and Jonas are fated to over and over Fight to erase all the horrible things that have happened And you get the feeling that they've gone through this cycle so many times How many times have you heard younger Jonas say this older Jonas and older older Jonas as Adam So you just feel that endless fight against something that seems unstoppable And I particularly felt it here when Marta tearfully tells them She's trying to do the same thing then there's a really interesting moment where Jonas asks Marta How she knew about them and she claims that Jonas told her where to find them Jonas says you're lying. I never went to your world And she claims that Jonas Went to her world and told her about them. So like I said Jonas accuses her of lying He asks if Adam sent her and asked how she traveled What did she travel with and then an older man an older blind man shows up who we later learn Is an older townhouse now the reason I found that line so fascinating is because throughout the series It's never been clear if we're ever seeing something that deviates from a previous cycle They keep telling us you really can't change the past. Maybe you can tweak it here and there But it seemed like everything that's occurred in the series so far Older Jonas remembers if younger Jonas does something older Jonas remembers it Meaning younger Jonas is simply going along the predetermined path that has already occurred in a previous cycle This appears to be the very first super clear Not questionable example of the past being altered because younger Jonas Told Marta where to find them older Jonas doesn't remember it My theory at the moment, and I'm sure this will evolve over the next six episodes Is that it takes 33 years for the world to sort of reset itself? So for example a certain set of events occurred which the older Jonas remembers Young Jonas can deviate from that path and older Jonas can continue to exist remembering his version of events But eventually there will be a sort of reset where this new cycle catches up and becomes a status quo Where this older Jonas will be replaced with a version of older Jonas that recalls the new path that the current iteration Of younger Jonas followed But i'm sure a lot of you that have already binged season three you already know if i'm right or wrong about that So we'll find out later Bartosz visits Marta and apologizes for Jonas's behavior He says that Jonas has been acting differently ever since they arrived in 1888 He goes on to explain that they ended up here by accident in 1888 And they are out of nuclear fuel, which is kind of hard to come by in that day and age So there's stranded there Bartosz then takes Marta To the sick mundus lair and explains a little bit more about what's going on Meanwhile older townhouse asks Jonas if Marta is one of them one of these travelers And he can tell Jonas is very upset by the arrival of this visitor So he tells him don't forget what we're creating a paradise And then we see on his cane a very familiar phrase And he says it out loud sick mundus creatus est So we begin to realize that this is where it all started This is the beginning of the sick mundus cult And seeing how cold Jonas is you can start to see his transformation into adam into the villain It's sort of reminded me of Star Wars back in the day seeing Jake Lloyd play a young Anakin and then Hayden christiansen playing the middle-aged Anakin So Jake Lloyd is young Jonas Hayden christiansen is middle-aged Jonas And both Anakin and Jonas turn into a very scarred bald older gentleman So some definite parallels there, but I think dark is doing it way better It is very believable the transformation of the innocent young Jonas We saw at the beginning of the series at first you wonder how in the world Can he turn into what seems to be evil adam? And it's totally believable the way they're doing it So back to Bartosz and Marta in the sick mundus lair Bartosz explains that the older man the blind man is an older townhouse His father thought that they could break the rules of space and time He was essentially trying to build a time machine This townhouse that we see here is carrying on his father's work Jonas has seen this secret sick mundus lodge in a future time And Jonas is trying to rebuild things the way he saw them And then Bartosz asks Marta who adam is and Marta reveals that adam is Jonas So Jonas apparently did not tell his friends who adam is and the fact that he grows up to become adam I'm sure that will be a source of some strife in the group And it'll be a pretty interesting conflict to see it play out And the implication here is that adam francesca and magnus have been hanging out here since 1888 And became the versions of them we saw in 1921 when Jonas was visiting adam But big question mark here what happens to Bartosz in that time? He is one of the few characters where we have not been given a glimpse into his future Does he die? Does he become a character where we don't know he is that older character? Has adam been lying? Maybe Bartosz is adam I don't think it's going that way, but with this show You never know at the same time what we saw of 1921 may not be a done deal Like I alluded to earlier. I think we may be seeing a break from the previous cycles And adam kept talking about a loophole is the other world the existence of this alternate reality The loophole he was referring to marta's arrival in 1888 does that deviate them from the predetermined path And does that mean Jonas might not become adam and sick mundus may not become what it does in our cycle That's everything we see in 1888. So let's jump to 1987 and check in on katerina at the end of season two We saw her crawl into the cave and go back in time in search of michelle It turns out she hasn't been able to find him. She's in the conwald residence