Fan Theory: 1000 Years [Life is Strange EPISODE 3 SPOILERS] 

Why are you watching this in 2018!? This was one of my worst theories. Come hang out in the discord but you got to be nice. discord.gg/qkkAQXg

Its unhealthy how obsessed I have become with this game...

also when Max asked the homeless women "How long have you been in Arcadia Bay" (or something like that) the woman replied "1000 years..." and when Max saw the shot she took of the butterfly right from the start of the game and saw it at the end of the game, she says "it feels like I took that shot 1000 years ago" (something along the lines of that).

Maybe the old women is a version of max she left behind(As you'll see on the fifth episode during the dream sequence)

And when max talks to Joyce she says "five years ago feels like a thousand now" the same amount of time the homeless woman said she lived in Arcadia bay. Maybe the homeless lady is max from the offshoot timeline she created when she saved Chloe's dad

And Max in episode 4 says "funny, I think I look older" when she looks at the mirror in Chloe's house in the alternate timeline.

I agree that something is up with her, but I'm not entirely sure what. The Max connection seems like the most likely one. Maybe the homeless lady disappears when the timeline gets sorted out? Also: I think its a note to mention that she also is the only other person besides Chloe she tells about the hurricane, and she totally doesn't look surprised.

So have you ever considered to try and merge all your most prominent theories into one and see how they play off each other? How they prove or disprove each other? that would be an interesting video. Like a bigger guess at whats going on.

If she was max, then why she didn't notice Chloe as a friend to her? She addresses Chloe as "Joyce's daughter who's always in trouble" never in an intimate way that maybe she was friends with her like max.. Also she had a story, she told max that she had a home but the Prescott took that from her.. I don't remember the details, but she had a story that I don't think relates to max.. Since she lived in Seattle and not Arcadia.. Idk.. She is important but I don't think she is max.. Plus that cereal, she mentioned that Joyce gives her food often, so maybe Joyce did give her that,

Geez, I didn't really think of that. I'll have to pay more attention to this character from now on. If the homeless lady ever says the word "Wowzer" I think it's safe to say it's Max lol.

You missed to have missed the comment near the end of the game where Max says that the past week has felt like 1000 years (or something like that?). I doubt that was a coincidence looking back on it now. Ironically, I missed the homeless woman in this game, and I doubt they pointed out the cereal by coincidence nor left the cereal near the homeless woman by coincidence. This is a great find. Makes me want to play through the game again to find the things I missed, and analyze little details like this more closely.

Max also said "5 years feel like a thousand" when she talked to Joyce after the break-in.

I FOUND SOMETHING!!! I found the song that is played in the teaser for episode 4, it's called "Got Well Soon" By Brenton. And the album cover is a BLUE BUTTERFLY

same cereal is in Franks RV...i think its just a popular cereal. Or devs being lazy

Geek Remix I found something very interesting, in episode 1, there is a marking on Chloe's wall that says"Hole to Another Universe" and in episode 3, in the beginning next to Taylor in the bathroom, its the same message, and the message wasnt there in episode 2 so I think theres something up with those messages. Maybe the Hole to another universe message is foreshadowing max's ability to travel through photos and acidentally create another universe.

I'm not certain, but did Max ever introduce herself to the Homeless Woman? In Episode 3, she (Homeless) called her (Max) Max, right? I just don't recall ever Max telling the Homeless Woman her name. Perhaps because she already knows who Max is... because she is Max? I dunno, though. I just thought I'd put it out there.

In the comics they talked about diffrent strings of time or timeliness, it's possible she's talking to an older vershion of herself that got trapped there.

At one point in Episode 4 she says, "It looks like I'm getting older." When referencing her time travel while looking in a mirror. So, it could be plausible.

What's really odd when Max is talking to Joyce is episode three she says "Has it been five years? Feels like a thousand years by now"

Something else I noticed about this, in episode 3 when Max it talking to Joyce making breakfast, Max says 'five years ago feels like a thousand now' probably nothing, but I just thought of this theory when I heard it.

