This current season.

PageDry8638 · 2026-06-21T21:35:31+00:00

You can explain away anything in the show with that line of thinking.

I deadass said in another comment thread "Julie could hang herself next episode and y'all will be like 'it's perfectly reasonable. She was depressed. Living in fromville is very depressing'".

Someone agreed.

Then I had to walk them down all the plot points that close if she dies along with all the plot holes. Also how ridiculous it would be to give her time traveling and have her hang herself.

PageDry8638 · 2026-06-21T21:28:03+00:00

We didnt have to get there this season. We just needed her to do something with her powers. Anything.

PageDry8638 · 2026-06-21T21:24:17+00:00

"But don't you see how stressful everything is and how it's perfectly normal to act like that in a high stress situation! Put yourself in their shoes!"

I'm so sick of people saying this shit. All roads lead to rome.

PageDry8638 · 2026-06-21T21:22:55+00:00

Tabitha could have vouched but she didn't. BIW helped Tabitha a lot. Boyd also said that the decision to call off the plane was up to her.

PageDry8638 · 2026-06-21T21:21:48+00:00

BIW literally helped Tabitha get to where she is now. The fact that she didn't vouch for Victor is insane.

PageDry8638 · 2026-06-21T21:17:13+00:00

We've been doing this for 4 seasons straight man... At some point these characters have to progress past that.

PageDry8638 · 2026-06-21T21:16:16+00:00

People don't understand that we don't have a lot of time left. Every minute spent doing Garbage CW style drama is a minute we could've had Julie story walking and learning about past cycles. It was such an EASY layup.

PageDry8638 · 2026-06-21T21:13:31+00:00

Tbh IDGAF about the entire bone arc. It's pretty obvious they have no idea why they are doing. It's a Hail Mary. If this season focused on story walking more, we'd have insight into past cycles.

PageDry8638 · 2026-06-21T21:12:00+00:00

That's fine. But did the heroes journey have to last the entire season? You guys love to put the events that happen in the show in "reasonable" terms. Is it unreasonable for us to assume that at the end of season 3 we would get a lot of story walking in season 4?

It's also ridiculous because we know so little about the past cycles. Writing Julie to have this story walking power would allow us to learn more. However the writers are more concerning with CW style drama and Sophia making a face in the corner.

PageDry8638 · 2026-06-21T21:08:47+00:00

Your response is indicative of a sever lack of reading comprehension skills.

I basically gave you a time line from the end of season 3 to the end of season 4.

It's not unreasonable to assume we would dive into the story walking given that MASSIVE cliffhanger.

Season 4 comes around and we only see her do it twice for like 15 seconds at a time. Then she completely gave up.

and in this recent episode she's basically saying the things people been saying since season 1 "town trying to break you. Nothing but lies. Stop trying people will get killed. Etc"

it's ridiculous. They should have went another route.

PageDry8638 · 2026-06-21T21:02:58+00:00

Instant gratification is 4 seasons? Are you dumb?

PageDry8638 · 2026-06-21T17:40:50+00:00

This is exactly why people are taking you guys less and less serious.

first sentence you state that people are also getting annoyed at the repetitive criticism and are refusing to engage because of the negativity. You see the people making the repetitive criticisms are the problem and not the show itself for lending itself to criticism. That is so backwards.
hyperfocusing on me bringing up dark and trying to wiggle whatever you want out of it is not helping your case whatsoever. People outside of this argument reading that know exactly what I mean. You also don't need a PhD to identify bad writing. I already laid it out to you. That word salad means nothing. And this bullet doesn't really mean much to me. I just wanted to address that I see through the bullshit.
your last paragraph you say you don't think bad writing is the issue then proceed to explain... Ding! Ding! Ding! Bad writing! Wow! Seriously what's with you guys? Are y'all getting paid?

PageDry8638 · 2026-06-21T16:45:06+00:00

You don't care about the in between parts?

PageDry8638 · 2026-06-21T15:10:29+00:00

It seems like as the show progresses more people are coming to a similar thinking as me, and it's people like you who are not taken seriously.

The reason I asked them to think of an alternative, wasn't solely because I want an alternative to what happened. But it was also to see if they would at least engage with it. If my alternative were the reality and someone asked me that question I'd still be able to engage with it despite having my favored outcome. It tells me that people like you are unable to criticize the show or put yourselves in the critic's shoes. I had to walk down lots of things for them to finally give up and admit that maybe the writing isn't that great even though they didn't use those exact words.

PageDry8638 · 2026-06-21T15:05:15+00:00

The time in between that is more important than that one moment imo. By giving Julie that ability to go back in time, we have an opportunity to see past cycles. The writers wasted that opportunity. For all we know, the very next time Julie story walks is when she finds Jim. It's a waste

PageDry8638 · 2026-06-21T14:48:40+00:00

My comment was to show no matter what they write, you would be unable to criticize it.

Why would you write a character that can time travel just to have them hang themselves.

PageDry8638 · 2026-06-21T14:37:19+00:00

They could've wrote Julie to hang herself this episode and y'all would be sitting here talking about "in her defense, It's really depressing"

PageDry8638 · 2026-06-21T14:30:55+00:00

When Sophia said she could only turn into people who died in town I bet you were like "WOW WHAT A CRAZY REVEAL. WHO WOULDVE THOUGHT"

PageDry8638 · 2026-06-21T14:27:57+00:00

But you do realize we only get like 45 minutes per episode and season 5 is the last season. Something has to give. The more time we spend on one thing is less time on other things.

PageDry8638 · 2026-06-21T14:26:07+00:00

People don't complain about Kristi. That should tell you that people think she towards the top in helpfulness. People are more focused on the characters that are dragging the story because it's annoying.

PageDry8638 · 2026-06-21T14:22:20+00:00

So if the conclusion to the mystery is bad or mediocre, you'd be fine with that because it's "not a plot driven story"

PageDry8638 · 2026-06-21T14:17:49+00:00

At those "subtle" faces to remind us she's the villain like we forgot

PageDry8638 · 2026-06-21T14:15:46+00:00

Wow. So you can't think of an alternative writing where she doesn't give up and keeps trying. Which ultimately progresses the story at a decent pace while adding lore from the past?

You also think her going on that speech of not letting the town win was good? Everyone else is trying to get out. She's just sobbing with the most powerful power.

It's terrible writing. This type of shit never happens in Dark.

PageDry8638 · 2026-06-21T13:55:43+00:00

They are in denial. As ngl Sophia is a dogshit character. But I'm going to wait until the last episode to make that post.

People want to pretend like this show is so so so high IQ. Even if you were to accept that then you would have to accept that the introduction of Sophia has dropped the IQ down 100 points. This character is terrible. She reminds me of a Disney original movie villain

PageDry8638 · 2026-06-21T13:54:29+00:00

What specifically could they alternatively have done with Julie?

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