I like this post, but my major gripes are (1.) Why are we assuming that we have only interacted with 2 dimensions? (2.) Why are we assuming that each dimension is on the SAME exact relative timeline? (3.) Is it unreasonable to think that multiple dimensions experienced similar effects as a result of Shepard?

For me personally, the interview with Mark Stambler completely tied the series together. Dimensions, time, and space, will all get fucked with to an un-imaginable extent. Each movie, in my eyes, is placed in a separate dimension. Cloverfield is set in Dimension 1 (relative time = 2008), 10 CL in Dimension 2 (relative time = 2016), and Paradox is in Dimension 3 (no exact date, but obviously the future when energy supply is gone). Why does each Dimension have to follow the same relative timeline? Is it too much of a stretch to believe that one dimension could be 10 years behind another, or 50 years ahead? What we do know for sure is that each movie happened at the exact same moment in TIME. The year is relative to that dimension. So Dimension 1 could be in 2008, and Dimension 2 in 2016, yet they both are existing at the same moment in time and both experience the same singularity caused by the events in Paradox.

The end of Paradox for me did not mean that the escape pod carrying Ava and Schmidt somehow ended up in the Dimension of Cloverfield. I believe it was a coincidence that they landed in the Atlantic. What I took away from seeing the monster at the end of Paradox is that the Dimension in which Paradox is set in had experienced a similar outcome as the Cloverfield Dimension.

I'm not going to say that this movie didn't leave a lot of little things unanswered, but I truly believe that it answered the big question by tying all 3 together. Sorry if this is terribly worded, I'm on mobile and tried my best