Claudia’s Timeline Explained | What is the Loophole? | Dark Netflix Season 3 Explained
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- In the weeks since Dark wrapped up, one of the most requested videos I’ve seen is one explaining Claudia’s timeline. This gets especially complicated when you ask the question - how did Claudia discover the loophole and the origin world? Why did she discover it now in this cycle?
In this video, I recap Claudia’s entire timeline and try my best to answer these questions! If you’re mainly interested in those questions and don’t need to revisit Claudia’s full timeline, use the chapter markers below to skip ahead:
TIMELINE
0:00 Intro
1:42 1953 - 1954: Claudia’s childhood
3:15 1986: Claudia begins work at the nuclear plant
4:52 1987: Claudia is visited by her older self and begins time traveling
9:12 2020: Claudia survives the apocalypse
10:54 2040 - 2052: Claudia kills Other Claudia and becomes Older Claudia
15:25 2019, 1986, 1953: Older Claudia’s first round of time travel
17:28 2053: Older Claudia tells Adam the truth and talks to her younger self
18:55 2020, 1987, 1954: Older Claudia’s second and final round of time travel
21:01 WHAT IS THE LOOPHOLE?
27:34 HOW CLAUDIA “USED THE LOOPHOLE”
30:02 HOW CLAUDIA DISCOVERED THE LOOPHOLE AND THE ORIGIN WORLD
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GoT : we are the greatest TV show of all time.
Claudia : hold my Gretchen.
Lol Dark definitely stuck the landing better!
Game of thrones became trash
😂😂😂
GOT is the rich kid who bankrupts his parents' businesses despite all the wealth, love, and parental influence. Then his wife divorces him and he can only see his child on the weekends, ends up alcoholic, overdoses from meth, and dies.
Gretchen 😂😂😂
How in the world did the creators do all this? It's absolutely incredible. Intricate, original, mind-bending, genius.
They did it mainly by watching Fringe, Primer and Travellers, then keeping very good notes of their own interconnected timeliness.
The show was written from start to finish before filming the first season. The writers started by figuring out the end twist, then started twisting the twist over and over, until they got to the beginning.
@@morphman86 So end is beginning LITERALLY? xD
@@rjofusetsudzin8011 That's usually how you write mystery.
@@morphman86 Tell that to JJ Abrams xD But I agree this is how everyone should write mystery.
@@rjofusetsudzin8011 He did fine with Fringe. Lots of mysteries with great payoffs.
Why does nobody mention that Claudia is apparently an avid rappeller. She's able to enter AND exit a sheer drop cave in business heels and a pantsuit, using rappelling gear she must have had in the car. The woman is multi talented
Plus a good digger, and she paid for Regina to have fencing lessons - they're a wealthy family that can afford to go on all these physical activities.
Hahaha such a good point. I remember thinking something similar back in Season 1... they just cut from her looking at the gorge to... next moment repelling down into the cave.
YES THANK YOU I had that thought a second time during s3 flashback scenes when they show it again!! Lol
@@chrischiu-tabet9462 she's quite intelligent, doesn't need a sugar daddy
I find it funny that of all the crazy, unbelievable stuff that happens in this series, Claudia rappelling down into that cave in heels and business attire is the ONE thing my brain rejected.
Time travel? Sure!
Parallel universes? I should've seen that coming!
Human bootstrap paradoxes? Why not?
Woman rappels down into a cave while wearing heels? Nope!
This video is what every dark fan didn’t know they needed. “We can change a grain of sand. And with that, the whole world.”
This channel is very good at giving fans what we don't know we need. I think Claudia makes this channel.
Or better, can be summed up as the butterfly effect.
@Rafael Cerda and @Jane Choy wow thanks for the kinds!! I may or may not bring Claudia on as a creative consultant from time to time :)
no, i think someone can change the future when time is stopped for a while in apocalypse. with time stopped, you didnt have a bound with time, so you can change the future
@@janechoy2073 ,
In my opinion, Claudia Tiedemann’s story was the most interesting and tragic of all time. She saw the death of her father, daughter, and her mother perhaps. I loved Claudia throughtout all 3 seasons, and wanted more of her!
Brevity is elegance.
I think they knew in order to give Claudia (especially Older Claudia) a mystical feel, that of an ascended master who is showing everyone else the ropes, they needed to keep make her appearances rare!
She friendzoned Helge and probably ruined his confidence for life. No idea how he got laid and had a son.
She ruined Tronte's relationship and probably caused him to raise Ulrich into a cheater.
She killed her dad. He always suspected the old woman was his daughter, and when he died he figures it out - she's a time traveler.
She abandoned her daughter, to untie the knot and save her.
She talked Mikkel into suicide.
She helped turn Jonas into a villain.
Supposedly, she made Helge's dad cheat on his wife.
