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[Video] Entry #55
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I think the take-away we need to get from this is:

1. Tim knew about the hospital in entry 51 beforehand
2. Alex, Tim, and Brian made plans to visit there "Saturday"
3. Brian did not remember Tim mentioning/discovering the hospital when the events of entry 51 occurred.
4. Alex lied about how they found the hospital in entry 51.
5. The background apartment buildings are likely same as TTA "program" video
6. Garlic Jr.
7. Tim was seeing a doctor about his paranoia, insomnia, and other symptoms prior to obviously being masky, and he has a history of these problems.

Not filler at all. Just gathering more evidence.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 1:23 pm
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tijde
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Foood wrote:
I'm also concerned about the fact that Tim suggested the abandoned hospital/doctor's office, while in Entry #51, Alex said that he and Seth found it. Also, there's no hints in Entry #51 that the place was a long drive from their town.

PLEASE don't be a plothole. It was only four entries ago!


I don't have a problem with either of these. "Far enough to split gas money" is pretty vague. It could just be an innocent miscommunication; to Alex that means a few hours, to a poorer or more money-conscious Tim*, that means half an hour. 

[*As evidenced in Tim's snark in #9, "I didn't even buy lunch" & "Considering how much you're paying us"]

Or it could be a deliberate misdirection. Alex likes to take his own car to shoots. If Tim has nefarious plans to get Alex Operated, maybe he's just trying to cut off a potential escape route by getting Alex to ride with him. When the road trip ends much sooner than Alex anticipated, Tim could use the "miscommunication" excuse to keep Alex's suspicions down. (Ok, I admit I kind of want to see a "You think that was far enough to split gas money?!" exchange.) 

If the latter is true, Brian's reactions in #51 make more sense to me. Tim takes Alex out there without Brian sometime before Friday. Alex gets Operated (and maybe #22 happens in the interim; a Slenderized Alex takes Seth to the Basement of Doom). Alex arranges to shoot B-roll with Brian on Friday, and lies about Seth coming along. Brian doesn't expect it to be the same place Tim was talking about because it actually isn't very far away. Alex lies about how he found it, trying to keep Brian in the dark just like Tim did to him. Since this takes place before Saturday, Brian thinks maybe Alex just scrapped Tim's idea. But he does sense something's not right--maybe Alex hits too close to home by saying this is an old doctor's office (which is different than a hospital, by the way). So Brian gets increasingly anxious and suspicious of Alex, as evidenced when he turns to literally watch his own back in #51. 

Of course, that's all pretty complicated. It's also quite possible that #54 simply takes place soon after #55, and this whole exchange gets wiped from their memories. 
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Masky wrote:
Hey guys, if you pause at 1:23, you can see Garlic Jr.'s head pop out of the bushes, confirming that this is filler. I spoke with Troy, and he said that because the web series has caught up with the Marble Hornets manga, he'll have to make the next few entries a filler saga where Tim, Alex, and Brian fight Garlic Jr. See you in a few months, when the real story continues.


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Yuki wrote:
I'd tend to agree with pravado on this. There was hardly any information here, nothing to grab our attention; all we know is that Tim has been sick a while, but that could mean it's not Slendersickness in his case


Hahaha, how naive are you?

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Seraphim
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Interesting point: Jay makes a real effort to point out that Tim's and Alex's symptoms are really, really similar. Then he points that Tim's symptoms may have led to Tim becoming Masky.

The unwritten implication being that Jay thinks that Alex is a masked fellow or has somehow avoided becoming masked.

Really interesting implications, cannot WAIT for the next entry. Or TTA.

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I think my real beef with this entry is that it shouldn't have required any editing and it looks like all the scenes could have been done in one take, but it still took them two weeks to make it

i know i'm not entitled to timely entries but it felt rushed and had a severe lack of plot progression for something so late in the series. a man can constructively criticize can't he

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pravado wrote:
I think my real beef with this entry is that it shouldn't have required any editing and it looks like all the scenes could have been done in one take, but it still took them two weeks to make it

Now this, I can get behind.

