I love how the show is interweaving three timelines at the same time now. This is what should have been since the beginning,and it's been nothing but perfection right now. I really can't wait to explore more from the timelines. I give this episode a 9.1/10
8 Reviews
Wow
tedscoasterchannel4 June 2019
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I did not expect the series to go into even deeper territory than it already has done. But this episode does.
While we see every time period of the cycle, almost every character has to face an existencial question about what their part on the world and within the construct of the mystery is.
Hanna is one of the most evil characters in this show and she isn't even the villain
Neptune1656 June 2022
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Martha definitely inherited her mother's fire, but she is not a bully. I love how Martha is so tall, imposing and passionate, and Jonas is so petite, shy and melancholic. Claudia is indeed one of the most interesting characters in this story. We have three sides now: Claudia, Noah and The Stranger. Aleksander's casting is one of the best in the series, I agree! When I first saw him I was so shocked! The scene between young Katharina and Regina is painful to watch. But so is the scene between older Katharina and Hannah where Hannah absolutely lies and gaslights Katharina. She's such an evil character, and she's not even a major villain of the story. Claudia acknowledging that she was not a good mother is very important. Makes you wonder about that summer, huh? And what she wants to set straight. How much fun is it to watch you fall deeper and deeper in love with this show! The casting is done to perfection. You're getting to know the characters well at this point, their history and character, like Hannah. Don't you have the urge to just binge this whole series? Also I have to mention Aleksander's awesome casting. That boy looks so much like adult Aleks is insane. Regarding the contraption thing, my theory is that Claudia herself made the blueprints and designed the thing? She is, after all a nuclear scientific or whatever and quite accomplished at that too, as she was chosen to be the director of the plant in the 80's.
Mind blown
TheDonaldofDoom1 January 2020
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Now the plot has got going, Dark just keeps delivering. 'Everything is Now' is absolutely full of discoveries, developments and twists, making the web of plotlines ever more fascinating.
Noah's presence, as always, is very creepy. Here, we see him working as an actual priest. During Greta's confession, what he says is at least a little revealing about what his true intentions might be: "God sent me to you". And his words to her about God's will clearly say something about time, too: "We don't meet the people we meet by accident. We touch the lives of others and are touched ourselves, and thus God's hands guide us to our true destiny." We also find out a bit more about Noah's aim, but only a bit. How does the time machine he is trying to build, with Helge's help, differ from the wormhole that already exists? And what does he intend to use it for? And then, in a third creepy Noah scene, we find out that Bartosz is one of his minions. It seems everyone in this town has something to hide!
The aftermath of Helge's murder is truly the thing I was waiting for in this episode. How would the writers resolve the grandfather paradox that had been created? The solution? Helge is alive. It's simple yet genius. It doesn't matter that Ulrich killed him, that he wasn't breathing, that he was clearly dead. Helge can't die because he is alive in the future. It's the only possible solution to the grandfather paradox: it's a paradox, so it can't happen in the first place. No matter what, the laws governing reality will stop it from happening. The fact that Dark showed what happens when someone tries to create such a paradox (even unintentionally, as Ulrich did) is important. Most time travel shows and films never really have consistent rules that allow for a cohesive rulebook for how time travel operates in their world. For a show like Dark, which takes time travel so seriously, it's vital that it sets the rules that govern time travel in its universe - and it has.
Claudia gets a surprising amount to do in this episode too. She becomes aware there's something mysterious going on with the power plant in 1986. And there's also her losing her dog in 1953 and finding it 33 years later. But a real surprise is that she is in fact a time traveller. And that she is responsible for H.G. Taunhaus's forays into time travel. How exactly she managed to come up with the blueprints is unknown thus far. It would be interesting if she only came across the blueprints because Taunhaus invented the machine, because that would create another paradox...
As people's lives connect with each other in more and more ways, new ideas come to mind. Is one reason why Egon hates Young Ulrich so much because he reminds him of the older Ulrich he met when he was younger? And is the reason for Helge taking the courses of action that does to do with what Ulrich said to him before "killing" him? Quite possibly. Meanwhile, for Jonas, the complication that Martha is his aunt is just perfect for illustrating the weirdness of time travel. At least, unlike Game of Thrones, he doesn't choose to date her regardless.
