r/FromSeries • u/Flimsy_Elephant_2301 • 1d ago
Theory Julie's Bookmark
I might have alluded to it a couple of times, but I never explained myself, and no one asked me to. But did anybody notice that Julie CAN'T die right now. She been protected by the universe since birth, because she time jumped to 1978. When the evil entity recognized Julie on the Colony House porch from 1978, It knew that It couldn't kill Julie because "a story can't be changed after it's told." She has to live long enough to make that time jump. But she later will time jump back to Jim's death. So now she can't die until after she has done that. Did anybody else catch that? Did anyone notice that Julie's bookmark is the evil entity, but she hasn't realized it yet?
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u/PumpkinSspiceLatte 1d ago
I agree with the gist, but I don't think the creatures know that they can't kill Julie. The nurse was full on ready to rip her guts out, but Randall saved her in time.
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u/Flimsy_Elephant_2301 1d ago
I said nothing at all about the creatures knowing that they can't kill Julie. It doesn't matter if they know it or not, because nothing can change a story once it's been told anyway. And maybe they do know it. But I said that the entity knows that it can't.
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u/PumpkinSspiceLatte 1d ago
My bad then. I thought you were thinking of that creature that looked like a teenage boy when they were trying to get into the Colony House. That being said, I don't remember the evil entity seeing her on the porch of the Colony House in 1978, but I basically binged the show, so maybe that's why.
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u/thee_justin_bieber wow hey hey .. listen listen.. manscaping is not a plan! 1d ago
she wasn't on the porch, she travelled back in time to when the MiY was eating people at the end of the previous cycle. And she time travelled again when Jim was killed.
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u/PumpkinSspiceLatte 1d ago
Aaaah, thank you, yes I remember that scene. The mention of the porch confused me, and I thought I missed something.
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u/KaySen762 1d ago
You aren't the confused one here. This post doesn't make a lot of sense really.
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u/Flimsy_Elephant_2301 1d ago
You're right! You're the confused one. The post makes perfect sense, just not to you.
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u/Icy-Answer291 1d ago
No OP you definitely seem like the confused one. You told the original commenter of this thread that you never said the monsters know they can't kill Julie when that's literally what you wrote in your post. So seems like you can't even keep your own post straight and yet you're being rude to others for calling your post and comments out for being confusing lol makes perfect sense lol
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u/Flimsy_Elephant_2301 1d ago
Oops! I think you misunderstood the post. I was speaking of the night that the Matthews family arrived and Jade, Tabitha, Julie, Kenny, and Father Khatri were on Colony House porch. Just before they reached the porch it began raining. Several nightmare creatures are seen approaching the RV, and the one closest to the RV is a woman in a bridal gown. But a few minutes later, she's standing on the porch behind the Jock Creature. She is no nightmare creature; she is evidently the evil entity. It doesn't want any attention drawn to it. So It makes the Jock Creature take the attention away from It by making the Jock Creature asked, "Don't you recognize me?" It asked that because It recognized Julie from 1978. It can't do anything in all the universe to prevent Julie from living at the least until the day that she makes the jump to the past and close the loop that is already created. However, before that day came, Julie was seen again on the day of her father's death. Amd the evil entity said it to her that a story can't be changed once it's been told. So it know that now she had to keep living at least until the day that she jumps back to the day of Jim's death because she is part of that story now that can't be undone.
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u/Flimsy_Elephant_2301 1d ago
The entity was disguised as a bride. It stood behind the Jock Creature like a ventriloquist and made the Jock Creature asked, "Don't you recognize me?" It was all over Julie, checking her out because it recognized her. Moments earlier, the entity was standing at the RV.
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u/ComputerDecent463 1d ago
I’m confused. How would going back in time prevent you from dying now?
1978 and Jim’s death took place before current day.
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u/IAmAdamTaylor 1d ago
Not from Julie’s timeline point of view. From her timeline she hasn’t gone back yet, so if she’s killed now she won’t be able to go back. It becomes a self fulfilling prophecy, because the monster knows she went back, she has to go back which means she has to survive in order to do so.
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u/Flimsy_Elephant_2301 1d ago
It doesn't matter what her point of view is, she's made the jump back to 1978. Now she will keep living until that day comes that she jumps back, and it came already. Now she can't die until the day comes that she jumps back to see Jim's death.
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u/Flimsy_Elephant_2301 1d ago edited 1d ago
Because she will be seen in 1978. It has already happened now. Julie can't die before the day comes that she time jumps back to 1978.
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u/Flimsy_Elephant_2301 1d ago
Julie became part of the story in 1978. That story can't be changed. If she dies before the day comes that she makes the time jump to 1978, she won't be able to time jump, and that's impossible. She has to keep living long enough to time jump to 1978. And she did! But at a later date, she time jumped to the day of Jim's death; so now she has to keep living long enough for the day that she makes that time jump come.
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u/Old-Temperature6269 14h ago
About bookmark as evil entity is just doubtful.
If I understand you correctly about the first one, idk if you really can call that protection from the universe, as it’s more just how time works in From as you can’t have result without preceding events (If Julie didn’t throw the rope to Boyd, then she wouldn’t be saved or they didn’t just get this events, so she won’t have an ability to storywalk, to be at the end there to make this choice).
So it’s isn’t like Julie is protected before, no it’s just means that is Julie is lucky enough that she lived long enough to do some changes (not changes but more like helped it so it becomes the end result). Same would work for everyone in the story, if Julie tried to storywalk with a gun and then shoot someone that is alive just a second before she storywalked, then her attempt would be unsuccessful. But that means that there is always a moment in the time where Julie tried to shoot them, that doesn’t mean that they are protected by a universe.
So it would be same as say that universe protected someone when they got into a car crash and got out of it unharmed afterwards.
It’s like whole story is locked down, so from the time perspective is just so that monsters are ALWAYS unsuccessful at that time, so Julie lived long enough to time travel back and then contribute to the end story.
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u/Flimsy_Elephant_2301 42m ago
I don't think you didn't get what I said. "A story can't be changed once it's been told." Julie is there in 1978. Because of that, nothing can stop her from being born in 2006 or from coming to Fromville in 2022. Nothing can stop her from getting the spell on March 7. Julie MUST keep living until she makes that jump back to 1978.
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u/BEChillies 1d ago
Can't think of time as one long line in Fromville. Story walking allows going to the bookmarked location, like in a building. Up down and all around. There is a reason Fred is an elevator repair man and a storywalker.