I'm Not Normal About That

Dark is one of those shows that I wish I could consume approximately three dozen creator interviews about because I feel like it’s a show that could stand up to some intense scrutiny, as well as it felt very thoughtful, like, yes, please do tell me why the main character wears a yellow jacket and why that switches to the other character when it does!  Tell me everything about what that symbolizes! That’s the kind of show Dark is for me, where you don’t really need to know to understand what the story is, but it’s a fun detail that I feel like was a very deliberate choice, and not just because it’s a striking color to make the main character stand out.

I have a theory about this! I believe the jacket is the EXACT same color as the barrels that trigger the apocalypse. Because in their respective worlds, Jonas and Martha ARE the barrels of nuclear waste. Their actions are what start the loop and what perpetuate it. The jacket switches when Jonas is no longer the character with the most agency in this world, Martha gets the jacket because she is doing so much more to be the apocalypse triggering barrel.

One of the things Dark was really good at was getting me to care about the characters’ relationships with each other, that I signed up for a weird time travel mysteries-of-the-universe kind of show and the plot part is magnificently charted out, but it’s really the icing on the cake, where the cake is the reason these people all care about each other, why Jonas does everything he does, why Martha makes the choices she does, why Claudia does the things she does, why each of them has the goals and wants they do, why the characters are bringing their baggage to each and every scene and each and every relationship. The flow chart of how every character is entangled with every other character, how the different timelines mean you have to keep meticulous care on who knows what when, because a character might know something in 1905 but they’re 33 years old, but they don’t know that same thing in 1986 when they’re 18 years old, because they experience their own life linearly, but the timeline of the world in crazy loop-de-loops, and that’s all really well done! But at the heart of it, it’s a story about people driven to do things because they want to save other people.  Every single character, whether they do something good or horrific, does so because they want to save the people they love.  Every single character is driven by people, they want to save the person they’re in love with, they want to save their son, they want to save their daughter, they want to save their brother, they want to save their mother, they want to save people. Dark is about love and loss and what you do with those feelings, how they drive you, draped in a cool time travel show cloak.

I want to know how long the writers of Dark spent trying to figure out the exact time skip rate to use so that they wouldn't have to discuss WWII.

when I finished dark s1 the first thing I said to my friend who put me on to the show was "I thought it was good but I'm disappointed Jonas broke up with Marta just because she's his aunt and it was the right thing to do. I think he deserves a little incest as a treat." I can now comprehend the sheer restraint it took for him to say nothing more than "you're still on s1 right?" and nod stoically when I confirmed that. I really thought they were going to put the kibosh on the incest in the time traveling incest show.

Remember when we all finished stranger things season 1 and then Netflix auto recommended Dark bc it’s also about children going missing in the 80s w a supernatural mystery so we all watched it and when “holy shit this is amazing” and “holy shit this is NOT stranger things” bc stranger things trades on nostalgia and recognition whereas Dark presents mystery after mystery with pure human suffering sprinkled in between and builds a sense of inescapable dread that you can’t even really rationalize until they do a reveal and you realize that (emotionally) your leg has been caught in a bear trap AND you’ve been trying unsuccessfully to chew it off. And THEN the time travel hits.

the awesome thing about the Netflix show Dark is that it truly does not for one fucking second hold your hand. Oh you were looking away from the screen for two frames? Well this guy is the same person as this guy and also his own uncle and you just missed that. Fuck you. Every plot point matters and there will be a test. Take notes or die idc this is what it takes to view masterful television. The not so awesome thing about Dark is that because it’s such a cohesive and tightly wrapped story, if you’re like me and you’ve watched the first season a few times, the second season once, and never have time for the third, you’re going to have to start all over from the beginning AGAIN when you want to rewatch because otherwise you won’t be able to keep the characters straight and miss all of the plot. Even though you’ve watched the first few episodes, like, a lot.

just gonna reblog this forever because i love fat people and we deserve fuckin basic human dignity and respect regardless of our weight

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I’m speaking my truth: every hollanov scene touches on humiliation kink because Shane finds it humiliating to have sex.