There are so many ways into thinking about Dark that it was hard to settle on just Heidegger! Are there any other philosophers you'd like to explore Dark with, or any other interesting details I missed?
It was very meditative to listen to this. A lot of the philosophy of the story gets pushed into the background by the suspense of the time travel mystery plot. And some viewers seem to think it's mere decoration. Obviously Shopenhauer and Nietzsche are always mentioned and I would be interested to hear your take on it.
Schopenhauer was the main source of quotes. I have the theory that Hegel and Schopenhauer are the Schrödingers Cat of philosophy. Hegel saw everything as waves, Schopenhauer saw everthing as individuals/particals, Heidegger was the one collapsing the wave of potential.
There's so much incredible symbolism, both visual and thematic in DARK. For example, whenever Jonas and Martha meet alone for the first time in season 1 and 3, they do so while standing on railroad tracks. It hints at the reality of their existences; running in parallel, but never meeting
The French anthropologist René Girard wrote extensively on the subject of desire. He speculated that desire, in most of the world's literature and mythologies, was imitative or mimetic. In other words, we have a tendency to look at what other people desire and we ourselves believe that we desire it as well even though, in our heart of hearts, we probably don't. This mimetic desire then leads to conflict against one another, leading to scapegoating and wars. I LOVE the idea that the characters in Dark are imitating THEIR OWN DESIRES from past or future selves, and still finding no release.
We yearn to understand the mysteries of life and existence! Some understand more than others, and they use their art to guide us. Be fascinated and follow your path...
for me its crazy i meet a guy in an old Counter Strike version and on a 30 people server we were talking about Dark , he said and i agree "Dark is in his own league"
Dark series also shown reincarnation as a quantum Immortality concept, Katherina died in first world and reborns in second World, she then died in second World during apocalypse but her soul remembers her suffering during the lost of Mikkel that's why she was hugging Mikkel during apocalypse, Peter died in first world and reborns in second World, that's why he was feeling like he have met Jonas, when Jonas first time came to his world, because he have given him therapy, Martha have also born in second World that's why she was saying that when I met you Jonas I felt I met you before, Magnus Does all time travel thing with Jonas and reborns in second World and that's why he was satisfied during Apocalypse of second World because he have done so much work so his soul was satisfied. Similarly Francisca also done so much work and reborns in second second World and she was not having voice because she disrespected her sister who can't speak and her soul was also satisfied during Apocalypse of second World. but Jonas born again in his own universe but in Scrodinger cat theory, quantum immortality, that's why he never born in second World because he was always present in his world, his soul never gone their to reborn. But they all reborn in third world through different parents and reunited. The paradise. yes it may possible that quantum immortality concept of quantum physics can exist in real we just don't know that we are immortal and we will be become our Ulternate version of Scrodinger cat experiment, as Jonas felt something when he first read the letter of Martha, because he knows then only that The lines he said to real Martha can't be known by the Martha of other world. So it may be all version of all characters were past and future life of each other. And that is why he became Adam from Jonas. There is also a hint given in episode 5 of season 2 that in staring scene Middle Jonas dreamed where he is with Teenage Martha on bed and then suddenly Martha belly Ejects black liquid and that was their son, the origin, he was shocked because Adult jonas never goes to Martha for intercourse on bed , but because in true sense he goes to Martha world and died and reincarnated in alternate version. And this song just was playing during Stranger Jonas was on work, indicating that he is done dying
I binged this a few weeks ago. The mental gymnastics became addictive. Didn't dawn on me till I watched other TV shows. This really is the show that deserves masterpiece and explanation videos. The ending is amazing. It's done something that hasn't been done before not for me at least. That's how great it is. Great video. 😊love the way the gun travels through time and a prop has a journey that level of writing is sublime.
ive watched this video like 8 times. This is the single greatest video essay on DARK. Most people get distracted by the sci fi and time travel and not the underling themes and philosophy that is core to the show.
I finished a few hours ago and what a goddamn ride this was. I don't think I ever kept the ENTIRE family tree in my mind. I would update it every time a change was made to it by a character who traveled forward or back, but I wouldn't think about every single connection made. That was... too much for me, tbh, although I am glad that such maps exist online (even on the official website haha).
