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Post by geneweigel on Dec 30, 2017 11:08:03 GMT -5
I liked this very interesting "thriller" dubbed over from German. I don't want to spoil anything but this is complex. Not for grandma unless grandma is well rounded. Not for kids either.
I'm just going to say its not STRANGER THINGS but I liked this so much I watched it over 2 days.
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Post by GRWelsh on Jan 2, 2018 10:34:28 GMT -5
I'll put it in my queue. I've been looking for something 'dark.' I've been reading Thomas Ligotti.
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Post by GRWelsh on Feb 18, 2018 18:19:54 GMT -5
I'm four episodes in, and I really like it so far. It is like the Germans watched STRANGER THINGS and LOST and maybe a few other things, and then did their own, arguably better, version. I like the Goethe and Hansel and Gretel references. The songs are also chosen with care. There are a lot of layers here, and a lot of attention to detail. I don't feel like I'm going to be ripped off at the end.
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Post by GRWelsh on Mar 4, 2018 12:09:48 GMT -5
Good recommendation, Gene. I finally finished this... spoilers below! There was a lot going on here, and I was impressed with the attention to detail. I kept thinking of how this is the German clockwork version of a time travel story, everything fits together perfectly. My only complaint with it is the same complaint I have about all time travel stories, which is about the paradox -- and to be fair, DARK brings this up pre-emptively in the dialogue among the characters. However, having them talk about it doesn't make the paradox go away. If the whole thing is a closed loop, with the past affecting the future and the future affecting the past, then how does that make sense? Like, if you invent a time machine and then use it to go back in time to give your younger self the schematics for how to build a time machine, and that explains how you knew how to build a time machine in the first place... So, what are they trying to say? That there is no original time line that got changed?
Are they saying time is immutable, or that it can be changed? And what was all of that stuff about the Emerald Tablet and the medieval mysticism?
Some other things it made me think of: BACK TO THE FUTURE (but a non-humorous version), the Robert Heinlein story " - All You Zombies -" and the movie made out of it titled PREDESTINATION.
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Post by geneweigel on Mar 4, 2018 13:21:56 GMT -5
I think the medieval hint plugs into the macro thriller view which is what the majority of people perceive in real life. "Its a ghost!!!" But the unknown specifics keep us all at that level anyway. Were these caves always there? Is the "time machine" just a motor and floor button added to an ancient lift? Did the nukes contribute? The possibilities are unknown and some are just red herrings.
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