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[gennerx]

[DHawk314]

[mokie]

The call went through. The Operator's camera fuckery corrupts footage; it doesn't retroactively render it unrecorded.

The entry starts with Tim telling us that he's been off his meds for a while - the ones that keep him from wandering around doing things he doesn't remember later. I consider it more likely something interfered with his memory of the day than with his phone.

[DHawk314]

Well he's been off hid meds ever since Hoody stole them after Jay got shot. The voicemail he would have gotten before that.

It actually doesn't matter. It's entirely a plot device so that we can see Jay's motivation change without Tim having known before Entry #77 actually happened, coloring everything a bit different. There are plenty of supernatural elements the Operator could have invoked here, technologically or memory wise. None of them are actually the point.

[JAL13]

[gennerx]

[Omberto]

The entry also brings up the old "Jay is an unreliable narrator" possibility again. I meant TO "got" him in Seasons 1 & 2 as well. Maybe TO has had a greater influence than we think...

[Camero]

I don't want to derail this into the whole "Future Jay" thing, but I have to admit...

time travel would sort of explain the phonecall. The Operator could have mind-screwed Jay and then sent him back in time to before he made the call.

Alternatively the teleporting could sort of account for it. Jay may have been in some sort of a slenderverse version of the park, or...no that's too crazy.

[evanx275h]

Couldn't read every page at this point so forgive me if I'm repeating things.

I don't see what's so hard to believe about Jay placing the call from ahead in time. We've been given sufficient evidence that time travel is possible as a result of the Operator's influence - mainly in Entry #72, when Jay and Tim walk into a basement and it's suddenly night.

The idea that the message will be received later on is extremely interesting, mainly because it makes Alex's call from within the tunnel more ominous; when is he contacting them from? I feel like, as long as they don't screw with the time concept too much OOG, then the inclusion of a time distortion would be a lot of fun to see played out.

Also, if the tunnel is some kind of "time tunnel", then Jessica stepping through it on Tim's tape might suggest that she might have jumped into a different point in time too. This coupled with the constantly-shifting geography of Rosswood will make for a really interesting next few entries.

[gennerx]

[CraicIsMighty]

The ironic thing is that this entry proves beyond a shred of a doubt that Tim was completely wrong to keep that tape from Jay. Jay actually did realize what Tim's reasoning for hiding it was. If Tim had just shown Jay the tape when he first found it, this whole thing wouldn't have happened, and Jay would still be alive now.

[eunsook]

[gazza]

Jay must have posted the Jessica tape online BEFORE the events in this entry.

Jay made the "Tim, we need to talk" tweet on October 13, so Entry #77 happened sometime after that. This entry happened a day earlier, so October 12 or later (probably October 13 as he specifically says in his tweet that Tim didn't answer his phone). Jay posted Entry #76 on September 12.

[Ascalondion]

I have a rough idea with something, combining idea already posted here and some what I find a bit of a twist to the current discussion:

First of all, I think there is a mundane explanation of the phone call. Either TO erased Tim's memories of hearing the voicemail, or someone (with a hood) broke into Tim's house and erased it before he had a chance of hearing it. Though I deem both variants equally likely atm., I have an idea for the Hoody case.
It is a bit of a stretch, but what if there was no "real" switch in Jay from apologetic to violent, but TO influenced him to make that call. Jay stayed angry and hostile for most of the time, but TO induced a short episode of Jay being sorry and calling Tim, and after that conveniently erased Jay's memory of this, and maybe added a dash of madman back into him – so to speak.

"But why would he do that?" Well the consequence of that would be that Tim and Jay maybe got back together. And as long they are both together, they can both be disposed together. Remember how Alex, back then in S2, wanted Jay and Jessica both to be out in the woods, to get them both at the same time. Now – with some people noticing the recent focus on Alex resembling TO and vice versa – I thought maybe that the two have the same interest in that regard: getting rid of anyone involved into this, or at least involved into the Marble Hornets shoot. Therefore, TO, just as Alex did back then, wanted both Jay and Tim together so that he could get them both at the same time.

Hoody, however, somehow got wind of this (or is generally checking Tim's messages – I guess this part is the biggest stretch of this whole thesis) and therefore erased the voice mail from Tim's phone, so that they would be in clinch and at least not both together in the same place.
But this does not explain why Hoody freed Jay, at all.

So, what do you think?

[Lytrigian]