The content is worth of every praise of course, but I wanted to mention something else. I noticed within you narration two phrases from Dark soundtrack songs, "Quiet life" and "Somehow, somewhen" (which, for people who do not know German, would be English translation of 1st and 3rd word from Nena's "Irgendwie, iregendwo, irgendwann") - and there may be more that I missed. I can't believe this is an accident, at the very least you would have to do it unconsciously, but I very much doubt this. I think you did it on purpose, little symbols left there for an watchful ear in true style of Dark itself, what a unity of form and content this would be. If this is indeed the case, it's PURE MASTERY.
I'm doing my thesis on Heidegger, so absolutely I was excited to see you apply his philosophy to my favorite tv show. I'd been thinking about Heidegger a lot while watching the show (e.g., one more simple example, the show's repeated line that "What we know is a drop; what we don't know, an ocean." That's very much Heidegger's contention in Origin of the Work of Art, that what discloses itself to us is meaningful is bound around the edges by a vast sense of unknown "earth").
@@harshr1831 Michael Inwood's "A Very Short Introduction to Heidegger" works well as an introduction. Hubert Dreyfus is another name to mention: his readings of Heidegger are not just highly influential in English scholarship, but he really tries to make Heidegger as clear as possible without sacrificing any depth.
Great video. Much appreciated. There is one more dialog by tanhouse which touches the core philosophy. "You can choose what you want but your wants are already choose for you".
Somehow that thumbnail and this popping up in my algorithmic feed was the impetus for watching the show so I can fully appreciate a surely moving, visual essay. Well done, my friend.
Thanks for this video summary, I just finished watching the last episode last night and am still mulling it over…this series is true art and took me on a rollercoaster of emotions and realisations. I now know I’ll have to watch it all again sometime with the benefit of hindsight. Profound, moving and thought provoking.
You have a real genius about your ways of words. Subscribed. The future in Dark is always bearing down on the characters it has a velocity that can not be out maneuvered. 🤯🤯🤯I got goosebumps. This video was well worth time.
the end makes me think of the destruction of the wheel of samsara, eastern philosophy, essentially a sort of enlightenment or peace and trandcendance of this reality
I love this video, but I disagree that Helge knew he couldn't change his fate but tried anyway. He had dementia, afterall. He might have legitimately thought that he could change things, not being able to reason through it like a man with a sound mind could have. I think he died thinking he was actually changing things.
That are many questions that made me seek annihilation (suicide) to finally be free of the pain, but I've started to believe in neither annihilation or in the cycle of life, but something else, something beyond what our little minds can comprehend, It's hard to accept that we will probably never know what happens afterwards, but maybe we shouldn't care, maybe we should let go of that desire to seek meaning in life but enjoy it until the time comes that we may or may not understand everything, maybe there's much more that we will never be able to comprehend until we go from this world to another one, but until then I'll live. Or maybe there is a way of knowing, nothing is impossible
It was my favorite show when I was a young teenager, I saw the philosophy in some kind in the show bakc then, but I did not know what philosphy of existence or existencialism is. Now the show makes even more sense. Great analysis
Man, how did you create this video? I mean, you sound like a Dark expert, and your knowledge of Philosophy and life are terrific! i was intrigued from the beginning to the end...and from the end to the beginning. ;)
Ok, Now I like you more because of the painting at the end. Very clever play of words, since the name you’ve chosen for the channel is also in the name of the painting itself. Also given that the painting is my favourite of all.
It might also be a reference to "Tannhauser Gate", which is a place from the "tears in rain" monologue Roy Batty, the replicant character from the original Bladerunner movie (played by Rutger Hauer) makes before his death. In it he talks about having seen wonders at the Tannhauser Gate in space and how all the things he experienced and the wonders he saw will be gone when he dies, washed away like tears in the rain.
@@TrangleC it is, they even Show a Gate with the Name tannhaus AS an easteregg in the series. And Blade Runner is the Favorite move of the director. Also Tears in rain... Time to die... Is almost the end of DARK...
Sic mundus creatus est. It has to do with the Emerald Tablet that is also written on the body’s of Bartosz and Noah. Hermeticism is the religion and philosophy where a lot from Dark comes from. It’s an rabbit hole to hardly get out of when entered. It will awnser all questions
Why isn't there an option to like countless times if there was i would give you 1 million likes 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍......i don't usually comment even if i like the video but these is just wonderful, this is the best explanation of dark so far.
