Talk:L.L./@comment-27207026-20190211162159/@comment-36317741-20190211211535

It most definitely is an alternate universe which doesn't reflect their original designs. The original story had reached its full stop. If you compare the movie with how they describe their original vision (sense of ethics, etc) you see they don't match at all. This is basically throwing some fans a bone by simultaneously first debunking their theory and then reimagining what that theory would look like in a new setting with new lore and rules. It's diametrically opposed to what they did in 2009 where they torpedoed the theory by removing THE main argument (of those days) from the epilogue and creating a brand new epilogue.