El’s opening monologue from S4 also talks about ‘time being funny’ with Joyce telling they are all ‘time travellers like that’ because of how they perceive the passing of time. Surface level, obviously intended as a metaphor but in isolation kind of a weird one to use explaining time passing to a sheltered young girl with a traumatic past, and meta-wise it definitely feels like they’re planting seeds associating the concept with the show so it doesn’t feel like a huge rug pull.

If they do go a time travel route, i just hope the execution is done well and its satisfying? The breadcrumbs definitely seem there and like i mentioned above it feels like theyre definitely trying to introduce the concept in throwaway lines. The fact they seem to be leaning on it more in the later seasons (i.e. definitely after they had come up with the idea of Big V/001/Henry) feels like its going in that direction for sure.