Reasons everyone should watch 1899:

a good old fashioned brain fuck brought to you by the creators of Dark

Daniel Solace

a bunch of people who all speak different languages run around for 8 hours unable to communicate and yelling at each other that they can’t understand what other people are saying

messy-haired Aneurin Barnard running around looking tortured and being pretty

beautiful cinematography

Andreas (DILF) Pietschmann

honestly just an amazing cast all around

Olek just being the most sweet, helpful, lovely person ever

also a good deal of badassery

pretty people being sad and confused

loml Daniel Solance, please he just needs a hug and a kiss

Olek and Ling Yi

just lots of brain fuckery and confusion and pining tbh

I’m still confused and there’s so many ways to interpret everything and I need more

just trust me on this one, please watch it

1899 + memes [1/???]

1899 was like this is maura and her boyfriend eyk and her surprise husband daniel and their son elliot and this is lucien and his wife clémence and her boyfriend jérôme (who is a homoerotic enemy of lucien) and her girlfriend tove and tove’s brother krester who ángel lusts after and this is ángel’s lover ramiro and let’s not forget ling yi and her boyfriend olek

Every time, they make the same mistakes. And every time, they die. Because they can’t get rid of their emotions. But that’s what makes them weak. It’s human nature’s ultimate flaw. One shouldn’t base a choice on love, anger, hate. They’re just silly feelings that cloud the mind. — 1899, (fuck you netflix)

There's just something about the way that Olek is so class-conscious when he first encounters Ling Yi.

He frees her from the box but then backs away, giving her space and deliberately not touching her. He sees that she's shivering and offers her his jacket ("it's dirty, but it's warm"), only taking one step closer with an outstretched arm. He glances at her out of curiosity and concern, but keeps lowering his gaze because he knows (despite the strange circumstances) this is a first-class passenger and he shouldn't be making direct eye contact with her.

Something shifts, though, when he tells her his name, and suddenly they're looking at each other the way that a first-class girl and a soot-covered boy from the engine room are not supposed to look at each other.

Even though he offers her his hand as they escape off the fog-covered deck, the knowledge of the divide between them is still there when they reach the open-air compartment. ("I know it's not first class," he acknowledges.) Olek's eyes are downcast again, only for him to grow a little bolder and lift his gaze up to her face. Still, he doesn't get any closer or try to touch her, not even when he returns with food and finds her on her knees, sobbing and struggling to breathe. His eyes are wide, searching hers, as he listens to her tearful words, but it's Ling Yi who steps closer in search of comfort, clutching at him, her arms circled around his back. There's such hesitancy in the way he touches her — he's not allowed to be holding her like this, is he? — but then comes the moment when he finally gives in and wraps his arms over her shoulders, pulling her into his (dirty, but warm) embrace while she cries.

DARK S1E09 (2017) / 1899 S1E03 (2022)

Every time, they make the same mistakes. And every time, they die. Because they can’t get rid of their emotions.

EYK & MAURA, OLEK & LING YI, JEROME & CLEMENCE | 1899 (Netflix, 2022)

Nobody's son, nobody's daughter

LING YI & OLEK

1899 (2022- ) ↳ 1.06 The Pyramid

1899 + immediate connection/recognition

1899 + couples who instantly connected (2/4): Olek & Ling Yi

1899 + recognizing each other

Ling Yi + Olek

Jerôme + Clémence

Ángel + Krester

Maura + Daniel

Tove + Franz (I couldn't find a pic of the first time they met, sorry)

You already know

I keep thinking back to Ling Yi and her mother’s shared mantra (“Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end”) and how Olek’s first words to her — even if she didn’t understand him — were, “It’s okay now.” It’s a fascinating point of connection between two characters that seem to share little else.

(I also suspect the mantra is a clue to the existence of the simulation: it runs again and again, there is no end, and therefore the possibility always remains that things might turn out okay.)

underrated olek/ling yi moments that make me feral:

olek awkwardly standing behind ling yi and not knowing what to do with his arms

olek starting to speak and then immediately getting tongue-tied the second ling yi looked at him

olek tying their hands together instead of separately like everyone else did and them never leaving each other’s side after that (and the fact that there is a polish wedding tradition called zrekowiny where the bride and groom’s hands are tied together with white cloth and the fact that in asian cultures, soulmates are represented by a red string of fate that ties two individuals together)

olek looking to ling yi and stepping in front of her when tove was waving her gun around

ling yi looking worried and olek immediately turning around to see what she was looking at

the two of them holding onto each other for dear life as they try to make it to the bridge

their hands clasped together holding the wheel

THEM!!!!!