This show. Wow, it’s so amazing.. I watched both seasons in about a week so let me pour random thoughts of it down.
I love that I can’t guess at what happens. Hero, villain, antihero, antivillain? Who knows.. even the early scene with Jonas in that small room with the device made me think all kinds of f’ed up torture was about to happen but it looks like that was Noah forcing timetravel another way?
That scene with Ulrich smashes Helges head with a rock.. uuughhh. So many amazing plot twists and knowledge, like how Egon tells a young Ulrich, “There is something about your eyes.” when referring to Ulrich being a problem - because he had already seen the father Ulrich’s eyes 33 years earlier, that’s why he had it in for young Ulrich.
It’s hard to bypass how people would recognise a family member in thirty years, or someone they met thirty years ago as some people have great visual recall. Also to assume everyone will do exactly the same when they have the future information is crazy yet things would only happen the same in this timeline and would not noticeably change because it’s the one steady timeline and any diversion would make the future be the same as it currently is. I love this take on time travel — if the past changed, the traveler wouldn’t be aware of it, they would only know current reality.
That Adam is Jonas!! Phenomenal, I assumed it was older Noah.. they even had Noah eating an apple with a knife, what I assumed was a subtle pointing of Adam freely eating an apple from the Garden of Eden.. I also thought Noah’s sister may have been Eve at that point and that Winden was an inception point for this world’s Garden of Eden.
I find the actors all fall into a somewhat passive role, one where they end up a bit traumatised or displaying similar confusion instead of having more people react out of fear and giving up or in taking a strong active role, feels like they are a bit hypnotised by what the director wants. Like Bartosz was very outgoing and engaging, then lost his assertive role - maybe because Martha broke up with him but his natural character disappeared.
’A man... lives three lives.
The first, ends with the loss of naivety,
the second, with the loss of innocence
and the third... with the loss of life itself.
It's inevitable that we go through all three stages.’
- perfect evolution of Adam too, especially from the quote above. I love how strong the plot is and that no gaping “Oh that was done so badly.” feels where I have to suspend disbelief occur like in other timetravel movies. Only little blips like Noah and Ulrich staring into the camera and questioning someone’s reaction to seeing a person they would have distinctly remembered broke the fourth wall for me.
I love how I’m trying to guess at what’s going to happen and missed that Adam was different to Noah but then couldn’t guess that Charlotte was someone else due to her eye colours. Only one I thought was someone else is Magnus when he visited the transvestite guys caravan. Magnus looked quite similar to him.
Fucking amazing series. This is right up there, on the level of difficulty, based on that it’s my GOAT series - overtaking Breaking Bad, The Wire and Game of Thrones (yes yes I know.. what was done well was done very well though) just due to how tightly structured they made a time travel tv series. The creators are logical geniuses. — it may be freshly goated and may change but color me impressed.