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pravado wrote:
a man can constructively criticize can't he


Don't know. I'm sure one of these days you'll try it.

As for the entry: they put one out a week. It is the pattern. This is not a new thing, gentlemen, ladies, and everyone else. This is something that's been going on roughly a year now.
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Most important detail from this video is the LISTing off of the symptoms Tim is experiencing. To me, this appears to be the first time we have someone in game list off the symptoms that we have SEEN others exhibit. This is the connection between every one of them.

Couple that with Jessica's dream about being little and being stalked by the operator and you have the makings of they all used to live there near Rosswood park but then moved away and something traumatic in their childhood happened that involved TO. This isn't a clue. This is a message to Jay to say that all of this TO stuff is no coincidence. He's always been stalking them. These tapes and the TTA videos will serve as a reminder to Jay of what happened when they were kids and how it started all over again when they began the Marble Hornets student film.

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Reneging my previous thoughts, I think this entry merely serves to better justify why Tim put a mask on his face and began stalking people involved with Marble Hornets. It simply intrigued me that Tim would be experiencing the Operator's influence before Alex.
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onetruepurple wrote:
pravado wrote:
I think my real beef with this entry is that it shouldn't have required any editing and it looks like all the scenes could have been done in one take, but it still took them two weeks to make it

Now this, I can get behind.


They also made a scary as shit totheark entry as well. It's not like they aren't doing anything. Plus wasn't there something about Brian still being in school? That might also make it difficult to shoot.

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Zebez wrote:
onetruepurple wrote:
pravado wrote:
I think my real beef with this entry is that it shouldn't have required any editing and it looks like all the scenes could have been done in one take, but it still took them two weeks to make it

Now this, I can get behind.


They also made a scary as shit totheark entry as well. It's not like they aren't doing anything. Plus wasn't there something about Brian still being in school? That might also make it difficult to shoot.


Basically, THIS. I don't follow Troseph or anyone else OOG, but people do have lives. And as you pointed out, pravado, we're not entitled to any timeline. Hell, they could stop making entries TODAY. It's their choice, their right, and their call. They could even make an entry where Jay decides this whole Slendy business is too stressful so he flies off to Neverland to be one of the pirates 'cause he's clearly too old to be one of the lost boys, and not fishy or feminine enough to pass for a mermaid.

Back on point, maybe they were busy. Maybe they were waiting for weather, or a convenient time to drop on set. Or maybe they didn't feel like it. Then again, maybe there was actually more setup than there seems.

So, the entry wasn't exactly THRILLING, and it isn't gonna give me nightmares. But those two things TIM said so casually give us a lot to think about and speculate over. I think it was a good entry, albeit far from my favorite.

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In actuality this entry does show us some interesting stuff. We don't see references to videos as old as Program in this series, plus it enforces the idea of Tim displaying sickness before Alex - which we've had a hint of with Entry #20, though enttry #37 and some TTA uploads complicate that theory a bit.

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So the hospital is near Tim's hometown, and Rosswood is Alex's hometown.
Most likely the locations in Tim's tapes are from Season 1, and the Rosswood area is near the hospital.

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Jay mentions in one entry(I forget which one) that Rosswood park is so far away from where they filmed Marble Hornets. Or at least, where he remembers they were filming.

Tim mentions that the hospital is a good ways away and that they'd have to make a weekend of it. Due to this, I feel that it is alluding to the hospital being in the town where Rosswood park is and that Tim is from there originally.

With Tim also mentioning that he had those systems before and Jessica mentioning her dream about being stalked as a child and the birthday video of Alex also being stalked by TO as a child, I'm lead to believe that it won't be long before we find out that all of them had similar experiences as children and all of them being from the town near Rosswood park.

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