Am I the only one who just watched in German with subtitles?
I started it twice with dubbing and just couldn’t. I would occasionally get distracted by a cat and have to rewind ten seconds to get something I missed, but it was much less distracting than the mismatch between mouths and words. And it probably improved my German.
“Der Anfang ist das Ende, und das Ende ist der Anfang.”
I will always watch a show or movie in the original language, hearing words that don’t match what I see the actors are saying just completely takes me out of the story. The acting is also always better by the original actors. The dubbing can never perfectly match the emotions of the onscreen actor.
I really enjoyed the first season, it was a bit confusing but I wasn’t bothered by that and was able to keep most everything straight. I can’t remember if season 2 was already available and I went right into it or if there was a little break between. The problem was there was such a long period between seasons 2 and 3 that by the time the third one came out I had completely forgotten all the details of what had happened and there was no way I was watching both seasons again so I still have not seen season 3. The way season 2 ended kinda made me think it was gonna get even waaaaay more convoluted!
I commented in the other thread that I found the dubbed version unwatchable but really liked the German with subtitles. It wasn’t just the disconnect between voice and lips; I didn’t feel like the voice matched the actor or the emotion matched the scene. It totally took me out of it.
In the other thread, most of the people had the same reaction.
Ever since that other thread was linked, I saw those comments and have switched to watching in German with subtitles. I didn’t really mind the English dub, but it is my nature to vastly prefer original audio with subtitles, so I’m happy to have gotten that push to make the switch.
I am currently a few minutes from the end of S2E05 and still enjoying it as much as season 1, so I’m happy about that.
Though I admit I did roll my eyes when it turned out that Adam is Jonas. That felt a little incestuous. Ironically, even moreso than the actual incest in the show.
(I only read in that thread up until the first post talking about season 2. Once I finish season 2 I will continue reading until the first mention of season 3.)
I never watch the dubbed versions, always the subtitled. Dubbing is a crime in my book!
I just finished the show. I enjoyed all three seasons but I think the first and second were the best. The third just gets so convoluted, it starts to suck a little of the joy out of watching it.
An important note: There is an official Netflix Dark webpage that has the family tree and can walk through many of the items. It is setup so that you tell it what episode you are on and it only shows the information up to that point. It is very helpful along with a lot of the family trees that people made on Reddit. I never would have made it through if it weren’t for those.
Going through the reddit discussion for each episode made it a lot more enjoyable as people posted questions/answers/theories without any spoilers.
Overall I recommend it. It is just a bit of a mental exercise that I wouldn’t go through alone.
I wish I’d known about that info; I found s3 a bit of a slog because it was so confusing. Overall a highly enjoyable experience though.
Did anyone watch “Bodies” on Netflix? I just finished it, and it has a lot of similarities to Dark, following characters in four different time periods. But it’s way less convoluted, you don’t need a chart to follow it, and it’s only one season. Check it out if you liked Dark.
If anyone wanted to discuss it, I could start a new thread.