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[Yuki]

[McGregor]

Its also entirely possible that Jay is just paranoid, as he should be, and mistook the brownness of the woods as Hoody.

It doesn't necessarily mean he's hallucinating.

[FalloutGhoul]

[Magyk]

i can see that unfiction is already working its typical over-analysis magic, but its pretty obvious that

[Bernie Buddy]

[Geneaux486]

[aidansean]

Weird thought time: Upon a second or third watching of this I saw things in a different light. What if Jay is actually trying to mislead Tim for some reason? He claims to see something and they says it was just a bird, then when Tim is up the tower he again claims to see something outside (this time a person) and again doesn't manage to capture it on tape. Then when Tim is walking ahead he happens to "accidentally" fall into the tape hole and he doesn't get up until Tim starts to rummage through the hole. What if Jay planted some tapes there himself? He has plenty of boring tapes that he could burn if he wanted to.

I don't know why Jay would want to mislead Tim, or when he would have had the time to set this up. It would only require burning some tapes and tape cases, placing a few good tapes in some burned cases, placing them in the hole, and then removing a rung from the ladder. That's not too much work to do, but it does require Jay to do that without being caught, and to do it before they arrive for the "first" time, which could be tricky.

I think it's fairly obvious at this point that either Tim has learned all the stuff about the Season 1 entries, or, more likely, Jay has gone out of his way to tell Tim all the relevant stuff, so that he can play on this knowledge to his advantage. At this stage I have no idea why Jay would want to plant tapes and mislead Tim, but his behaviour did seem odd in this entry. It would be interesting to see Jay get all Alex-like and paint a particular version of events for Tim to find. I might resurrect an old theory of mine that the operator only follows one person at a time, and the only way to get rid of it is to find someone else for it to follow. That could be what Tim (accidentally) did to Alex, what Alex (intentionally) did to Jay and now what Jay is (intentionally) doing to Tim again.

Then again I could be tothebark-ing up the wrong tree.

[gazza]

Just want to mention a potential continuity error. Jay tells Tim to be careful when climbing the tower because last time he (Jay) slipped off. This seems to be referring to Entry #21, where Jay indeed slipped off (causing him to drop the camera).

However, this wasn't the last time Jay was at the tower. In season 2, Jay once woke up near the tower. He checked it before leaving. So either Jay doesn't actually remember the last time he was there, or he slipped AGAIN that time, or it's a continuity error. No big deal, but nitpicking is kind of a thing that I like to do, and I just thought I'd mention this.

[ReverendJ]

[gazza]

[Lithp]

What I find interesting is that he doesn't act like it was Hoody that he saw.

[Geneaux486]

[Ztakk]

[ledzepfilm]

I will squee with joy for a Hoody origins/identity tape, a continuation of Entry 12, or a Alex working with Operator tape.

[Xman]

Pretty good entry. I really like the hole in the ground having tapes in it. That explains the static noises and all that jazz. And I'm glad we have more tapes now, even if it is just two.

I'm not sure why some people think finding old tapes is a dumb and repetitive thing to have in the series. It's what the series started on and what it's all about. You're not supposed to see it as a wrong thing to go to for a plot device, it's meant to show that there could be more answers and it gives a glimpse of the past. It's basically part of their mission to find tapes. I don't understand how that's bad.