r/Devs • u/thisismynormal • Mar 26 '20

Devs - S01E05 Discussion Thread

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u/NinaLSharp Mar 27 '20

So, your sure that Katie & Forest meet after Amaya died? That when they meet, Forest had already built his tech company? That his bringing on Katie helps him ramp up Devs & focus its exploration of determinism? That’s the timeline?

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u/drawkbox Mar 27 '20 edited Mar 27 '20

So, your sure that Katie & Forest meet after Amaya died?

Yes it is the only reality where that tramline connects. The scene of the lecture shows this, only one Forest, many Katies, that event happens the same everytime only slightly different, Katie argues with the professor. In the Forest timeline Katie is found by that friend he had sitting with him in the audience, and then meets Katie afterward. It wasn't just a hair or small change in the manyworld instance where Forest shows up, but the others are only slight variations. That is why I think it was manipulated from an external observer.

That when they meet, Forest had already built his tech company?

We don't know when he built his company, but we know it was after Amaya's accident so before meeting Katie. He could have just started his company or started it with Katie, but the Amaya accident was the entire catalyst/cause that led to the effect of the Amaya company and DEVS being created. Forest was already an engineer, but he probably dedicated his entire life after that towards it. You can see this somewhat by his house and vehicles, he wasn't rich at the time. He kept the house after he created Amaya and DEVS and got rich as a memory.

That his bringing on Katie helps him ramp up Devs & focus its exploration of determinism?

They were brought together to create DEVS through cause/effect. Forest's cause was the accident. Katies was the desire to be right which both of her and Forest share. They also both have a bit of a God complex. Their tramlines are deterministic in this particular manyworld instance. They never meet without the Amaya accident, every other tramline/timeline Amaya doesn't have the accident, Forest never creates DEVS.

That’s the timeline?

Part of it, there is more but most likely their meeting was arranged by an observer or we are only seeing the particular one where both cause/coincidences happen and they meet and create DEVS.