Overall, this episode is as close to a masterpiece as Dark gets in its first season. 9.5/10
Noah's presence, as always, is very creepy. Here, we see him working as an actual priest. During Greta's confession, what he says is at least a little revealing about what his true intentions might be: "God sent me to you". And his words to her about God's will clearly say something about time, too: "We don't meet the people we meet by accident. We touch the lives of others and are touched ourselves, and thus God's hands guide us to our true destiny." We also find out a bit more about Noah's aim, but only a bit. How does the time machine he is trying to build, with Helge's help, differ from the wormhole that already exists? And what does he intend to use it for? And then, in a third creepy Noah scene, we find out that Bartosz is one of his minions. It seems everyone in this town has something to hide!
The aftermath of Helge's murder is truly the thing I was waiting for in this episode. How would the writers resolve the grandfather paradox that had been created? The solution? Helge is alive. It's simple yet genius. It doesn't matter that Ulrich killed him, that he wasn't breathing, that he was clearly dead. Helge can't die because he is alive in the future. It's the only possible solution to the grandfather paradox: it's a paradox, so it can't happen in the first place. No matter what, the laws governing reality will stop it from happening. The fact that Dark showed what happens when someone tries to create such a paradox (even unintentionally, as Ulrich did) is important. Most time travel shows and films never really have consistent rules that allow for a cohesive rulebook for how time travel operates in their world. For a show like Dark, which takes time travel so seriously, it's vital that it sets the rules that govern time travel in its universe - and it has.
Claudia gets a surprising amount to do in this episode too. She becomes aware there's something mysterious going on with the power plant in 1986. And there's also her losing her dog in 1953 and finding it 33 years later. But a real surprise is that she is in fact a time traveller. And that she is responsible for H.G. Taunhaus's forays into time travel. How exactly she managed to come up with the blueprints is unknown thus far. It would be interesting if she only came across the blueprints because Taunhaus invented the machine, because that would create another paradox...
As people's lives connect with each other in more and more ways, new ideas come to mind. Is one reason why Egon hates Young Ulrich so much because he reminds him of the older Ulrich he met when he was younger? And is the reason for Helge taking the courses of action that does to do with what Ulrich said to him before "killing" him? Quite possibly. Meanwhile, for Jonas, the complication that Martha is his aunt is just perfect for illustrating the weirdness of time travel. At least, unlike Game of Thrones, he doesn't choose to date her regardless.
Overall, this episode is as close to a masterpiece as Dark gets in its first season. 9.5/10
Good quality
Leofwine_draca26 May 2021
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An episode that carries on the quality of the previous ones. The addition of the third time zone just adds immeasurably to the complexity and enjoyability of it all. Plenty of twists, character reveals, and general good quality direction and writing.
Emotional one
AvionPrince168 September 2021
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Events of episode 9:
In 1986, Ulrich is released without charges, and Hannah secretly discovers that a newly arrived young man, who calls himself Aleksander Köhler, is living under a false identity. Claudia encounters her dog Gretchen, who disappeared in 1953, alive and well by the caves, and starts to read Tannhaus' book. When Bernd admits that the hidden barrels contain byproducts of a small meltdown, Claudia hires Aleksander to secretly weld shut the door to them. In an argument with Helge (revealing that the abducted boys died from Noah's attempt to create a time machine) Noah states his mission to free humanity, likening himself to the Biblical Noah.
In 2019, Hannah uses her knowledge of Aleksander's past to blackmail him into destroying Ulrich's life. She lies to Katharina that Ulrich wanted to leave his family. Regina discovers the Stranger's research, and Jonas breaks things off with Martha. Bartosz is approached by an elderly Claudia, his supposedly dead grandmother. Later, Bartosz meets with Noah and agrees to join him.
In 1953, Helge has been reported missing, and Noah - appearing the same age as in 1986 and 2019 - offers pastoral support to Helge's mother, Greta. Ulrich is arrested and confesses to murdering Helge. The Claudia of 2019 enters Tannhaus' shop with blueprints for the brass machine, asking him to build it for her.