She was busy. lol
She didn’t just watch her father & daughter die, she killed her father (I think 2nd degree) and ordered the execution of her daughter so she could save her in another timeline
@@dumpeeplarfunny firstly she doesn’t owe Helge anything, secondly her & Tronte had always been in a relationship, why Tronte decided to marry Jana idk, but the decision to cheat on Jana was entirely Tronte’s, he alone shoulders blame for that since he’s the only one who made wedding vows, plus it’s unlikely Claudia had anything to do with Ulrich’s cheating, that was all on Ulrich & Hannah being unhappy in their present situations, plus Mikkel was always going to commit suicide, she didn’t talk him into it, she just talked Jonas out of the meaningless discussion, because Mikkel’s suicide leads to Jonas’ birth, & any good parent would make that sacrifice
@@dumpeeplarfunnythe first two are wild statements to make 😭
Adam presents as a stoic and unemotional character that seems to know everything and nothing surprises him…
Older Claudia is the only character that showed Adam something he didn’t previously know! The only time Adam was ever showed to be surprised was when Claudia met him.
She’s like the Gandalf of Dark.
That makes a lot of sense and is the clearest explanation of how Claudia discovers the loop yet, great video
Thanks Bread Power! It took a couple of rewrites to try and make the way I'm thinking about it clear, so I really appreciate hearing that it came through that way!
Claudia said that there has been an infinity of cycles before. By definition, all possibilities had already been made. So the theory of loops which changes a little each time cannot work. the end of the cycle seems to be explained only to please us. For a satisfying ending.
The only thing that really changes in this cycle. Is that this is the first time that we look at them...
Tannhaus (from origin world) knew everything that will happen by the time machine he created. He knew time doesn't work that way in his world & he can't bring death to life. So he intentionally creates these realities which will bring his son to him in another reality . He knew in these realities one will overcome with the loophole and can save his son in another new reality where he can live in peace.
Summarizing my theory :
1. Tannhaus's son is dead. Tannhaus wants to bring his son back.
2. Time doesn't work that way. So he can't change the past.
3. Realizes that he can make another reality where he can live with his son.
4. So he makes a machine which will destroy his world and will create a new reality.
5. Instead of making another reality his machine creates two new realities and puts these two world in a loop. And from the loophole, his machine will save his son.
6. He knew how this will come to a solution. For the time machine it took nearly infinity times. But for the origin world it was just nothing.
That's how Tannhaus's plan worked perfectly. His machine was not corrupted. His time machine was perfect. Jonas , Claudia & Martha was just a process of his time machine.
@@raphael31153 I don’t think the cycle has literally repeated an infinite number of times, just too many to be able to know for sure. The show is pretty clear that the worlds splitting has a definite origin so the times loops wouldn’t have been infinite and one could slowly change them
This was extremely thorough and very helpful! I have one tiny detail to add however. I noticed, quite by chance, that we see ONE scene twice, as in the same moment in two cycles. 1986 Claudia walking into her office where older Claudia is already sat down. Now, this could just be a slight continuity error, but if so it’s the only one in the series I noticed. When we see the scene first, young Claudia walks in and gretchen runs to old Claudia, and the rest follows. In the compilation scene in season 3 episode 7, in what is meant to be THE SAME MOMENT, Old Claudia stands up as young Claudia walks in and says ‘hello Claudia’. This NEVER happened in the ‘first’ cycle but did in this one, thus I conclude THIS was the moment she told her younger self about the origin world which fits your ‘slinky’ theory, OR she just gave her a little more information, and thus the conversation is different each time and not identical. Several cycles later, Claudia knew enough thanks to this spoon feeding from her older self to use the loophole, tell Adam and break the cycle.
Edit: Just checked the two scenes side by side again, and Gretchen is no where to be seen in the 3x7 scene while she is clearly visible running into the room in the 2x2 scene! So now we know there are clear differences, there are only 2 possibilities; either it’s a continuity error as they reshot the scene and forgot to match the dialogue or have Gretchen there, OR it’s intentional because this meeting was different to all the infinite ones before it, meaning Claudia broke cause and effect and told her younger self in this new scene (3x7) about the third world and the loophole and what to do to break the cycle.
Great observation. I personally think this was intentional. It's very unlike Dark to have a continuity error like this.
Are you certain they (Claudia / Gretchen) from the one scene is in the same world as the the Claudia from the other scene. I will re-watch this series (probably a few times - loved it so much and know I missed on some details). Anyway, there's Adam's world and Eva's world. They are very similar but not exact. Things don't unfold exactly the same and at the exact same time in the two worlds.
@@MsThebeMoon Ah I see your point, however I am certain because if this were the Eva’s world version the office would be flipped, Claudia would be wearing different clothes and most importantly, Eva’s world Claudia never met her older self as Adam’s world Claudia kills her before she can. So both versions of this scene I reference do happen in Adam’s world, although I wish we saw more of the events in Eva’s world.
I think it was intentional. To show that you can change small things without causing absolute annihilation.
@@blackmagickdancer2282 I agree. Older Claudia did say that something about being able to make little changes across loops.
I genuinely loved the visualization of time travel through a slinky! It really made it easier to understand the actions done by Claudia.
Thanks! Glad it helped!
The ending of Dark proved that no matter how convoluted or complex your story is, you CAN make a satisfying ending provided you put in the work to figure it all out beforehand and have clarity of purpose. Lookin' at you GoT and Lost.
Lol when I read the 1st sentence I hollered! 🤣🤣🤣 I knew it was a GOT slap🤣🤣
Lost, dark and GoT that you mentioned happens to be my top 3 tv shows i ever watched in order of merit. Dark took Lost's cause and effect and put it on steroids but I don't think any show can make the audience as emotionally attached to the characters as Lost did.
I felt Lost was satisfying, and I loved it throughout. But it was definitely not perfect.
