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[Banshee 21]

[Timur]

[xxmintt]

Also... Has anyone else noticed that the camera inverts at 0:26? Inverts, as in, goes into negative. Not as in goes upside-down.

[That Crazy Viking]

[xxmintt]

[Boreamor]

It goes negative, but I highly doubt it's significant.

[foxgreen]

[Darxbloop]

[Olmstead]

I quite enjoy the variety of theories coming from everyone, there are quite a few I think may come to pass, while some seemed a bit weak willed to begin with. Something I would like to raise again is the meaning of the title: Intermission. Someone pointed out it is the division between two acts of a play, but perhaps it has a greater significance? We are in, what I like to call, flashback mode.

J is revisiting old sights through tapes, trying to remember some important detail. So in essence, we are in the past. We are seeing events from the 7 months before, so if we wanted to put this in chronological order of time, not publishing, we have 3 phases: Phase 1 is a bit back and forth, to simplify, we'll call this Origin (#1-#26). The newest entries are where my theory is pointing. We have Lost Time (#34-#40) and then Hotel (#27-#33). Back to the word at hand. Intermission. This is the end of Act 1, and Act 2 begins.

The stage is set: J awakes in a hotel, 7 months passed, 7 months of Lost Time. Act 2 Begins. I think this signals the end of what happened in those Lost Times. I think J's encounter with our malnourished friend lead to more memory loss, and his encounters in the Hotel. Time has looped, and we are back in the present. We'll have to see Entry #41 to see.

[nichwuzhere]

So what I'm thinking is the guy looks attached to the tree, like the convicts were as Alex described in 38. That's my theory, though it doesn't seem to strong. Also kind of explains the tree being taped on due to the everything-grows-fast thing.

[YamaKami]

[Olmstead]

[HouseKoumoray]

The video's just saying TTA was watching Jay while he was wandering around in Rosswood Park at some point. Going meta, it's pretty obvious that it was during the time up until Jay's encounter with the Operator in Entry #40.

The drawing of the woods is shown blank with the sudden appearance of a pasted-on dark figure behind a tree. This is put in the video to (creepily) tell that TTA was lurking in Jay's shadow and stalking him the whole time. We already pretty much could have assumed that he/she was, since in Forecast he/she demonstrated to have been stalking him.

Technically speaking, very little is explicitly stated. Nothing indicates directly that TTA was stalking him the entire time or that it was even TTA himself doing the stalking. Not to mention the fact that TTA is by all means capable of simply lying. However, in the series, it is very unlikely that the creators are going to just mislead everyone. The most obvious conclusions are going to be right almost every time, and the times when they aren't are just as likely to be ass-pulls as things theorized on this forum from barely-noticeable "clues."

Based on my own instincts and absolutely nothing else other than the fact that it isn't explicitly disproved, I theorize that TTA is actually number of people who worked on Marble Hornets over three years ago and have had similar memory problems and disturbing experiences, but from a different (perhaps more enlightened) perspective than Jay. They are following Jay closely for completely unknown purposes related to their experiences and the Operator, probably because they expect Jay to uncover something inadvertently or because they are trying to lead him to a certain course of action. Tim is just one of several people who worked on that project after all.

I can see how this theory is partially wrong due to the existence of Jessica. She had absolutely nothing to do with Marble Hornets, seemingly, and yet she is right in the middle of the plot. I suspect that Jay will see on the coming tapes (which he will post in the next entries) his process of meeting and involving Jessica out of desperation, happenstance, or some other motive. That would leave the theory intact while still allowing an outsider to enter the equation, simply because anyone Jay involves may potentially suffer the same memory disturbances and TTA attention as he has. Perhaps that's why he never turned to any family, friends, or authorities for help during this whole ... eh ... adventure.

[HouseKoumoray]

I should explain a bit more.

Firstly, my theory is baseless because the creators have very obviously and very effectively kept TTA completely nameless and faceless for the sole purpose of freaking us all out, so it's just as likely to be left unknown at the series' end as it is to be anyone or anything featured in the Entries, or even people or things they just invent out of nowhere. We know a few people it couldn't be, but have absolutely no idea as to a real indication of discernable identity beyond "person or people possibly associated somehow with Tim, who was the man in the mask in a few of the TTA responses." TTA may just be a mystery they leave unsolved to unsettle us or send us scrambling. (I'd do the same thing if I were them.) If they do reveal it, most likely it will be anti-climactic anyway.

Secondly, I say that the motives of TTA are completely unknown to highlight the fact that they aren't necessarily malicious at all. If TTA was trying to harm Jay in a way other than creeping him out incessantly and possibly stalking him (emphasis on possibly because no identity of the cameraman has been given), they would be the most incompetent criminal(s) of all time. They post evidence of stalkery on Youtube, for cryin' out loud! It is just as likely that TTA has motives which are beyond our understanding presently and may be benevolent or simply neutral. I am going to assume, based on the tone of the series, that TTA is generally a bad guy, but is, once again, purposefully left a mystery. We have no idea what he/she/they be doing, and I believe we are not going to be given a definite answer ever.

Thirdly, it should be noted that both Jay and Jessica have memory lapses, so perhaps Jessica did know Alex and help with Marble Hornets in some way, but neither Jay nor Jessica remember it. However, I am not wont to believe this due to its circuitousness. It is probably too complicated to be true.

I can't wait for the next Entry. I am guessing it will be soon. Did someone tell Jay about the TTA response?

[Ceedokore]

Does this entry creep anyone else out as much as it does me?

Seriously. D:

Also, I feel like TTA's tone has changed, if only a little bit. Instead of the sinister COME TO US >3 it was before, it's a little more lonely, almost.