Thread:Elledy92/@comment-26838855-20190425183005/@comment-25521424-20190429091324

BEJT wrote: They don't just jump in time though, they go and then return to the anchor place and moment they were sent (hence why they always go back to the root timeline and not forwards to the 2023 of the new timeline), that's what the test run scene is about. For Steve to jump to 2023, he would have to appear in the tunnel before them. He didn't, so it's the same timeline.

It could be any year soon after 1947, and Peggy and Sousa could easily just break up beforehand. I don't at all expect her to just drop him for Steve. Plus it's interesting that despite everyone's assumptions, the show never gave us a moment of Sousa saying Steve saved him. Not necessarily. The bridge is like point A, it is needed to arrived to that precises coordinates in that exact period of time. But Old Steve arrived before the jump was made (most likely), meaning that he could still have done a jump back to his original timeline. I'm incline to follow this concept more because it stick more closely to the rules of time-travel than "if you don't make much noise, you don't change time", which is completely arbitrary.