From the START

[Hollomandious]

I agree... to a point. At the beginning of the story, with it was solely Michael's narrative it was a recapping of events that had happened up to a point. To what point? The point when he told others to start keeping a log. After that it feels to me that we're listening to parts of the story in real time and parts as journal entries retelling things that have happened.

i'm with you on this one.

but there are moments, where the characters still foreshadow, which they really couldn't do if it was in a live mode. Saul says it just after they leave with the fuel tanker, and riley does it just before the start of the road to living death. so...