@jamesrobson4894

3 years ago

This was extremely thorough and very helpful! I have one tiny detail to add however. I noticed, quite by chance, that we see ONE scene twice, as in the same moment in two cycles. 1986 Claudia walking into her office where older Claudia is already sat down. Now, this could just be a slight continuity error, but if so it’s the only one in the series I noticed. When we see the scene first, young Claudia walks in and gretchen runs to old Claudia, and the rest follows. In the compilation scene in season 3 episode 7, in what is meant to be THE SAME MOMENT, Old Claudia stands up as young Claudia walks in and says ‘hello Claudia’. This NEVER happened in the ‘first’ cycle but did in this one, thus I conclude THIS was the moment she told her younger self about the origin world which fits your ‘slinky’ theory, OR she just gave her a little more information, and thus the conversation is different each time and not identical. Several cycles later, Claudia knew enough thanks to this spoon feeding from her older self to use the loophole, tell Adam and break the cycle. Edit: Just checked the two scenes side by side again, and Gretchen is no where to be seen in the 3x7 scene while she is clearly visible running into the room in the 2x2 scene! So now we know there are clear differences, there are only 2 possibilities; either it’s a continuity error as they reshot the scene and forgot to match the dialogue or have Gretchen there, OR it’s intentional because this meeting was different to all the infinite ones before it, meaning Claudia broke cause and effect and told her younger self in this new scene (3x7) about the third world and the loophole and what to do to break the cycle.

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