![]() ![]() ![]() Before long, any prospect of exploring the nuances of the mirror world has evaporated, as the alternate Windenians engage in the show’s central battle between those who believe Armageddon is avoidable, and those who think vaporising the neighbourhood one more time is the only way out of a purgatorial time loop.Īs well as the standard Dark stuff where separate characters turn out to be the same person at various ages (teen dramas routinely feature young adults who fear what they might become in middle and old age – in Dark, the kids have the luxury of telling their future selves how lame they are to their faces), it’s possible for people to talk to and kill their doppelgangers from another reality. What has not changed is that Winden is still heading for meltdown. Most distressingly, nobody recognises teen protagonist Jonas (Louis Hofmann), because he never existed here, which makes him even more of an outsider than he was already. There’s a whole new matrix of grief and intrigue. A character who was alive in the other world has just died in this one. The town therapist has become, ho ho, a priest. The bad dad who was boffing one of his kids’ friends’ mums is still an adulterer, but is at it with a different woman. Dark resets to the start of the whole series, when it seemed to be merely a drama about a community blighted by secrets, lies and the disappearance of a child. That other realm is where we land now and, for a while, all is relatively calm. Season two’s closing scene revealed that they can also access an alternate universe. Tannhaus also gets another version of the Box from Claudia (an old lady time-traveling with a Box just like the Stranger) so he can complete his design, which of course, is passed down to her years later as well. Tannhaus also receives a copy of "A Journey Through Time" from the Stranger - a book he wrote decades later, which also guides him in finalizing this device. In other words, he gets his book from the future to help him with his Box in the past.To recap the first two seasons: the townsfolk of Winden, an obscure place in the shadow of a nuclear power station, have harnessed the potential of radioactive materials to travel through time, the downside being that however much they go back to the past to alter the present, they always end up destroying themselves in an atomic explosion. Using this knowledge, Tannhaus is able to perfect his old schematics and create the Box, which the Stranger will then get in the future, thus firming up the show's closed loop. RELATED: Dark: Jonas Searches For The Beginning in Season 2 Teaser ![]() At this point, the unsuspecting Tannhaus is caught off-guard by news he'll be the one to design the Box. Tannhaus, a clockmaker and engineer in 1953, and leaves him with the initial blueprints. We first get insight into its inner-workings when the Stranger travels to meet H.G. As for its design, it basically looks like the inside of a clock with old-school gears. The Stranger's main mode of time-sliding, however, comes via the Box, although it's not clarified if this Box can be activated at any time or if it's just during the activity period of the cave. He had to provide insight to his younger self on how the cave worked before plunging the teen forward to 2052, putting him on the path to becoming this Stranger. In the season finale, these secrets were revealed by the Stranger, who turned out to be Jonas from a dystopian future. To traverse these pathways, users like Jonas and the Stranger have created a network of strings to guide them along their desired route. The entire cave becomes active every 33 years when the same stars align, which means the cave is rendered inert after this period. The show hints this is also linked to a cosmic alignment that has supernatural ties to numbers such as "33" and "66," figures the series' occultists believe have a deeper meaning as to why folks can time-slide. However, each passageway offered the user the ability to travel forward or backward 33 years in time according to which one he/she took. RELATED: Dark: The Apocalypse Can't Be Stopped in Season 2 TrailerĬertain mini-tunnels in the cave turned into "doors" that led to different timelines. ![]()
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