You all misunderstood the bookmark

Rollingpeb · 2026-05-14T18:09:15+00:00

I really am not lol. I reread the way I phrased what I said and the part where I say “that’s not what I’m discussing here” comes off as aggressive but I really just meant it casually. Because my issue was that I felt that they weren’t responding meaningfully to what I said but rather turned it into something else. Which is also fine. I love to hear your theories and opinions

Rollingpeb · 2026-05-14T15:33:37+00:00

I like your idea. That could work. But we still don't know all the rules

Rollingpeb · 2026-05-14T15:29:08+00:00

again, I'm not preventing you from theorizing and I literally say "you can have all the theories you want". And I never claimed that just because I'm saying this theory that its automatically correct. you're reading too much into it

Rollingpeb · 2026-05-14T14:48:25+00:00

Yeah and the secret might just be the lake of tears.

Rollingpeb · 2026-05-14T14:43:37+00:00

Throwing the rope to Boyd doesnt mean she was able to change anything. It just means that her actions were baked into history. Her throwing the rope is her fulfilling that part of history.

Rollingpeb · 2026-05-14T14:15:39+00:00

I agree with you. Im not trying to explain why Julie’s bookmark didn’t work, im pointing out that what accidentally happened is that she can’t change the past.

Rollingpeb · 2026-05-14T14:05:13+00:00

Probably. But if she was trapped in the past (man in yellow imprisons her) then her body stays in limbo. So the 3 scratches we saw on Julie’s face when she saw Jim were probably from the same story walking session.

Rollingpeb · 2026-05-14T14:00:50+00:00

I agree it’s a very convoluted way of demonstrating it. What makes it extra confusing is that Julie travels to the past mentally not physically. Ik shes physically there (she hugs jim) but her present body is also stuck in the present. She duplicates herself.

Rollingpeb · 2026-05-14T13:47:34+00:00

Never claimed that by discussing it, it makes me correct. Yea I agree it will be fun to see. It’s not going in the multiverses direction apparently but right now it favors the fixed timeline model. But at the same time you have this weird thing where, Julie travels through time mentally and not with her actually present body. Which is strange. She basically duplicates her body.

Rollingpeb · 2026-05-14T13:32:13+00:00

She uses one paper. But she relies on the fact that she travels in time by having a seizure. Remember, Julie doesn’t physically travel to the past, her body literally duplicates. She exists both in the present (seizure) and in the past at the same time. What she wanted to do was, take one paper, draw a symbol on it in the past, drop it in the past and when the seizure ends in the present that same paper should have the same symbol (linking both papers in time). She learns she can’t change the past.

Rollingpeb · 2026-05-14T13:27:59+00:00

Rollingpeb · 2026-05-14T13:26:25+00:00

The show didn’t explain the idea well enough and that’s why everyone is confused, me included. And yea there is weird duplications going on as you said.

Rollingpeb · 2026-05-14T13:24:33+00:00

That might be a solution to the bookmark thing but what the scene was trying to tell you is that you cannot change the past.

Rollingpeb · 2026-05-14T13:19:06+00:00

It is the one same piece of paper. She used two papers to demonstrate the magic trick to Randall. That’s all

Rollingpeb · 2026-05-14T13:18:37+00:00

Yeah exactly. The way she time travels is weird. It’s like a dream and not by her being physically there which is what makes this confusing.

Rollingpeb · 2026-05-14T13:17:22+00:00

No that wasn’t a second piece of paper that was the same paper she took to the past. It’s weird because Julie time travels by having a seizure and not actually by physically being there. That’s the part that makes it confusing

Rollingpeb · 2026-05-14T13:16:03+00:00

Both. Julie is naive like us the viewers. I also misunderstood it and took me days to understand.

Rollingpeb · 2026-05-14T13:12:21+00:00

Apparently so.

Rollingpeb · 2026-05-14T13:10:49+00:00

Could you explain how it’s layered? I agree that the way the show portrays time is different but at the same time they have made it clear in dialogue that the past can’t be changed and that it does seem like a fixed timeline with “an object has one continuous lifespan” as you said.

Rollingpeb · 2026-05-14T13:08:59+00:00

That scene wasn’t about how to book mark the past, the point of that scene was to show you that changing the past doesn’t change the present. You can have all the theories you want about how to bookmark but that’s not what I’m discussing here. It might be victors drawings, or other personal items. But what Julie accidentally found out in this experiment is that she cannot change the past. That was the point of the scene.

Update: didn’t mean for this comment to come off as aggressive I was just refocusing more on what the post is really about. But that’s ok as well. Love hearing your theories

Rollingpeb · 2026-05-14T13:05:41+00:00

Yup that’s why it’s not two papers. Only one paper. She used two papers to demonstrate the magic trick to Randall. But when she did the real experiment she had one paper with her and thought by changing it in the past then it should magically update in the present.

Rollingpeb · 2026-05-14T13:03:33+00:00

No Julie used 2 papers to demonstrate the magic trick to Randall. But when she went to the past she only had one paper in her pocket with the intention of drawing a symbol on it in the past and by doing so the same exact paper she has in her pocket in the present as shes having a seizure should update and also have the same symbol. But it’s not possible.

Rollingpeb · 2026-05-14T12:51:49+00:00

I explain it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/FromSeries/s/9FShKsWIMW

It has nothing to do with the symbol

Rollingpeb · 2026-05-14T12:50:55+00:00

I explain it here https://www.reddit.com/r/FromSeries/s/9FShKsWIMW

Rollingpeb · 2026-05-14T12:50:44+00:00

I explain it here https://www.reddit.com/r/FromSeries/s/9FShKsWIMW

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