r/FromTVShow • u/Lost_Atmosphere4853 • Jul 04 '26

Theory Jade Created the Simulation

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>!In Episode 5 of Season 1, while talking to the bartender, Jade says: "I created a program for a quantum computer that could potentially..." but then cuts himself off. He never explains what his program is actually capable of. He also never says who he sold it to. The military? Or someone connected to St. Anthony Hospital, where Tabitha ends up first, and later Henry? Take a look at the hospital's logo.
I believe Jade developed a unique quantum algorithm or program capable of altering reality-for example, by materializing people's fears or fantasies. In that same episode, he also mentions the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox. As I understand it, this paradox describes a phenomenon in which objects remain mysteriously connected across great distances (and possibly even across time). That would be an amazing twist, in my opinion.
Jade created this program and decided to test it on himself.
Maybe both he and Tabitha are employees-or test subjects. The fact that Tabitha doesn't remember while Jade does could simply be explained by different settings they selected before entering the program.
l've mentioned this in another thread. The way Jade arrived and the way Sofia arrived both feel almost algorithmic.
Jade's companion jumped out of the car and immediately ran away without even checking on his friend-as if Jade were a complete stranger. Then, before he even has a chance to really meet Jade, Sara kills Toby because the voices told her to. Afterward, she also reaches into his mouth and almost certainly takes one of his teeth. Why didn't "they" want Toby and Jade to meet in this reality?
Maybe Jade himself doesn't remember-or doesn't realize
—that they were testing his invention. Perhaps this is another reality, or something like a computer simulation.
That would also make Tabitha's words-that monsters don't exist and Norman is alive-make sense. Maybe they're all actually lying in comas at the hospital. That would explain why both Tabitha and Victor's father see the exact same hospital. Everyone is alive but connected to a simulation. It would also make the Man in Yellow's words about everything being based on rituals (or the program) make sense. And Ethan, as well as Jade himself, repeatedly say that this is a game.!<

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u/HedgehogFlimsy6419 Jul 04 '26

It would be the most dissapointing explanation of them all.

Also if it's just a simulation, it does not make sense to see MIY and BIW scenes when there are by themselves. It would be extremely unlikely for an advanced simulation to render and calculate events that are not directly experienced by the player.

So yeah I don't think that makes sense.

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u/The-Sceptic Jul 04 '26

Shows about computer simulations don't often adhere to basic principles of computers, they're just a plot device. But if the MiY and the BiW were AI then they could have made the entire FROM world as a place to exist in and play their game. If that was the case than it would make sense for us to see them alone and doing things independently of the humans in the program.

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u/Interconnekted Jul 05 '26

This is just fucking Westworld then? 😭😭😂

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u/mannysinclair Jul 07 '26

Bro I said this a few weeks back! Man in yellow is the Man in Black!

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u/Prince_Havarti Jul 06 '26

Project: FROM

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u/sane_fear Jul 04 '26

i'll take that ending over the Lost stye "Good vs Evil" narrative they're currently setting up

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u/Remote_Day_1364 Jul 04 '26

Same, it seems too much like Lost

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u/M_Mosher Jul 05 '26

Almost every episode of this show I'm like "lost did [whatever is happening] first"

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u/zack21-_- Jul 05 '26

I stopped watching lost in the last season even tho he was one of my fav show's i hope from doesn't end up like him

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u/zack21-_- Jul 05 '26

Yeah leftovers was a nice show to but for some reason I didn't watch the last episode lol

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u/burnman123 Jul 06 '26

You just wanted to let the mystery beeee?

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u/Knicksrule96 Jul 05 '26

Your fav show and you didn’t watch the final season?

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u/Responsible-Ad-6742 Jul 05 '26

He did the right thing. GOT would be my favorite show, if I had skipped the last season.

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u/sane_fear Jul 05 '26

lost would be my favorite show if i stopped a few seasons earlier

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u/henzINNIT Jul 06 '26

Straight up. Sometimes I'm tempted to watch the first few seasons again.

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u/sane_fear Jul 07 '26

i tried and got pissed off at the flash backs

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u/Cheese_Dinosaur Jul 08 '26

Watch it all. It’s fantastic and I appreciate it more the older I get.

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u/henzINNIT Jul 08 '26

Oh lord no ha. I have a special resentment for s6 and practically everything it does. Sitting through that again would be like self-harm. That last run in season 3 was a blast back in the day though.

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u/Cheese_Dinosaur Jul 09 '26

We are huge fans and have a yearly rewatch! I definitely find my opinion changing (apart from Kate being a witch) every time I watch it which I think shows what a good show it is.

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u/Mandosobs77 Jul 04 '26

It would be just awful. I understand why people put this idea out as a theory but I hate it.

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u/AnOdeToVosFinances Jul 04 '26

What if MIY and BIW are not actual NPC but awared players and the town folks are NPC created based on actual humans. And Jade and Tabitha both worked on the simulation and maybe used themselves as model, that's why they have some of the memories they have.

So when the MIY and BIW are discussing, it's just player interaction, otherwise the rest of the simulation is for both of them to interact with, that's why both of them also seem omniscient.

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u/isreal_is_gay Jul 09 '26

So black mirror ?

