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And holy hell, did series creators Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese pull the whole thing off.
But also, just typing that sentence made my brain melt a little, so who knows?
Lets untangle what befalls our Winden residents in theDarkseries finale.
However, that doesnt mean someone isnt moving chess pieces around in the battle with time.
The two worlds are bound together in a knot that perpetuates the endless cycles weve seen play out.
Why does Eve want to preserve the knot?
the specific event that kicked off the time loops.
After alt-Martha saves Jonas from the apocalypse, she ends up having sex with him and getting pregnant.
(Tronte then grows up to become Ulrichs father, which means that Jonas and alt-Marthas child isalsotheir ancestor.
He is Jonass great-great-grandfather and Marthas great-grandfather.)
Adam and Eve are constantly trying to outmaneuver one another to get what they want.
In one reality, Adam kills pregnant Martha.
Wait a second!
What about alternate timelines?
Within that moment, a person can create alternate, simultaneous timelines within a single universe.
Claudia wins the gold star for cracking time travel.
In the origin universe, H.G.
Tannhaus loses his son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter in a car accident in the 1970s.
He builds a machine to save his family and bring them back to life.
His son must live, people!
And the only people who can save him are Jonas and alt-Martha.
With his family alive, Tannhaus no longer has a reason to build his machine.
And thus, the other universes are never created.
You know how they know it works?
The two other universes and everyone involved in the knot start fading away.
Jonas and Martha hold hands as they turn into light that flickers out of existence.
Dang, this isemotional.
What happens in that final scene?
Darks final scene shows us what present-day Winden looks like in the origin universe.
Peter and Benni are finally together, and Katharina is at the dinner party, too.
Honestly, if some version of Katharina didnt get a happy ending, it wouldve been TOO MUCH.
She gets very existential about a dream she had about darkness (like fading from existence, perhaps?
This ending is obviously up for interpretation: Is this just part of another cycle?
Is Winden doomed no matter what universe it exists in?
