Arcadevere
Gentle Lady From Brady Hartsfield Defense Squad
Hi everyone,
I'm new here and just finished reading this fabulous book.
With all of Jake and Al's travels up and down the Rabbit Hole, I started wondering...
#1: Let's say Jake goes down the Rabbit Hole while Al is hanging out in his diner. Then for whatever reason, Al goes down the Rabbit Hole while Jake is still there. Since Al has caused a reset, does that mean Jake simply ceases to exist?
#2: No matter how much time passes in the past, only two minutes elapse in the present time while Jake is down the Rabbit Hole. Which means that when Jake went down the first time he killed Frank Dunning, Al was only waiting for him for two minutes. But what if Frank had killed Jake? Would Al see the time tick past the two minute mark and realize something was wrong?
#3: If Jake had decided to forget about saving JFK and just live in the past with Sadie, there would eventually be two Jakes when his date of birth rolled around. And then what? Jake II would meet Al and be recruited to save JFK (since Jake I decided not to). What would happen if Jake I and Jake II ran into each other in the past?
Those are my hypotheticals - forgive me if I'm overthinking this.
Now, my question. I'm still trying to wrap my head around the meaning of the alternative 2011 that Jake returns to. I *think* he finds that the world has gone to **** not because of JFK living, but because all the trips down the Rabbit Hole have destroyed reality. If that is the case, how is it that Jake was able to put things right by yet another trip down the Rabbit Hole? Wouldn't that just create another string and hasten the end of the world?
Howdy and welcome to SKMB
Here is my entire reaction
1. What the hell? *in one of background voices from the stupid videos at the show science of stupid*
Okay seriously that was a bit nuts, but in my own theory, the reset will cause to a single person not two person. And we haven't see a scene where there are two person went down at the hole at the same time, but i believe it will not cause any reset to either one of them, unless one of them re-enters the hole again. Lockdain made a good assumption. And i bet he/she answered your question in this
2. If Jake died inside the rabbit hole, he will never return to the future so he was so careful while in rabbit hole and that's why the card man's warning to him was so massive and like forcing him to give up. This is also my theory, If Jake died, he would be a person in the void in the timeline threads, he would be like what happened to Dream of the endless at Sandman comic series : overture, he would be in the limbo And will disappear in future like a missing person.
3.
Okay seriously that was a bit nuts, but in my own theory, the reset will cause to a single person not two person. And we haven't see a scene where there are two person went down at the hole at the same time, but i believe it will not cause any reset to either one of them, unless one of them re-enters the hole again. Lockdain made a good assumption. And i bet he/she answered your question in this
2. If Jake died inside the rabbit hole, he will never return to the future so he was so careful while in rabbit hole and that's why the card man's warning to him was so massive and like forcing him to give up. This is also my theory, If Jake died, he would be a person in the void in the timeline threads, he would be like what happened to Dream of the endless at Sandman comic series : overture, he would be in the limbo And will disappear in future like a missing person.
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This theory reminds me of what happened to Kratos at the near to final scenes of God of War II after he killed clotho and go back at the time he would save himself against the blade of Zeus wich result in his death at the previous timeline (but he lives and escape through the hades and ventures through the place where he saw the sheeds of time (gosh my fave arena at GOW) and into the palace of the sisters of fate to travel back at that time again). But unlike 11/22/63, there is no reset at GOW and once he create a new disturbance at the old scene, instead of changing the future, it will now result in ultimate collapse of the peaceful flow of time because of the death of the sisters of fate.
So i remember GOW II while reading the time travelling timeline of 11/22/63 (gosh, sorry for a fangirl freak out XD)
So i remember GOW II while reading the time travelling timeline of 11/22/63 (gosh, sorry for a fangirl freak out XD)