Tarssauce wrote: ↑

July 14th, 2020, 6:03 pm

Only issue I had with season 3 is that it jumped through timelines a lot to a point where it felt there were over complicating things for the sake of it. But after watching the entire season things wrapped up quite nicely. Really fantastic.

I still think about that ending. I’m definitely going rewatch the whole as everything is so incredibly connected, you can easily miss a lot of details.

Vader182 wrote: ↑

July 14th, 2020, 6:19 pm

big spoilers for S3 to anyone who hasn't caught up:

I thought following multiple versions of most characters (in time and the alt-world), led to a less focused and slower paced season, especially when half the characters are following orders under false pretenses and/or don't know why they're doing what they're doing. It hurts momentum, but also gets in the way of developing individual character arcs of "journey" you can track from Episode 1 to Episode 8 and get really invested in.

These issues compound in the last couple episodes, like how Episode 7 leaves all these huge gaps in the overall narrative that seem like they'd have been much more compelling as drama to watch unfold, rather than the slower paced narrative elements of Episodes 1-5. They say information is the enemy of emotion, and too much of Dark S3 treated its plot as "information" and not as a personal "drama."

The biggest let down for me is that the the three masterplans, those by by Adam (destruction/nihilism), Eva (eternal recurrence) and Claudia (discovering the origin world), are "discovered" by these characters off-camera. These are major plot revelations and I didn't find it very satisfying as drama to have these served up as exposition dumps. Overall, I'm decently satisfied with the season, but imo it's the weakest season by a fine margin.

-Vader