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I just finished Dark too. I enjoyed this season as much as the first. I don’t know how I feel about the finale multiverse reveal. I also don’t understand how Charlotte is Elisabeth’s mother while Elisabeth is the mother of her own mom(Charlotte).

SPOILERS IN THE ASK AND IN THE RESPONSE.

I was into the multiverse reveal, it felt like a good new element for a new season that didn’t break credulity, given all the other craziness. And I felt the fridging of Martha was unfair to the character, so it was cool to see her pop up looking all cool, even though I expect this world’s version to still be in play. 

Well, I can see your objection to it too, though, because we’ve had no mention of it in almost two full seasons now, so what is its sudden place in the story? How come we saw so much of all the travelers going back and forth, but no mention of this? Is it a brand new element to even the existing characters, or has older Jonas lived through it and simply felt he hadn’t needed to mention it to anyone? That’s a bit convenient. In the original cycles, younger Jonas experiences Martha’s death, that’s why older Jonas tries to get her to stay in the bunker and how Adam can refer to it as a pain that shapes him and the lack of which frees him. But if he’s with her and thus outside the bunker, how does he survive the apocalypse? Is his escaping into the multiverse always a part of that? 

Ugh, while on one level I can be like ohhh, Charlotte’s mom is Elisabeth, what a tweest!, another part of me is just like, ugh, Noah, you gross weirdo. I’m not sure he knew but he’s already gross in a million other ways so I’m still gonna judge him. What most likely happened is that the younger version of him that went into the bunker at the end survives with Elisabeth, an appropriate number of years later they fell in love and then what most definitely happens is that they have a baby. That baby, Charlotte, is then taken back in time and placed with HG Tannhaus, grows up out of time the way Mikkel did, and eventually meets Peter Doppler and has Elisabeth. Well, it’s possible Elisabeth was taken back, had the kid, then pushed forward again. 

There’s still so much to tell, like, what is Agnes’s role in all this? What happens to Agnes and Doris, and I’m not just curious because I’m gay. How did quiet Doris’s line lead to the Tiedemanns while Agnes led to the Nielsens? How come Regina was all, we don’t have anything to do with the Nielsens… How did older Jonas get the scars on his back, where was Hannah when the apocalypse happened? What ended up happened to Bartosz? At the end of the ep, older Jonas and the three kids, Magnus, Franziska, and Bartosz (which I now realize represent each of the three families, Nielsen, Tiedemann, and Doppler) go off, and we know Franziska and Magnus stay with Jonas/Adam as helpers, but what happens to Bartosz? WHAT IF…Adam is older Bartosz? But no, he knew all about Jonas’s life. What is that new cop’s connection with everything, he only knows his brother disappeared but Aleksander was looking at articles about murder. What was older Jonas referring to when he said Claudia became what she was fighting? Who is the one trying to stop the apocalypse, Claudia or Adam!