User Reviews

This episode is full of unexpected moments.

First of all, there's Helge's return to his time. Noah's time machine has been refined and actually works now, covering the whole body instead of just the head. Helge isn't alright when he returns though, he's clearly been affected by Ulrich's 'killing' him or travelling through time. Noah's presence here is creepy, Helge only speaking when he gives him a Bible to read from.

In a big twist, we see that Agnes Nielsen is involved in time travel as well. Turns out Noah is her brother! And Claudia is using her to give something to her younger self. Not only that, but she knows of her affair with her mother. And Agnes's betrayal of Claudia is even more confusing, revealing she was once part of Sic Mundus and wants to be again. Claudia's death is shocking too, I didn't think it was going to happen.

The really complicated stuff comes from the bootstrap paradox surrounding Taunhaus. There's his book, which he didn't write because it made its way to him before he could. More confusing is the time machine. There was already some weird stuff going on last episode with Old Claudia burying it in 1953 so Middle-aged Claudia could find it. Even more complex now is that Taunhaus can only explain to Claudia how the machine works because her older self showed him. It's helpful at this moment to connect it to Taunhaus's interactions with Stranger Jonas. He only understood how to finish building the device in 1986 because Jonas came back with the same device, now broken, from yet another point in time, as well as the phone and cesium to activate it. I feel like there are still bits missing in the history of the machine, or I'm not putting the pieces together correctly, as I don't understand the whole of its history.

9.5/10

Imagine someone is trying to build a time machine, but is failing to get it work. Then suddenly the finished time machine appears and his older him steps out to explain to him how to build the time machine. He never would have been able to build the machine without the help of his older him. And his older him never would have been able to travel back in time in order to help his younger self. It is just impossible. Poor Egon His story is even sadder than that of Helge. It doesn't matter when the time-travelling starts. Because as long as you can go back in time as far as the beginning of time then everything happens within the loop. And therefore everything has the potential to be a bootstrap paradox. More mind blowing coming. My favorite bootstrap paradox (shown up to this point) is the book Claudia gives to H. G. Tannhaus (tip to H. G. Wells, author of "The Time Machine"). Where did the information in that book come from? I suspect the blueprints for the machine will turn out to be the same kind of something from nothing, if made from taking apart the machine and observing its parts. Bootstrap paradox relies on an author standing outside the story who does not see it as a start to finish progression, but rather, as a single finished whole. When you read a simple time line story, you experience it as it happens, but the author looks at it as stationary, all at once, when the work is finished and being sent to the printer. Most of us feel ourselves traveling forward in time, but some speculate a stationary 4D Universe where there is no preferred "now" because all future/past simply exists.

Carries on the consistency in quality from the first two episodes. This show seems to have become more established now with every episode developing the story and continuing to surprise the viewer with twists and revelations.

Content of episode :

En 1954, Helge, jeune et défiguré, revient après avoir disparu pendant sept mois, mais refuse de parler à quiconque sauf à Noah, avec qui il a passé les sept derniers mois en 1987 à construire une nouvelle machine à remonter le temps. Doris trompe son mari, Egon, avec Agnès. La vieille Claudia rencontre ensuite cette dernière, ancien membre de Sic Mundus. Elle est la soeur de Noah, à qui elle révèle l'emplacement des pages manquantes dans l'espoir de rejoindre Sic Mundus. Claudia lui remet le livre de Tannhaus et rend visite à son père pour s'excuser auprès de lui, à sa grande confusion. Claudia rencontre Noah dans la forêt, qui la tue, récupère les pages manquantes et est consterné par ses découvertes. Il ment à Adam sur ce sujet. Egon interroge Helge sans succès et rend visite à Ulrich en prison, qui ne réagit pas.

En 1987, Egon rend visite à Ulrich âgé à l'asile. Celui-ci révèle à Egon son identité, ce qui lui rappelle les déclarations de Mikkel lors de sa première apparition en 1986. Après avoir interrogé Inès, Egon, montrant à Ulrich âgé une photo de Mikkel, est attaqué par ce dernier. Claudia rend visite à Helge, puis utilise la machine à voyager dans le temps qu'elle a trouvée pour se rendre en 2020 ; elle pleure en voyant sa fille Regina atteinte d'un cancer.

Review episode :

still have some mysteries and some interesting revelations and events i enjoyed it ,and want to see a lot more like always.

The conversation between Caroline and his father gets really emotional when she says the exact words the old lady said. The priest shot her but she aldready sent her younger self to the present time and she saw herself while she's fighting cancer.

For a show that's lauded for being so intelligent, they sure did have to make Ulrich act pretty stupid to end up where he's at. Perhaps if you didn't start every conversation by immediately lunging at & grabbing the person's throat/collar, you wouldn't be stuck in a psych ward still?

It's not even a new thing. He's been doing this since S1. But ever since he time traveled, he does it even more, all while making sure to be a vague as possible to also make everyone around him assume he's insane in the process... It's the only thing in the show that breaks the suspension of disbelief. Everyone is well written & behaves/reacts in ways you could reasonably expect. Not Ulrich!

Just saying he was distraught because his son was missing doesn't explain it. Hell, half the town is missing at this point, but Ulrich likes to yell at people & ask vague questions that only confuse people he's talking to. It's like he doesn't want to know answers or actually help save anyone... as he does things that directly stop him from achieving those goals. Oh, you want to know where Mads is? How about instead of immediately screaming & grabbing a dude, you just ask? I mean he was the one condescendingly talking down to Egon last time (talking in vague riddles that mean nothing to Egon, so again, not helping achieve his goals), and now YOU act like that?

If you can't tell, I have a real point of contention with the Ulrich plotline at the moment of writing this. They've made him into an imbecile that takes me out of the show. Thankfully, his involvement is so brief now that the other 45+ mins of each episode make up for it.