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GameGodOfAll
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Unanswered Questions
List 'em boys

So I figured since the odyssey is nearing its end, why not nitpick the shit out of it for fun wit all the questions we still have that were not yet answered As of Entry 86

Just post whatever and we'll make a happy little list. I guess I should start it off though, so...

Skully.



Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Don't take everything seriously. I'm pretty sure we can all agree that we don't want all the answers given to us. Part of the allure is the mystery. There are some big questions we hope get answered, sure, but let's not limit this thread to just those.


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Lithp
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I'll try to remember all of the ones that I listed in the Entry 86 topic. I'll also add a few more, since you said that they don't need to be 100% serious.

What's the Hoody Hut?
What's the significance of the tunnel?
Why does The Operator not jump to everyone that Tim knows, or even everyone that he knows well?
Why does The Operator need people to "spread" at all?
If The Operator's function is to create paranoia & violence, what's with all of the bloody memory wipes?
What is "The Ark"?
What was Brian trying to accomplish with ToTheArk?
How did Brian keep breaking into Jay's account?
Where was Brian's corpse in Entry 86?
Why didn't Brian buy his own gun?
Why did Brian set Tim & Jay up to work together?
Why did he take so long to do so?
Was Tim serious about not wanting to kill Alex, or was he bullshitting to create an opening?
Where does The Operator send the people that it "takes"?
How did Tim first come into contact with The Operator?
What does it gain by infecting people & taking dead bodies?
What was the point in saying that Jessica is out there if Brian knew that wasn't true the entire time?
Does Tim really remember his whole past with The Operator?
When did he remember or did he always know?
Is "Masky" an unrelated issue or something that The Operator caused?
If The Operator caused both "Hoody" & "Masky," then why doesn't Alex have an alter ego that fights crime?
What's with the Operator symbol, especially the ass-random ones on buildings & shit?
Why didn't they run into any penis graffiti in the abandoned hospital?
Why did Alex only burn some of the tapes?
How did all of the people that Alex failed to kill survive?
What happened after Entry 12?
Why did Tim & Brian abduct Jessica?
Why did Alex call Tim & Jay & tell them to leave?
Where the Hell was Alex shooting from?
Why is there no information on The Operator prior to Marble Hornets when Alex, a single victim, had amassed hundreds of tapes documenting it?
Why did The Operator wait several years to return to Alex?
Why didn't Alex get rid of that camera?
What happened to Alex while he was hanging out with The Operator?
How did Alex kill Amy--did he just shove her out of that window?
Why didn't Alex try to cover up his crimes, even though Hoody went to extensive lengths to stay off of the radar?
Where did Hoody get his food & water?
Does the Operatorsickness cause hallucinations or not?
Where did The Operator come from?
Is there only 1 of it?
Why don't the people that it "takes" decay?
Why does it only ever attack people indirectly?
Why does it skulk around Rosswood?
How did Brian stay away from it after he decided to live in Rosswood?

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gennerx
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Re: Unanswered Questions
List 'em boys

GameGodOfAll wrote:
So I figured since the odyssey is nearing its end, why not nitpick the shit out of it for fun wit all the questions we still have that were not yet answered As of Entry 86

Just post whatever and we'll make a happy little list. I guess I should start it off though, so...

Skully.


Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Don't take everything seriously. I'm pretty sure we can all agree that we don't want all the answers given to us. Part of the allure is the mystery. There are some big questions we hope get answered, sure, but let's not limit this thread to just those.


Skully exists only to upload the last entry.
That's my guess.

PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 9:13 am
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BetaPix
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Lithp wrote:
Why didn't they run into any penis graffiti in the abandoned hospital?


You, sir, made my day.

PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 9:54 am
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Ascalondion
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Lithp wrote:

Why did Alex only burn some of the tapes?
How did all of the people that Alex failed to kill survive?
Why did Alex call Tim & Jay & tell them to leave?
Why did The Operator wait several years to return to Alex?
Why didn't Alex get rid of that camera?
What happened to Alex while he was hanging out with The Operator?


Maybe this is also somewhere along the lines of your questions, but when did Alex actually decide to kill everyone? #72 suggests that in 2006, Alex may have not held lethal intentions in general. Neither #26 shows him engaged in the whole "have to kill everyone" buisness.
Even in #36 it seems like killing someone crossed his mind only recently. ("I could have done worse, and I probably should have.") If he knew he had to kill Tim because he was a part of this, why not doing so? To don't tip off Jay? And whytf tell Jay and Tim to "leave, now!" at a time at which he should already be on his kill-track?

Every entry I understand Alex' point of view less and less.

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As I mentioned in the other thread, I don't want all the answers spoon-fed to me, but I do want to know:

1. What is the Ark?
2. What's with the tunnel?
3. Who filmed "Exit?"

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Lithp
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BetaPix wrote:
Lithp wrote:
Why didn't they run into any penis graffiti in the abandoned hospital?


You, sir, made my day.


I figured it was at least somewhat relevant since, OOG, Troy confirmed that there are indeed dicks everywhere.

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thisistheend
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Re: Unanswered Questions
List 'em boys

GameGodOfAll wrote:
So I figured since the odyssey is nearing its end, why not nitpick the shit out of it for fun wit all the questions we still have that were not yet answered As of Entry 86

Just post whatever and we'll make a happy little list. I guess I should start it off though, so...

Skully.



Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Don't take everything seriously. I'm pretty sure we can all agree that we don't want all the answers given to us. Part of the allure is the mystery. There are some big questions we hope get answered, sure, but let's not limit this thread to just those.