Dark, on the other hand... I can't think of a single bad thing to say about the show. It's extraordinary.
Only watched Dark recently, binged the whole thing, such great writing, I will say that Claudia is probably my favourite character. She's playing 5D chess, whilst everyone else is only worried about going forwards or backwards.
It seems Claudia and Regina were part of the origin world because they had real ascendents. Perhaps because of this Claudia was able to make decisions outside of 'destiny'
She realised she and Regina would ultimately have life outside of the circle and that might have made the decision to end everything easier
Basically Claudia was hooking up with her own great great grand son(Tronte)...
(Claudia & Bernd->Regina
Regina & Boris-> Bartosz
Bartosz & Silja->Agnes
Agnes & Unknown->Tronte)
Yeah and johnas is his own great great great grandfather and michael is his father and his grant grant grandson
Why tf aren't you guys talking about Noah?
The guy literally made a child with his grandma and not only that, his parents are both tiedemanns so he is the result of a kind of incest
And Charlotte is her own granddaughter and grandmother at the same time!
This is definitely the maximum effort ever taken by anyone for a series or a film, heck it even instructors do not take as much time in explaining course content, many thanks my friend!
Thanks Parth!
Awesome. Do this for every major character of dark. This will help understanding dark much better
Not everyone is needed... Jonas, Martha, Noah and Claudia are the only ones to time travel intensely.
These 4 would be awesome
Claudia is the MVP of Dark!!!
Claudia to Claudia: We will watch your career with great interest
One correction: Eva is not making a choice outside of the apocalypse. She is simply doing what she has always been doing in the cycles - arranging for the dual existences. Nothing Eva does changes the cycle.
So it could be that major changes can only occur during the apocalypse.
To embellish on your slinky analogy - time fights against changes. Only minor changes extend from one cycle to the next, but the weight of these minor changes accumulates until the slinky can no longer hold its shape and it breaks.
the morale of the tv show Dark: nothing is changeable the future is written.... oh, actually it is changeable for a happy ending.
I like to think that the “usual cycle” is a strange attractor. (Feel free to look that up as an important aspect of chaos theory.) In brief: there are always tiny variations in a chaotic system, but they tend to lead back to almost the same pattern. For instance planets in our solar system dance in orbit that are getting tugged in slightly different directions every year from the differing positions of the other planets and wandering asteroids and comets, and the slow changes in their own precession and axial tilts and lunar orbits etc. yet the overall pattern of the solar system has been stable for a billions years or more.
Which doesn’t mean it *always* leads to the same cycle. Sometimes the slight variation happens to pull something just far enough to alter how things proceed from there in a significant way that can cascade into changes that form a completely different result, like planets colliding or slingshotting out of the solar system. In Dark, we get to see the final loop, where an older Claudia convinces younger Claudia there is a way to save Regina. This “deflects” younger Claudia, like a planet that drifts close enough to one of its neighbors to start a chain of altering orbits. We watch younger Claudia breaking free of the usual pattern, figuring out how to change things and finally explaining not just to Marta and Jonas but ultimately to Adam that the cycle can and will end now, forever.
Awesome explanation. I love it!!
I'd add to this by suggesting to think about things that wouldn't affect history, like scratching an itch, or having a different meal on a certain day, and yet...
Isn't this the Butterfly Effect?
I remember one dialogue from Claudia pretty much saying what you said in first paragraph. Things have happened the similar way, but not exactly same.
@vikaskthakur, when does Claudia say that?
Claudia is easily my favorite character in the show. Her arc is excellent.
Not saying that the start of the video until the last part was not great but that last part about imagining the time cycles not as a circle but as a coils had me jump out of my seat.
This video comes very close to the sheer brilliance of Dark series itself. Great explanation!
Thank you!! Glad you enjoyed it!
I support this comment
This is actually REALLY impressive, I still find it hard to understand dark theories and yours especially the bootsrap paradox
Claudia was the hardest for me to understand, what she was doing and what did let to a different moment that never happened before in the loophole
Claudia was the smartest amongst all, she played the game well and outsmarted everyone, she owned the time❤
That was a pretty good exposition of a version of the multicycle theory. I would really like to see someone to give more exposition to Kristofer Montenegro's summary of the one loop theory, it's a pretty different way to look at it, but at least for me once you read his essay, everything just falls at it's right place pretty solidly
claudia, the real mvp of the story and the one who finally corrected tannhaus’ mess. both are parents driven by love for their children. both done the extreme to ensure their kids happy endings, one by creating the loop, the other by destroying it.
Alternate ending : Claudia tricks Adam one last time to ensure Jonas and Martha go to the origin world not to prevent the accident but to actually cause it so that Tannhaus can create the machine and create the origin of the worlds so that everything can happen over and over again in future cycles.
yeah, i thought so too
Just what I thought
Yeah I'm pretty sure they intended for us to think that was happening. Throughout the entire show Adam and Claudia deceive everyone when it comes to their purpose. So by the last episode we automatically assume that it is the ultimate decption; that Jonas and Martha are actually sent there to cause the accident. I fell for that too, I was convinced that would be what happened.
I was traumatized when Jonas and Martha suddenly appeared in front of the car causing the accident. I am glad whatever you said didn't happen
That's depressing
That's an amazing piece of work you put into this, and it adds up.
