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[KeithXK]

Um, isn't the Skull from Grim Fandango?
I think it's just esoteric imagery that has little purpose but providing ambiance like most of Totheark's random footage.

IE, don't over think it.

[Timur]

The only thing that irks me about this particular debate is that its basically perception based; its all about interpreting a very vague clip with unknown context. This reminds me of the whole "whos outside the car" debate. People will see from it what they want to see, be it another mask on a blonde girl, or a painted image for ambience. It just has so little context, and is so vague, I find it difficult to really discuss (the complete lack of context means that we have no evidence either way beyond the image, which pretty much means that its all about how you see it).

Now, this is no put down to Skully supporters, I'm just saying that I don't know how anyone can really "move" this debate. I am always glad to hear speculative theories, however, so how about this as a spot to post your speculative skully theories? Unless you see a better course of action, or you just found more evidence linked to the image.

[WhyYouBawwing]

[Randoman96]

[Yuki]

[Randoman96]

If anyone recalls, the red tower was seen once at the beginning of the series and not mentioned again until rather late in the first season.

[Masky]

I hope Skully won't be another big lipped alligator moment.

[WhyYouBawwing]

Seth only popped up once but we still put a crapton of focus on him in speculation.

[TheBioGuy]

[WhyYouBawwing]

That's what I'm getting at: the Skull mask (MASK, damn it!) appears on camera once-->can't be important, Seth appears on camera once-->Holy shit, this guy must be a crucial Chekhov's gun!, TTA appears on camera once-->Eh, it's probably some random guy. What I'm saying is: there's some hypocrisy going on because for some reason people are suddenly against Skully being a significant plot device when they've been all for it until now.

[YamaKami]

[Randoman96]

[YamaKami]

[Deimos]

I'm going to have to agree with WhyYouBawwing here too, although I still think it's a prototype mask. That yellow stuff is the wall man.

[DHawk314]

Skully screamed Checkov's gun to me. I understand people objecting to huge complicated theories about it, but in my honest opinion, a thing that looked a hell of a lot like a mask that appeared in an area of tape seemed to be foreshadowing the next season (Being in the season finally) would be a jerk red herring to me.

But besides all of that, if anything, it's a red herring. Even if it's not a mask, it has Masky's nostrils, and eyebrows. It's obvious that the creators meant for us to think of it as another mask, even if it does mean nothing.

And so, while I respect people saying they think Skully means nothing, I don't respect people implying people who interpret it as meaning something are stupid. Even if the people interpreting it as something are wrong, they're not stupid. As I said, it's obvious the creators wanted us to think it's something. Even if it's a red herring, it's a really good red herring and we were supposed to fall for it. So when people make a "Big fucking deal" about Skully, they're doing what the creators planned us to.

All that being said, I think Skully is another mask. The idea of it being a protomask doesn't really click with me, because I wouldn't understand why he'd make a completely different looking mask, and that's assuming the original was destroyed. Honestly it seems like people taking Occam's Razor to a huge degree. I think it's another person.

EDIT: Also a quick thing about Seth.