The Way Home - Diving into Fan Theories ft. Ryan Pappolla

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[00:01:42] Guys everything's fine. Listen, you know a little inside baseball for the audience here, especially those on Fylo

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[00:02:44] I was like, now listen to me big side eye before this.

[00:02:46] She was like, oh, you want to get the room ready?

[00:02:48] I was like, no, I'm just going to sit on the floor.

[00:02:50] And she was like, she was like, I got to get to work.

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[00:02:56] She's as disappointed as we all.

[00:02:58] Yeah, I think so.

[00:02:59] She's she's all of this.

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[00:03:01] Honestly, this might just be the part of the book.

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[00:03:04] If you need the like if you or do anything for valentine star you a big

[00:04:23] valentine's boy

[00:04:26] we had a lovely time i you know cards exchange uh... Yeah, yeah, I like that. Valentine's Day, I don't think I've seen it. I don't think I've seen that movie. So it's no New Year's Eve, which I think was made by- No, I just can't believe we're doing this movie. No, and I think that's more than fair. Yeah, I think we have the Air and Air and stuff. Aaron's got some thoughts on Valentine's Day, the movie. No, I just want to be unmuted because I love both of those movies. Oh, yeah, okay.

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[00:05:41] Valentine's Day is, I believe the movie

[00:05:43] where they bring in some massive stars,

[00:05:45] like Julia Roberts and Jamie Foxx, hours at this point because we talk about them every week. But what I wanted to do this week is I threw out to the double deckers, give us your best, or most outlandish way home theory. And we'll take them in. Yep. We'll discuss them. Try to decide if it's a valid, correct valid theory or not, and go from there. So

[00:07:00] there's, that's part of the fun of the way home is the fact that there are so

[00:07:04] many possibilities when it comes to time travel and the things that are He took his five minutes of internet time. He's allotted every day to post a way home theory. And so that is on him at the end of the day. Ryan, for the people watching on file, go ahead and stand up. Let's check out these shorts. What shorts are we rocking today? Whoa, I didn't see that color coming.

[00:08:20] I don't know if we can air this.

[00:08:21] Oh my god.

[00:08:22] Please sure that's a Oh, man. Discuss. Boy. I mean, I think it's a no brainer. I do think it's a no brainer. I'm frustrated that they didn't even as far as I know, consider it. It does have a jovial. A couple of hurdles, if I may want.

[00:09:41] They don't have a theme song right now.

[00:09:43] It is just a little thing and it's just like the water's moving.

[00:09:46] And it's like the transfer over it. I apologize because I don't have it. We don't have it. I don't have it. We don't have the audio. Yeah, I have this.

[00:11:01] I'm lonely.

[00:11:03] Oh.

[00:11:05] Lonely.

[00:11:06] That's from a. So at the very least, we have that. Erin, next one. OK. This one comes from Colleen, who wants us to know that she has never watched an episode of this show. OK. But she wonders if it is aliens. Oh. Just it's aliens?

[00:12:21] The theory was aliens.

[00:12:22] I will say this.

[00:12:23] I mean, there is this time traveling pond exists. But I do think that at the end of the day, we're not going to get a pond origin story. I think we're going to be asked to believe that the pond served a purpose. Yes. And I do think there's a possibility that perhaps not this season, but in seasons three or four,

[00:13:42] maybe there is some other time traveling device

[00:13:45] outside of the pond that we find out about.

[00:13:47] Oh, another token.

[00:13:48] On a future. You know, we have a bad relationship with our daughter or our mother or both or whatever. And, and so learning to, to, to leave it and Alice does. He doesn't have to figure that out. He's now 24 years from the 1700s, whatever that is. But did he ever on that? Like did he go, Hey, I'm trying to get back or like, or did the pond not take up like that? Those are things that we don't know yet, which I think will help answer. Is it possible for him to get back in the weird way of answering this dumb

[00:16:22] pond thing about the aliens? What I'm saying is, she's in a bad place right now. And it justifies if she successfully does this, then basically she was right. She should keep going back in time to try to do all kinds of stuff, find every missing person that may have gotten into the pond. She should do that. And that's not what, in my opinion, it's not fact, in my opinion, that is breaking the

[00:17:44] rule of this show, like what this show is how you roam, but not yet. So there is, I would like an episode because clearly something's going on. And that, that, that not yet, like what is, how does she know? Clearly that implies that at some point.

[00:19:01] And we don't see that person's face or aliens.

[00:19:03] Yes, of course.

