Thread:Elledy92/@comment-26838855-20190425183005/@comment-1894786-20190501231555

BEJT wrote: Teen Titans Forever! wrote: Yes that's correct BEJT I'll need to go over this tomorrow, I'm too tired to try to wrap my head around yet another thing today.

Edward Zachary Sunrose wrote: Wait, so I was right? I'm not gonna be a sore winner, but I am happy. Yeah, as I was saying:

BEJT wrote: Thank you for engaging in good conversation for the past few days. You were right all along about the Russos' intention, but I hope I'm allowed to say I wasn't wrong? What I've been arguing for I still feel is the explanation most fitting with the film, and I personally think it's a shame the Russos' intention was not put forth correctly in the film, and that their explanation involves an unexplained element. I don't regret what I said and still stand by that that was the logical explanation from the information we had - just wish they'd given us this sooner. I stand by what I said. As I'd been saying just hours before the Russos' comment, it's not impossible for Steve to go to another timeline, just that the Russos or Markus and McFeely would, if they said it was another timeline, have to provide a new detail - how he could possibly have got back to the main timeline. Because it being the same timeline did not need further justification, the precedent is in the film. The precedent for it being a different timeline is not there. Naturally, it made more sense to go with the explanation that has answers in the film, when that's all we have - there's no way of knowing when the Russos will pop up and say "Yeah it's not explainable by the film".

Which they did. They admit in the EW interview that how Steve got back is not explainable by the film and is, with the confirmation that it's another timeline, now a mystery. So I feel justified in saying what I said. Plus the theory fit a lot better with the specification in the Ancient One scene about removing Infinity Stones being what causes branches, not just "time travel". But oh well, guess the Russos' intention just wasn't as well-put-across in the film as I thought it was.

I'm glad that the Sousa thing works out for you now, I know you really cared about that. Thank you, and I agree wholeheartedly. They should've explained the time travel a lot better. Especially since it really does seem to be consistent with how they did it in AoS, and how they usually do it in the comics. And in both of those other places, we've never actually gotten a conclusive explanation either.

They did hint that we might see how Steve got back to the main timeline and how he got the other shield for Sam, so I imagine this'll be the basis for a What If episode, a one-shot, or maybe even a movie down the line if Chris Evans ever wants to return. But who knows?