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I think the real reason this entry was so good was bc it showed that the operator was still a boss. The way he just stares at Jessica as her face "melts" away and how he grabs her and pulls her in towards him (if you frame by frame you will see this, he does the same thing to Jay in 52)

The one thing I don't get is the whole leaving her and then making her disappear the next day. It's possible he needed Alex to get the gun back, but Alex shouldn't have taken that long. He didn't look bruised or anything so hoody couldn't have kept him occupied for THAT long.

We have to assume that he warped her body back to the other side of the tunnel where they started, where Alex took the gun back, then made her dissapear before Tim shows up. Otherwise the whole "other side of the tunnel is dangerous" thing would be pretty false.

I also think they screwed up having hoody come from the other side of the tunnel. I don't think it was intentional in the sense that hoody has some way of getting there and back without getting operated on, I think it was just something they didn't consider when filming.



I think my overall complaint is that they're doing a bad job explaining what the threat of the other side of the tunnel is, as the operator has done the same thing he did to Jessica to others on the "normal" side of the tunnel. Other than that this entire entry was awesome.

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geekgirlinthefedora wrote:
Ooooh, someone on reddit brought up a good point. Why didn't Jessica get slendersick? She was right up next to him and it's been pretty well established by this point that being near TO = nasty nastiness. Is there something different about her?


I would doubt it since she has been slendersick before, so I would put it in the same category as 'why dont the cameras distort the same each time?'
But I suppose it could come up later.

If it didn't look dodgy enough already, carrying her out of her hotel room, maybe masky/hoody slipped her a couple of tims pills Razz

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geekgirlinthefedora wrote:
Ooooh, someone on reddit brought up a good point. Why didn't Jessica get slendersick? She was right up next to him and it's been pretty well established by this point that being near TO = nasty nastiness. Is there something different about her?

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She (as an actress) probably didn't think about it. She might not follow the series close enough to remember that, and on top of that Troy couldn't direct her while she was on her own with the camera or it would ruin the entry. If you were in her position, alone in the dark in the middle of the woods, you would be shitting bricks even though you knew it was safe, so your body will naturally act on impulses, and therefore forgetting to cough is explained by that. You have to assume whoever is playing the operator can talk to her while he's nearby, knowing that in editing they will put in distortion going haywire to cover it up, but before that they can't really do that without it picking up on camera.


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@Marble Hornets: Still, Troy would've told her to cough prior to filming.
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Yeah, I can't believe they would let something like that slide. The whole slendersick thing is way too big of a deal for that.

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Also, I feel I have to respond to some of these theories.

Jessica still has hope. Does no one remember The Operator taking Alex in the same manner? Multiple times? But then he turned out to be a raging gun toting lunatic... Maybe Jessica will turn out to be the same as Alex (laughs manically while rubbing hands).

I think in the beginning, Tim had no recollection of being Masky. He had no control, and couldn't do anything as Masky. Later on, perhaps through recent entries, he begins to remember what has transpired during his time as Masky. Perhaps he now knows everything he did (which would explain his very worried and sad look on his face before Jay returned to the car in 75). He knew what happened to Jessica, and what was on that tape. The thing I'm puzzled about is, Jay knew this happened in the past, before he hooked up with Tim. Why is Jay being untrusting of Tim about this now? Jay still needs to short it out with Tim and get back on track.

And on the recent topic of Jessica having no sickness in proximity of TO, might be the first time she saw him? Remember in Entry 12, no one had sickness during that entry. Yeah sure she has missing memories and such, but TO doesn't necessarily have to be in her sight to cause it.
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I would absolutely love it if Alex ended up being a tragic hero - he knows more than anyone else and has to do terrible things in order to stop something even more terrible happening

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They are very into their slendersickness in MH, usually overly so.

It isn't the first time, he was intended to be in her room in a hotel entry, and she has slendersickness in those entries

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UnQuantifiable wrote:
And on the recent topic of Jessica having no sickness in proximity of TO, might be the first time she saw him? Remember in Entry 12, no one had sickness during that entry. Yeah sure she has missing memories and such, but TO doesn't necessarily have to be in her sight to cause it.


She was sick at the hotel. Jay heard her coughing through the walls, she had the dark circles under her eyes, she was missing time, she had to have been exposed.

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Wondering about the noises coming from her room.

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geekgirlinthefedora wrote:
She was sick at the hotel. Jay heard her coughing through the walls, she had the dark circles under her eyes, she was missing time, she had to have been exposed.


This is all true, but she obviously didn't see him until 76. Otherwise she would have had the instinct to run away immediately upon seeing him. She was literally calling out for his help.
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Another thought that crossed my mind

If Tim set up the set of tapes to give to Jay the same way Alex did, to make Jay think about things a certain way, then isn't it possible that him and hoody are coordinating everything to make Alex look bad? They know Jay will post things to youtube and that Alex will see them, so they could also influence alex's thoughts too, right?



They obviously brought Jessica to rosswood to lure Alex out. There is no other reason to bring her there. But why doesn't Alex just kill her when she's standing next to hoody? Why get her isolated and then apologize before killing her?

If he knew Jessica would follow him, he obviously knew she didn't remember him pulling a gun on her at a previous time, and not remember who he is at all. Therefore it implies that he's not killing her bc she knows about him and his doings, it implies he's killing her bc the operator knows about her and he doesn't want her to go through what he did (or that the operator is somehow making him kill her). The fact that he shields his eyes when he's about to shoot her says he doesn't want to do it, but has to for some reason.

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Craig Digsby wrote:
@Marble Hornets: Still, Troy would've told her to cough prior to filming.
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Again, when you are in that position mid-take, you may forget things told to you before as your fear of being in the woods in the dark can frazzle your thought process. It was a lot for her to do, the amount of lines she had to remember and the routes to take and actions to do..


Also not every time the operator appears does someone cough. There are plenty of entries where they don't. It's possible the operator has to emit some kind of gas to "poison" people with (seen by the fact that Jay coughs up a boatload in 16 in the house, but doesn't cough whatsoever in 40 or 23 when he's in close proximity). Plenty of times Alex doesn't cough (26, 45) and other times when he does (43). It's not consistent enough to claim that it has to always happen, or that it even depends on how far along they are in the sickness. It has to be an effect that the operator lets off manually.

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Ugh, it's all just so "who's the bad guys and who's the good guys". I'm so confused now. Hell, I don't know if we can be sure that Jay's even a good guy anymore with as nuts as he's becoming.

Also, anyone else think that with what info we have now from this entry that we should stream season 3 again? See if our perspective changes now that we know what we know or at least what we think we know?

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geekgirlinthefedora wrote:
Ugh, it's all just so "who's the bad guys and who's the good guys". I'm so confused now. Hell, I don't know if we can be sure that Jay's even a good guy anymore with as nuts as he's becoming.

Also, anyone else think that with what info we have now from this entry that we should stream season 3 again? See if our perspective changes now that we know what we know or at least what we think we know?


Having rewatched season 3 in it's entirety last week or the week before, this entry really has no impact on anything. At best you can kill an hour trying to figure out where exactly this fits in (after 52 or after 32) but past that there's not enough here to make any new discoveries.

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