During the dream sequence, Max meets one of the Max's that she "left behind" in the alternate timelines when she rewinds time. This woman could be a version of Max from another timeline who keeps trying to go back and fix things unsuccessfully.

That woman appears at the hospital in Before The Storm Episode 3. Apparently she worked there before the Prescotts ruined the jobs in Arcadia Bay.

theres no way max would be homeless, heres why 1) see's lottery numbers 2) goes back 3) enters those numbers 4) wins :)

Did anyone read the Molly Moon series of books? (I loved them when I was young hah). Basically they're about a girl who learns (among other stuff) how to travel in time. But in the books time travelling has a bad effect - the more you time travel, it has a physical effect on you - you get physically older before you actually are, by wrinkles etc. Travelling to the bubble of light makes one youthful looking again. If the game worked on the same principle, if Max got her powers taken away (or gave them up for the good of the universe or something LOL) she could easily be the old lady, just not actually old, but aged from all the time travelling! It's totally plausible that (and bear with me here bc this is p far fetched) but she could go too far back in time (by a photo or whatever) and either have to stay in the wrong time or go back to her 'own' time and be old (the old lady) and have to hide the truth from everyone because otherwise they would know the truth! 😐

I don't know if you thought about it when you did it but anyway I would like to thank you for writing everything you say in the details of the video :) I'm French and, though I understand many things that you say, I look at them many times to check if I understand well or not ! Thank you ;)

Maybe Arcadia Bay is a loop in time for Max to live in over and over again. She keeps bringing up being stuck in time. Maybe Arcadia Bay is a place in time where different versions of Max live in, reliving a special moment in time. Max, Rachel, and Kate could all be Max but just different versions of her self, like each one is from a different dimension of sorts. So they all converge at this stop in time.

Its been 6 years and i still cant get over this game

Geek Remix, after replaying Episodes 1 - 3 again, I thought about your video here. Now, here me out... This might sound even CRAZIER than your theory here. (You guys were going somewhere with this 1000 years theory so I made up my own theory about this) That Homeless woman.... is FUTURE Joyce. Like I said, crazier. What if.....just what if Joyce also has the same Time travel powers as Max does? Joyce obtains it after her Husbands death and one day, she gained the power to go back the day before Williams death and she tried changing... but (Like what happened at the end of Episode 3), the more she tried to "fix", the more damage she did. Over and over, she tried to fix but something big (horrible) happens to William / Chloe / Max and Rachel Amber. She has seen ALL possible realities (All terrible, not a single good one). This would explain the Old woman wrinkled face, Tired, exhausted. Hell, even the Story (about her Homelessness) falls in line with Joyce actual story (Marrying David, losing her house, etc). Don't believe me? Watch Joyce facial expressions / face / AND both of there Accents. Sounds familiar? Joyce also shows her teeth whenever she speaks or not. (Just like Max). You said Max is the only character to have her teeth sticking out. Well.. Joyce does as well. I Triple-checked the character model and they FIT. Welp, thats just my theory... the homeless woman (after going through ALL realities, finally settles in and gave up. = Future Joyce. Still don't believe me? The homeless woman is camping OUTSIDE the Two Whales Diner (Where she worked) David also set up Surveillance cameras inside the house as well. He probably noticed Joyce disappearing / reappearing using her Powers inside the house.....

Now that ep 4 is out we know that the woman is max because the woman has like mark on her neck and I think max will have one too because mr.Jefferson drugged max around the same part of the neck

That's entirely plausible but I'd like to believe that she's a Prescott family cast out. That would give her a lot of knowledge of the family and a reason why she's on the street. Or mostly because I'd like to believe not all of them are complete assholes.

tbh all of your theories were so much cooler than the actual canon... like your ideas set my expectation way to high for the ending haha

Probably could explain why Joyce is always giving her food maybe? Like, maybe Joyce feels it's Max somehow? I unno.

