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awakeasaurusrex
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EvilFweeb wrote:
I have a, somewhat stupid theory (hehe), that, Alex lured Jay into the tunnel and tried to attack him, but Jay showed heavy resistance (Jay = Chuck Norris?) and Alex was only able to injure Jay, in the head area, and It could've lead to Jay's memory loss?
I don't buy it myself. Doesn't explain why Jay and Jessica are in the same hotel, and Jay didn't wake up in Entry 27 with any head wounds.

Here's a particularly paranoid theory. Entry 45, Tim-Tims and the Gimp lure Alex out and attack him, but fail to really significantly injure him - apparently scampering off once the Operator appears. We all assumed that this was a sign that, despite Tim having weird teleportation powers and the Gimp being able to stroll around the Operator's haunts in Rosswood unscathed, the pair of them weren't on the Operator's side.

What if we were wrong about that?

What if the attack was meant to fail?

Remember how angry Alex was after that attack? It's the only time we've seen him as enraged as he gets in this entry. And remember how the video went all weird when he yelled I'LL KILL YOU?

Maybe the whole point of the attack was to keep up the pressure on Alex, until he got to the point where he was willing to kill. Maybe it's vitally important for Tim and the Operator's purposes for Alex to have blood on his hands. In short, perhaps the attack was meant to crank Alex's paranoia way up to 11, to create a situation where eventually, sooner or later, he'd crack and kill someone.

In this case, Jay's behaviour in Entry 46 really did "make everything worse" - by breaking into Alex's place he just piled on one more incident to make Alex jumpy and scared, pushing him closer to the edge. I imagine that if this theory is correct Tim and the Operator might regard Entry 46 as a delicious opportunity that didn't quite come to fruition: they might have thought that the best way for Alex to cross the line would be for him to catch Jay snooping and kill him there and then, sealing his own fate whilst at the same time taking that snooper Jay out of the picture. That might be why the Operator manifests in Entry 46 - he sensed Alex's rage coming to the boil and he wanted to be there for the kill, but for whatever reason (perhaps Alex not quite being outraged enough, perhaps Jay taking the opportunity to flee when he did) it didn't come through.

And if Alex did notice the apparent Operator appearance towards the end of 45 - I say "apparent" because we don't actually see the guy - then perhaps that might have just been the icing of the cake. What better way to make Alex accept what the Operator's offering?

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MistrPibb
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 		I dunno if this has been thought of, but I think the Operator uses cameras to see and hear.
This would ALSO make Jay and Alex constantly filming themselves super creepy, the Operator watching even when they are asleep.

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EvilFweeb
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 		You make a fair point, Awakeasaurusrex (awesome name too, ha).

And sorry for your loss, MegaRain Sad

The Operator using their cameras too see is a good theory too.

I reckon we'll see Jay making one final visit to Alex's apartment sometime soon... Possibly stealing all the tapes that he eventually found locked up in the safe from the Hotel. That, or another theory: This "meeting" that might happen in Rosswood between Alex and Jay is Alex giving Jay all the tapes. Although highly unlikely, of course, just throwing theories around xD

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 		my theory on entries so far

There will be one more. either totheark will explain some actions or it shows jay confronting alex.

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nyc_jester
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 		Great entry.

I disagree slightly with the notion that Entry 38 is the only missing piece to the puzzle. One thing we've never found out is what happened immediately after Entry 12. That's a ways back, yes. But TTA made a point of mentioning that there was more than what we saw.

It's a little off the wall, but what if that tape Jay took from Alex was actually the end of Entry 12 and not Entry 38?

I think we might get that missing footage yet this season. Considering so many of the principles are involved, it could be the big reveal to showing how everything started to unravel, why Alex and Tim are the way they are now, etc.