This is one reason I like “ Man in the high Castle” I took the central message to be that the heroine is the same in all dimensions, unlike any other character. Or goodness is unwavering, despite the circumstances.
The first season to the third is just a loupe. When I watch the last final episode of season 3 I suddenly remembered true detective when rust talk about the endless circle of time .
19:33 great question, try the fruit of the tree of life (houma/ayahuasca blends used for thousands of thousands of years &/or meditate a bunch for the endogenous DMT you produce) to find out! youre whalecum for the suggestion btw if you do try those in a safe way and develop peace of mind.
This show could never have been a novel, could it. Maybe a graphic novel, but the lack of audio would be a huge loss. Probably not a theater play. Imagine trying to execute the ideas in this show into any other medium. How insane would that be?
I loved the aspect of knowledge. Where each character was on a different stage of the path of their journey. By the 3rd season you'd think adam and eva are the most knowledgeable because they have memories of what went before. Also want to recreate it. But it is all lies. Lies they tell each other. The very reality.
Imagine if Charlotte was never dropped off at the doctor’s house... he’d build another time machine, wouldn’t he? How many more dimensions would have been created???
There are so many ways into thinking about Dark that it was hard to settle on just Heidegger! Are there any other philosophers you'd like to explore Dark with, or any other interesting details I missed?
It was very meditative to listen to this. A lot of the philosophy of the story gets pushed into the background by the suspense of the time travel mystery plot. And some viewers seem to think it's mere decoration. Obviously Shopenhauer and Nietzsche are always mentioned and I would be interested to hear your take on it.
Schopenhauer was the main source of quotes. I have the theory that Hegel and Schopenhauer are the Schrödingers Cat of philosophy. Hegel saw everything as waves, Schopenhauer saw everthing as individuals/particals, Heidegger was the one collapsing the wave of potential.
There's so much incredible symbolism, both visual and thematic in DARK. For example, whenever Jonas and Martha meet alone for the first time in season 1 and 3, they do so while standing on railroad tracks. It hints at the reality of their existences; running in parallel, but never meeting
Deleuze & Guattari's concept of desire and their critique of the incest taboo
I enjoyed this video to my core, thank you for make it possible, you're channel is awesome!
The French anthropologist René Girard wrote extensively on the subject of desire. He speculated that desire, in most of the world's literature and mythologies, was imitative or mimetic. In other words, we have a tendency to look at what other people desire and we ourselves believe that we desire it as well even though, in our heart of hearts, we probably don't. This mimetic desire then leads to conflict against one another, leading to scapegoating and wars. I LOVE the idea that the characters in Dark are imitating THEIR OWN DESIRES from past or future selves, and still finding no release.
So did lacan
I love Girard and this is a fantastic connection. Maybe I'll do a video on him.
Wow, that thesis is wonderfully wrong
Oh yes please do one on Girard
Brilliant.
4:04 Winden = To wind, twist, or writhe in agony
Therefore in the end, they really lived in "a world without winden."
This show is beyond beautiful.
They were in paradise as explained by Jonas,s mother in the origin world in the last scene when she experienced a " deja vu "
dark is profound and mysterious and deep, one of the best shows ever made
I need to meet more people to talk about this show!!! Im glad im now the only one who is fascinated by it
We yearn to understand the mysteries of life and existence! Some understand more than others, and they use their art to guide us. Be fascinated and follow your path...
for me its crazy i meet a guy in an old Counter Strike version and on a 30 people server we were talking about Dark , he said and i agree "Dark is in his own league"
I'm from Chicago. I don't know a single person over here who's seen DARK
Dark series also shown reincarnation as a quantum Immortality concept, Katherina died in first world and reborns in second World, she then died in second World during apocalypse but her soul remembers her suffering during the lost of Mikkel that's why she was hugging Mikkel during apocalypse, Peter died in first world and reborns in second World, that's why he was feeling like he have met Jonas, when Jonas first time came to his world, because he have given him therapy, Martha have also born in second World that's why she was saying that when I met you Jonas I felt I met you before, Magnus Does all time travel thing with Jonas and reborns in second World and that's why he was satisfied during Apocalypse of second World because he have done so much work so his soul was satisfied. Similarly Francisca also done so much work and reborns in second second World and she was not having voice because she disrespected her sister who can't speak and her soul was also satisfied during Apocalypse of second World. but Jonas born again in his own universe but in Scrodinger cat theory, quantum immortality, that's why he never born in second World because he was always present in his world, his soul never gone their to reborn. But they all reborn in third world through different parents and reunited. The paradise.