I'M SO HAPPY WITH THIS VIDEO. I THOUGHT ABOUT THIS FOR THE FIRST TIME I SET EYES ON THE HOMELESS WOMAN. THANK YOU SO MUCH

Shame the homeless woman didn't mean fucking shit in the end

4 years ago I found your channel. Your theory videos are still better then what the LIS team could come up with.

Mari, ohmygod. This actually does really make sense. Note how Max also says "5 years ago feels like a thousand now" when she's talking to Joyce while they're making pancakes. Here, I took a screenshot: i.imgur.com/ryG1fIF.png

Geek Remix , Nice theory. though here is another theory that I am not sure if you guys have notice. In every ep, Max's power seems to get a upgrade or something. ep1, she discovers it and is able to change locations while rewinding time, ep 2. stops time. ep 3. Travels through a photo. I am not sure if guys have done a video of that yet anyways, I wonder what kind of upgrade she will get in ep 4 and 5.

Once again another interesting theory. You pick so much out of this game and I enjoy thinking of the possibilities because of it. Keep up the good work!

Since you mention it, when I saw that woman for the first time she said "you remind me (so much) of my youth", and yes I also think her smile and the way she show her teeth is somehow familiar.. Could she be...? And she also said that Joyce feed her more than anybody else. Remember how Joyce likes to cook for Max.

I don't think the old lady is Max, at least not her body. She never duplicated herself when she traveled back in time, neither when she rewinds, nor when she traveled through the picture. When she traveled back through the picture, she transferred her consciousness to her younger body. If she learns to transfer her consciousness to another's person's body, she could be in the old lady's body. This means she could be Rachel Amber. Maybe, she decides to take over Rachel's body to watch over Chloe the five years Max is in Seattle. Let William go (grafittis) and try to be there for Chloe.

In episode 5, when she met her self or "one of the many Max's left behind in time" reminded me of this moment.

I don't know if this was said before, but the HM said she lived here for "1000 years". Now i quote Max at the Finale when "I feel like i took that 1000 years ago". And I can't remember everything she said in the (nightmare) dinner... "Max I lived long enough, longer than I should have..." I'm pretty sure DONTNOD implented the HM for this theory and all the little hints.

Yes! This is what I was talking about in the comments of one of your videos. I totally think that old woman can be future Max. But I don't know if she's trapped in time. I thought maybe she placed herself there to just be there for her younger self. It would also make sense on why Max was so comfortable with her talking about certain things.

Also Max says to Joyce while helping her with breakfast "5 years seems like a thousand"

I buy your theory, Mari! Great supporting evidences! The woman echoes a lot of Max's sentiments and even easily profiles Max during their introduction. She seems to be revealing secrets about Acadia Bay that Max is looking for too. I found it incredibly odd when she said she had lived a thousand years in Acadia Bay. But it makes sense to me now, because Max has ever saved herself from her own death (at the start of Episode 1). Therefore it's possible she cheated death for 1000 years. And she's back in 2013 to change the fate of her loved ones. But I would be curious to know how she got there behind Two Whales Diner, and why she is fixated in one location. It seems like she cannot escape the boundaries, just like when Max enters the polaroid and can't go out of Chloe's house. Did the homeless woman/Max enter a photograph taken at the back alley of a diner too? Perhaps Max has another time traveling power to enter pictures without possessing her own body, but being physically there. Who knows! "I'll believe anything this week." - Max Caufield

I think the dream Max wakes up from at the very beginning isn't just a dream. At the very least, what she's waking up from isn't necessarily a dream, but the future. Something bad happens, like say... a massive tornado engulfing Arcadia Bay. Max sees she's made a mistake, so rewinds as much as she possibly can, which takes a lot out of her and damages her memory. The classroom she wakes up in is where she rewinded to.