Skully was the original version of Hoody. The end.

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Geneaux486
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Just gonna list the ones I actually care about:

What is the ark and why was Brian obsessed with it?

Who uploaded entry 86?

Why did Alex let Jay take the tapes in the first place?

What is the Operator and why does it get off on murder, insanity, and the rearrangement of space/time?

Was Alex actively trying to kill his friends before or after he reunited with Jay during season 2 (I realize he attacked Tim and set Brian up during the summer of 06, but he might not have been cognizant of those actions and unless it's stated otherwise, I'll assume he wasn't).

How or why did Brian survive Alex feeding him to the Operator, and did that contribute to the fact that, unlike Alex, his insanity lead him to oppose the Operator/

Was Alex the only one aware of what was happening because he was the only one who caught it on tape back in 2006?

Is there a third person who contributes to the totheark channel?

And finally, the question that is first and foremost on my mind, why was Brian's corpse clean-shaven when he's basically spent the last seven years as a wandering ghost-hobo with a bag over his head who takes shelter in tunnels and abandoned shacks in the woods?

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Lithp
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And finally, the question that is first and foremost on my mind, why was Brian's corpse clean-shaven when he's basically spent the last seven years as a wandering ghost-hobo with a bag over his head who takes shelter in tunnels and abandoned shacks in the woods?


That's a good point. Normally, I wouldn't care, but they seem to pay attention to that. Maybe he can't grow facial hair for some reason?

Also, why didn't I think of "who was upload"?

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device
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I don't know, I think Brian could've stolen a razor from a camper pretty easily.

Too many questions to count... just a few!

1. How can Brian always find Jay and photograph him? Know where he is all the time? (finding his camera at Rosswood, taking pics of him and Tim arguing, sleeping in his car, at the antique store). I certainly don't buy the idea he's creeping in underground tunnels... You still would have to know where your quarry is going to be hours ahead of time if you are walking and Jay is driving. Is he clinging to the top of Jay's car like a big spider all the time as he drives? Is he teleporting around? Who the hell knows?

2. What in the name of god were they doing with Jay both times they kidnapped him? (when Masky was in his room, and when Jay followed Masky into Rosswood at night). Why did he lose his memory during these trips? Why were they exposing him to TO in the first kidnapping? (if the first one was indeed a kidnapping).

3. Was the antique store a superhuge giant red herring?
He went to the trouble of breaking in and taking pics... and the piles of old cameras and the weird pic of the man with two plain cirlces for eyes... was it all just a set up for suggesting that TO has been around a while, even before Tim? And Tim was just the unlucky guy who contracted the TO "disease"?

4. TO was in Tim's apartment (when they were discussing music). And Tim just walked past him like it was NOTHING. Couldn't he see him? Was he so used to him by now it no longer scared him? Did he think he was a hallucination? Or was Tim setting the others up? Or did Alex bring him?

5. Did Tim set the fire in the hospital? If so, was it at TO's murderous instructions? Or, if he started seeing TO there in the first place, maybe he thought burning the place down would kill TO?

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Jordan
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BetaPix wrote:
Lithp wrote:
Why didn't they run into any penis graffiti in the abandoned hospital?


You, sir, made my day.


Well, the mundane and boring answer is it would have been flagged by Youtube, which does no one any good Smile

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Jordan
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Lithp wrote:
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And finally, the question that is first and foremost on my mind, why was Brian's corpse clean-shaven when he's basically spent the last seven years as a wandering ghost-hobo with a bag over his head who takes shelter in tunnels and abandoned shacks in the woods?


That's a good point. Normally, I wouldn't care, but they seem to pay attention to that. Maybe he can't grow facial hair for some reason?

Also, why didn't I think of "who was upload"?


Well, given that it seems like Brian and Alex became really good friends, it wouldn't suprise me if Alex cleaned him up after he died, to allow his friend some dignity after his death and steeling his resolve to kill Tim, the cause of it all. We don't know when Seth and Sarah were killed and well, he might not have known them that well and they were just intrested in helping to make a movie or he killed them quickly, so not to dwell on who they were to him.

But Brian was out there for three years and that left Alex plenty of time to dwell on who he was - that and well, he died slowly, humanising him to Alex quite a bit. I can understand him just waiting for Brian to die, but also just dealing that the last of his friends and his girlfriend was dead and just wanting to do something good for someone affected by this mess. (I think Jay was probably quick and sudden and Alex just didn't let himself proccess it, which probably also could have let him to do this)

...and now I've made everyone more depressed Sad

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Jordan wrote:
Well, given that it seems like Brian and Alex became really good friends, it wouldn't suprise me if Alex cleaned him up after killing him, to allow his friend some dignity after his death


As much as it would have ruined the drama, I'd have lost my shit if Alex had gelled up his hair and dressed him in a nice suit, too.

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[RANT] - On Topic

Is anyone else worried that we won't get anymore solid answers to this series that we all love so much? It seems as if every entry since the reveal I've been sitting there with an anxious feeling that i'll never have answers we need.

The theories and speculations developed among the community, to put it bluntly, are run-of-the-mill pseudo fan fictions that are built off of people's imaginations rather than concrete evidence or facts. 90% of the time I read the theories posted on Unfiction and shrug my shoulders when I should be nodding my head saying, "That makes some sense, and I can see how you got there."

I know not everything must be answered, but we still should be given enough answers to allow ourselves to develop our own answers that make sense to others instead of causing fights and ridiculous theories that no one can prove right or wrong.

I'd like to know if anyone else feels something similar. I'm not angry, but i'm kind of concerned for the series because I enjoy it so much.

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