yes it may possible that quantum immortality concept of quantum physics can exist in real we just don't know that we are immortal and we will be become our Ulternate version of Scrodinger cat experiment, as Jonas felt something when he first read the letter of Martha, because he knows then only that The lines he said to real Martha can't be known by the Martha of other world. So it may be all version of all characters were past and future life of each other. And that is why he became Adam from Jonas.
There is also a hint given in episode 5 of season 2 that in staring scene Middle Jonas dreamed where he is with Teenage Martha on bed and then suddenly Martha belly Ejects black liquid and that was their son, the origin, he was shocked because Adult jonas never goes to Martha for intercourse on bed , but because in true sense he goes to Martha world and died and reincarnated in alternate version.
And this song just was playing during Stranger Jonas was on work, indicating that he is done dying
I binged this a few weeks ago. The mental gymnastics became addictive. Didn't dawn on me till I watched other TV shows. This really is the show that deserves masterpiece and explanation videos. The ending is amazing. It's done something that hasn't been done before not for me at least. That's how great it is. Great video. 😊love the way the gun travels through time and a prop has a journey that level of writing is sublime.
How has this video not have more thousands of votes by now?
Thanks! If you know any Dark fans, tell them about the video!
View* just caught my mistake
ive watched this video like 8 times. This is the single greatest video essay on DARK. Most people get distracted by the sci fi and time travel and not the underling themes and philosophy that is core to the show.
I finished a few hours ago and what a goddamn ride this was. I don't think I ever kept the ENTIRE family tree in my mind. I would update it every time a change was made to it by a character who traveled forward or back, but I wouldn't think about every single connection made. That was... too much for me, tbh, although I am glad that such maps exist online (even on the official website haha).
Perfect, just perfect. I'm sure the creators of the show would approve of your depiction and explanation. Thank you
I come back to this video over and over again. Somehow, you have created a masterpiece.
Notice the reference when he says 'A quiet life', at 8:24, which is a reference to the song which seems perfectly written for this series
Dark is perfect never believe anything else
The content is worth of every praise of course, but I wanted to mention something else. I noticed within you narration two phrases from Dark soundtrack songs, "Quiet life" and "Somehow, somewhen" (which, for people who do not know German, would be English translation of 1st and 3rd word from Nena's "Irgendwie, iregendwo, irgendwann") - and there may be more that I missed. I can't believe this is an accident, at the very least you would have to do it unconsciously, but I very much doubt this. I think you did it on purpose, little symbols left there for an watchful ear in true style of Dark itself, what a unity of form and content this would be. If this is indeed the case, it's PURE MASTERY.
I'm doing my thesis on Heidegger, so absolutely I was excited to see you apply his philosophy to my favorite tv show.
I'd been thinking about Heidegger a lot while watching the show (e.g., one more simple example, the show's repeated line that "What we know is a drop; what we don't know, an ocean." That's very much Heidegger's contention in Origin of the Work of Art, that what discloses itself to us is meaningful is bound around the edges by a vast sense of unknown "earth").
Oh interesting. Are you doing PhD in philosophy?
@@harshr1831 Renaissance Literature, but with phenomenology is my primary theoretical approach.
@@jonathanlgill since you are doing your thesis on heidegger you must have read a lot about him. Can you suggest a good book by him for a beginner?
@@harshr1831 Michael Inwood's "A Very Short Introduction to Heidegger" works well as an introduction. Hubert Dreyfus is another name to mention: his readings of Heidegger are not just highly influential in English scholarship, but he really tries to make Heidegger as clear as possible without sacrificing any depth.
@@jonathanlgill great! I will check it out. Thank you.
I found it most appropriate to loop this infinitely
By far the best Dark video.
Great video. Much appreciated.
There is one more dialog by tanhouse which touches the core philosophy.
"You can choose what you want but your wants are already choose for you".