I know this video is old, but that is the nurse in the hospital in before the storm when rachel was stabbed

I was thinking the same thing about her! And I didn't noticed that the homeless women had the cereal too, good video :)

You know a game is good when more than 3 years have passed and you find more things you haven't found before. I completed the game several tines and this is the first time I see this woman.

Your theories just get me deeper and deeper into the game. This is all so darn crazy!

At 0:46 before i finish the rest! I think that the old lady is symbolically foreshadowing (proof: the cereal, the lip parting, looking similar). I think the old lady is symbolically foreshadowing that her powers (while she has them) go wrong and she sees everything that happened in a blur, aging her hence 1000 years which is age and wisdom. She is living behind the dumpster because (my opinion) she lost her powers, Chloe died or something happened suddenly that was inchangeable, people pushed her away and she couldnt support herself. I thought most likely that Chloe died because living behind the diner gave old Max (possibly) memories of Chloe.

If you think about it, then when max stopped william from dying, she was 18 in her 13 year old body, so that SHOULD mean that when she has an 18 year old body, she is actually 23 years old; my theory is that this happened again at some point so max felt 1000 years old but had a 50-60 year old body

That is weird. Really weird. Does that mean that Max grew old and then for some reason went back in time? Because that explains the contacts (she had them on before she went back in time and still has them) but if that's true, why would she do it? Maybe to give her young self advice or some important information? But how is there two Max-es in one timeline? If she grew old and then went back in time to her 18- year old self, the only way we discovered in which she could do that is using the photographs. Otherwise she was to weak. But when she travelled through the photographs she was in her own body. How is she out of her young body, in her older body now? I don't understand.

DONTNOD said they were working on a new game. Maybe the game has a completely new set of characters and the homeless woman is the one with the powers

In the same scene when Max is talking to Joyce while making breakfeast she also says that those 5 years feel like 1000. Something like that but it might be connected especially because you hear this conversation and see the cereal box in the same scene and room.

I also had this thought..I think its definitely possible because of how the "stuck in time" through the game is emphasized and how Max feels that she can trust the lady for no particular reason. I can't remember exactly but I'm sure she made a comment about no one seeing her and she seeing everybody, acting like the observer, which you said Max also was. I also don't think we have seen a character who resembles Max as much as the homeless woman..

never FEAR! CAPTAIN SPIRIT is here

I'm just curious... did you guys notice the class banner at the very beginning during the storm at the lighthouse? It's dated for 1910. I think I remember a character in the game mentioning a large storm that hit Arcadia almost 100 years before, but I don't remember who said it. Possibly the old lady? What do you think about the idea that the storm Max keeps seeing isn't from the future, but the past?

I am SCREAMING. Crazy... I had no idea this was even in the game. Your theories are amazing about this game, keep up the good work!

I think there's a strong possibility that the old homeless woman could be Max who went through so many different timelines that she actually aged as she did so. Or maybe she time traveled to the future and wounded up in an older body and then went back in time as an old woman. Or maybe the old woman isn't Max at all. Maybe she's another time traveler who fucked up what she had to do and wound up giving up. Also, why DOES the old woman have cataracts? Is there a symbolic meaning behind it, or will it play into the story later? Gah, can't episode 4 come any faster?!

Since I first met the old lady, I believed that she in some way is a time traveler. :)

You seriously keep blowing my mind with your theories. I would LOVE for all of them (this included) to come true.

She really does look a lot like Max.

Maybe she is Max and came to past to see if she will do the right things, or just wants to live it again. Just one thing is weird... Why is she old? When Max comes back in time, she goes to her own past self.

Ya know in the 3rd episode she also makes a comment that she's worried she'll get stuck in time. Like the homeless woman has in this theory

I was replaying the episode and when Max is talking to Joyce after spending the night at Chloe's, she says "5 years ago feels like a thousand." Could be a turn of phrase, but in a game like this, that similarity (and the fact that the woman has the same cereal) seems significant.

