The Phenomenal One wrote...
Kaimax wrote...
It's not a plot hole.
Like I said earlier,
ANYTHING can happen in different timelines.
Why SAyaka and Kyoko are not in timeline 2 or 4:
1. Sayaka didn't need to wish for her childhood friend
2. There's a possibility that Kyoko, was never made into a Mahou shoujo
There's unlimited possibilities
-there's also a possibility that it was "never shown" in the anime.
ANYTHING can happen
That defeats the purpose of time. Sayaka uses her wish to heal Kyosuke's hand, and Kyoko uses her wish to make people join her father's religion. Homura doesn't have the power to change those events. Kyosuke still breaks his hand and Kyoko's father still invents his religion. I guess we can argue "The Butterfly Effect", in which one little thing that happens can drastically alter the timeline. After reviewing the episode again, and seeing the calendar, the amount of time between the hospital and meeting Madoka is 9 days, assuming of course that the pink flower [the 16th] symbolizes Homura leaving the hospital, the "beginning of time", and that the blue stars [the 25th] symbolizes her first day of school, in which she meets Madoka. Anything that happened before the 16th cannot be altered, so Kyoko should be a Mahou Shoujo seeing as how she was rather young when she made her wish. Another thing that shouldn't be altered is how Kyosuke broke his hand, but we don't know if this happens before or after the 16th, and thus is susceptible to "The Butterfly Effect". The question remains, what happens during those 9 days that causes the changes in the Timelines, aside from the obvious changes?
Like I said anything can happen if they didn't show it in the anime.
-Sayaka never met with QB.
-Kyoko never went into their district to meet up with them
The fact is MAmi/Madoka/Homura never met with "Sayaka the mahou shoujou", because you saw yourself in timeline 3 that Mami will freak out when she knows that they can turn into a witch and started killing each other, and that never happened in the 1st and 2nd timeline.
in the 4th, we can assume that it's the same event that has already happened with the 5th because everyone that is not seen probably died the same way in the 5th.
theories about time is still theories and nothing has been proved scientifically , so once again anything can happen. So there's no "that defeats the purpose of time". Because those "rules of time traveling" is based upon fictional works
It is not proven that if we can go back into time, we'll experience the same events. Butterfly effect is used optimally in this case.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel
See The rules for
-History is flexible and is subject to change (Plastic Time)
-Alternate timelines.
from Star Trek
"But there is a theory in quantum physics that all possibilities that can happen do happen in alternate quantum realities,"
this discussion is so "sensitive" and "confusing" so let's just leave it as that.