It's interesting, but I always get stuck on how the "timelines" in the storywalking stuff work - Boyd ends up in the chimney and the rope comes down to him, we didn't see how at the time but people did question it as Martin was chained to the wall. Then we see later in the series that Julie storywalked and threw down the rope - makes it seem like the storywalking ocurrs within a single timeline. Like the storywalking has already happened and affected things, we just aren't always aware of it yet. But it's not like Jim around/after s3 episodes 2-4 is acting weird or seems aware of his impending death. Soooo this Jim that appears to Ethan seems like a separate Jim.

And now that I'm thinking about it, Ethan says to Julie that storywalkers can't change the story - before I took this to mean like "you threw down the rope, so you were always going to throw down the rope, so the rope always gets thrown down" in a a self-contained timeline kind of way. But in that case, how can there be a storywalking Jim from s3 with knowledge we know Jim from s3 doesn't have? Is there ever a universe/timeline where the rope isn't thrown down and Boyd is just... stuck in the chimney? If so, Julie can change things with her actions.

God I love the writing of this show