Geek Remix As much as I love your theory videos remember how Max moved away to Seattle for 5 years? And the old woman said she lived in Arcadia Bay for 1000 years as if saying she never left? I don't know just a suspicion but I truly do love how you notice things that I never ever notice or other ppl so plz plz plz never stop!!!! Xxxxx :) oooo

I love how indepth you get into this game. It is a great game but I love how much you girls look into it. If anything I'm gonna be upset when it's over because it's a great story.

Assuming she is Max from the future, maybe as the game goes on Max develops the ability to move anywhere in time like Elizabeth on Bioshock with her Tears. Maybe she did something wrong and got stuck in this particular time period and is going to try to help Max not make her mistake. Just an idea, but I definitely know she is not just some random background character. Maybe she will be like a guide for Max during the last 2 episodes before this "storm" arrives. Who knows, really. Great videos though! So happy I fun this channel! :)

I believe it If you deep doing this, do it because it is fun, not for the views. I don't know if it is one or the other sense I don't know you, but I know allot of RU-vid who made the mistake of putting a gimmick in there routine just for the reviews and it wasn't pretty.

This game is so beautiful. It is truly a masterpiece.

Actually, while watching the Let's Play, that was my first thought. Also because we know her as "Homeless Woman" but when Max leaves her the woman says goodbye to her by name. Additionally, as with a lot of time travel wackiness, Max is rewinding everyone else's timeline, but she has a single steady continuity (i.e., how she's able to hold onto objects in her person or remain in the same location in addition to remembering what's happened before). So, while it doesn't matter over a few days in appearance/health/whatever - she's now older than she would have been if she had just lived the last few days. If Max can't quit meddling, and constantly gets lost in the attempt to "Make things perfect/just right" that could potentially take her years.

i know im a bit late to this but the homeless lady cant be max because if you’ve played life is strange before the storm the part when chloe takes rachel to the hospital you can see a lady sitting down at a desk and its the homeless lady so my guess is that the homeless lady lost her job and went homeless

I can really dig this theory, one of the major problems with time travel is that the traveler is still aging independently from the cycle. So a Max that has rewound thousands of times (or perhaps rewound a few longer times) would be significantly older than a Max who never had powers at all. So if Max rewinds a day, she will have lived through two days, and if she rewinds five years she lives through ten years. Max getting stuck as an old woman in a time when she is supposed to be a teenage girl could have resulted in her attempting to go back and fix a major problem (such as Chloe's accident), getting stuck there and having to relive years and years, or it could be a consequence of thousands of rewinds.

in the last few episodes max said repeatedly, "I dont want to use my powers wrong, and get stuck in time." she could have also accidently duplicated herself in another one of the future episodes. she could also be rachel, and take her body to watch over chloe. the max could be rachel or the lady, or maybe both. maybe she got stuck in time. she does always say her head hurts if she goes to far back, so she could have over-used her powers, lost them, and got stuck. in episode 1, there is a marking on Chloe's wall that says"Hole to Another Universe" and in episode 3, in the beginning written on the left wall in the parking lot near the diner. and the message wasnt there in episode 2 so I think theres something up with those messages. Maybe the Hole to another universe message is foreshadowing max's ability to travel through photos and acidentally create another universe.

It should be also noted when Max said about Kate: "But I need to find out who else is involved in this." Homeless Woman (which name we don't know): "I'm probably a bigger snoop than you. People pretend to not see me, so I see everybody. And everything." - Max is always not seen by everybody because of her power rewinding + the thing with Alyssa might be a hint that the homeless woman mean. Alyssa always is wondering how Max do that with "rescue" her for the bad things that happen to her. It seems like that helping Alyssa might pay off at the end.

Mari you're a fucking genius. OMG. That homeless lady has gotta be Max. I never would have caught it otherwise. Like, I'm sure she's Max now... I guess she might not be but after seeing this... she's GOTTA be.