[00:19:04] Or aliens.

[00:19:05] Might just be the alien.

[00:20:06] Well, before you do that, my crackpot theory is now Jacob is now the same Jacob from lost. Yeah.

[00:20:07] There you go.

[00:20:09] He's like, you can't ever see him, but he's rocking that chair.

[00:20:12] As soon as he travels back, now he goes to this island and then, and then he comes back

[00:20:17] to the 1800s and in fact, 1900s and founds Hope Valley.

[00:20:20] Lost.

[00:20:21] Sorry.

[00:20:22] One lost island was in Canada.

[00:20:23] We can't convert.

[00:20:24] We love that.

[00:20:25] Aaron. some theories on whether that is shape shifting or reincarnation, but. The horse is Colton? I, I, it's an interesting one just because of the way in which the horse is just kind of like there and she's talking to the horse and. I think the horse is all the lobsters

[00:21:41] that were eaten at the lobster.

[00:21:42] So, no.

[00:21:43] An amalgamation.

[00:21:45] Hey, why'd you eat us? Guys that females can travel through the time with the pond and they just are the same and then men Show up as animals. Yeah Animor animal or animal or saying Jacob followed himself into the truck. I think I think it's possible Okay, yeah

[00:23:00] Guys I'm just say but back in 1814 is Susanna engaged to a dog different Jacob. It's a mistaken identity

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[00:25:42] I like the core of this because this goes of people that we meet in other time periods. And we're going to find out that it is a circle that can't be broken. Like the only reason they're old now is because something they did then, and the only reason they did it is because they went back from when they were young in the future to do it. And if they didn't do it, they wouldn't be old now.

[00:27:01] And there's nothing we can do in this weird circle.

[00:27:04] And I think if that's true, Andy McDowell is in the center of that circle. could be narratively interested. I love Del being a villain who's known the whole time, and the reason she's acting like she doesn't know is is she started this to originally fix the past. And she now, look, and I'm gonna be getting real serious for a second, people who have these things they do when they're young that are so impactful in their life and they hold their trauma,

[00:28:21] instead of ever unpacking it, they just pack lie

[00:28:24] on lie on lie on top of it.

[00:28:25] And that thing just, it's real, it's human, and it's amazing, and they should do it. I don't think they're gonna. I don't think they're gonna. But I would love it if they did. Yeah, yeah, that's good. What else, Aaron? Y'all don't know where to go from there. No, I got nothing to add. No, you did great. But play the I'm Lonely bit again.

[00:29:40] I'm lonely.

[00:30:42] She tried. But we've learned that Elliot is not

[00:30:44] the most reliable narrator of this time travel story.

[00:30:47] Total nefarious.

[00:30:49] And there is also a theory that potentially

[00:30:52] Dell is related to the Goodwin family, that woman who just

[00:30:57] died and left the mansion, that maybe Dell is a part of a

[00:31:01] founding family in her own line.

[00:31:04] But so guys, just more than Cat and Alice can time travel

[00:31:08] is open to more families. too damn but I don't have an impression. And I'm saying even if it did, it happened once and you know, Kat and Alice aren't always able to travel when they want to. Yeah, so we we saw and get rejected, but like he doesn't always tell us the truth. They've successfully left that very ambiguous because now it's like candle time travel. Can she not the dog can does the dog time travel all the time?

[00:32:21] Just that once like is it the same dog?

[00:32:23] Dude, can anybody from the town thing?

[00:32:26] It's really complicated because.

[00:33:27] Check out Ryan. So it's a PSP. Yeah. Yeah. No, it's it's we don't have guys. We got to talk about it. Sorry. Um

[00:33:30] It is yeah, I I tend to

[00:33:37] The blood relative thing has to be out of the dog travel. It's a dog in time travel and so does the land. Yeah, well dog family

[00:33:44] Yes, I know that but but this whole idea of the landry it's like blood landries or founding families. Is it just open to any creature that the pond decides? Or does this family have to own it? At that point, I'm kind of out. Because if the dog is time traveling, yeah, it's not in partnership.

[00:35:02] It's anyone or thing that the pond thinks point I don't think we need a ton of mythology on how the pond works overall because I think it gets very muddy very quickly. Literally. Aaron? There is some discussion on the fountain though it was at the Goodwin Manor. Yeah. If that is connected to the pond at all. Is it the what? Yeah. A lot of

[00:36:23] people thought it was SUS. I don't know. Yeah say it to the pie. Yeah. I don't know. Miss maybe they yeah tapped into the pond and it's going into this fountain for some reason. Yeah. I don't know. I don't

[00:37:42] know. I don't know. aside from Cat and Alice, we don't know exactly when anyone else's original timeline was. Because we've only seen them discover the pond. Everyone else, that's what makes some of these characters like old Roy or Byron or whatever his name is.

