For those who haven't yet seen the whole show, go and watch it first and then come back to my review. It would be such a shame to be spoiled.
Those who know me will know that I'm particularly fond of time-travel stories, and this series is no exception.
If the 3 seasons can be summed up in a few words, they are: - Season 1 - Time travel - Season 2 - Time travel between two universes - Season 3 - Time travel in the multiverse (Tri-verse)
It must have been an immense amount of work to write this story, to place each object meticulously in the sets, the make-up on each character in each version to both recognize and differentiate them, the acting of each actor who immortalizes perfectly the gestures and postures of their doubles, this series is a true masterpiece.
But that said...
There is no doubt that this version of time traveltold by its creator is not physically possible.
Whether by the simple fact of the beginning of the loop: Jonas could never have lived and done what he did without his double Johnas from the future, the rest of the characters likewise, etc...
And by its ending: how can a moment that repeats itself ad infinitum can change in the middle of a loop?
The first way to explain this change is to have an interaction outside of the loop (in the manner of Schrodinger's cat, as explained in the series), but this raises several additional questions: the simple fact that this person has entered this Pandora's box leads to the creation of a new timeline, and even if this were the case, how would he or she have known what was happening in the loop? so this is just not a possible scenario.
The second way (the one given by the series), is that at some point in the loop, someone had an emotional and logical change in their way of thinking and decided to change things. How would she have known what was happening outside the loop? If her change had taken place, why wouldn't it simply have created a new universe? As mentioned in the series, every event in the loop has to happen and can't be changed, so how is it that this Claudia managed to change that?
And how the hell did this guy lose his eye/arm?
So many questions remain unanswered...
But that doesn't matter, it doesn't diminish the masterpiece of writing that this series is.
I would have liked to have an ending (with an extra episode or two) where when Jonas and Martha arrive in the third universe in front of the car, the accident happens because of them. That would have explained the start and end of the loop, and with one more episode we could have seen what happens in that third universe to explain how it all began.
For me, that would have been a more logical ending.
Before concluding, I'd like to say that there have been a lot of annoying and uncomfortable things that have happened in the series (such as the priest being both the grandfather and the husband of the mute girl), but the worst thing is the hateful character of Hannah who is everyone's genealogical source, it's disgusting to know that.
But this fact alone proves that it's physically impossible, since if we take the mute daughter as an example: if we assume that a person receives half the genes of her parents, she could never have been the exact same person as her grandmother (herself), since she couldn't have had the same genome.
To conclude, this series is one of the best in the time travel theme (for me, the two anime Steins;Gate and Higurashi: When They Cry remain the two best in this field). It must have been a real headache to conceptualize and produce it.
For those who had the courage to read my review till the end, and for those who only read the conclusion, I highly recommend to watch this series!
Review by Darkfall48VIP 6BlockedParent2023-11-19T01:33:07Z
For those who haven't yet seen the whole show, go and watch it first and then come back to my review.
It would be such a shame to be spoiled.
Those who know me will know that I'm particularly fond of time-travel stories, and this series is no exception.
If the 3 seasons can be summed up in a few words, they are:
- Season 1 - Time travel
- Season 2 - Time travel between two universes
- Season 3 - Time travel in the multiverse (Tri-verse)
It must have been an immense amount of work to write this story, to place each object meticulously in the sets, the make-up on each character in each version to both recognize and differentiate them, the acting of each actor who immortalizes perfectly the gestures and postures of their doubles, this series is a true masterpiece.
But that said...
There is no doubt that this version of time traveltold by its creator is not physically possible.
Whether by the simple fact of the beginning of the loop:
Jonas could never have lived and done what he did without his double Johnas from the future, the rest of the characters likewise, etc...
And by its ending: how can a moment that repeats itself ad infinitum can change in the middle of a loop?
The first way to explain this change is to have an interaction outside of the loop (in the manner of Schrodinger's cat, as explained in the series), but this raises several additional questions: the simple fact that this person has entered this Pandora's box leads to the creation of a new timeline, and even if this were the case, how would he or she have known what was happening in the loop? so this is just not a possible scenario.
The second way (the one given by the series), is that at some point in the loop, someone had an emotional and logical change in their way of thinking and decided to change things. How would she have known what was happening outside the loop? If her change had taken place, why wouldn't it simply have created a new universe? As mentioned in the series, every event in the loop has to happen and can't be changed, so how is it that this Claudia managed to change that?
And how the hell did this guy lose his eye/arm?
So many questions remain unanswered...
But that doesn't matter, it doesn't diminish the masterpiece of writing that this series is.
I would have liked to have an ending (with an extra episode or two) where when Jonas and Martha arrive in the third universe in front of the car, the accident happens because of them. That would have explained the start and end of the loop, and with one more episode we could have seen what happens in that third universe to explain how it all began.
For me, that would have been a more logical ending.
Before concluding, I'd like to say that there have been a lot of annoying and uncomfortable things that have happened in the series (such as the priest being both the grandfather and the husband of the mute girl), but the worst thing is the hateful character of Hannah who is everyone's genealogical source, it's disgusting to know that.
But this fact alone proves that it's physically impossible, since if we take the mute daughter as an example: if we assume that a person receives half the genes of her parents, she could never have been the exact same person as her grandmother (herself), since she couldn't have had the same genome.
To conclude, this series is one of the best in the time travel theme (for me, the two anime Steins;Gate and Higurashi: When They Cry remain the two best in this field). It must have been a real headache to conceptualize and produce it.
For those who had the courage to read my review till the end, and for those who only read the conclusion, I highly recommend to watch this series!