At the end of the game she says "It feels like I took this 1000 years ago." referring to the blue butterfly pic fron the start of the game

As soon I looked at the homeless woman, I had a feeling it was max in different timeline/space. When she said to max: maybe you'd like to tell me what your hidin, she sounded like she knew exactly what is going on with max and everything. Maybe max can 'duplicate' since the moment of the discovery of the picture. But that would mean that in episode 4 max would meet max. Anyway, I do love your videos about life is strange and all the work you put into making theories, sharing theories. I love this game and love to think about possiblities and try everything that game has to offer.

" and yes I did look at a bunch of people eye ball really closely for no real reason other than to prove a point " best part of the video 😂 honestly amazing

thank you! I said in a video here once that the old woman was suspicious, there is definitely more to her. maybe she got stuck in time too, or she was a young student who went to far in time. i noticed the cereal too. it's very strange. it could be Rachael but why wouldn't she notice Chloe... that's the only thing.. unless she didn't want to hurt her.. but who knows. I hope in future chapters we learn more from her and the other people at the two whales.

The homeless woman is not Max due to one fact about Max's time travel, she always takes the place of herself in the past. No duplicates of Max are ever made in her travels and unless something is revealed to allow this to happen I don't think they are the same person.

here's my theory : the butterfly is helping max to save all people that die to reverse time and save them, also the blue mean that this person will die, Chloe her hair is blue, she already dead but we saved her, Kate's pen is blue, she was trying to suicide but we saved her, and Alyssa get hurt every time, and we help her, also for Rachel she was wearing blue, and we still don't know if she die or she will die, you didn't guys mention the deer, it may be the opposite of butterfly, it helps us to avoid a danger, we saw it in the last tornado nightmare, which help us to found which date exactly the tornado will be, and again, when we was collecting bottles in ep 2, it went to the train, and Chloe was about to die in train. About Rachel, in my opinion, Max is Rachel, Rachel was having same power as Max, maybe she tried to help her dad too but when she saw her how she become in ep 3 I guess she tried to rewind to make punk chloe back but somehow she got stuck in time, then Max come, max is totally the opposite of rachel even if she's rachel herself, like punk Chloe to new Chloe, if u guys didn't notice Rachel and Max can't be on the same time, Rachel disappear a mouth ago like chloe said, the mouth when she disappear we come to study in same time at blackwell academy, which mean same time rachel disappear Max showed up, Nathan maybe knew the secret of Rachel that's why he draw her in "black room" which mean stuck in a black room = stuck in time, this is my theory guys & im not sure about it

I think highlighting the cereal is definitely intentional as one of Max's only catch phrase is "are you for cereal?". This also appears in the nightmare sequence in the Two Whales when mean hazel haired alternate Max says "are you for cereal?" to real Max