I think, just to point it out, as people seem to have a problem with Bernd being the father of Regina, look at her interactions with older Bernd Doppler in 1986/87. He not only makes his firmer affair the chief of the powerplant, but he also is rather open about anything to her. He even admits to covering up the accident of 1986 but basically asks her to keep it secret until his passing as a favor, which she agrees to. Thats more than a hint of some deeper level of relationship they had than just being acquaintances to each other.
The Inception idea is a pretty good because I can totally see the creators using that movie as an influence. But looking at the timelimes of characters and how they fit together leaves only amazemend at the level of attention they payed to the details!
Thanks Alex! Also, really good point on Bernd and Claudia's interaction. As with many Dark "twists", when you look back - you can certainly see some breadcrumbs, which I love about this show.
You deserve so much more traffic on ur channel.... you actually put in so much time and obvious effort into this. you gained a sub.
Wow, thanks for the kind words AcidCat!
Something to add to your expansion (which I love) is that Adam actually talks about things passing on from loop to loop!
When Jonas first meets Adam, Adam shows him the previous time machines. He shows how they have "evolved" over time. I believe this fully supports your "slinky". I don't just believe that this is the evolution of the time machines over time, but the evolution of time machines around each loop of the slinky.
First taunhaus's machine, then the tunnel, then the bunker "time machine" (killing children and sending them forward and back through time), then the "apparatus" then the orb, etc.
I actually really like the infinity symbol opposed to the slinky to explain the loops, because the infinity symbol suggests the two worlds, one half of the infinity symbol and the other, so it makes sense that the next evolution of the time machine, would be in the next world (Eva's world)
Maybe in that scene with Adam, we only saw half of all the possible time machine evolutions. Maybe the time machine evolved back and fourth, in Adams world and in Eva's, and I think that's the reason for Eva's world having a different time machine.
Hell, it might also be the reason why things are slightly different in Eva's world, (people looking different, the bunker looking different etc)
We are assuming that in Adams world the bunker is blue, and in Eva's world the bunker is yellow... But maybe it has been all the colours in the rainbow.
If the knot wasn't untied this time, then maybe the next go round, in Adam's world again, the bunker could be green? Maybe this time Helge could have a broken nose or something. Just an idea.
Now I'm curious as to how many cycles did it take for Claudia to finally know the true origin
33 ?
There are no cycles, it's a time loop. It's not like they are repeating their actions until they learn to do something at some point differently and Claudia is the winner in that race.
♾
in the series it says "eternal loop"
it took infinite cycles and none at the same time, since after the origin world is revealed to her, and she sent Jonas and Martha to prevent Tanhaus' family to die in an accident, they ultimately ceased to exist, thus both worlds are erased, leaving only origin world and Jonas and Martha never existed, hence they never were able to prevent the crash and all begins over again from scratch... so I think characters in the very last scene in the origin world continue to live their lives unaware of everything and both not exist as well as their world were destroyed and split in two decades ago... quantum physics :) to make it as simple to you as possible, try to think of our real world as the origin, we live, we see years going by and it's 2021 already, and nothing time travel related never happend to us, BUT imagine there are also two versions of our world overlapping themselves again and again with the knot somewhere let's say - 1935, just because someone who managed to time travel went back in time to prevent world war II for example, thus making tons of bootstrap paradoxes and causality paradoxes in their resepctive worlds, but we here and now in origin world are completely unaware of that ;)
This was brilliant ! I was thinking about the same thing ever since the season came out and your explanation really clicked with me. All the science aside, I am glad that Claudia stepped up and saved Regina.
As someone who always rooted for Claudia since season 1 , I felt so vindicated in the final episode. Jonas, Martha and Claudia are brilliant protagonists with such beautiful yet tragic arcs.
Bootstrap paradoxes can be overcome by thinking about them in a different way. Yes in the current iteration of time it appears as a paradox, but if the loop has happened thousands of times, that allows for a lot of information to pass over time. Perhaps the first time it manifests as a simple desire to save your daughter, but the thousandth it manifests as a way to use time travel to communicate your desire to save your daughter with yourself. Keep going and they might conclude that simply lying accomplishes more because it motivates. What matters is that she believed it and has passed on other tools to help accomplish the task.
I like the idea that the existence of the book as a bootstrap paradox would get Claudia thinking about how it came to be,
and that she possibly got the idea that the writing of said book may have come from a third timeline that birthed the two she's been in.
Just a thought.
That was my theory! The original book has to have come from somewhere. Since the original world's tanhaus was actually making a time machine, and the picture on the back shows a picture of the old tanhaus, not the 70's one.
One thing I simply can't make sense of is how Charlotte and Elizabeth can be each other's mother.
Many characters tied to the loop are their own ancestor actually just further removed. Jonas>Trio>Tronte>Ulrich>Mikkel>Jonas is also a self creating loop. Time travel is just mind bendy stuff. Sometimes you gotta give in to the madness :-)
I'm about to answer something that is about to get hate for sure.
The answer is simple, this show is plot driven and none character driven. There for the theory of paradox in time was use as a guage for this show plot and the design and sampling of this show was made from the theory of "Did the Hen came before the egg or the egg came before the Hen".
The cast was already too large to cast anymore new cast, there for they use the paradox theory and state you can't change event, things will always happen as how it is made to be logic for this show.
