#mikkel dark

[august-diehl]

YOUNGER VS OLDER + Dark

[homuraakemis]

Parallels: Jonas and Martha with their parents

[schmel-schmel]

Die Kahnwalds

[alysscoven]

I was so afraid, but you held my hand, and then you said “We have to stay here, all night, but when the morning comes, everything will be alright”, and when I woke up, you were gone. All those years I've tried to understand, why you did that. But then, at some point it all just faded away. It became even more unreal, like a dream.

DARK— 2.06: An Endless Cycle.

[hannahstanwald]

jonas wearing michael’s watch 🥺

[sombredancer]

Dark (2017-2020, Netflix)

Just rewatched Dark and I`m in love and in pain, pain, PAIN...

Beware of being heavily spoiled ahead.

The first painful question: would you save your father from sufferings, if it would mean for you to be erased from existence for good? (From this question on started my love for this show).

The second question: is it really wrong, to love someone you shouldn`t love? Will it cause the end of the world?

The desperate abduction. Oh, it was so beautiful!

The third question: will you really be happy with the truth about a time loop that you helped to build with your own hands, when you are able to see the whole picture?

At the end I felt sorry even for him. The fourth question: how does it feel, to try so hard to change your doom and save your loved ones, only to find out that you are the source of their most unbearable pain?

"You are a too good man. Always was. This world didn't deserve you." It's a story about an infinite pain of each and every character: Katharina, Ulrich, Claudia and H.G. Tannhaus, who loved their relatives too much; Hannah, who loved herself too much; Jonas, Mikkel, Martha, Hanno, Charlotte, Elisabeth, Peter, Egon and Helge, who fell victims of the time-travel paradox. It's funny that an insane love for a child launched this glitch in a matrix and another insane love for a child put it all to the end. A circle closed. Poetic.

The fifth question: would you fix the error in a matrix by self-sacrifice, if it would delete you and half of your nearest and dearest from existence but ends the never-ending circle of pain for others?

"We match perfectly. Never believe in anything else."

"The light glitched, there was a loud crack and then everything went dark. And somehow the world came to an end. There was dark and the light never came again. I had such a peculiar feeling like it was for the best. Like it was finally over. Like one was finally free from everything. Nothing to wish. Nothing to be obliged to do. An eternal dark. No yesterday. No now. No tomorrow. Nothing."

Finally, I should say that I'm very grateful to Germans for this series. I watched it in original in order to train my German AND because it was a very-very interesting show. Even when I watched it for the second time. One time is surely not enough for understanding of the plot, trust me.

[belicotruth]

Run with me until one day we break free from time

[felicitykings]

JONAS KAHNWALD & MICHAEL KAHNWALD

DARK (2017-2020) ↳ 2.06 Ein unendlicher Kreis / An Endless Cycle

[peachfolk]

When characters in Dark address their loved ones with "sie"* instead of "du"** because time travel has made them strangers

* German formal "you", a very respectful and impersonal way to address someone

** German informal "you", basically like being on first name basis with someone

[august-diehl]

"Do beginning and end even exist?" ↬ DARK | S02E06 EIN UNENDLICHER KREIS | Directed by Baran Bo Odar

[homuraakemis]

1x02 || 1x10 || 2x06 || 3x01 || 3x07

[yellow-dejavu]

It's crazy how Michael barely appears in the show. There is another version of Mikkel, but he never becomes Michael. Then he doesn't even exist in the original world. In the beginning he haunts the story from both sides. From the start of the first episode with Jonas having nightmares about his dead father to the end of the episode with Mikkel's disappearance.

Everything about Michael in Season 1 is this haunting presence for Jonas. His scenes in Season 1 are mostly just appearing covered in a black substance. We discover he's Mikkel, the little boy, but we don't know about the man he became and why he made the choices he did. Until we finally meet him again in season 2 and it all makes sense. He is really fantastic in "An Endless Cycle," which is the only episode where we really have him as Michael.

While Michael wasn't the character with the most screen time, it was a wonderful use of the same character in different times. Mikkel builds the story, we already know him when we get to Michael's part, and it feels like a perfect way to fulfill the character arc. It is just fitting and absolutely heartbreaking to see the character accept his fate because of how much he loves Jonas.

[themenaceofalderaan]

i miss DARK, so let's talk about it:

and why?

I'll start: Season 2. It was so well made. All the episodes bore this dreadful calm before the storm atmosphere. We got to see more worldbuilding, but not too fast (like in s3), and the twist at the end was unexpected.

I liked how the entire season showed that Jonas would never be home anywhere again. From the apocalyptic Winden, to the 1920s Winden, to the modern Winden which would take his home - Martha and his dad - ultimately away from him. And even when he does return home when he's an adult, he's not really home, because his own mother doesn't see him as being home. It's a stunning depiction of homesickness and loneliness.

[cowes]

and worst of all, in the endless painful loop, they were happy too

[hannahstanwald]

I’ll just be going about my day and then I’ll suddenly think of Mikkel. Poor Mikkel, who was one of the only completely innocent and pure characters. Poor Mikkel who loved his family and gave his life to preserve it. Poor Mikkel who loved his son enough to sacrifice himself, even though said son was the cause of all his suffering. Poor Mikkel who went through hell only to be erased from existence. Poor Mikkel who was always doomed to die. I think of Mikkel and I just

[shamyzn]

Hey, Ulrich-

It is me, Hannah.

I know that you are locked away in prison 66 years in the past for a crime you did not commit, you still do not know where your son is, you haven't seen your family in over a year, you are gradually losing your sanity and last time we talked you were a bit upset because I wouldn't leave you alone and because, out of jealousy, I falsely reported you for raping someone or whatever, but would you still love me if I was a worm?