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[Jsor]

Pfft, next you guys are going to tell me the red tower is entirely pointless except for a single tape being hidden the... wait...

[twistedpuppet]

[Sha Noran]

I think 305 is irrelevant, unless it ties into a previous TTA code.

[Jsor]

[twistedpuppet]

[lonsumtravlr]

[Jsor]

[ReverendJ]

I would prefer not to call the mailbox a red herring because I don't want to acknowledge that someone thought it was important in the first place.

[Sha Noran]

You shouldn't make out the content of b-roll to be of particular significance. Did the roads in the b-roll used for the introduction have any significance? Did Brian's b-roll shots from 51 have any significance? No, in a found footage style piece filming b-roll is a plot device to explain the presence of a filming camera. The significance is what else is found in the footage besides what was intentionally filmed.

[Ascalondion]

I don't quite understand the hostility against any sort of speculation or trying to find hint's and clues in an entry. I mean, this is still the unFiction Board, right? Where, if not here, are people expected to pick up on seemingly minor details and try to get some clues out of them?

Doesn't mean that the mailbox is important anyhow, it could very well be completely random. But that's why I asked whether or not anyone found anything related to either the mailbox, or the number – to see IF there is any sort of reference. So I don't get why this is being shut down so hard.
It's not that I proposed some wonky theory in which Alex intentionally filmed that number on that mailbox, to leave some kind of message to Tim because he knew how things would went down.
I just asked if anyone found a reference to either that number or that mailbox. If so, great, if not, also fine. But I don't know why you assume from the outset that there could be no reference whatsoever, and blame anyone who at least looks whether or not there is one.

"Because it is random B-Roll!"
Yeah, guess what. That random B-Roll has also some random traffic lights that have a great similarity to the round lights that are featured in many TTAs as eyes, and to some extent even in #83. Does it mean that they are super important and crucial in regards to immediate progression of the story line? No. Does it mean they are completely unrelated? I doubt that too. They maybe never get important story wise, but they could tie in with some other things, or be just there for background information or more general motifs. (Just as the unimportant shots of creeks and water in other entries. It is reasonable to doubt that any fire/water reference is crucial to the upcoming events, but I still believe that there is some sort of fire/water motif going on in MH.)

"But the tower was irrelevant too."
Yes, but that doesn't made speculation about it false in the sense that the activity of speculating itself was wrong. Even if the tower, as far as we know, does not play any other role than having tape #22 hidden inside, it would have been "wrong" at that time (say, after watching "Version") to assume that it is completely meaningless and condemn any sort of speculation about it as futile. So even though the number on the mailbox is even more meaningless than the tower, it wouldn't be false to at least try to find some references, even if that endeavour turns out the result "Nah, nothin's there." I mean, it's not like this has blocked any interesting discussion that was going on …

"WTF do you want, then?"
Nothing. I was just curious that the number was so clearly seen, while they else avoid to show any address data other the room numbers in the season 2 hotel. So I asked whether I had missed any reference, that maybe this was Tim's, or Alex's or Jay's or Sarah's Mailbox, or whether TTA had incorporated the "305" somewhere in his videos, just like maybe with the traffic lights show earlier in the B-Roll. That does not seem to be the case, tough. No harm done.

*If you are bothered by wild speculations over details, please stop reading here.*

[Cyan507]

You know for a while there the bit with the mailbox reminded me of Entry #2. "I just saw this tall guy in the middle of the street, standing completely still." Even though it's early there's no Rocky and presumably no wooded area nearby.

[ledzepfilm]

[paladin181]

I think the address the Mailbox belongs to is relevant. I don't think there's a tape or anything there, but the location is probably of some import, else why show it so definitively?

[DHawk314]