This is why it is consider terrible written for season 3 for some fan, because real time travel really does, is divergence of timeline. Meaning if you travel back in time, to kill yourself it does not mean you get erase from existence. You can not be erase once the reality of your existence has been created. You will only diverge yourself into another timeline which you die and a future you do not exist. However, the you who actually travel back in time to kill yourself can never be erase, because each event happen to lead you to that reality has happen, and you will continue to exist as in your reality which was from a different world timeline.
This is why you can not make sense of it, because it is not made to use common sense, but rather is just a plot point of the show. It is made confusing to follow, so that you will just give up on your logic and ignore the flaws and take the show for what it's plot was plan to do so.
Please don't miss understand, I love this series religiously as well. But just wanting to point out the facts.
@@cheapskateotaku7123 Being a time-travel / alternate universe sci-fi fan, I too thought of the theory that any change in the past will not actually change that timeline but will create another parallel time line. Love this stuff.
This video should have millions of views!
This is fantastic. I finally got around to watching Dark just recently and then I immediately watched it all the way through a second time. These ideas are quite similar to my thinking on it. The only problem is that now I can't seem to find anything else on Netflix or elsewhere that is as good as this!
The best Dark explanation video I've seen, great job!
I like the explination and your theories! Over the last few weeks, I developed my own theories about claudia, the loop etc. and your video helped me a lot to start overthinking again. I guess the entire thing is interpretation and everyone can have different thoughts, but I think that this is one of the best things in dark: creating your own theories
Awesome content, I can't imagine what amount of hardwork you put into these videos, first tracing her timelines then coming with these theories..Keep grinding you will become big one day..
By the way... you were a suggestion on my home feed. It’s great to see CZcams suggesting great content from smaller channels. Awesome video!
my preferred understanding was that there is no repeating cycle, everything only happens once, but the travellers perceive it as a cycle because of the way they go back on themselves. e.g. stranger jonas meeting young jonas in the bunker is not meeting the 'next' cycle's jonas, but is meeting the same cycle's jonas but younger. (i hope that makes sense).
so instead of an infinite number of iterations before finding the 'solution' to break the cycle, from the pov of the origin world, the knot comes into existence and nearly immediately extinguishes itself again.
this doesn't resolve the information bootstraps re: the book & notebook, but as you point out, tannhaus' book, at least, was written non-paradoxically in the origin world. claudia passing information to herself is the only evidence i think the show even hints at for an iterative model, and you make a very good case! i'm almost persuaded! :)
sidenote, i read robert a heinlein's 'by his bootstraps' for the first time the other day, the origin of the term bootstrap paradox; it really is a very good short story, 10/10 would recommend to any dark fan who hasn't read it yet. (it's easily available online, at least one link on its wikipedia page)
Agreed.
I was also of the exact same opinion and I stick to it. I still don't agree with the helix pattern of time travel. There is only one cycle ( like a circle)that only the travellers perceive to be repeating.
Also I don't believe Claudia passing the information to her younger selves in a cumulative manner. It goes against the basic premise set by the show. Nothing changes. Claudia cannot pass on more information to her younger self, if she didn't receive it when she was younger.
Agreed, I tried to come up with a detailed scenario for how it could all be a fixed 4D structure with no repetitions in a couple of comments starting with czcams.com/video/bOmBvsdWgME/video.html&lc=UgyM4mPRZlnutSWlyP94AaABAg ...I also agree with the idea that certain things that seem to be informational bootstrap paradoxes in the knot, like the text of Tannhaus' book, could be echoes of things that were created the normal way in the origin timeline. By His Bootstraps is a great classic example of a fixed timeline story, if you haven't read it already I also recommend Heinlein's story "All You Zombies" which has some plot elements similar to Dark.
10:54 It feels like this event only happened in this cycle and in every other cycle Claudia convinced Martha's Claudia, at gun point, to take her to Eva. It just confuses me why Eva, soon after, asks where other Claudia is...
Ooooh, that's a great theory. Iva was waiting for the 2 claudias to come, maybe because that's what happened on previous iterations.
This is one of the best explanations for time travel theories in general that I've ever seen! Definitely taking notes. Thank you so much for making this and explaining this amazing show!
I love watching time travel rules in fiction. At first I thought Dark has the same rule as Predestination. But your explanation makes the show more understandable for me
You went into some great detail here and the Claudia chronological timeline puts so much into perspective!
Love it! Super digestible and really articulated the ideas I had on how the origin point worked. Claudias timeline helps explain the whole story with the rest of the characters too.
FYI: Spreadsheets were harmed in the making of this video
Wow! This is definitely one of the best explanations for these loophole.
Still, the decision to go this way by the show was a bit too far fetched for me mainly because allowing small changes to happen from one cycle to the next would basically give you butterfly effect which would most likely cause the cycles to get further and further away infinitely (until the loop breaks) from each other.
This would jeopardize how the self-fuffiling profecies and artefacts (such as the diary) perpetuates themselves. If Claudia can introduce small changes to the cycles, why can't others? And if others can, why they never notice any differences between their own story and that of their older selves?
