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[Playmer]

[Akemi-Idane]

[Salty]

[Indextic]

[Salty]

[Megarain]

[GallaGalla]

That's exactly what I thought the first time I watched it - warp doors. . .
Glad to see other people share that opinion.

[MorbidPuppies]

[Danger Fox]

I can offer some help on the "changing hotel rooms" theory. I go to the same university as the cast of MH (as a side, it's weird when I pass them occasionally on campus). The hallway in the latest entry looks exactly like the hallways in the dorms here. It also might help with the room layout issue. The dorm rooms here are setup where you walk into the living room and then there is a hallway with four separate bedrooms in the back. What it seems like is they couldn't stay in the hotel any longer and just decided to use the dorms instead. I hope this helps.

[madfish]

Troy posted a new blog: http://jtroyw.blogspot.com/2011/01/surprises.html

[BranRainey]

People keep asking if J has his laptop. Just like to point out that the (empty) desk at the beginning is the same (not empty) desk that was at the end of the previous entry. And later, when he kneels next to his safe, you can clearly see his bag that he later uses to stash the tapes. Looks an awful lot like one of those laptop cases that has pouches/pockets for storing small things (like tapes).

So, yes, he has his laptop. And the maglite, probably.

[poisonmolasses]

@madfish: thank you. I think you may have freed me in some important way.

[eStripes]

[BranRainey]

Those screenshots make teleportation look like a good possibility. J gets a fake copy of Jess's room and Jess gets a fake copy of J's, perhaps? I'm kind of torn on it. It seems like they really are in a different room, from the screenshots and combing through the last few entries. If J were just facing the other direction, the doors would be on the opposite side of the hallway (they would not be on the same side as previous entries, as they are).

But the fact that Masky bolts out of this adjoining room instead of J's room makes me think that they couldn't have teleported -- because the only way to explain it when it's as subtle as it is would be to have someone flat-out TELL US in a later entry, which really doesn't seem like something the creators would do. The way it's set up now, it's definitely not the kind of thing that most people would pick up on. Of course, it's entirely possible that's the teleportation in this entry is just a minor detail that doesn't have to be understood by the entire audience. But then it seems like way too much effort to go through, setting up another two rooms in the hotel just for some minor thing that 99% of the audience will never notice. (Maybe I'm just a lazier/cheaper filmmaker than Troy.)

I seriously doubt that it's just a continuity error, because all the hotel stuff was shot in advance. This used to just be speculation, but Troy's newest blog post pretty much confirms it to be true. Of course, it's still entirely possible that they couldn't get Tim and Jessica's actor on the same day and had to rent new rooms or whatever, but I really doubt that they'd just give up and get a different room when they had all that time to get the proper one.

The astute could also argue that "our current stash of raw footage" could refer only to entries #32 and #33, since #32 doesn't actually show the hallway and could have been shot in the wrong rooms as well for all we would know. That seems like a stretch, though. As complicated as the last two entries are (in terms of rehearsal, at least), it's not unreasonable to suggest that they had their own separate day of filming from other hotel scenes -- but I still think they would have delayed more if they couldn't get the right room. The gaps between the last three entries have been fairly short; it's not like they were in a huge rush to keep up interest or something. They could have even chopped the last few minutes off Entry #31 and made that its own entry if they were really desperate. God knows they've given less in the past.

I'm probably putting too much thought into this, but still: from watching the last several entries over and over again, it really looks like they're in another hotel room, and I don't think the creators would mess up that bad.

[distilled]

Btw - for those interested, if you check Troy's blog he says:

[WARNING META OOG STUFF]