when it premiered Dark (2017-2020) on Netflix, the most fascinating series that the streaming platform has given us. streaming Until now, there were those who wanted to insist that its similarities with stranger things (since 2016) they detracted from its own entity and originality. Absolute nonsense, of course. Because the story concocted by Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese actually has little to do with that of the Duffer Brothers and its narrative complexity is infinitely superior.
But that, of course, cannot prevent one from reminding us of the other for certain details. The young protagonists that go into the riddles fantastic, violent and science fiction that hide their small forest towns, Winden and Hawkins; missing unexpected from some kids to start with, Mikkel Nielsen and Will Byers; the efforts of their families to recover them and their setting in the eighties of the twentieth century, or in part, at least, to Dark.
Nevertheless, stranger things it is more popish and monstrous or stylistically Lovecraftian, its tone does not skimp on its sense of humor and its plot is not as convoluted as that of German fiction, which has a greater harshness and seriousness. And, of course, the horrible Upside Down World as a parallel dimension of one does not find any possible reflection in the temporal variations of the other. Even so, something else is in the fourth season about Eleven and company.
Warning, spoilers ahead!
The young victims of two systematic murderers in ‘Dark’ and ‘Stranger Things’
The main mystery in the new stage of stranger things that the Duffer Brothers have devised for the teenagers of Hawkins focuses on the murders committed by a powerful creature that our beloved Dustin Henderson and Eddie Munson nickname neighbor. And in the seventh episode, we find out that it’s about who Henry Creel once was to his family, and later One in Dr. Martin Brenner’s lab. But Eleven sent him to the Upside Down World, from where he acts now.
His victims are kids like Chrissy Cunningham and Fred Benson, and then we learn that the greats Max Mayfield and Nancy Wheeler are also in danger. On the other hand, in the first season of Darkthey tell us that a disturbing subject called Noah is dedicated to kidnapping kids with the help of the deranged Helge Doppler to test a machine that kills themlike Mads, the brother of Ulrich Nielsen, Erik Obendorf and Yasin Friese.
Opening interdimensional portals through death
killer neighbor to open portals between the fearsome dimension of stranger things and that of the people at each crime scene, probably to invade it all at once or even overlap. and the server Sic Munduswhose birth name is Hanno Tauber and who was born in 1904 while Winden’s present is 2019, finds time travel at your whim with said device, that is, open temporary portals where and when you want.
To clarify this coincidence, we allude to what Doc Emmett Brown says in the trilogy of Return to the future (1985-1990) on what constitutes the fourth dimension. In addition, according to the theory of the aforementioned Dustin Henderson, the villain of the Upside Down World Serve the Mind Flayerand the other scoundrel, who poses as a Catholic priest to make matters worse, follow the instructions of the schemer Adamwhich is none other than the leading man Jonas Kahnwald in old age.
The decisive difference between Vecna’s behavior and Noah’s, however, is perhaps to be found in the fact that the killing of the one at Hawkins is the instrument for the opening of the portals and, instead, those of the childer of Winden, an undesirable consequence of the temporary experiments. But, anyway, we don’t know if the Duffer Brothers have noticed the new resemblances that their wonderful series has with the captivating Dark.