It feels that the show tried to find a somewhat compromising middle-ground where there are very small changes allowed to the level where it doesn't get out of control and the history pretty much repeats itself "almost exactly" while creating the illusion that it was "always exactly the same" just to reveal in the end that was not exactly the case. \_O_/
If that was so, I feel a bit more shade of small changes throughout the series so that the viewer can notice would be helpful to not create such big expectation break for the sake of the happy ending.
Best explanatory video if a TV show/movie I have yet seen. Great job,thanks a lot,it gave me a LOT of insight to the show. I can only imagine how much time this must have taken you to conclude such complex theories .
Thanks!! Really appreciate the kind words!
Great work. She is the lynch pin character of this trilogy and when you are watching the her appearances are so deliberate and brief that it hard to understand her motivation and duplicity. Thanks for showing the pinpoint continuity of her arc. I love the “loophole” deus ex machina to provide a satisfying ending. I am watching it again now with the English subtitles. I hate many of the voiceovers but I love no having to mis visual details because I am reading.
All your theories make so much sense and clear up all the questions I still had at the end of the show. Rewatching it with all this knowledge is gonna be so weird, but give so much meaning to the things that initially confused me
There is also a scenes with Claudia standing in the forest with a rifle, this happens at the very end of Season One, this could also be the point where she splits herself (Since it's occurring during the apocalypse) and one version of her goes off and talks to her younger self and eventually dies, while the other goes and meets with Adam and doesn't die, yet.
yes, this is also my thought too and makes more sense. if she met adam for the first time, she cant visit the other places and get killed by noah because its allrdy in the loop. she had to do it before. but she died. the only explanation is that she realized how to split herself. so the loop is still intact and she can go met adam and end this cycle.
@@SwIzZ1St , I understand the loop. But not how it can be formed. Did you get it?
@@hidof9598 In the Apocalypse, there is a fraction of seconds, where Time stood still. Thats how Eve did the Split with herself. One Version she safes Jonas and another, she send Bartoz to stop her. Claudia found this (because she killed her Altself and learned more, in Eves World.) Also she is the only Person, that helps herself with the Diary. Adam and Eve are selfish and never helps theyr Younger Self with Information. So every Loop, she has more Information and gives the Diary to her younger self. Until she found out about the Origin World and the Possibility with the littly Change she can do, while Time stood still.
@@SwIzZ1St I agree with your explanation, but I think it's not right to label Adam and Eve as selfish. They both, as the beginnings, have the biggest responsibility to maintain the loop to achieve their ambition to destroy/preserve the knot. They have to ensure their selves in every timeline have only their supposed amount of knowledge so everything repeats itself. But Claudia isn't restricted by this so it's easy for us to say.
@@siyargoren We cannot know this for sure and also it would explain a lot of things that happened off screen. Claudia also explains to Adam that she did this and we can safely assume that one Claudia went off and got killed by Noah. There is much left unknown at the end, such at what is with those hives/pods/growths in the future?
Most helpful video on Dark that I’ve seen!
The amount of work and time taken to make this video is amazing!!! Great content 👌
Your video is so underrated! You can see the amount of time and effort that went into it! Momentous job! Thank you very much!
Thank you for the kind words!!
Yes, thank you for putting the theory of loops affecting each other into words, or better yet, a model: the slinky.
I just binge-watched Dark at my brother's insistence and have read some theories about the seemingly ironclad bootstrap paradoxes surrounding information in the series, and had the same sort of idea in my head to explain. Only instead of the slinky analogy, I thought of the first cycle being a 'transient' state like in a circuit, where the information would occur organically, and the constant loops afterwards like the steady-state of the circuit, where we see info becoming bootstrapped.
The slinky model helps get that point across better and explains how the loop can eventually be broken too, I like the analogy a lot!
Glad you like it!
really awesome video, man! produced with a lot of work and love, appreciations from germany
Dude, that slinky analogy is so good it changes my whole perspective on deterministic time travel. I know you didn’t came up with it, but thanks for introducing to it anyways. Different decisions don’t need to necessarily create separate timeLines, instead they could be just progression of time in a slinky. However, superpositions can be created if two choices are made in same instant.
And the reason dark’s timeline is such a perfect closed loop is because characters constantly kept changing past for almost infinite number of times till everyone was stuck in a bootstrap paradox unable to figure out origin of their own reality. Some erased themselves out of existence, and some birthed their own mothers. We never see the first world or first traveller, we see end of an infinitely long slinky where each and every aspect has no true origin
Probably the best explaination of Claudia's Timeline... I watched this for almost 1 hour
Awesome work man! Really nice explanation, and I think it took a lot of effort to tie together Claudia's timeline, because I feel other CZcamsrs didn't do it proper justice :)
Thanks Avineil!
My thoughts exactly about Claudia's journey, I agree with you a 100% on everything you theorized, it's so clear and I couldn't explained it better ! Thank you !
Awesome analysis Gil. The cycles and the slinky theory reminds me a lot of The Dark Tower.
Thanks for explaining things so clearly.
I think this is the most important video explanation everyone needs to conclude our understanding for good. Great work!
Thanks Aslan!!
I wanna thank u tonnes for making this video💕💕I had been searching for Claudia's entire timeline for so long and couldn't find anything so I had finally given up! And now I found this😃unexpectedly
Great video, I appreciate the efforts put in in tracking Claudia's timeline. Personally I don't agree with your conclusion, though the slinky idea is pretty cool.