But enes and michael slash michelle are missing Now I never get sick of seeing characters delve into time travel for the first time Explore the past bump into their younger self It's especially fun to see how dark will play Within the boundaries because generally speaking when a character goes back in time They're not going to do anything that alters what we've already seen in the present So it's really fun to see how they play within those boundaries katerina goes to school and starts handing out flyers of A missing michael conwald looking for her son She bumps into younger ulrich and he mentions the madman and he says maybe he got him after all Then katerina bumps into a younger self and hannah Hannah reveals a little bit more information and explains that a madman who we know is older ulrich escaped from an institution and went after michael Then she coldly tells hannah to keep her hands off ulrich and michelle I have to say I felt kind of bad for hannah here as much as she is a manipulative and horrible person in certain ways She is just a child here and she's being essentially attacked by someone who's been harboring Anger that's been growing for 30 years and imposing it on her So felt bad for her in that moment then katerina heads to the police station And pester's one of the cops there Trying to get some information In the police station. We see a flyer by the way calling for witnesses on egon's death And a missing persons poster for claudia. So katerina begs the cop He's reluctant clearly she's bugged him before And he finally gives her a little kernel of information Saying that iness and michael conwald are essentially in hiding Child protective services knows where they are and the madman that katerina asks about Is in the closed ward where he's been for 34 years So katerina heads to the institution in search of ulrich And begs the woman behind the counter to let her in to see ulrich that woman by the way is Katerina's mother helena at first helena refuses until katerina points out the necklace that helena is wearing That is the necklace of st christopher katerina says my mom had one just like it I've traveled a long way that seems to rattle something and helena and she gives she lets katerina go in to see ulrich And they have a brief interaction ulrich is of course very upset and katerina promises ulrich as she'll get him out of there Ulrich is such a heartbreaking and tragic figure And i'm so curious to see what the conclusion will be to his character arc We don't know a lot about his internal mental state When he is this older virgin of himself We know he has still very much held on to that anger towards egon But how does he look back on the way he treated katerina and hannah? Is he apologetic? Does he regret it? Has he become a better person? That's what i'm wondering and i would love to see him get some sort of redemption because he has just been such a tragic figure and you've got to Know how horrible and awful his life has been these 33 years being separated from his son And of course the saint nicolas medal is an important one Because jonas and marta found it by the lake marta turned it into a necklace which she gave jonas An older jonas put it on marta's pillow to let her know that he has returned after disappearing In 2019 and then we see adam holding on to that necklace So i'm wondering how marta's grandmother got a hold of it or did marta's Grandmother somehow hand it down and they ended up at the lake Or is there some kind of a time loop where marta in the future gives it to Helena i'm sure we will find out later in the season then helena returns home and she is somewhat abusive We know that she gave katerina as a teenager some bruises After she had that difficulty with ol rick when hannah falsely reported to the police that ol rick Forced himself on katerina So helena smacks young katerina on the back of the head and tells her to clear the table So as always dark does a great job of giving a sort of double character development Where we're following older katerina while also learning more about her younger self And how she became the hardened individual that can really take care of herself that she is now Now let's stay in 1987 but check in on tront and jannah They are at mad's funeral where they're burying an empty coffin While there jannah sort of makes a scene by telling everyone That tront was having an affair with claudia the night that mad's disappeared She also points out tront's current obsession with tracking down claudia who of course Disappeared the day her father died We know that she transported herself to 2020 to ride out the apocalypse in the bunker This show does such a fantastic job of taking characters who are minor at first And then delving into them to add a ton of depth For example claudia and egon weren't very prominent in the first season But took center stage in season two added a lot more depth to those characters And now we're doing the same thing for jannah and especially tront And i'll shout out a few moments that i thought worked Emotionally really well for tront so tront in his search for claudia goes to speak to her assistant jasmine And asks if she noticed anything strange about claudia in the week before she disappeared Jasmine reveals that claudia was a very well put together well-addressed person But in that week sometimes she wore the same outfit twice And she was sort of starting to fall apart Everything changed She said when the older woman showed up with the dog and strangely the older woman We know that's an older claudia said that the dog was hers But left the dog behind when she left now i love that attention to detail I love the fact that jasmine noticed Her claudia saying that the dog is hers and then leaving it behind I feel like other shows and movies wouldn't