soren7550 said:
That twist is a reminder of why we can't have nice things. Really want to know how Chloe became wheelchair bound (we do see a picture oh her getting a car in the new timeline, so she was good for at least another three years).
Makes me really wonder how much/little impact everything done up to that point will have.
I think the things we've changed in the "Alpha" timeline (The stuff before we saved Chloe's dad), will be relatively irrelevant while we're trying to fix the new wrinkle in time we've made. Because the entire template is different now. But once we fix things to go back to the Alpha state, the choices we made in previous episodes will persist and matter going forward.
This feels sort of like an offshoot. I mean, what is the point of making the choice to get into the Vortex Club party in Episode 2, if we're always going to be in the Vortex Club party,
because we're a member of the Vortex Club? So yeah, I think the first half of episode 4 will be us working to re-kill Chloe's dad, or perhaps keeping her from doing whatever it is that crippled her. I'm guessing car wreck, or perhaps cheerleading. Cheerleading's seriously fucked up in how bad it can cripple young women.
After that, and we're back to "normal", we'll go about the rest of episode 4 (that Thursday), based on the choices we've made up to that point.
I do like how they're taking from Butterfly Effect at this point, as it makes the photos that Max has been taking more relevant to events, as they are now doorways for her to travel back in time. I doubt they're going to actually implement this too much, as it would make for an insane amount of convoluted storytelling, to let you jump into all these different photos and change something. But I did like the plot device idea behind it in Butterfly Effect, and I like it here.
I am however, starting to think that if they are taking heavily from Butterfly Effect, then the final "good" ending, is probably going to involve some kind of sacrifice on Max's part. In the movie, Ashton Kutcher's character had to sever all ties with the girl he loved, because he couldn't find any future's where everything was happy, if he was in her life. I think Max might have to do something similar, like maybe not leave to Seattle, and stay, so she and Chloe stay friends, which might mean that Rachel never meets them, and thus lives her own life somewhere else.
*shrugs* Just theorizing here. Loving the game so far, especially some of the choices they give you are tough. Though one was amazingly funny to me. The whole "throw the bone at the street or not" choice. The stats were heartening to me, globally, like 97% of people refused to let the dog be hurt, just so we could sneak into his trailer.
capcha: no spoon Why yes capcha, that is correct, for I stole your spoon and then rewound time so you never had it in the first place. Time thief! Whacha! *vanishes in a poof of smoke*
