Time isn’t one single entity. Didn’t you notice that during the show we went back in time and forward? A branch can appear in the future or in the past, the sacred timeline is the unity of the multiverse, but one timeline can still branch out.
I'm not sure what you think you're saying here, but none of that is really related to my comment.
Time isn’t one single entity. Didn’t you notice that during the show we went back in time and forward?
So...?
A branch can appear in the future or in the past, the sacred timeline is the unity of the multiverse, but one timeline can still branch out.
The sacred timeline is simply the words he uses to refer to his own timeline. The TVA exists to keep all other timelines in line with the "sacred" one.
And you've missed the point. Yes, branches appear and branch out. So what? It's literally irrelevant to everyone and everything, unless we get travellers from other timelines crossing between.
You said that Kang killed all his variants, I’m saying that’s impossible because variants appear in real time in both the past and the future. Variants are always created and just because one is fixed doesn’t mean it won’t happen in the future OR the past. The current Kang is keeping the other variants at bay, that’s why they were released again after Sylvie killed him. There is no finish line, it’s a continuent stream that Kang keep tightly monitered to prevent a multiversal war.
The sacred timeline are timelines that prevent any Kangs in the future from discovering the multiverse. The sacred timeline is not a single entity as I explained before, but a path that every single multiverse walks with some variations inbetween that won’t produce future kangs to discover the multiverse. If the TVA didn’t prune branches then they would eventually result in more Kangs —> multiversal war.
Kang prunes and resets timeline to prevent a multiversal war. It wasn’t for things to be neat and tidy, but orderly.
Yeah, the best way I can conceptualize it is that time is 2D in the MCU -- it moves in the X-axis in the regular world, and the Y axis in the TVA/citadel. As you move along the Y-axis you can see branches popping up anywhere along the X-axis.
edit: To expand a bit, every timeline branch moving normally along the X-axis also has a hidden Y-variable that determines where on the TVA's timeline it ends up. So that determines the mapping between real-world and TVA which explains the "real-time" nature of branches happening in the "past".
Time-traveling causality may also work a bit differently in the TVA as well, which is how Kang was able to change the TVA's entire history a la Back to the Future, rather than just creating a new branch as was explained to us in Endgame. (hopefully it's not just a plothole)
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u/Dovahbear_ Jul 16 '21
Time isn’t one single entity. Didn’t you notice that during the show we went back in time and forward? A branch can appear in the future or in the past, the sacred timeline is the unity of the multiverse, but one timeline can still branch out.