give their characters That much intelligence and that much attention to detail and that is just something i love about this show Sometimes on shows like lost for example It would feel like to some degree the mystery was maintained because characters wouldn't ask the right questions Even though we know in real life, we would definitely ask those questions So it feels like dark just isn't cheating and it treats us intelligently and i love that Then tront is driving along and he sees regina claudia's daughter With claudia's dog and he offers to give her a ride while they're driving tront asks regina If claudia said anything about him before she disappeared And regina said no and then tront kind of distantly says I just thought maybe she'd said something Then regina gets uncomfortable asks him to drop her off and she'll walk the rest of the way He says if you need anything again This is a moment where I thought they did a great job of adding depth to tront's character And it bringing this sense of tragedy to him when he finds out that claudia didn't say anything about him before disappearing I think he's starting to realize that claudia intentionally left she wasn't kidnapped or anything like that And he wasn't really on her mind before she disappeared So a tragic and sad moment for him. I also think this is the moment where he decides I'm going to go be with janna And rededicate myself to my family that night claudia's assistant jasmine is closing up for the night When she is paid a visit by the lip scarred trio And they very creepily surround her before killing her the middle aged version of the man says hell is empty And all the devils are here a line very similar to one from dawn of the dead Where they say when there's no more room in hell the dead will walk the earth This guy the lip scarred man is such a great villain He's so creepy the way they'll sort of synchronize their movements crossing their arms Surrounding jasmine. I don't know if we've ever seen this concept done in this way before The idea of three iterations of the same person Very creepily working together from different times Works very well and his motivations at this point are very unclear My only guess is that they come from the other world And they're working with the older marta in a similar capacity as noah works with the older jonas Or adam But what exactly they're doing is not yet clear Back home tront sees jenna and jenna says at some point you need to decide for us or for them And jenna wonders aloud without saying it exactly if tront is regina's father And it's unspoken but all but confirmed that tront is regina's father Who he fathered with claudia. He tells jenna. You're right. I have to choose then takes her hand And seems to decide that he is going to stick with jenna And of course during the montage we get a split screen shot of tront and jenna on one side And mads on the other this show especially during these montages Is so good at breaking your heart and I just have to shout out again How great a job it does at blending human drama with just fascinating science fiction Bravo to dark Now fast forward still in our world to a post apocalyptic wind in in 2020 starting with claudia We see claudia taking care of regina Trying to help her survive through her cancer Then we see her putting her board together So we've seen the board she keeps in the bunker with the pictures of all of the townsfolk How they're all connected and we've seen this wall before Back in season two. We've seen the older claudia looking at it in the bunker I have to say by the way, we've seen this trope before in other shows Where characters are trying to crack a case wide open And they put all the newspaper articles and pictures on a big wall Connect them with string and they always wonder if that would actually help This is the one show where 100 it would help and make sense Because it's so hard to keep straight the complicated family trees Especially when you introduce the concept of time travel When I was doing my recap for the first couple seasons of dark I essentially had to put together my own similar board So it definitely helps and by the way, I do want to just quickly plug I did put together an epic two hour Super detailed recap of seasons one and two of dark If you need a reminder of everything that happened before season three And I'd highly recommend it because it makes it so much easier To spot the easter eggs and just keep track of what's going on So I'll throw a link in the description and a card in the corner of the screen If you want to check out that big recap Anyway, claudia, we see her leaving a recording the one that jonis heard in 2053 Where she says that the god particle if stabilized could be a way to travel back in time And save everyone while claudia is away Tront pays a visit to his daughter regina and then he says i'm so sorry But it has to happen. She said it's the only way to save you and then he takes a pillow And suffocates and kills his own daughter as if tront's character wasn't tragic enough Knowing that his Lover has disappeared his daughter is estranged from him Now decades later without reconciling with her. He needs to kill his own daughter And the she in question that told him he has to do this I'm assuming is the older claudia We know that the older claudia has come to believe that events need to play out exactly as they did in the previous cycle So that everything can be reset and things can be done in a better way where Everybody lives happily ever after i'm assuming But we i'm assuming will learn more about her master plan That is just about it for regina and claudia this episode So let's stay in 2020 post apocalypse and check in with peter and elizabeth Peter takes elizabeth to the containment site. They're there to see if charlotte or