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[VIDEO] Entry #49
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swenson
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@benjaab - I absolutely do NOT think that's a coincidence. Maybe in entry 29... it IS Alex:

ErBoi wrote:
Cutboy wrote:
also, if you look at entry 29 and then this entry, what we originally thought was slendy in entry 29 i'm really starting to think is alex. i mean if you look at the way alex is standing stradling whiteshirt's body, it looks just like the figure in entry 29.

I'm getting the impression that Alex's stance in that shot and the fact that he is, after all, a rather slender person himself, are being consciously used, in a symbolic way, to show that he's tied to the Operator somehow.


I was just thinking, that stance does seem very significant. He does it twice, once when he's done strangling the guy and once after bashing his head in with the rock. From the angle of the dropped camera, it almost looks like a letter or symbol of some kind (an A over a W?), but it's no symbol I've ever seen earlier in the series, so I think that's just coincidence.

Having just seen the video for the first time, though, I'm still in the reaction stage. I freaked when the Operator took the body, that was just... wow.

I still have two questions about the entry, questions probably already discussed at length in this thread (so I'll go take a look through it when I finish posting this). First is... at the end, did Alex teleport, or was that just skipping a bit in the tape? Second, when exactly did Alex leave Slendy's control. The way he moves at the end, looking at the blood for a bit, almost makes it feel like he didn't know what he'd done and was trying to work out what was going on there, but when he calls Jay, I think it's pretty obvious he's still under Slendy's control.

Also (again, something I'm sure has been noticed before), I think we now have confirmation that Slendy-controlled people also mess up cameras--Alex passing near the camera definitely gave audio distortion, at least, in this entry. So maybe the Slenderization process turns people into Slendermen?

...and now I'm thinking of Endermen again, curse you, Notch, for adding them to Minecraft.

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punxtr
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Yes, this entry really boosts my theory that Alex is the one standing in silhouette in NOENTRY.
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onetruepurple
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Alex isn't tall enough to cover the entire height of the tunnel though.

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punxtr wrote:
Yes, this entry really boosts my theory that Alex is the one standing in silhouette in NOENTRY.

I agree, just rewatched that entry and it seems plausible that the guy at the end of the tunnel is Alex, not TO. So going from this, after entry #49 it seems that Jay and Alex meet the next day (entry #38 ) and discuss slendy's origin; then something happens (either Jay freaks out at whatever it is that Alex wanted to show him or the latter tries to kill him) and makes a run for it. He arrives at the tunnel where sees the blood, and at the other end appears Alex, greeting him, "What are you doing, Jay?"
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onetruepurple wrote:
Alex isn't tall enough to cover the entire height of the tunnel though.

Could've been an effect of the light or the distortion; or maybe slendy was in possession of Alex at the time?

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swenson
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Yeah, I was kinda wondering if it could be some sort of video distortion.

Either way, Alex's pose in this one was obviously a deliberate callback to it.

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Nah, I don't think it was Alex at the end of that tunnel. Those arms are way to long and hit below his knees while a normal humans arms hit about mid thigh. Considering how the rest of the tunnel don't look too dramatically distorted I'd say it was the operator. Unless Alex all of a sudden got some freaky ass proportions.

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onetruepurple
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sweetgums wrote:
Could've been an effect of the light or the distortion; or maybe slendy was in possession of Alex at the time?

Unless he made him do the Smooth Criminal slant, I doubt it:
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swenson
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OK then... new theory. Is it Slendy when he came to pick up the body? Does someone have a screencap of that bit from Entry #49 to compare?

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Just came back home. I watched the entry earlier this morning before I left, and I really shouldn't use any future entry to start out my chipper morning.
This entry was the first one to disturb me in months. TTA was right...this is the best part. I think I felt nauseous, which I have to commend Troseph for doing. The last time I felt this way was...almost never, unless you count Entry 14.
I didn't expect to see anything like this, but why? I knew it was going to "be big" but I left it at that and just went with the flow.

Good entry. Disturbed my mother. She said
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Oh my god, is someone killing someone else?


to which I responded with shock:

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Apparently!

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I think the silhouette could be Alex in 29. Knowing that the chest came belongs to Alex, it wouldn't make sense at this point for him to discover blood from his own crime, and see the Operator off in the distance.

38 could easily come between 48/49 and whatever happens next, and finally 29. At some point, Jay has to take/receive the chest cam from Alex though, in order for it to be him in 29. He could take it and run during an upcoming confrontation, run towards the tunnel, discover the blood (since he wasn't there to witness a murder the first time) and then see Alex in the far end of the tunnel, thus ending entry 29 and leading to what is probably the end game for the season. We ARE going to have to see the Masks at least one more time though.

I also think that Operator disappearing with a dead body is what happened to Amy.

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I definitely love the idea that the Operator is controlling Alex. It seems like Alex might have a little bit of control at least, based on the whispers. I agree he was probably talking to Jay there, because if Jay got too close the Operator would get all berserk and kill him. But then when he attacks Bruce, the Operator still thinks it's Jay. Alex wants to save his friend, so he plays along like it is. But then for some reason, perhaps when Bruce goes "WTF are you talking about bro", the Operator figures it out and still wants Jay dead, so Alex calls him up. At least it would give Alex some slightly less evil motivation to kill our well-loved but little-known friend Bruce.

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Salculd wrote:
This topic is moving insanely quickly, but I searched for "897" on every previous page and didn't see anyone noting this so I'll throw this out there. Apologies if I just missed it somehow.

As Alex gets out of the car, he brings his ponderous keychain into view for a few frames, and there's something which appears to have "897#" (unsure of the last number, but it looks most like "4") visible upon it written with.. a sharpie or something. Is this a number that has turned up before, or is in any way significant? Or is this just the first PIN we need to guess if anyone ever steals Alex's ATM card?


Post from a while back, but I think the last number is a 6.

Doubt it's significant, but hey, this is the UF discussion of Marble Hornets. If we aren't overanalyzing every single frame, we're not doing it right.

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ultrassjstuart
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There's only one thing to say when I saw that last part of the entry.

I know we all know what it is, but the law of teh interwebz states that we have to let Ackbar say it:



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celticsfan87 wrote:
I definitely love the idea that the Operator is controlling Alex. It seems like Alex might have a little bit of control at least, based on the whispers. I agree he was probably talking to Jay there, because if Jay got too close the Operator would get all berserk and kill him. But then when he attacks Bruce, the Operator still thinks it's Jay. Alex wants to save his friend, so he plays along like it is. But then for some reason, perhaps when Bruce goes "WTF are you talking about bro", the Operator figures it out and still wants Jay dead, so Alex calls him up. At least it would give Alex some slightly less evil motivation to kill our well-loved but little-known friend Bruce.


I did go along with the "being operated" theory, but now it makes much more sense. I thought most of this entry was just Alex going insane.
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In entry 45 Alex yells that he will kill the hoods and masks if he sees them again. I really believe this is someone we don't know, but Alex does.

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