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[LegitimatelyTaylor]

My main concern is that it doesn't feel like we're close to the finale. This feels like a mid-game arc, and it's centered solely on a single character. It encompasses none of the long-standing obstacles that Jay has faced throughout the series (the Operator, Alex Kralie's madness, Jessica's disappearance, TOTHEARK). Sure, Masky is just as important, but if we're this close to the end, we should be seeing a lot more answers.

[MistrPibb]

[pravado]

My main gripe is that Jay is left clueless as to where to look next most of the time, and totheark gives him horrible clues that tease him more than help him. I guess that might be the point of the character, but if he's going to help jay then have him help jay, if he's going to mock jay than have him mock jay. The mixture of the two is incredibly weird and it comes off like totheark doesn't even know what he wants out of all this with his double sidedness.

But jay having no leads time and time again is kind of bad storytelling. It's better than finding an object that will tell him where to go i guess, because that's really formulamatic by now. But like when Jay was going to the maintnence tunnel by himself, that was a good buildup because jay knew what he had to do to progress. At this point all we're going to do is wait for the operator, to theark, masky, or hoody to find jay and scare him out of his newest place of living and maybe he'll get a phonecall from tim or alex to continue things. While those scenarios make sense, we've seen them time nad time again and there are surely better ways to get jay moving. There's infinite creative control, anything is possible, don't settle for low-level thrills when you can do big ones

[SHODAN]

[pravado]

Nah. How would you explain Jay getting away in entry 40 and entry 46 without a doll? Theory is too loose.

It's more likely that now that Jay knows about tim's seizures and past history, the house entries will make more sense to him and the doll is a callback to that.

[twistedpuppet]

[Ithilwen22]

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[Ithilwen22]

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[Rodion Romanovich]

What I found interesting about this entry was not what it told us about Tim or TTA, which wasn't much, but that it gave us a few more hints that Jay's predicament might lack its usual cheer. His investigation, such as it is, has of course always led to health problems, but the recent mention of paranoia, and the coughing in this video, might indicate that things are getting worse again.

He's also complained about being lonely a couple of times after the face punching incident. Again, being lonely is in itself nothing new, but I don't think he's ever mentioned it before, so it seems that losing Tim as a potential companion, or even friend, might have hit him harder than Tim's fist. Which isn't that surprising, because in one of the earliest episodes of this season, Tim and Jay actually seemed to get along really well, more or less the first time since the filming of Marble Hornets that we've seen anyone actually enjoying spending time with Jay.

So we have a reluctant protagonist, who feels that he's not making any progress, whose health is deteriorating, and who feels lonely. I don't know if this is going to lead to anything, but if these comments are getting more frequent, it might be something to look out for.

Of course, this also makes it perfectly reasonable that it would take two weeks to make this video (this is not a comment on the usual dramado, which I've learned to simply ignore). Jay does seem to be the kind of person who would try to run away from problems by simply withdrawing; pulling down the shades and spend all day watching ponies.

I think I had a point with all this when I started writing, but it might have been lost along the way. Oh well. Jay is giving us hints that he's sicker and sadder than usual, so maybe we should send him a mixtape of Morrissey songs. Or something.

[FalloutGhoul]