Alternative timeline [spoilers]

[illusivetoasty]

So ep3 ending happened....before it happened all those pictures changed and there's 1 showing Chloe getting a key presumably for her own car, so whatever happened that caused Chloe to be in that situation must've happened after Chloe was 16 right? What could that mean or does it have any meaning or impact toward ep4? The wait is killing me...even though ep3 just released...here goes another 8 weeks stuck on a cliffhanger...man...ep 3 is so good

[Meranius]

they just cant let us stay in this timeline bcause rly everything what we do before would turn out to nothing. the kiss, save alyssa three times and other stuff that would not happen in this timeline bcause max is in the vortex club, warren is with stella and much more. too much stuff would be ruined when we stay in this timeline. its just logical that we go back

[illusivetoasty]

true...i wasn't able to sleep...that episode 3 messed me up bad...lol

[KyoSahart]

the episode 4 will be max trying to figure out how to go back to her original timeline and then a cliffhanger and 8 weeks waiting for the ep 5 hahaha

[Lehkeri]

I really don't believe they'll "waste" an entire episode with this alternate timeline.

[facade]

I'm worried about how Chloe is going to react to a different Max. This is currently Chloe's reality after the changes. To her, this is the way it's always been. How is she going to react when Max tries to explain the other reality?

[monsterfurby]

Originally posted by facade:

I'm worried about how Chloe is going to react to a different Max. This is currently Chloe's reality after the changes. To her, this is the way it's always been. How is she going to react when Max tries to explain the other reality?

Well, Max is still the same. Conveniently, Alternate-Reality-Chloe hasn't met Vortex-Club-Max, so she wouldn't know that this is actually Main-Timeline-Max' mind in Vortex-Club-Max' body.

[facade]

Originally posted by monsterfurby:

Well, Max is still the same. Conveniently, Alternate-Reality-Chloe hasn't met Vortex-Club-Max, so she wouldn't know that this is actually Main-Timeline-Max' mind in Vortex-Club-Max' body.

Good point...

[Haserich Markenhuber]

My Theory is; There aren't 2 Timelines. There are 3 Timelines.
At the very Start of the Game you get to rescue Chloe with your Time Rewind Power from Dying. That's when the 2. Timeline got into the Story. The 3. Timeline happens when you rescue Chloe's father from dying in the car accident. The Thing is, I assume that in the End of the Game you would have to rewind until the Start of the game by looking at the Picture of the Blue butterfly to prevent Arcadia bay and everyone you know getting destroyed by the Tornado.

[✙ Zigster ✙]

Originally posted by Herr Paschulke:

My Theory is; There aren't 2 Timelines. There are 3 Timelines.
At the very Start of the Game you get to rescue Chloe with your Time Rewind Power from Dying. That's when the 2. Timeline got into the Story. The 3. Timeline happens when you rescue Chloe's father from dying in the car accident. The Thing is, I assume that in the End of the Game you would have to rewind until the Start of the game by looking at the Picture of the Blue butterfly to prevent Arcadia bay and everyone you know getting destroyed by the Tornado.

Not to ♥♥♥♥ up you're theory, but how could max look at the blue butterfly picture if the old Chloe
has the picture in her wallet ?

[Geeky Meerkat]

I don't know, while I wouldn't be surprised if there is an ending option of "Undo everything and let your childhood bestfriend die along with anyone else who you might have saved" option, I would be a bit disappointed if that was a required path. Because that would just mean that ANY choice I make in the game would get undone. This includes any choice I might have made that didn't involve time reversal. For instance your relationship with Warren is something you can pretty much do the way you want so far without time shenanigans. (Well except for the end of EP 3 but I assume 4 will provides some better idea of what's going on there)

[Tough.Resolve]

Originally posted by Herr Paschulke:

My Theory is; There aren't 2 Timelines. There are 3 Timelines.
At the very Start of the Game you get to rescue Chloe with your Time Rewind Power from Dying. That's when the 2. Timeline got into the Story. The 3. Timeline happens when you rescue Chloe's father from dying in the car accident. The Thing is, I assume that in the End of the Game you would have to rewind until the Start of the game by looking at the Picture of the Blue butterfly to prevent Arcadia bay and everyone you know getting destroyed by the Tornado.

So the deepest life lesson in the game is that the entire thing was a waste of time and left you having accomplished nothing? Interesting plot twist...

On a more serious note, I agree that the new timeline is illogical. As I stated in another thread and has been said here, it doesn't make sense that all of the decisions made before are moot or that we waste a lot of the valuable time left on what is a dead end. Being as Max returns to her "current" position in time after entering a memory, any change she makes is left to its own devices. For instance, if Max had rewound that far instead and began repeating her life from that point, it could be a better timeline. Her decisions are essentially randomized at that point, making a severe disconnect between her and everyone else.

While I will definitely enjoy whatever comes in Ep 4, it makes sense to me that Max will have to somehow find the original photo and undo her redo. Attempting to stop Chloe's accident violates the time wasted logic, and anything she does differently will potentially change everything. To be fair, even hiding the keys in another location will likely have delayed William enough to alter time, but that has been (understandably) overlooked. I'd like to think that the optional photo will change the way Chloe reacts to David, or perhaps even prevent Joyce from marrying him, but would that "fix" things, or just make another, less appealing timeline?

[monsterfurby]

Originally posted by Herr Paschulke:

I assume that in the End of the Game you would have to rewind until the Start of the game by looking at the Picture of the Blue butterfly to prevent Arcadia bay and everyone you know getting destroyed by the Tornado. [/i]

I'm not sure if the rest of your post is going to come to pass the exact same way, but this sounds like something that could actually happen. The butterfly picture being a Chekov's Gun for jumping back into the beginning to undo some fatal early mistake? I'd dig that.

[Avalanche]

Originally posted by Herr Paschulke:

My Theory is; There aren't 2 Timelines. There are 3 Timelines.
At the very Start of the Game you get to rescue Chloe with your Time Rewind Power from Dying. That's when the 2. Timeline got into the Story. The 3. Timeline happens when you rescue Chloe's father from dying in the car accident. The Thing is, I assume that in the End of the Game you would have to rewind until the Start of the game by looking at the Picture of the Blue butterfly to prevent Arcadia bay and everyone you know getting destroyed by the Tornado.

i just hope chloe doesn't need to die to fix everything.

[Haserich Markenhuber]

Originally posted by Jamie:

Originally posted by Herr Paschulke:

My Theory is; There aren't 2 Timelines. There are 3 Timelines.
At the very Start of the Game you get to rescue Chloe with your Time Rewind Power from Dying. That's when the 2. Timeline got into the Story. The 3. Timeline happens when you rescue Chloe's father from dying in the car accident. The Thing is, I assume that in the End of the Game you would have to rewind until the Start of the game by looking at the Picture of the Blue butterfly to prevent Arcadia bay and everyone you know getting destroyed by the Tornado.

i just hope chloe doesn't need to die to fix everything.

I think She indeed does. Just watch the movie Donnie Darko. Its the same thing there.
Though I also hope i didn't figured out the Plot yet. That would be disappointing as hell.

[monsterfurby]

Originally posted by Herr Paschulke:

I think She indeed does. Just watch the movie Donnie Darko. Its the same thing there.
Though I also hope i didn't figured out the Plot yet. That would be disappointing as hell.

I know the feeling. I thought I'd figured out the plot once... then episode 3 happened.