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[Anteros]

[StayPuftMarshmallowMan]

Its not just the pics. Its that Tagruato and Tidowave are on this timeline. Even if its not an ARG, why have all this buildup only to skip six months into the summer

[Nighthawk]

You're assuming this "game" ends on 1/18... what if the ARG world continues? What if we have to pretend that the movie hasn't happened yet? That the attack will happen eventually, and we all know the outcome, but we can see the progress towards that.

Maybe the date of the attack is the day the DVD comes out?

[suckaH]

[StayPuftMarshmallowMan]

I do believe that it will continue after the movie like an investigation in Tag but I dont truly believe they would do that. WHats the point of keeping it up with Tag and Tidowave. If thats what their going to do then whats the point.

[Euchre]

[Lupinicus]

[TwelfthMonkey]

It makes sense that the pictures were printed to hand them to Rob at the party ... they could have sent them to his email afterwards, but his friends would not be able to sign them

now.. about the chef and the attack pictures... it beats me.

[InAFieldofClover]

I just think that Reeves was misquoted. More points to the events of the film taking place on January 18th than any other date. The website's pictures, the pictures' inscriptions, the temperature being changed in the film, etc. Reeves going on record now as saying the film doesn't take place in January seems a little too fishy. It's too late to go back on the events of the film taking place any other time. Everything in this ARG/E has been building to that date.

You could say that maybe the writers are abandoning the ARG/E, and by doing so, they can rewrite other things. But we're still getting updates. As mishandled as this whole thing has been, it's still thriving, and still pointing to one specific date: 1-18-08.

If they're switching the date of the party, that could explain some things, however. For one, it could explain Jamie's absence. It could also explain why there was no timestamp on the sixth 1-18-08.com picture. (unless it's a recipe card)

There's still no reason to switch it up, however, and besides Reeves' quote, I haven't seen anything to indicate that another date would make sense whatsoever, unless the ARG/E suddenly comes to a screeching halt. And then again, there's still that matter of the Slusho contest and a possible sixth Jamie video. So unless Jamie is done, and Abrams is going to disassociate Slusho from Cloverfield as that one report seemed to indicate, this thing will thrive for a while longer, while lending legitimacy to the "The movie takes place on 1-18-08" thing.

[TwelfthMonkey]