Has old <PERSON> observed several different cycles?
[SPOILERS FOR DARK SEASON 3 EPISODE 8]
After (re)watching <PERSON> and <PERSON>'s conversation, one part of it seems confusing to me.
Claudia claims that there had been infinite cycles (= time loops), and that <PERSON> tried to destroy the knot (= kill pregnant <PERSON>) infinite amount of times. She also claims that their current conversation is happening for the first time ever.
Another confusing thing is how she even knows about the Origin world (well, she claims that she figured it out in 33 years, but there's a problem with that, see below).
A little bit of elaboration on what I mean by "different cycles": we now know that it's possible to change the timeline in the few seconds during the apocalypse and we also know that <PERSON> uses this opportunity to create the point at which the twin worlds diverge.
In any case we know that the last cycle was different from the previous one, because <PERSON> remembers finding herself shot by <PERSON>'s hand, which doesn't happen. It's possible that infinite small changes occured during the apocalypse, and not just the huge <PERSON> meeting/not meeting the alt!Martha split. Something else must have changed to give <PERSON> the insight into the origin, which she didn't have in previous cycles.
I know this question got confusing, but that's because I am indeed confused.
I guess, the more concrete wording of the question would be: did <PERSON> remember several different cycles, which could be distinguished by small changes, or did she only observe the two available(') to <PERSON> and <PERSON>?
(') I should say the versions of <PERSON> and <PERSON> from the last / second to last cycle. If my theory about different cycles is even correct.
Edit: Wait, I also forgot about old <PERSON> that <PERSON> killed. 663
Which didn't happen. I'm not sure at which point in her personal timeline she came to <PERSON> to have that conversation. It probably was before she was supposed to be killed.
Also, her behaviour before she was killed doesn't make much sense. The <PERSON> that was killed couldn't have known about the origin world, because if she had, then she would have gone to <PERSON> to tell him about it. But she hadn't. She couldn't have gone to get killed after the conversation with <PERSON>, because then there wouldn't have been a <PERSON> to kill her. 865