r/FromTVShow

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.

We know, that there is a set number of people in the Fromville. When 1 dies, 1 come, if more then 1 comes, 1 has to die. But I was wondering now. Jim died, the priest should've come, he picked up Sophia and later Sophia(MiY) killed him.

So based on that rule, new guy should've come right? MiY is not part of the townfolk, or at least it makes no sense to me that he would be the +1.

Do you agree or am I missing something? Maybe the tooth could be a reason why new guy didn't show up? Like if he takes the teeth, he is still considered "in town" or something?

How happy was Jade that he thinks he found a way. But do you guys really think he figured it out to save any of them?
I mean we have established already that whoever running all this gets pleased by showing them hope and taking it all away just after that, like how it happened in case of that smiley Boyd killed.
Now, jade saw how his past life ended, did he not think what's special now that he got this information in this life?

Who do you think they’re performing CPR on?

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The story is building up to a situation where the entire town turns against her and Jade.

 

Jim, of course, would disapprove of the Tabitha X Jade pairing. come on.

But at the same time he also wouldn't turn against her, because despite their shaky marriage he still loves her.

 

Tabitha could never be fully isolated with Jim around.

 

The two narrative choices are

• Jim betrays her (never happening)

• Take Jim out of the picture.

The writers took option B. So Jim had to go.

Why do you think Jim can hear and see story-walking Julie when she arrives right before the MIY kills him, but neither Jim or Donna hear or see Julie when she arrives outside of the RV when the nurse monster attacks her?

Randall is Martin.

Ethan is yellow suit man.

Julie put the talismans in the cave.

Julie made sure the talisman was on the floor of the entry way in the first episode after the daughter opened the window. Leading to them having one in the RV when they crash/arrive.

Julie is Kay Dillon - Kay = Key // Dillon = Dilute/dissolve

Victor is the memory keeper of the story loop

Tabitha will be the sacrifice to break cycle

Sara won't make it past season 4 finale. Either at her own hands or something else.

It was Ethan on the radio not Thomas in season 2.

I think Victor knew Julie already when they arrived in the pilot due to his comfortability towards her.

I do not post because there are a lot of hate on everyone’s theories and it has felt like the same theories just keep getting thrown around over and over.

This one just started to bud on my bajillionth rewatch of this show. In season one when Boyd and Sara are in the tent, she is casually playing with a worm. Boyd tells her (paraphrasing here) if you cut a worm in half then it will grow into two worms. I wondered why he was telling her that but then after watching the new episodes I started cultivating my theory.

Reincarnation theories get thrown around so often that people make jokes about everyone being someone right? And the arguments ensue over how someone has to die to be reborn but we keep seeing parallels in characters and we keep trying to make connections to explain why certain people are pulled in. Why certain people just sort of know things.

So here it goes. Thoughts on the original townspeople possibly being split in two by the ultimate big bad because of the sacrifice? Like separation of monster and humanity. The monster half stays in fromville, gets to be immortal as promised. While the humanity half gets reincarnated over and over again. Another form of immortality. Not sure if I’m explaining it correctly but almost like how soul mates are described. Always being drawn to each other to complete the “soul” I guess. This would ensure the pain and suffering the ancient being requires is always refilled and it also kept its end of the deal.

This might not even extend only to the monsters. There is a lot of duality it the show. I know it’s not a full theory yet but I think it is getting there, maybe 😂 what do you guys think? 🤔

The whole show was created by the crazy- deep and brilliant imagination of its writers. So why.... WHY, are so many people's very imaginative theories and opinions here, put down so cruelly? I'm new here so maybe this is just a thing, but it would stand to reason that imagination is what we need, not sniping. Works real good on the show! Rant over.

After watching Sophia’s mechanism of entry into Fromville, go back and watch how Tobey runs Jim and family off the road and appears so intoxicated before almost immediately being killed by Sera. The guy is hurt in the accident but gets out the car with no mention of, or concern for Jade. It’s almost as if he doesn’t even know he was in the car. He gets to town, gets treated at the clinic, still no mention of Jade. He’s concerned about driving under the influence but that’s about it, then he’s murdered by Sera. Worth noting too that 2 cars showing up the same day has never happened before. Jade also seems to know Tobey which is the exact same set up as Sophia with her “dad”. I know Jade spends season 1 trying hard to get out and explaining the nature of their imprisonment but his arrival is really strange.

Just for fun, imagine Sheriff Boyd Stevens is no longer around and someone else has to lead the town. Who would be the worst possible choice from the listed and why? Not necessarily cause they are evil, but their perosnallity, decisions, temper, ego or lack of experience could make anything worse.

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after the latest episode i realized who the HELL brought a PIANO in their car!!

previous scenes let us know they rely on supplies brought in from new cars (ex. clothes and medicine) so who was just casually traveling with not a keyboard but a full. blown. grand. piano.