[dkstories] How may time lines are there?

[BlueSoxSWJ]

Okay smart guys...how many timelines are there now? (I just gave up counting, btw).

 

Well, the start is almost the same, but I made an error:

 

Indeed, I thought about this as well, when there have been scenes where the timelines get numbered. If you want to get technical, an entire timeline is played out EVERY time a change is made. This means timeline 1 would be the original. Timelines 2-5 would be after Davey went back, after Shevrenadze went back, after dr. crazy went back, and when Sean went back.

 

DOR would then create timelines 6-9, as the first Chinese traveler, Davey, the second Chinese traveler, and Sean went back. DIR (well, actually, DOR ch 31) creates and is timeline 10. The start of LDI would then create timelines 11 (after signals were jammed) and 12 (Brian goes back). Finally, Shevrednadze and Sean go back again, creating lines 13 and 14. Now, Brian going back will create timeline 15, though since he only counts timelines Davey and then he remembered, he'd call it timeline 6 - he would count timelines 1, 5, 9, 10, 12, and now 15.

 

Maybe it would be an interesting exercise to try to write one of the "erased" timelines (except 4, which we know all about from DO chs 37,38), such as timeline 2. Obviously, we'd expect it not to differ until DO ch 17, when the agents show up at the Rush house ...

 

Now, in timeline 12, Dr crazy also went back, along with Shevrenadze, and Sean, creating timelines 13, 14, and 15. Now, the 6 friends have gone back, and that's all we know about, so they create timelines 16-21, with 21 being the "current" timeline. If we go by "known" timelines, we have:

1 (original) [brought back by Davey and Sean to timeline 5]

5 (Do Over) [brought back by Davey and Sean to timeline 9 - 4 (Davey's death) is brought back as well by Sean, but later lost]

9 (DOR) [brought back by Davey to timeline 10]

10 (DIR) [brought back by Brian to timeline 12]

12 (LDI until Sean comes back) [brought back by Sean to timeline 15]

15 (LDI from Sean's return though Brian's return) [brought back by all six friends to timeline 21]

21 (current)

 

Thus, they would say this is timeline seven.

 

edit: I'm willing to bet right now that this is actually a higher number, and that someone they left alive in the bubble came back too. We just don't know about it yet.

Edited July 17, 2007 by BlueSoxSWJ