The creators behind the show haven’t yet shared any details about the last season, but we can make some educated guesses based on what we’ve seen so far.
We now know that alternate realities exist, thanks to the very final moment of season two when someone who looks like Martha (“I’m not who you think I am”) rocks up and tells young Jonas that she’s not from this world.
It’s one of the most startling twists in the tale to date, and season three, as the last, will need to clear that up and explain exactly where the pair have gone, how that will affect the rest of the narrative and its characters, and just how many alternate realities (and other time-travelling devices) there are.
We also saw a middle-aged Jonas fire up one time travel device alongside young Magnus, Franziska and Bartosz, and a middle-aged Charlotte came face-to-face with old Elisabeth (who is both her mother and her daughter) through a wormhole. Where they will end up remains to be seen.
Then there’s Katharina, who opened the passage in the caves as the apocalypse raged above her – but again, with multiple timelines at play, it’ll be fascinating to see which year she stumbles out into
There’s also a huge question mark hanging over Adam, who we now know is Jonas. His face is scarred after far too much time travel and exposure to radiation, and he has hardened emotionally after fatally shooting Martha, the love of his life.
Adam and Sic Mundus successfully caused the apocalypse in 2020 as part of their quest to and “end the world as we know it”.
Will Jonas succeed in stopping his older self? Will he manage to break the cycle and stop the apocalypse, and what consequences will that have?
Like we said, we have A LOT of questions
From the first 2 season of the DARK web series ,we have lot of questons but the answers are missing we can hope that the 3rd season relieves the answers of the first 2 season. From the trailer of the 3rd season one thing is realised that the questions are going to be more worst than the previous season.
Friese said that season three will include plot points first devised at the very beginning of the show’s production cycle:
“The basic idea of season three was something that we already had when we started. There are also a lot of things in season one hinting to season three. Also, we actually thought about putting some of the stuff that’s now in season three into season two, but then decided to move it backwards. So basically now everything that’s left just falls into season three.”
Friese also revealed a bit more about the characters season three will focus on:
“We’re going to see a bit more about grown Ulrich. Also the same as we did in season two where we put a little bit focus on different characters like Claudia and Egon, we’re going to do the same in season three and call some people up that had smaller parts. And yes, Martha and Jonas, that’s the big centerpiece of it all.”
“When you work with time travel, you basically have to decide on one concept. You can follow the ‘Back to the Future’ kind of way where you can actually change stuff in the past that will affect the future – which with my very personal more deterministic view of the world is nonsense,” Friese said.
“That’s where we basically put the groundwork, going for deterministic time travel rules. We’re hinting at that in the first season all the time that it’s a circle. Everything happens constantly in loops. I just felt that was such a multilayered story. I put a lot of thought into it: What kind of information and when do you explain certain rules? How much room do you give for people trying to figure it out and when do you push them into the right direction? What kind of trigger words do you use? What kind of symbols do you use? There are a lot of symbols throughout, a lot of referencing systems in terms of religion, mythology.
“As with every character in Dark, when you’re sure you know who the villain is or who’s doing the bad thing, you should be open for what made them that way because. No-one is just evil because they want to be; everyone is reacting to their own hurts and wounds. The past shapes you and everything that happens.”
During a separate interview with vulture,Friese discussed how likely it is that some of the time travellers will successfully end the cycle.
“They think they know how this works but they don’t,” she said. “They are still human. They will never be able to overcome their inner longings, their ego. They would need to completely crash their ego structure to get a grasp of it. We keep it ambivalent. And it can go both ways. But I won’t tell you whether there’s hope or a silver lining in the end.”
Both Friese and Odar also addressed why time travel is currently having a TV moment.
“One thing is that people who make content now grew up with Back to the Future,” she said. “And the other thing is that we live in uncertain times, we fear what is coming in the future and we have a nostalgic thing about the past, about going back to how it used to be before we had social media and internet, to better times.
“And time-travel stories somehow connect us in the present with our longing for the past and this fear for the future.”
Odar continued: “When The Matrix came out, there were a lot of stories that questioned reality. ‘Is this real or not?’ That’s now less of a question.
“Now time travel is more of a thing in pop culture. What does it stand for? Is it because we hope to change things we already have messed up, like climate change? I really don’t know.”
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