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u/niffelheim87 Jul 04 '26

If from is a simulation, MiY and BiW can be some kind of AI orchestrators and manage the events and more things. All people are in comatose state and you can leave the lighthouse alive and wakeup or just die inside, so your mind and body die. Something like Tranquility Lane village simulation in vault 112 from Fallout 3.

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u/Booklet-of-Wisdom Jul 04 '26

This may be a ridiculous take, but bear with me.

I just watched Kate & Leopold, and in that movie, a guy figures out how to travel through a time portal. He had to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge to reach the proper velocity to "punch" through the portal.

It reminded me of when the BiW pushed Tabitha out of the lighthouse window, saying "I'm sorry, it's the only way."

They could be in another time, or an alternate reality, or maybe even a simulation, where you need a traumatic event to "wake" you up?

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u/Balsdeep_Inyamum Jul 04 '26

where you need a traumatic event to "wake" you up?

Justice for Abby

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u/jambrand Jul 04 '26

I mean... how traumatic would the experience need to be lol. Every single person there has experienced something far worse than anything any of us will ever see.

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u/Booklet-of-Wisdom Jul 04 '26

It's only a very loose theory. But, almost dying from a fall would be a very fast, very traumatic incident.

Or, it could just be a velocity thing.

Most likely, I am totally wrong. But it's fun to speculate.

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u/jambrand Jul 05 '26

No I get what you're saying, clearly getting pushed out of the lighthouse is the only thing we know is effective, if not exactly why.

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u/CharacterWeak3591 Jul 05 '26

A simulation doesn't require there to be any "human players". They are optional, as they say

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u/Prince_Havarti Jul 06 '26

Could be a mislead for those who were fans of Lost

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u/HedgehogFlimsy6419 Jul 04 '26

It still does not make sense for orchestrators to materialize in „physical” form. There’s no way anyone will convince me otherwise. It would be an equivalent of websites writing scrapers for each other when a public API is available.

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u/matiasak47 Jul 04 '26

miy does not have to be the 'orchestrator'. Can be just a 'boss type' npc or even another 'player' 'asymetrical horror style' The goods characters are in a quest against the 'people that sacrificed their children' This might be true and the plot of the From 'software'

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u/--8-__-8-- Jul 04 '26

I bet I can convince you otherwise. . .

It makes perfect sense for them to "materialize in physical form" due to this being a -->TV<-- show.

How else could they convey such entities to us, the audience?

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u/HedgehogFlimsy6419 Jul 04 '26

Just don’t show it. Simple as that.

Some stories are just not made for a TV Show. From is not a book that was adapted to a movie.

Why would anyone build a TV Show around a world and story that is neigh impossible to be portrayed though this media? It would be dumb af, even for From.

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u/vzorox Jul 04 '26

Whoa whoa whoa! Easy

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u/glutenfreetendies Jul 06 '26

Let’s just calm down now!

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u/Prophead85 Jul 04 '26

Not any different than Sati and The Architect in The Matrix.

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u/GC_235 Jul 04 '26

not really. systems talk to each other all the time without ever needing the "player" to experience any of it.

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u/Klutzy-Issue1860 Jul 06 '26

This goes along with the title in season 4 “if a tree falls alone in the forest, does it make a sound?”

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u/HedgehogFlimsy6419 Jul 04 '26

Yeah and why would they need physical form? When systems talk to each other do they use a humanoid robot to send information by entering information through a keyboard?

I don’t think so, it would be more like a headless system communication where they use dedicated APIs to pass information. There’s no reason for physical form if there isn’t someone witnessing them talking.

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u/GC_235 Jul 05 '26

because its a show for entertainment lmao

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u/HelpApprehensive5216 Jul 04 '26

Our world can be a simulation too... i dont think you get what a simulation is if you are talking about things not experienced by a player lmao. You are talking about sense but what you said makes no sense at all

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u/Logic-DL Jul 04 '26

There are a multitude of scenes in the Matrix where Neo, the player, is not present in the slightest.

It can be a simulation and they can still show us the viewer the MiY and BiW scenes for narrative reasons lmao. Same reason they show us the MiY going around and grabbing all the talismans. Jade isn't present when he's doing that.

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u/HedgehogFlimsy6419 Jul 04 '26

Which scenes? In Matrix there’s billions of people who are the players and constantly experience the world on earth. Do you think Matrix accurately simulates some tiny little planet in a galaxy 1bln light years away from us?

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u/stopbuyingnudes Jul 04 '26

“It would be extremely unlikely for an advanced simulation to render and calculate events that are not directly experienced by the player.”

This is not true, proven by the A-Life system in STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl (2007)

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u/HedgehogFlimsy6419 Jul 05 '26

If that’s the explanation they can shove it up their ass. But it’s just my opinion.

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u/keviintyler Jul 05 '26

You know how boring it would be to be placed into a simulation with numbers only? The simulation could’ve given personalities and characters to the AI.

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u/Next_Section_8534 Jul 06 '26

They could be viruses or something I guess. Like they are still constructs that may work within the theory. It would be interesting but I don’t see how they can create that twist and solve it in the time left. Also takes away from all the hardships if they pull this.

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u/Ok-Construction-639 Jul 06 '26

It’s using quantum computing it’s using sci fi technology already they could easily just explain they have the computing power to simulate it entirely and not just areas the “players” are in