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Good afternoon
I am @amelia66. Today is Friday. Due to lockdown I was getting bored so I tried to see a Netflix series.So I searched for a good web series and I found "Dark" web series. I only finished season 1.So I am going to review that.Warning its full of spoilers so read it in your own risk.
Well if you haven't watched the show yet, it is not a must watch but you can watch it if you like to binge watch something in these dark times. I will personally rate it 7.5 IMDb rating is much higher but I found the general apperance of it in media bloated as it has many lazy writing plots and actions you cannot justify. People who generally doesn't follow time paradoxes and time traveling may find themselves completely blown by it but if you have general knowledge of these paradoxies, time loops and wormholes the show lose half of its charm than it became juat a cat and mouse chase. Where one side is trying best other for the control of time itself.
It has good direction and I like the way how the mysteries of this show slowly unfurled and how everything is connected to everything and every character is much important in its own right.
The thing which I didn't like was there were some actions taken by major characters at major points that were simply stupid.
Spoilers ahead
First stupid action for which I find no reason was Ulrich not finishing Helge for good. He had Helge at his mercy he has traveled through time to to find his son and to decided to kill helge, he even destroyed his half face but somehow 50+ year old police officer was enable to finish him off. So what did he decide after that he is just going to wait until Helge die in the bunker and how did he made sure helge is dead you may ask?
He waited there outside the bunker god knows for how many hour don't know for what. That's how you make sure that a bleeding child is dead you wait for a good amount of time and then you say ok I am just going to assume he is dead truly technology has made us dumb because the normal way to check if someone is alive is looking for sign of thier heart beat or breath and if it is not there you could safely say ( after bashing thier head with a rock one or two more time again. Just to be sure :-) ) the person is dead
When Ulrich was heading toward time machine cave covered with blood strolling on road as he clearly didn't know that a deranged blood cover person was just as unpleasant site in 1953 as it is 2019, Egon tiedemen the police man saw him and start chasing him. Now Ulrich was running toward the caves and Egon was very much behind so what does Egon do he took a shortcut to the cave which somehow was shorter than the straight path through the forest Ulrich was walking but the question is how did Egon knew that Ulrich was running toward cave? A inteligent police officer would never let the perpetrator vanished from his vision in a chase but Egon played a risky gamble went out a completely different way and in a different direction. So who told Egon Ulrich destination? The director? Ofcourse
If the short cut did exist then how come Ulrich the 50+ officer who grew up in that town who was searching that specific area for weeks due to ongoing investigation didn't know about it
When Ulrich was confronted by Egon and he held him at a gun point and was going to arrest him, then did ultrich do not realised that he was going to be arrested in a different time altogether where no one knew him and no one in his time knew that he was in another time so the prospect of bail and finding justice was very thin. Did Ulrich didn't thought even for a second that no one going to believe his future talk. Did Ulrich police officer in his own time didn't relise if he is caught there he is not going to find his son ever? So talking all this things in consideration you will assume Ulrich must had put a fight. Egin was only one and Ulrich too must had been trained in something to have a fighting in these kind of dire situation but no Ulrich didn't even moved a finger he did as he was told, he knelt and get hand cuffed by one of them man he despises most .
Did there was no justice in 1953, Ulrich was not even put on trial or anything of that sort.
H.G. tannhuse the clock maker just took a device from stranger coat which he left and started dismantling it.
Why? Are you not suppose to give the coat of a stranger to some authority especially the one which there is a device which could be a bomb and you didn't understand it Fully
why did not any parent or police officer asked the children why you were there around the cave during night when Mikkel was abducted. Did no one care enough about Mikkel to even bother those stupids brats. If they would have a cared to ask they would have found a bag full of drugs and a mobile phone on which Noah calls later..
When both the light and dark side ( Claudia and Adam) know that event which happened in past cycle were not in there favour then why ther are hell bent in doing everything as it was done in the past cycle. Does it is not the definition of insanity so famously put German scientist Einstein, doing same thing over and over and expecting different outcome.
And if past can not be changed as future already exists as put by older joanah to Katherine then what are they even trying for as even there future is past in the cycle of apocalypse, even joanah older self exist so why does he is even putty an effort. Why just not watch Netflix and it nachos or something with your girlfriend as you clearly know you have very little time left.
Jonah want to change his future but If he really want to change future why did he not tell his younger self to do something differently like kiddo I did this like that don't this like I did. Heck broke a vase or two just to break exact repeatness of cycle as watever younger Jonah will do will change older josnah future too.
Very frustating too watch as whole displacement of story is zero
Well these were some aspects I did not like. I understand that writer is trying to establish that you can not change past pr future if you will try to do so you will find your trying was the act which triggered in first place. But atleast don't make character dumb or vegetable like without 2 brain cell just doing the most thing possible
There were many more movments like these like hanah following Alexander tiedman to his secret hiding spot with a bicycle. Do people of winden start following anybody and she was following him in an empty forest with a bicycle for God sake and he did not even notice although he was more awared than normal as he was going to hide something valuable. Jeez did hanah have Kakashi level sneak skill or something, she was just 14