Alternate dimension Martha saved Jonas and left him in a timeline where he was never born. They are trying to find out the origin which caused the time loop. Jonas and Martha have sex. They find out Eva is the old Martha, and orders a Martha from a different timeline to shoot Jonas. Eva is fighting Adam, the old version of Jonas, and claims she wants to save the world, while he wants to destroy it. Adam informs the now pregnant Martha that her child will be the origin of the time loop, so he captures her and synchronizes both apocalypses from two dimensions, activating the God particle, to kill it. But the world is still left intact. An old Claudia appears and tells him that there is a third dimension, the origin, created when Tannhaus activated a time machine to try to save his family who died when their car crashed over a bridge. Jonas and Martha travel to that dimension before the accident, save the family by preventing them to cross the bridge. As Tannhaus now never activated the time machine, the other two worlds with Martha and Jonas disappear with all the people created through time travel.
The third season of the overhyped “Dark” series over-complicated everything, but it’s complications are inversely proportional to its enjoyment value. It is intelligent, it is well made, it is professional and modern looking. And yet, it fell into the trap that many TV series often fall into when they run long enough: at one point, it all becomes a routine, and the story just starts running on autopilot. Grey, lifeless, too serious, pretentious, sterile and monotone, this third season both pleases and disappoints due to its stale narrative that simply leaves the viewers feeling that watching it seems like homework. Moreover, the various plot tangles were not all connected in the end, and some are even illogical. Jonas’ transformation into Adam was poorly done and is a cop-out: we were not explained as to why he would change from a person who wants to save everyone from the time loop to someone who just wants to destroy the entire world to end it. Even if Adam’s pain from time travel was unbearable, would killing all life in the world be a reasonable solution? Even if a hundred people were suffering unbearable pain in New York, would blowing up the entire city be the solution? It is actually something even worse. The story owes us an explanation that is better than the one we got here. Sadly, numerous subplots were stuck in a dead end and are unnecessary. The last three episodes which sprint to the finish line are arguably the best because they were running towards a point, the “tunnel of atoms” in the final episode is impressive, and yet, instead of a cathartic reaction, the viewers only feel a sense of relief that the whole series finally ended. For a story about time travel, it ironically ignored to use its time more efficiently and instead delivered an 18-hour series, running so long until it passed its prime.
Grade:++
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