When I played episode 2, I initially thought she could have been Rachel who disappeared - at the time, one of my theories was that Rachel rewind time so many times that she began to notice herself to age as she isn't affected by or immune to time travel - since episode 1, there is the notion that Rachel likely has the same powers as Max. To support this, Max's items never disappears when she goes back in time. The only exception is the Kate photo, but I am sure the developers overlooked this contradiction on purpose so that the gamer can go with one or the other option. The Kate photo disappearing had made believe me that the inventory not vanishing was just a game mechanic that really didn't exist in the game's storyline - it was there to make the game more re convenient for the gamer. However, because it was confirmed that Max can "teleport" by rewinding time in the actual plot, I realized that the inventory not disappearing exist in the game's storyline as well (more on this later). Like the inventory not disappearing after time is rewind, I thought not being in the same spot didn't exist in the actual plot and that it was there to make things convenient. However, episode III made it crystal clear that Max can "teleport" with the breaking into the office cut-scene and the puzzle of evading David in the swimming pool area. Later in the episode, there is a cut-scene with Max taking Frank's keys and him being dumbfounded that it appears "magically" in her hands. This establishes the ability of keeping items inventory is story canon. Similar to the Kate photo issue, however, we see that Max was back at her seat when Chloe was shot in the bathroom - this made me believe that the teleporting ability didn't really exist in the game. Unlike the Kate photo dilemma, this "oversight" can be explained in-game as Max's rewind power being awaken for the first time, resulting in acting a bit uncontrollably. These two abilities show that rewinding time does not affect Max and anything she has in possession - this makes me wonder if Max holds Chloe and went to the past, would Chloe be not affected? However, that is for another comment. After watching your video and pointing out the similarities of the mysterious lady and Max being mouth breathers and the cereal, it makes more sense that Max is the old soman. She rewind time the regular time (by not jumping into photos) so many times to fix time, she had gotten old. Perhaps when she realized she was getting old, her powers allowed her to rewind time longer to the point of scrapping out on her, making her stuck at a time period before her birth. Being stuck at a time before she was born would allow two of her to exist in a timeline. I noticed that this post is long, so one more supporting evidence of Max being the old lady - if Max doesn't tell the old lady her rewind powers, the latter would reply that once she does, it would be a regret or something. That line instantly made me think that the old lady knows what Max wanted to talk to her about as if she knew that it occurred in the past.

I think this could be used as a metaphor to your "Max can see both the alive and dead cat I'm Schrodingers Cat". While Max could get "stuck in time" and be 1000 years old, she also could not, and we won't know that for sure until we observe it (see the final part of the game)

Maybe she is Max form another timeline who after not saving Chloe got mad or something and kept rewinding time to this moment to se Chloe alive from afar. Or maybe in the future she just wanted to see her again and then came back to her timeline but used all her powers and stuck up there. In the good ending Max accepts Chloe's fate, but what if in some alternative timeline she didn't rewind in some of her deaths like the train, Mr Jefferson killing her before the storm ... Maybe for some time she did nothing but after decided to rewind and end up stuck there. That would be really depressing.

I don't know if this has been said already, but if Max tells the homeless lady about her vision of the hurricane the lady doesn't seem all that taken back or thinks Max is crazy, she just kinda accepts it and thanks her. I don't know if she does that because she is Max and already knows this or not, but idk

You notice all the small things, I love it. I'm glad there's someone like me who combs through games for all the stuff that seems unnecessary.

Now that i Think about it in episode 5 when she Saw the homeless womans body she said: i did’t even ask her name

This theory is KILLER!!! I’m mind blown here!!🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

That's an interesting thought. Its either an interesting side effect of time travel, being stuck and time and effectively being immortal OR the old Max's reference of 1000 years is very subjective. She appears to be about 40 or 50 years older then Max so if she has spent the last 50 years rewinding time over and over and over again, she would have experienced far more time then the average person just living it once.

Could be just a programmer reusing props to save time. Could also have come from Joyce. The homeless woman did say that Joyce makes sure she doesn't go hungry. Interesting theory, though. Max is trapped in time and when she tells people stuff from the future they think she's crazy, and eventually gets written off by society. Did she have any pictures hung up in her makeshift lodging? I think if it was Max she'd have pictures hung up. Not necessarily polaroids, but just cool pictures she finds.

Actually the cereal is in Frank's RV too. Cry also gave the statement "Wow, I guess that cereal is pretty popular." But it still is very convincing! Nice theory!

Oooow!! When Max is talking to Joyce when they're making breakfast Max tells her that five years seems lik a thousand. The homeless woman tells Max she has been here for a thousand years. That means something!!

I wonder if the woman's still there in the alternative timeline

What if the homeless woman is max from the future

Is Max from Earth 2!

I remember matpat saying this.. im so happy you made this a video

The homeless woman's eyes kind of remind me of a the selfie Max took near the beginning of episode 2. If you will remember they were kinda glassy? I don't know, I just saw the episode again and it made me think of what you mentioned in this video.