Great explanation of the philosophical thought structure behind the storyline of the series.
Fantastic analysis!
You just blew my mind with the fact that we will never actually experience our own death. Wow
That's not what some scientists say. Or brain is active for s some time after "death".
Somehow that thumbnail and this popping up in my algorithmic feed was the impetus for watching the show so I can fully appreciate a surely moving, visual essay. Well done, my friend.
Dude. This is amazing. Well done.
I have listen to this over and over. And it never get old.
Thanks for this video summary, I just finished watching the last episode last night and am still mulling it over…this series is true art and took me on a rollercoaster of emotions and realisations. I now know I’ll have to watch it all again sometime with the benefit of hindsight. Profound, moving and thought provoking.
This was excellent!
Thank you!
Edit: It's been 6 months since I first watched this and it is still the most beautiful post Dark essay on UA-cam!
Wow, what a great video essay. Thank you
You have a real genius about your ways of words. Subscribed. The future in Dark is always bearing down on the characters it has a velocity that can not be out maneuvered. 🤯🤯🤯I got goosebumps. This video was well worth time.
Everything you said regarding Heidegger's perspectives, we discussed in school in Sweden when i was 16 years old. Cool to hear it again today.
the end makes me think of the destruction of the wheel of samsara, eastern philosophy, essentially a sort of enlightenment or peace and trandcendance of this reality
A great, insightful video! 👍
I love this video, but I disagree that Helge knew he couldn't change his fate but tried anyway. He had dementia, afterall. He might have legitimately thought that he could change things, not being able to reason through it like a man with a sound mind could have. I think he died thinking he was actually changing things.
This was one the best Dark videos I seen in a while! Not only that but you got the show on a whole wrapped up real nicely!.! XD
Very nice video that inspects the beauty and elegance of Dark. Really great when someone can clearly express such deep themes. Thanks for sharing!
Fractions of an infinite whole 💯 yaaas i love THAT 👏🏾
That are many questions that made me seek annihilation (suicide) to finally be free of the pain, but I've started to believe in neither annihilation or in the cycle of life, but something else, something beyond what our little minds can comprehend, It's hard to accept that we will probably never know what happens afterwards, but maybe we shouldn't care, maybe we should let go of that desire to seek meaning in life but enjoy it until the time comes that we may or may not understand everything, maybe there's much more that we will never be able to comprehend until we go from this world to another one, but until then I'll live.
Or maybe there is a way of knowing, nothing is impossible
It was my favorite show when I was a young teenager, I saw the philosophy in some kind in the show bakc then, but I did not know what philosphy of existence or existencialism is. Now the show makes even more sense. Great analysis
I like you mister. I want you to know that, because I like you since your picture is from Bloodborne and you’re talking about Dark… hats off to you.
Fantastic video! So glad I found it on reddit.
Very well made, amazing production and analysis
Wow this was incredible, what i would give to be able to re watch this show again from a blank slate.
I’m going to re watch it again (:
thank you for such a beautiful essay!
Man, how did you create this video? I mean, you sound like a Dark expert, and your knowledge of Philosophy and life are terrific! i was intrigued from the beginning to the end...and from the end to the beginning. ;)
This is brilliant! Best overview of the themes explored in Dark. So well narrated!
1k likes and 30k views? Are you kidding me? I feel like this video changed my life somehow
oh shit you also have my favorite television show of all time. wow
Very nice video man! Thx for the work👌🏼
you did a really good job w this fr
Great analysis! Shows us how our “predestined” circumstances change who we are ... everything is connected. Everything affects everything.
Ok, Now I like you more because of the painting at the end. Very clever play of words, since the name you’ve chosen for the channel is also in the name of the painting itself. Also given that the painting is my favourite of all.
I appreciate this video so much...
What a masterpiece! Thank you for this video❤
Thank you so much ❤️🙏🏼
incredible upload Sea of Fog. I killed that thumbs up on your video. Keep on up the fantastic work.
Thank you for the profound philosophy! amazing video for an amazing show.
That was beautiful ✨
The Best Dark Analysis!
DARK is life, both Paradise and Hell.
this video was of the highest quality
You have a real genius about your ways of words. Subscribed.
Brilliant Work. Thank you.
