Alternate timeline
Does a parallel timeline exist where Jakes father watches him enter the cave in Wales - never to return?
shareProbably not. Why do you think there would be one?
Laura Ess
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Yes, well not a parallel, but he does disappear and never appears again to his mum and dad.
Which is one thing I felt wasn't addressed
i get what your saying but theres no alternate time line after samuel jackson is defeated in the past his grandfather is alive an he never went to the cave to begin with that timeline was erased so him an his parents never had a falling out.But i agree there was never a reuniting with the parents we never learned how things were in the new timeline an he just runs off to be with the girl so what the hell about his parents lol why diddnt he want to see them first or did he just run off as soon as he got back which it looked that way no kid wouldnt see his parents first before he left.I get that he can just go back to the day before he left so he wouldnt have missed anything or them an time wouldnt have passed but still he should have seen them
shareYeah that's pretty much what I meant. I didn't explain it as well as you.
His dad wasn't the best- but I think he did care about him, he was just a bit out of his depth!
He was closer to his grandad and they were more 'kindred spirits'- but still, to have no interest at all in saying goodbye to his mum and dad!
And no qualms about never seeing them again.
Bit sad :(
I've just bought the book, so I'll see how that addresses this issue.
Would killing Barron mean that everyone is safe and his grandfather doesn't die and he never needs therapy and he never goes to Wales and never meet Miss Peregrine and her time loop?
There should be a paradox like in Back to the Future.
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The Barron who was killed was actually the present Barrow, but he was just killed in the past, so there was still past Barrow around to kill Abe. Jake didn't actually save his grandfather, we are looking at a closed-time-loop, like in HP Prisoner of Azkaban. Abe always knew how he would die and lived on to meet his death. No paradox.
shareIt was cool that Jake found a place where he belongs and found a purpose, but I also felt bad for the family.
He's known Emma & the kids for a week; but his parents who have been with him for his lifetime lose a son. Kind of sad.
He doesn't fit in with his parents. Strange that Jake's father does not have the gift. Maybe it skips a generation like diabetes.
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Trust doesn't rust.
I am Error.
Yes when Jake ran away, he never came back.
But there is only one timeline. It's just that when Jake goes back to 2016, it's earlier in that year when his grandfather is still alive.
The story ends with a happy ending suggesting there might be two timelines. But the fact is nothing he did would have changed the outcome of his grandfather dying.
There is only one timeline, and in that timeline, Jake runs away and never returns home except for the one time he returns to 2016 earlier in that year and speaks to his grandfather.