For me, I think the whole ending can be summarized by Schrodinger's Cat. The moments where the timelines split, creates timelines that both exist in parallel, as seen in the show. And so, the loop is both perpetuated and stopped, in parallel. This is the same as saying the loop both does and doesn't exist at the same time.
With this idea, there is no notion of the events happening "this time", but do instead happen every time (every cycle).
You can add on top of that; by us the viewers watching the show, it's the same as opening the box to look at the cat - the realities collapse. In this case, the reality is that the loop/knot is destroyed. Here, the "this time" is explained as being our observation.
I get that this may not be satisfying for some people, but IMO the writers had something like this in mind, since they took the time to outright explain Schrodinger's Cat.
Well done! I love that you’ve pulled from concentric cyclical cosmology on this one.
Thanks so much for this breakdown of Claudia's timeline. I needed this review because like most viewers, I had the same questions, all of which you answered in full. I couldn't be more satisfied.
I've been referring people to your reviews whenever I tell them to watch Dark. Just to add, you've got one of the best reviews out there on this very complicated series. The added clips and year stems in this review was a brilliant idea. Someone seeing this weeks or months after watching Dark will be reminded of what time and period you're referring to.
PS.
Any suggestions on what to watch next now that Dark is over? LOL
Wow, Excellent job untangling that knot and getting a viable Timeline. I'm still trying to wrap my brain around the different paths that the 3 Claudias took. I hope there's a visual Timeline available at some point, but in the meantime, I'll watch this vid a few more times and hopefully graph it out based on this. Dark is an amazing show and the attention to detail is off the charts.
So cool!! You helped me put all the pieces together finally, I love the slinky theory!
your idea of time really makes sense.... good job man!!
Excellent analysis! This is the clearest explanation for how she figured everything out
Thanks Gabriel!
THANK YOU. This is the video I needed. Might need to watch it again actually. But that was my biggest question coming off the back of S3: what went differently somehow to allow Claudia to figure out the existence of the third world? This goes far towards answering it. Thank you thank you. Really great work!
Also, can I just say - your Claudia timeline was really well done. Really cool to watch. Could you do one for some other characters? Really helps get perspective on the show by focusing on one character at a time. Would love the exact same for Jonas. Pretty please?
Great work there ..of all the time travels.. Claudia's time travel was most ambiguous n u have explained it well
This is such a great video, thanks for this. The spiraling eternal recurrence is a brilliant understanding and I really dig it. I think you're right.
So it's actually Groundhog Day, where Bill Murray/ Claudia learns more on each repeat
Thank you for the support! 🙏
It's not an endless cycle in the sense of there being multiple loops. Each time travelling character only completes ONE loop of their own life. Nothing repeats, despite what the characters claim. At the end of the series, without Claudia changing the established facts of the unaltered timeline (e.g. Eva remembering seeing her older self killed by Adam), Adam would kill Eva and live out his life in 2053. He doesn't somehow reset and become Jonas again.
No, he doesn't "reset" himself to become Jonas. There's already a young Jonas repeating the same journey.
I agree, it's all just a fixed 4-dimensional structure of events in space and time, nothing changes or repeats within the knot. I wrote up a pair of comments going into detail on how you can make sense of everything this way, starting with the one at czcams.com/video/bOmBvsdWgME/video.html&lc=UgyM4mPRZlnutSWlyP94AaABAg
i agree your point that everything only happened once, we are only seeing the characters from different time to gather around and finish the loop. I watch another video and their theory was that Adam & Eva world is a loophole of the origin world when h.g tanhaus active his giant time machine at the first place. Everything happen in season 1&2 and 3 (mostly) is just the loophole and it end up with the fact that h.g tannhaus's son&family survived from the car accident. **welcome to correct me if there is something (word using) wrong** P.S DARK is the best show i ever watched.
Great video! I realise that in your timeline, you made this video years ago, but in mine we've only just finished the series. Loved this explanation. Great work!
😂😂😂Will be back here for 1899 theories too
This was the MOST well put together time travel cinema ever
When I watched Dark for the first time, as it was coming out, I had the impression that Claudia was not particularly important for the mystery of "the knot", that she was just one of the main players, an equal to Adam and Eva, and I was surprised that at the end of season 3 she had such an impact (for the finale). But upon rewatching the series (without long breaks in between seasons) I can see now that Claudia is the smartest out of all characters, and superior to Eva and Adam.
A great video, thank you!
Excellent analysis thank you 👏🏾 love this series and how the double nuclear smokestacks paused during time exchanging.
Best explanation ever. I like your theory its actually logical. This question was eating my head from days but your theory answers it all its the most logical and apt one I have heard!!
Wow, thank you Sakshi!
Great video. I've been speculating for a while that the apparent bootstraps started with an original non-bootstrap iteration that have evolved in later cycles to become bootstraps. Another hint that this might be the case is the conversation between Claudia and alt-Claudia in 2020. Alt-Claudia tells her that the build-up of Cesium in the tunnels leads in part to the apocalypse. This can only be true if the cycles have a cumulative effect. Of course this also means that there had to be on 'original' version of the timeline, which gets more complicated each time and finally results into the one we see play out.
Thinking about it, I had a epiphany, or so I would like to think. The core loophole is Free Will. Claudia discovers that Jonas has to make a choice based on options, not on what the she wants. A lot of times we are confronted with the challenge to free will and throughout the show the questionn has been raised.