[00:39:01] If it makes him interesting is like,

[00:39:05] or this person that shows up being a boy right now. So I think that probably won't come up for that reason. But it is interesting that they're sticking around falling in love and just being like, that's right. And then all the ladies are like, no, we're going to get back. We're going to get back. But it is interesting. You know, obviously, I love the idea though. I love the idea a lot of he. I think we'll get something like this by next. I will say, like even if

[00:40:20] it's not if it's not this season, I think it with it. I mean some people would say yes to Colton being a horse and I'm kind of saying May No, I feel like Colton if we if we experience the world where Colton is alive and we we make him alive and get to have a reunion

[00:41:40] That's what we all want, but I think that that's to the detriment of the characters

[00:41:43] So there you say let's take one more quick break.? So I don't want to do that. Chris Cross, I need apple sauce. For everyone on file, it is real quick.

[00:43:01] Okay, that's really cool.

[00:43:02] Very cool. Look at you, man.

[00:43:05] Okay, come on.

[00:43:06] All right, all right, we're good to go.

[00:43:08] Aaron, a couple more. week I hadn't considered it yet but like yeah to my point like I think we need something like this from the future for sure in season three I think it's a great season to finale moment to find that out even though we figured it out three weeks. You know it's this it's this year's dog I think yeah we figured out the dog barrier. We knocked it out. We knocked it out. We knocked it out. You lucky dog. You lucky dog.

[00:44:22] At the end of episode one when we see somebody watching the family. but let the device use you. Like if you will keep that device as a way to build character and to have characters deep in their relationships and move forward and heal, this shows like an all-timer. If the device uses you to create more plots and mysteries and mythology that don't make sense,

[00:45:42] you know, we don't get to have these fun episodes, but I think the show has more integrity

[00:45:44] in the other way, in my opinion.

[00:45:45] Well, if my understanding of time, that Jacob is in 1814 now as a 20 sound jump back to 2000. He can only jump back into how far it's been since he jumped forward. I got you. Okay. Yeah. That was after his disappearance. Correct. This is interesting in the chat right now. It's probably Elliot watching them. What if Elliot's home travels back who just wants to watch the family. Yeah. Jacob. I'm out of this. Jacob. I've got issues. I'm out on Jacob. I thought the family at the

[00:47:02] end was the present day family. Oh, I thought it was the 19. Interesting. Yeah, that's what I was trying to do. I hate that. That's interesting. But I think that the logic there makes more sense than him jumping back and being older. Why do you hate it? Because of my whole diatribe early on, where I'm like, the point of this show is not for Kat to right wrong.

[00:48:20] Sure, okay, okay.

[00:48:21] It's for her to move on and not make any more wrongs.

[00:48:23] That's the point is to heal and get better,

[00:48:25] not to go back and fix the past.

[00:48:27] The whole point is you can't. love your thumbs. We get a lot of calm. We will. We will hard out cut it when we hear the cell door open, which is let there's no way that we can stop that on your end. So we'll that's when we'll cut it. Here we go. Hey, Brent, two more sound. Thank you. Aaron, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Aaron, in advance. One is that Jacob

[00:49:40] is the nefarious one. His trip where he went missing was not his first trip through the That's why crazy. Yeah, we maybe should do a pilot. I That is a lot in that one specific theory and I'm gonna just sit on it for a while because I don't even know how to respond That's a that is a scene that I need to rewatch correct and then reevaluate everything I thought about that That would mean Jacob has lived more years than he looks though

[00:51:01] Which is a problem with how the time travel works, right?

[00:51:04] If Jacob at least on the surface

[00:52:03] Oh, man is Colton. Hillary believes that Dan is a way home writer

[00:52:06] and refuses to tell us.

[00:52:07] He's being dissatisfied with things

[00:52:09] is just a cover up attempt.

[00:52:10] And Kathy Chimes in to say,

[00:52:12] well, we all know he's actually a win

[00:52:14] calls the heart writer because how else

[00:52:16] did he know that Elizabeth would switch teams?

[00:52:19] I am, you're on the record.

[00:52:20] I am the puppet master of bad television.

[00:52:23] I am pulling all the strings.

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