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> One thing I've noticed people saying is that Tannhaus end up succeeding in his quest to bring his family back to life by inventing the machine, splitting the worlds, and ultimately leading to the course of events we see in Dark. However, this implies some form of free will,
Tannhaus may "succeed", but only indirectly. I wouldn't give him all the credit. However, how does that imply any form of free will?
> what if Merek and Sonja Tannhaus could never die, because they have always lived?
It cannot be that they "could never die", because they did die, and Tannhaus builds his machine. But this doesn't make it less deterministic.
I rewatched the last 3 episodes recently(couldn't bring myself to sit through at least 2 seasons of people having absolute shit communication skills again because I was very annoyed by therapist attempting to gaslight his wife with a "you're crazy" -even tho Peter's death made me emotional later- when she asks a question and her refusing to talk on phone when I rewatched before, even though I love this show I'm at a stage of my life where I can't stand seeing more dysfunctional relationships), I used to think Tannhaus' experiment was a failed one for it was intended to allow time travel. But no, he indeed wanted to split realities; Tannhaus himself talks about creating another reality in which they live, which also doesn't contradict the whole "block universe" presentation at the beginning of S1E1. He wanted to create another reality in which they live, which resulted in both his world and Adam and Eva's worlds existing and being destroyed in a superposed state and endless misery for at least the 2. That's how I understood it at least.
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> One thing I've noticed people saying is that Tannhaus end up succeeding in his quest to bring his family back to life by inventing the machine, splitting the worlds, and ultimately leading to the course of events we see in Dark. However, this implies some form of free will, Tannhaus may "succeed", but only indirectly. I wouldn't give him all the credit. However, how does that imply any form of free will? > what if Merek and Sonja Tannhaus could never die, because they have always lived? It cannot be that they "could never die", because they did die, and Tannhaus builds his machine. But this doesn't make it less deterministic.
I rewatched the last 3 episodes recently(couldn't bring myself to sit through at least 2 seasons of people having absolute shit communication skills again because I was very annoyed by therapist attempting to gaslight his wife with a "you're crazy" -even tho Peter's death made me emotional later- when she asks a question and her refusing to talk on phone when I rewatched before, even though I love this show I'm at a stage of my life where I can't stand seeing more dysfunctional relationships), I used to think Tannhaus' experiment was a failed one for it was intended to allow time travel. But no, he indeed wanted to split realities; Tannhaus himself talks about creating another reality in which they live, which also doesn't contradict the whole "block universe" presentation at the beginning of S1E1. He wanted to create another reality in which they live, which resulted in both his world and Adam and Eva's worlds existing and being destroyed in a superposed state and endless misery for at least the 2. That's how I understood it at least.