Its not just the Schopenhauer quote, its the conversation between Tannhaus and Jonas about the nature of determinism, Eva wonders whether people can make a choice if they knew the end of the journey to either avoid or embrace that outcome, Claudia tells it to Noah before he shotguns her about him not really being free.
Noah is driven by his wants at that moment, his desire to do whatever he can to return to his daughter - If he knew what everything was about he might have been able to reconsider his actions and make a choice. But he did not have enough information and only wanted what his wants where, so he shot her.
The Claudia he shots there is the one that just talked to Adam - there aren't 2 old Claudias running around, she didnt use a quantum loophole in splitting her timeline. We can see that after talking to it with Adam she packs her stuff and goes back to meet Noah.
Claudia tells Adam the loophole, but in reality she his showing him he has a choice. Young Jonas is driven by his desire, mostly though. Jonas always wanted to end everything, thinking himself to be wrong. But old Jonas makes the choice to send his younger self down another path and then makes another free will decision by not shooting old Eva. The point being - we can have free will, if we know what our options are and not only listen to our desires.
All great Science Fiction deals with questions about the human condition, and Dark, in my mind, is primarily about Free Will and how difficult, yet possible, it is to truly make a choice based on free will and not just desires and wants.
Thanks for making this video.
i agree entirely with your corkscrew-timeline hypothesis..the cycles are not identical and a myriad of small changes over the course of infinite cycles could eventually accumulate to cause a break in the causality of the timelines. Finally finished the series and i truly could not have done it without you - in that i had nobody to really watch this with and thus your videos were like engaging in conversation with someone who was interpreting what they were seeing in the same way that i was.
As a compulsory list making, note taking, "sense- of- sense" craving/ seeking human myself- I appreciate your spreadsheets, drawings, charts, and diagrams!
I started S1E1 again last night and I'm still impressed.
Having at least a general idea of how things end allowed me to see events, motives, and characters in ways I hadn't yet. AND there's still so much symbolism to be discovered, even on the third watch!
The enthusiasm, effort, and well articulated points are exactly why I keep coming back to your videos. This was great!
I love reading all the theories/ perspectives that other viewers share here too. All good stuff!
Great minds think alike! Watching Dark, I took more notes and made more diagrams than I've done in years haha
It's pretty incredible how well they planned this show out. Even just scrubbing through the first couple of seasons in prep for this video, I was really impressed with them all over again.
Thanks Jessica! Really glad you're enjoying the videos!!
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Great video, thanks for this!. Would love to see one for Noah's full timeline, especially the somewhat confusing jumping around of times during season1
I love your analogy to the slinky as an alternative to the character's misunderstanding of the circle loop. I actually take it further... hear me out... I don't believe ANY time travel story actually involves literal backwards time travel, but rather, travel through nearly identical parallel universes in an infinite multiverse. No paradoxes. No predestination. Though characters can have their own interpretation of observed experiences, I think they are too in their own desires to be truly objective about it. Time is relative, moving differently in different spots of our own universe, so why not across nearly identical universes? It only appears to be the past and then they continue down the branch or slinky of other, nearly identical universes. These characters are often choosing to continue what their doppelganger's have done but they could totally make other choices if they wanted. It was a really interesting line, somewhere in season three that that I can only paraphrase: we can choose to pursue our desires but our desires are chosen for us. I just interpret that to mean our options seem limited by all the variables that lead to them and to making us who we are but we still have choice in our actions.
I always thought to start a bootstrap paradox, you would need that item to have an origin point. It was hard to think of it being outside the loop to being with..she is a genius only taking countless loops to figure it out. I loved the idea of changing little things at each loop, then only to have a snowball effect to end the loop is great. This video is well thought out, well done.
Understanding Claudia’s point of view is the best way to explain the series. This video covers everything for me. I’d like to add one idea: The book was written by HG Tannhaus in the Original World Timeline, before the accident of 1986.
Great content. Thank you!
Thanks Lauren!
Now, this is an insightful video.
Thank you 🙏
I remember one scene where Claudia is studying the reports of incident at nuclear plant, just on the the day of her father's death. The nature of incident had something to do with particles splitting into two. She was deeply engrossed in that study. That could be a hint of figuring out the nature of her worlds.
I love this slinky theory! It totally makes sense and makes the events of the show fit so much better.
Excellent explanation
This is the greatest explanation I have seen and the perspective of time being a slinky actually explains the bootstrap paradox which nobody ever knew the answer to I wonder if Claudia herself assists 1Take on his videos 😆😆
Vedansh Budhia dark shows a bootstrap paradox but you change a letter every time
I always made sense of the loophole as it being another paradox that was the product of the knot. Without it there wouldn't be the two other worlds so it must exist. It's existence also allows for just enough free will to affect other characters(mainly Claudia) across loops. Meaning that eventually the loop would end as it did in the show. Also Bartoz's recruitment was needed to happen in order to maintain the loop therefore Eva had to do that in order for her universe to even exist. I do agree with the ideas and knowledge being passed down and changing slightly each loop resulting in Claudia's discovery.
Am I the only one that thinks the book "a journey through time" came from the origin world?
It makes my brain happy to think that this extremely complicated story boils down to the question:
Who wrote the book?
Claudia is my favourite character
Great analysis.