I just realised H.G. Tannhaus is a nod to H.G. Wells, the inventor of Time Travel in a science-fiction concept
It might also be a reference to "Tannhauser Gate", which is a place from the "tears in rain" monologue Roy Batty, the replicant character from the original Bladerunner movie (played by Rutger Hauer) makes before his death.
In it he talks about having seen wonders at the Tannhauser Gate in space and how all the things he experienced and the wonders he saw will be gone when he dies, washed away like tears in the rain.
@@TrangleC yes I've seen the film, got the 5 disc version on DVD years back
@@TrangleC it is, they even Show a Gate with the Name tannhaus AS an easteregg in the series. And Blade Runner is the Favorite move of the director. Also Tears in rain... Time to die... Is almost the end of DARK...
Sic mundus creatus est. It has to do with the Emerald Tablet that is also written on the body’s of Bartosz and Noah. Hermeticism is the religion and philosophy where a lot from Dark comes from. It’s an rabbit hole to hardly get out of when entered. It will awnser all questions
it hits different every time I listen but for Sea of Fog rent was due and this masterpiece was created
Great video =) subbed
Is it weird I just thought of DARK as a fourth dimensional family freeing themselves from matter through deleting their existences?
very interesting perspektive on the show, also impressed that you seem to be a reader of Heidegger
Why isn't there an option to like countless times if there was i would give you 1 million likes 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍......i don't usually comment even if i like the video but these is just wonderful, this is the best explanation of dark so far.
This is one reason I like “ Man in the high Castle” I took the central message to be that the heroine is the same in all dimensions, unlike any other character. Or goodness is unwavering, despite the circumstances.
Dark is the best tv show ever created and I will never change my mind
Excellent video about my favorite TV show I'm subscribed now ❤❤❤
Wow man
I have no words just wow👏🏼
Great analysis of a masterpiece series very very power writing Dark is amazing one of the best series ever made.
Just starting watching the series not too long ago🕎🕎🕜🕜🌅🌅🤴🤴⚓⚓⚜⚜🔱🔱🌊🌊🚀🚀🌌🌌
Beautifully written!
exactly what i was looking for
Glad to hear it! I hope you’ll subscribe for more videos like this one
Duuude
The first season to the third is just a loupe.
When I watch the last final episode of season 3 I suddenly remembered true detective when rust talk about the endless circle of time .
such an amazing video damn im so glad i found this
great video
The german word "dasein" means existence, being, presence, path of life.
It depends on the context which variation is meant.
19:33 great question, try the fruit of the tree of life (houma/ayahuasca blends used for thousands of thousands of years &/or meditate a bunch for the endogenous DMT you produce) to find out! youre whalecum for the suggestion btw if you do try those in a safe way and develop peace of mind.
This show could never have been a novel, could it.
Maybe a graphic novel, but the lack of audio would be a huge loss.
Probably not a theater play.
Imagine trying to execute the ideas in this show into any other medium. How insane would that be?
good essay!👍
amazing video!
I loved the aspect of knowledge. Where each character was on a different stage of the path of their journey. By the 3rd season you'd think adam and eva are the most knowledgeable because they have memories of what went before. Also want to recreate it.
But it is all lies. Lies they tell each other. The very reality.
My God your explanation is more twisted than the real DARK
Imagine if Charlotte was never dropped off at the doctor’s house... he’d build another time machine, wouldn’t he? How many more dimensions would have been created???
Kill your desire, and your truest destination is awaiting you soon... No wanting, no having to, just the infinite light of being itself.
واللَّه عظمة
Extremely good stuff
Excellent video
The ”will quote” is schopenhauer
Such a good video.
"Dasein" means "existing". "Da sein" means being there.
What's the difference?
@@harrisonfnord5871 kind of hard to explain for me :I "da sein" is reffering to be at a certain location, while "Dasein" means existing in general.
@@maninscratch certain location? like "world"? I am in the world, i exist. It's the same 🤷
Btw: Heidegger loved these kinds of playing around with semantics... most philosophy students hate him for the same reason 😁
Maybe from your philosophical pov. But in german is a difference between Dasein & da sein.
amazing gj
amazing
great video, was looking for something just like this
U should have more subbs definitely
10:53
I know is time travel mechanic, i would have like to see what would happened if they changed some events,