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[incedio]

[stormoftara]

J said before he didn't remember Alex's middle name.

[MrHawthorne]

So I've been a lurker for a while, thought I should join in.

The first video to be posted by totheark was a response to Entry #9, which always made me think that it was very significant.

Those boxes of slashes, and that misaligned CLOSELY, I couldn't dicipher.

Then came Operator and the rest of the videos we've seen. Has anyone thought that maybe totheark was the one character we've only had a glimpse of that was totally written off?

The camera /operator/ in Entry #9?

This mysterious person really hasn't been introduced or talked about, but here's the kicker that got me thinking. That day the operator brought /his/, as Alex clearly pointed out, dog. The only other mention of a dog was rocky (Entry #2). It was strange that Alex kept saying we throoughout that entry. Who else was there? J doesn't mention anyone else.

Perhaps, its the operator? Rocky, is his dog? Maybe this is when Alex and the operator first were targeted by the Slender Man?

I think the operator Entry #9 is ToTheArk, and he was entangled with Alex in this Slender Man Debacle. Perhaps they argued about methods of dealing with the Slender Man.

Alex seems driven to get the Slender Man on tape and puts himself into situations to get the Slender Man closer. Maybe the Operator didn't want to do that, hence he brings his dog along and turns off the tape in the middle of taping.

Well now I'm rambling. Am I looking way to into this?

Also I looked closely at Entry #9 convinced Slender Man was somewhere in there. I saw a large black spot behind the girl's right shoulder when she moves out of the way.

Is this Slender Man or am I just seeing things?

[The Last Gent]

Man, why do you guys cringe at the idea of this being turned into a movie? I think it'd be awesome. A kind of Blair Witch/The Ring type deal with a mystery at the core. The story is about J discovering the tapes, and then going over them, finding the disturbing Slender Man things (J's stuff is normal movie-style, Alex's stuff is Blair Witch style) and trying to unravel the mystery. Then as he does, some of the same things start happening to him, and SM even stalks him. He realises he's in too deep, but for some reason can't stop. The film would become more twisted and surreal as it goes on and he descends into madness. I can't say how it would end yet, but I imagine some sort of mind screw.

That sounds like an awesome film plot.

And then JAF could be the sequel, focusing on unravelling the mystery of the Iraq disaster.

[morscata12]

I don't think Entry 18 will be the finale. If anything, it will be the beginning of the next stage of MH. So far, we have been following J's journey with totheark poking at him near the end. J's mission has been to figure out what happened to Alex that freaked him out so badly. After the first 14 entries, he got a fairly good idea of that from the tapes. Four entries later, and he's dug himself deeper into the situation via his own research.

But doesn't totheark have goals and questions too? Maybe the next stage will be totheark's journey.

And how many big reveals can they make in one Entry? I doubt the two of them will have a chat explaining the underlying plot, so it doesn't seem likely that totheark has every answer. Of course, at this point I'm just trying to justify a reason to get more MH videos so I'm probably wrong about most of the above.

[DavFlamerock]

[TheAtroxious]

[Kilo]

The consensus does seem to be that Tim and SM are somehow connected. I was thinking about that last night, and how the man with the twisted face and Tim are the only two people seen to be smoking in the series.

But what does that mean? Is there some servant/master relationship between Tim and SM? Who is what? And to what ends?

As for the whole "ark" thing. Alex Kralie works too. A bit of a stretch, just something I noticed.

[MrHawthorne]

Alright I think that I found something else that solidifies my assumption that totheark is the camera operator from entry #9.

The blocks of slashes in Regards have always been a mystery of sorts to me. Today I had an idea. I remembered that the blocks change sizes when they flash. Some thought this was morse code, but I think it's simpler than that.

From my count the first set of slashes flashes twice, the second flashes twice and the third flashes three times. All together 223.

I immediately thought that this was a timestamp, so I paused Entry #9 at 2:23, and who is in perfect view? The camera operator. Regards.

[DavFlamerock]

[morscata12]

[TheAtroxious]

Nice. This is the exact reason I'm debating getting a Twitter account, even if I only ever use it for MH. (I have a terrible habit of signing up for blogging sites and then never using them again. Quite like what is mentioned in JAF, actually.)

Wow. That's pretty clever, Hawthorne. 223 strikes a vague sort of recognition in me, too, but I can't put my finger on it.

'Course, the obvious answer is that, translated into letters, it spells out "BBC". But somehow I don't think that's what the reference is supposed to be.

[fezzik]

I would like to add my voice to the operator=totheark chorus. A vague sense has been building in me for a while that whoever TTA is, it's first of all somebody very much human and flesh and blood, although potentially insane. Someone that was intimately involved in the events 3 years ago, but (most importantly) someone that J (and, by extension, us) has forgotten about. At first I thought that was implausible because I figured if such a person existed they would have come up by now. But now that we know that there is some amnesia involved, I really think that there was someone involved in MH that everyone (or at least J) has simply forgotten about. And the operator is a logical choice. For some reason this person is still around but scared of openly engaging J, either some facet of his insanity or a genuine fear of beating eaten for SM breakfast, or both.

[Slender freak]

[BaronVonCakeman]