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How do they record the voice track in heavy rain scenes?
Personally, I thought they did a lovely job on the sound in Dark.
I mean, noticeably good, not just "It was OK, I never really paid attention"
Bearing in mind that those scenes in the rain ...
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How was Dark written?
Dark was developed by Jantje Friese (author, but there were also other authors) and Baran Bo Odar (director). English wikipedia, German wikipedia. In an interview with serienjunkies.de from 2017
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How did Ulrich end up in 1953?
[Currently there is another answer that has been accepted, but I don't think it clearly answers the question, so I provide this answer as an alternative.]
The cave's tunnels serve as a junction of ...
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How did Ulrich end up in 1953?
The idea of going 33 years into the future and 33 years in the past had to do with the methods of time travel, and there are several shown in the show.
"Season 1" Time Travel
The 33 years ...
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Why did Bartosz Tiedemann have a horrified look on his face when Silja Tiedemann gave birth to his child?
Because he has just realized he is the father of Noah (real name Hanno Tauber) who had recruited him in the year 2019 when he was a teenager in season 1 to help Sic Mundus. This mind-twisting ...
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Why is there is no Jonas in Martha's world?
First of all, it’s better to refer to it as Eve’s World; Martha is a character common to both worlds, whereas Martha growing up into an old women who goes by the name Eve is the unique characteristic ...
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Who invented the time machine in Eve's world?
There were only one set of blueprints
I'm not sure how you concluded that, but it is not correct. It's hard to make out, but Adam has blueprints for the golden sphere on his wall:
Left is the ...
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What happened to Adam in the earlier cycles once he killed these characters?
In all the earlier cycles, what did Adam do once he realized killing Martha's child isn't the answer as he was still alive after doing so.
Killing Martha's child hasn't been a constant. It is also a ...
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Why did Adam kill her?
By that time, in 1911, all the years of working with the time machine has caused Jonas physical and mental change. He's become cold, calculating, and vengeful. Magnus tells Hannah that Jonas is not ...
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Why does Adam have these scars?
It's not completely clear, but I think Season 3 Episode 7 seems to give some reason for it.
When a middle-aged Jonas is trying to create his time travel machine in the 1920's, he gets struck very hard ...
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What is meant by "The beginning is the end, and the end is the beginning” in Dark?
There are numerous cyclical themes in Dark. It is the defining motif across the seasons.
Predominantly, it is used to refer to the fact that the events we are viewing are happening over and over. The ...
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What exactly is this event?
The destruction reaches far beyond Winden, though as you mentioned the entire world wasn't destroyed.
I can't find specific information on the official Dark guide, which is surprising given how much ...
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Does Dark have an ending?
Apparantly Baran Bo Odar, who created the show together with Jantje Friese has posted on his Instagram in May 2019 that season 3 will be the final season.
I don't have Instagram so i cannot check.
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Who is detective Clausen's brother?
Spoilers from the ending of season 2:
All these facts lead to the conclusion, that Noah can't be Clausen's brother.
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Why didn't Hannah notice this?
If we assume that they were living in the same village all these years, Hannah would probably know Mikkel since his birth, when he would definitely wouldn't look like Michael. Then he would grow up, ...
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Is Noah Tronte Neilson's father?
After season 3 hope you got the answer. Noah is not the father of Tronte Nielsen.
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Is Noah Tronte Neilson's father?
Edit: Updated June 24th 2019 to reflect new information in Season 2 (everything below until update remains speculation based on Season 1)
There is currently no definitive answer.
The show definitely ...
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Was the release date of Dark season 2 preplanned?
Writing for season 2 started on January 2018. *
Filming for season 2 ended on November 2018. *
After that, they went into post-production and it was completed in April this year.
The trailer with ...
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Why painting on the face?
It seems that Michael Kahnwald (Jonas' father) was a painter - or at least he did some paintings, as we can see multiple painted canvases in their attic. No more is explained in the series about that.
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What's the goal of Adam and Claudia?
Adam wants to destroy the knot. Claudia wants to save her daughter, Regina.
Adam wants to destroy the knot, wiping out both Adam's and Eva's worlds. He plans to do this by killing the pregnant Martha ...
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Why did they get kidnapped / killed / tortured?
This is a variation on Kevin's answer with the focus on a different part.
To summarize:
Noah had no access to a time travel device and therefore developed his own. The tunnels were available (for some ...
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Why is Jonas so quickly swayed?
All the trauma is forgotten and also all the hard work Jonas put in to prevent the traumatic suicide of his father. Without much discussion they all agree that Michael should hang himself.
In the end,...
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How did Claudia come back from the dead in Dark?
There are more than two Claudias
Okay. Let's assume there are two Claudias in Netflix's Dark. One from Jonas's world and another from Eva's world. Jonas' Claudia kills Eva's Claudia and she takes her ...
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Why does Adam have these scars?
I believe JMac is correct that Adam's scars are a continuation of the electrical burn on the Stranger's (i.e. middle aged Jonas') arm, but I wanted to add an additional consideration.
There are three ...
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Is Peter related to Regina in the origin world?
I think the discrepancy you pointed out shows why they are not related.
I cannot think of a single instance in the show where the same child was born with different parents in another one of the ...
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How could adult Jonas believe he was closing the wormhole in 1986?
Global season 2 spoilers!
There is a key concept in Dark that you're somewhat glossing over. Time is not set in stone, and the bootstrap paradox can exist. There are many of these paradoxes:
This ...
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How did Claudia come back from the dead in Dark?
Okay I must say this first, Claudia is not looping like we see in movies like Groundhog Day or The Edge Of Tomorrow. She is not an exception. Her memory is not cumulative. She ages like all other ...
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Why painting on the face?
Personally, I interpreted this as blood all over Micheal Kahnwald's face indicating that Jonas was seeing a ghost/dead person/he wasn't real etc.
I saw the blood as also representing Jonas' fear of ...
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What's the goal of Adam and Claudia?
Adam wants to destroy the knot. He figures that the only way to do it is by killing the pregnant Martha using the energies of both worlds. However, for this, Adam needs everything to proceed in an ...
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Why did they get kidnapped / killed / tortured?
They weren't being tortured, per se, but used as test subjects on an unready technology. The time tunnel was created "naturally" via the "incident" in June 86 at the NPP. It only ...
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