francisca have been found Also, noah is creepily following them Inside the containment site. They look at a board with images of all the Dead bodies that have been found. We see woeller with his one eye We see clausen, but we don't see francisca or charlotte So peter takes that to mean It's possible that his wife and daughter elizabeth's mother and sister Could still be alive. We of course know that elizabeth's sister francisca is stranded in the late 1800s And her mother slash daughter charlotte is in 2053 peter and elizabeth head back to the conwald household Where peter scanning with his geiger counter decides to check things upstairs While he's upstairs noah shows up and starts talking to elizabeth noah tells elizabeth that he's looking for food He asks her what she's looking for and she writes on a piece of paper She's looking for mom and sister then she asks noah where he's sleeping. He writes down cave elizabeth holds onto that note and it seems to take on some meaning for her Then peter shows up and tells noah to leave and to stay away from them Noa tells peter you want to protect her. I know so do I and I will After you were killed Very cruel line from noah here. He is the one character Well, one of the few characters where I really haven't felt much sympathy for him Maybe a pang of sympathy when he visits charlotte last season and sees how awful She thinks he is Charlotte says to him you killed the children and he basically explains. I hope one day you'll understand I had to do that so I could create a reality where I didn't do that He's following The similar line of thinking as the older claudia. I need to do all these horrible things So one day we can essentially reset into a better world So maybe I started to feel a little sympathy for him But then he said something awful like that to peter After you were killed Meaning it's a done deal. You are destined to die And that is just awful and I feel very bad for peter there later Elizabeth asks peter what noah said to him. He doesn't reveal it. She gets frustrated saying she's not a kid anymore Demands to know why peter carries that trichetra notebook around with him everywhere Where is my mom? Where is francesca? They shove each other and peter tries to comfort her by saying We'll find them and again just very sad to see peter trying so hard To care for elizabeth knowing he probably doesn't have much time left And during the montage elizabeth is holding that piece of paper that says mom and sister Cave the notes she exchanged back and forth with noah Like I said, I think it's taken on some meaning for her And it plans to seize for the relationship that we know is going to occur Between elizabeth and noah the one that ultimately produces charlotte speaking of whom fast forward to 2053 charlotte is looking at a photograph of elizabeth and noah Holding charlotte as a baby a photo we've seen before And i'm assuming by this point charlotte knows the truth And it's still trying to process it all the truth being That elizabeth is both her daughter and her mother Elizabeth and charlotte have a quiet moment together where elizabeth says everything will be okay charlotte puts her head against elizabeth to sort of comfort her and that's a similar gesture We saw back in season one where elizabeth does the same thing to charlotte Before elizabeth goes missing for a little bit now. That's everything we see from our world in this episode Let's jump over to marta's world So we're in older marta's lair sort of a heritake on the sick mundus lair We see a painting of adam and eve and i am just waiting for the revelation That older marta goes by the name eve. I'm assuming we're going to get that but we'll see Older marta explains to jonis that the world ends in both of their worlds Things might not happen the same way or at the same time But they happen and speaking of not happening at the same time She reveals that the apocalypse takes place on her world In just three days. So that's about seven months early compared to our world in our world the apocalypse hit in june 2020 it looks like in their world. It hits november 2019 Shortly after the night michelle didn't disappear on their world. Anyway, that about wraps it up for episode two of dark I Love this show. I thought this was another great episode And I kind of hate the fact that they released the whole season at once Because as much as I want to pace myself and watch it over the course of weeks I know i'm not going to be able to do that. So i'm going to go ahead and binge the show But in between every episode i'll come back here and give you my recap give you my thoughts So make sure if you enjoyed this video hit the like button Hit the subscribe button and hit the bell icon so you get notified the next time we release one of these videos And I should also note that like I said, we'll be doing these pre-recorded Reviews after each episode, but it will all culminate once we've finished the season We're gonna do a live stream So make sure you're subscribed so you can join the live stream Be part of the conversation where we try to hash out everything we saw Breakdown our theories our favorite moments of the show You won't want to miss it. And by the way, I keep saying i'm going to be so bummed once this show is over Dark was created by a filmmaker named baron bow odar who's done a few movies that were pretty well received In germany once we get through dark. I do plan to dive into his film library So that's just one more reason why you'll want to make sure you're subscribed So you can follow along as we follow everything else. This guy's done And we'll follow whatever he does in the future Because I've got to assume whatever he does after dark will also be awesome. So with that, I'll just say thanks for watching And see you on the next one take