Review:
This episode was more focused on characters. Still have some mysteries and some consequences of the act of Ulrich make us wonder if helge was really the murder of the childrens because nothing happened. And make us wonder who is the real kkiller then? Some moment of the wife of ulrich who suspect her husband to cheat on her. And some conspiraci against ulrich.:katarina want him to suffer badly. Still have more mysteries We want to know more and more and we want to have the final word.
In 1986, Ulrich is released without charges, and Hannah secretly discovers that a newly arrived young man, who calls himself Aleksander Köhler, is living under a false identity. Claudia encounters her dog Gretchen, who disappeared in 1953, alive and well by the caves, and starts to read Tannhaus' book. When Bernd admits that the hidden barrels contain byproducts of a small meltdown, Claudia hires Aleksander to secretly weld shut the door to them. In an argument with Helge (revealing that the abducted boys died from Noah's attempt to create a time machine) Noah states his mission to free humanity, likening himself to the Biblical Noah.
In 2019, Hannah uses her knowledge of Aleksander's past to blackmail him into destroying Ulrich's life. She lies to Katharina that Ulrich wanted to leave his family. Regina discovers the Stranger's research, and Jonas breaks things off with Martha. Bartosz is approached by an elderly Claudia, his supposedly dead grandmother. Later, Bartosz meets with Noah and agrees to join him.
In 1953, Helge has been reported missing, and Noah - appearing the same age as in 1986 and 2019 - offers pastoral support to Helge's mother, Greta. Ulrich is arrested and confesses to murdering Helge. The Claudia of 2019 enters Tannhaus' shop with blueprints for the brass machine, asking him to build it for her.
Review:
This episode was more focused on characters. Still have some mysteries and some consequences of the act of Ulrich make us wonder if helge was really the murder of the childrens because nothing happened. And make us wonder who is the real kkiller then? Some moment of the wife of ulrich who suspect her husband to cheat on her. And some conspiraci against ulrich.:katarina want him to suffer badly. Still have more mysteries We want to know more and more and we want to have the final word.
Triple Time
Hitchcoc29 November 2023
One has to stay on top of things because it slips back and forth into the three realities so seamlessly. The goings on at the power plant are at the root of most of the danger. Ulrich is nowhere to be found. He was captured early on and is now in custody. But there is a price on his head. I have to admit that while the story stays interesting all the time, there are factors and connections that aren't easy to make. The burying of the gun is another one of those careless bits. So much takes place in a spindly treed woods where it is hard to see anyone who may be watching. Of course, someone is routinely watching.
still on the fence
glstrom-1426020 February 2023
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As much as I would like to give this a glowing (pun intended) review there are just so many incongruities I can't overlook. Like since when does a Bic lighter illuminate a cave for never ending walk w out burning hand or running out of butane? Why didn't Urlich just follow the slow old man who was smart enough to have a proper light? When is he going to wipe the damned blood off his stupid face that has been there since episode one? Wife cheating punk I do not feel sorry for you, and you are clearly not cut out for police work (hello 1953, guess I didn't notice the period cars, stores, clothes or fact that someone told you twice what year it is. Any chance of someone fixing the miserable sub titles? Some of them aren't even close and have different meanings than the dubbed words, so that doesn't exactly help with this ponderous plot. One more character to keep track of over 3 time periods will be one enough, and that includes dogs! Yes, Hanna is pure evil, really needs to get hers, and don't even get me started on the play scene ... principle has no clue a play is going on at the school starring her daughter, then just goes up on stage to hug her during it??? Come on! This could be told in 2 seasons if you cut out fly overs of trees and gratuitous sex scenes. Surprised all these people havent met in the oft trekked woods, and how exactly does Hanna get in on spying just when goods are going down? Too convenient...and no one keeps same bag and gun in jar in kitchen for 30 years, WTH? And who rides bike in pouring rain to deliver a casserole? Wondering if anyone will ever smile again and if we will see the sun at some point, yeah I know, DArk is the title, doesn't mean it has to rain every 5 minutes (oh, and get an umbrella people, seriously, no one just stands out it the rain yakking away)
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