First off, I might like to mention there is a lot to unpack from the original conversation and how this discussion came to be, starting with confusion on who was older between Eagle & Thunder and expanding into discussing multiverse theory with Adam Isgreen. And before anyone starts on this thread I’d recommend reading up on the Eagle’s voice thread (it’s not that long) here:
Personally, I think it’d be better to keep the classic in one universe, and the modern in another as opposed to parallel timelines where one screwed up the other. There’s just too much weird baggage that would be carried over if they said KI2 caused this KI to exist…most importantly there would be no Gargos, but also in one timeline Eyedol is a 2-headed cycloptic satyr, and the other he would be a human turned zombie ogre… essentially in an already elaborate storyline you would be convoluting it to where it’d be too hard to say what causes what.
I mean it’s one thing where a franchise like Star Trek or Mortal Kombat have rebooted because they start out the reboot with the timeline diversion, and went from there to have their own stories. But KI didn’t do that. They started out with a fresh take with nods to the original material and no intentions to strictly adhere to it, and then if they somehow decided to retcon the original timeline into being the reason why there is a new timeline?
IMHO it’s better to have the classic story (KI 1& 2) in its own universe and the modern in its own. It doesn’t mean the classic story didn’t happen and is nul & void, it still exists, but that for the time being the devs are focusing on the new KI’s universe.
A good example of this would be Transformers. Multiverse has been Hasbro’s stance on the Transformers’ mythos for some time now, and with that the movie universe is a thing, as bad as it is, but it doesn’t negate the existence of the original Generation 1 series stories/characters, or the Cybertron trillogy (Armada, Energon, Cybertron), or the Animates series, or Transformers Prime/Robots in Disguise, or the ongoing comics stories. They’re all their own thing and don’t negate the existence of the others.
But like I said in the other thread, if you (the OP) want to believe that things would be better if KI2 somehow resulted in the reboot, knock yourself out.