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EvilFweeb wrote:
That, or another theory: This "meeting" that might happen in Rosswood between Alex and Jay is Alex giving Jay all the tapes. Although highly unlikely, of course, just throwing theories around xD


I believe the meeting that Alex was trying to arrange is referring to the events of Entry #38...and from that I get the feeling that it wasn't just a friendly exchange of tapes. Makes me think Jay's gonna have to go back to Alex's apartment and grab them himself, as

To be honest I agree with a lot of theories kicking around on here today, mostly about how Alex is being controlled by the Operator and had no choice but to kill this poor bloke. However I'm not sure if TO is controlling him in the sense that he has control of Alex's mind, or whether Alex is in a position (possibly to do with Amy) where he has no choice but to do as he's told. I get the feeling now more than before that Alex wanted to "get rid" of Jay somehow in entry #38, except we know that he's still alive which makes me not only fear that Alex might be dead, but that Jay may have been the one to kill him, as TheCrimsonKnight says:
TheCrimsonKnight wrote:
Also, the last scene hints that he both wants to kill J( and obviously fails) and that this happens just before Entry #38.
My guess is that the next entry will be Alex vs J. And the results won´t be so pretty.


I reckon we'll get at least two more entries (because we need to know what happened directly after the events of #38 ), one of them in the present so that Jay can explain what's been going on while he's been browsing through all of this footage. It seems strange that apart from some good old fashioned Slendy sickness he's been relatively fine(at least fine enough to not interrupt entries of just the 7 months). And I still think the season might end with a video from TTA, alluding to why there's going to be a break. Possibly more obvious than we're used to from them, more of a direct message to Jay.

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 		Not sure if this has been said, but Alex smashes Bruce's face with a rock. Could this be to remove his face for the operator?

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755 wrote:
Not sure if this has been said, but Alex smashes Bruce's face with a rock. Could this be to remove his face for the operator?


Good point - admittedly I haven't read through all 20+ pages yet, but this came to mind immediately after watching the video through the first time. The guy was already dead, so the face smashing had to have some sort of 'point'.

I'm also curious here too - unless Slendy returns the bloody shirt, maybe Alex kills more than once in this spot? [/just a thought]
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 		Yeah, a few things repeated so far: Alex brings people here to kill for the Operator (not TO, the OPERATOR Razz), he removes their faces on purpose, he was whispering to the Operator, it remains to be seen if he was really going to kill Jay instead of Bruce.
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Hey guys, we still don't know what's in the satchel, do we?


Hidden Machine 06.


It was super effective this time.

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awakeasaurusrex wrote:
What if the attack was meant to fail?


Curse you. I'm going to be in paranoid mode all day now.

What if the pair weren't scared off by the Operator, but fully expected him to show up? The attack in #45 bears some resemblance to this one; we thought Tim's rock was a pointed reference to his own injury, but what if they've seen Alex do this before, and are trying to figure out how the trick works?

Oh, it IS the best part.

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Yukito wrote:
After, he smashed the dude's head four times with a rock. Why? The Tutorial teaches that the Operator isn't the brightest of creatures, and even a simple mask can throw it off.


Quick note, while obscuring the guy's identity isn't a bad idea, I just wanted to mention that there's no real confirmation that MH is a Core Theory vlog or plays by those rules. I think Core Theory is the main reason they went with Slendy being "the Operator" rather than the "traditional" version.
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awakeasaurusrex
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mokie wrote:
awakeasaurusrex wrote:
What if the attack was meant to fail?


Curse you. I'm going to be in paranoid mode all day now.

What if the pair weren't scared off by the Operator, but fully expected him to show up? The attack in #45 bears some resemblance to this one; we thought Tim's rock was a pointed reference to his own injury, but what if they've seen Alex do this before, and are trying to figure out how the trick works?
Or maybe they wanted to suggest the rock thing to him so when he had an opportunity later on, he'd do unto others as he thought Tim was about to do unto him.

@redherring: Uh, the guy looked unconscious but I can't see any reason to assume he was necessarily already dead. It's far from clear. But whacking the guy full-force in the face with a rock 4 times with him entirely unable to defend himself would have finished the job one way or another. And hell, maybe the face-wrecking thing really was part of the point.

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12th wrote:
Yukito wrote:
After, he smashed the dude's head four times with a rock. Why? The Tutorial teaches that the Operator isn't the brightest of creatures, and even a simple mask can throw it off.


Quick note, while obscuring the guy's identity isn't a bad idea, I just wanted to mention that there's no real confirmation that MH is a Core Theory vlog or plays by those rules. I think Core Theory is the main reason they went with Slendy being "the Operator" rather than the "traditional" version.


Also they don't stretch the operator too far from the mythos, but the nice thing about Slenderman is that anyone who participates in the mythos by adding to it has freedom to pick and choose what they will use. Also "urban" legends are always subject to people projecting their fears onto it.

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