Very interesting. I've thought for a while that this was the case but it's becoming harder and harder to make an argument against it every week. Good find.
Yeah I think we can say there are definitely multiple timelines being interlaced. But hopefully there is some much better payoff than-- MiB says "Howdy Dolores, my name is William." (dramatic music plays)
That would just be one of the all-time plot-twist reveal let-downs... if there's not something much cooler and unexpected that comes with it. The MiB character seems like kind of a loser (he says the word "deep/er" so often, it like that's his built-in dialogue track), so if the reveal is "Simple-minded self conscious loser becomes villainous loser" ... meh.
Although, everyone was 75% sure that Bernard was a robot, and that reveal was awesome (IMO), so I'm holding out hope. But I would love to see something totally unexpected-- that William gets killed (the critical failure), and MiB turns out to be a robot, and Teddy's cycle starts anew with being strung up bleeding to death in a tree, haha. (I don't really want that, but it would be out-of-the-blue)
If this is true, where is Delores in the current MIB time period? Is she still in the loop at the farm?
Train, by herself.....back on track to the maze
Back on the loop to the maze. FTFY. The fact that she appears to repeat the same rebellious journey when she is "woke", and Ford even seems to know about it, has to be significant.
Yeah I think we can say there are definitely multiple timelines being interlaced. But hopefully there is some much better payoff than-- MiB says "Howdy Dolores, my name is William." (dramatic music plays)
That would just be one of the all-time plot-twist reveal let-downs... if there's not something much cooler and unexpected that comes with it.
@Ajas For 99% of people watching this show it would be a pretty big twist, you would only pick up on it if you're listening to podcasts and following all the message board theories. Most individual people aren't going to put all this together by themselves.
The combined force of the internet breaking down every scene can probably guess at possible twists before they're revealed if they're properly set up. If people are going to insist on treating the show like a crossword puzzle don't complain about solving it.
With the sneaky way they edit the show, I think the natural inclination is to believe that events that are shown after a particular scene are occurring immediately following that scene, which is likely not correct. But if you're just watching without trying to piece it together, I bet the multiple time periods is going to be a big reveal.
Yeah I think we can say there are definitely multiple timelines being interlaced. But hopefully there is some much better payoff than-- MiB says "Howdy Dolores, my name is William." (dramatic music plays)
That would just be one of the all-time plot-twist reveal let-downs... if there's not something much cooler and unexpected that comes with it.
@Ajas For 99% of people watching this show it would be a pretty big twist, you would only pick up on it if you're listening to podcasts and following all the message board theories. Most individual people aren't going to put all this together by themselves.
The combined force of the internet breaking down every scene can probably guess at possible twists before they're revealed if they're properly set up. If people are going to insist on treating the show like a crossword puzzle don't complain about solving it.
If people are going to insist on treating the show like a crossword puzzle don't complain about solving it.
If that is the solution to the puzzle, they should have made the characters more GAF-worthy. MiB isn't really villainous enough to hate, and they aren't conveying enough of the Hero's Journey to sell William as a protagonist worthy of affection.
Although, now that I think about it-- that shot of William jumping between train cars is a good eye-wink toward crossing the first threshold... and directly preceding that is when they have "I just want to wake up in a story"/"I don't want to live in a story!" exchange.
Unless there's something more insidious they're hiding, they didn't have to bend over backwards just to avoid doing the reveal by episode 3 or 4. Plus any article you see anywhere mentions the multi-timeline, w=mib theory, so I'm keeping hope alive that was an intentional red herring.
@akritenbrink "I think it's been pretty clearly shown that he's playing a villain in the park but he's a philanthropist IRL. Not that a philanthropist can't be a villain, or a rich guy can't be a bad guy who just happens to have a wife/children/employee who runs a great charity. "
If this is true, where is Delores in the current MIB time period? Is she still in the loop at the farm?
Train, by herself.....back on track to the maze
Back on the loop to the maze. FTFY. The fact that she appears to repeat the same rebellious journey when she is "woke", and Ford even seems to know about it, has to be significant.
No, I don't think we have. But if the episodes where she's alone in the same places all of a sudden are flashbacks or flash forwards she's been in a lot of these places before.
If this is true, where is Delores in the current MIB time period? Is she still in the loop at the farm?
Train, by herself.....back on track to the maze
Back on the loop to the maze. FTFY. The fact that she appears to repeat the same rebellious journey when she is "woke", and Ford even seems to know about it, has to be significant.
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@Ajas For 99% of people watching this show it would be a pretty big
twist, you would only pick up on it if you're listening to podcasts and
following all the message board theories. Most individual people aren't
going to put all this together by themselves.
The combined force
of the internet breaking down every scene can probably guess at
possible twists before they're revealed if they're properly set up. If
people are going to insist on treating the show like a crossword puzzle
don't complain about solving it.
If that is the solution to the puzzle, they should have made the characters more GAF-worthy. MiB isn't really villainous enough to hate, and they aren't conveying enough of the Hero's Journey to sell William as a protagonist worthy of affection.
Did we see her get on the train? I don't recall