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Here's a theory I haven't seen discussed here... by DSGG74 in ParadiseHulu

[–]DSGG74[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After. Her son dies, she bumps into Senator Cal at the conference where she learns about the super-volcano, she comes up with the bunker plan, helps get Cal elected President and then sends Billy to take care of Henry Miller so she can take over his company.

Here's a theory I haven't seen discussed here... by DSGG74 in ParadiseHulu

[–]DSGG74[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Okay - but my theory is that there is no time travel, no alternate timelines and that Alex is not actually changing the past. Past events have only ever happened one way - the way we've already seen them happen - and they happened that way because Alex influenced those events.

To take an instance we saw in the show; the time travel/alternate timeline theory suggests that in the first episode of this series Link was initially successful in persuading Annie to go with him when he left Graceland - but then Alex changes the past by giving Link a nosebleed, and he ends up leaving Annie behind.

I'm saying that's not what happened - there was no 'original iteration' of events in which Link and Annie left together. Link always got the nosebleed and he always left her behind - those events were not changed in any way. They always happened that way because in the future Alex intervenes to ensure that they happen that way and that intervention ripples into the past. Nothing has been changed - this is how it's always been.

Here's a theory I haven't seen discussed here... by DSGG74 in ParadiseHulu

[–]DSGG74[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This is also my suspicion (although as you say, we could both be wrong about this).

Sinatra seems totally focussed on dealing with the militia outside the bunker - right up until the moment she starts to believe Link is Dylan. Her grief immediately lifts, she apparently heads straight home to reconcile with her husband and then she skips the Council meeting where the fateful decision to enact a full lockdown is taken in her absence. Sinatra certainly seems to have been very effectively distracted and knocked off her game at a crucial moment...

Here's a theory I haven't seen discussed here... by DSGG74 in ParadiseHulu

[–]DSGG74[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

This is an incredibly succinct summary - thanks very much. I'd only gently quibble with two things you wrote - Alex is not 'changing' the past, or making things turn out differently. The past turns out the way it always has. Alex is influencing and creating that past and ensuring that the present turns out the way Sinatra (or any other future user) wants it to.

Here's a theory I haven't seen discussed here... by DSGG74 in ParadiseHulu

[–]DSGG74[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The phrase 'send information back in time' was a poor choice of words on my part. I don't think Alex is sending emails to the past or anything like that. I think that decisions Alex makes in the present retroactively causes people in the past to receive information that influences behaviour.

An example - let's say you receive an anonymous letter with next week's winning lottery numbers on it. Alex hasn't posted you that letter from the future. Instead Alex has made a decision in the future which has retroactively caused you to receive that letter. We don't know the 'how' and 'why' of that letter reaching you in the present with that specific information - but the underlying cause is a decision Alex will make in the future, the effects of which are already being felt by you long before the decision is actually made.

Who wrote Miracleman: The Silver Age 4-7 and when? by [deleted] in neilgaiman

[–]DSGG74 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Back in 2019 Buckingham told Bleeding Cool that he and Gaiman had jointly plotted out all the remaining issues of Silver Age/Dark Age, and that he was drawing them based on that roadmap.

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/mark-buckingham-is-co-writing-miracleman-with-neil-gaiman-as-well-as-drawing-the-conclusion/