Julie Throwing the Rope to Boyd Seems Like a Huge Time Paradox?
I’m doing a rewatch of From and I’m trying to understand the logic behind the rope scene with Boyd in the chimney.
It seems to be established later that Julie can “visit” past events or chapters, but not actually change them. However, Julie is apparently the one who drops the rope to Boyd.
The problem is that this event happens much earlier in the timeline, before Julie even learns or discovers this ability. Without the rope, Boyd likely dies there.
But if Boyd dies: the future timeline changes completely, Julie may never develop this ability in the same way, and the Julie who throws the rope might never exist.
So is the show implying:
a deterministic closed loop where Julie always threw the rope?
multiple timelines/branching realities?
or that the town exists outside normal linear time altogether?
To me it feels like the show is leaning toward “whatever happened always happened,” similar to Dark, but I’m curious how other people interpret it.
Because otherwise this feels like a bootstrap paradox where Boyd only survives because of a future Julie that only exists because Boyd survived.