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[aidansean]

Fantastic entry. And not just filler. Tim didn't just end up in the annex (teleported, dragged, whatever), he walked there himself. And it looks like he was there for at least a day. The next glimpse of hope he gets is when Brian shows up at the door. And brings the Operator with him.

The terror that Tim felt when he was coughing and hiding was intense. It was pretty much what I had in my mind when I saw the closet in Entry #16 (The one with blankets and a water bottle. It looked like someone was in there, hiding from the Operator, waiting for it to leave. Terrifying stuff.) I'm also thinking that Tim used the camera's nightvision to help him get around in the dark. He's using his hand to work out where the walls are at various points, and he manages to evade Alex even when Alex is standing right in front of him, so he must be doing his best to stay hidden. Now imagine you're in that position and you only have 5 minutes of battery life left...

There seemed to be some spots of light in this entry, or orbs or whatever you want to call them. I took a look back at Entry #22 and we see one at the end of the long pipe too. Significant?

Alex seems to be wearing the same shirt in this entry as in Entry #22, so Entry #22 might have happened the next day (or even the same day?) My theory is that Tim (perhaps as Masky) grabs Seth in Entry #22, at about 5:03. Seth clearly notices that someone is following him (as Jessica noticed in Entry #52, showing that Masky and co aren't particularly quiet when they stalk people) as he turns around quite a bit, for example at 4:54. After Seth gets grabbed the rest of Entry #22 doesn't make much sense- why would Alex talk to the camera and then say that he's going to burn the tapes? If he's going to burn them there's no point recording anything on them. He's edited them to make it look like he's the victim etc, so why not edit what happens after Seth gets grabbed? (As an aside, if you watch Entry #22 again you might notice how many metal things they walk on/bump into. Alex had plenty of weaponry at his disposal.)

And this might be a minor concern compared to the Operator and Alex stalking him, but how would Tim get back? He said that they'd have to share gas money to get there, so he and Alex only have one car. If Alex planned to end Tim then he'd be the driver. So Tim is left concussed in an abandoned building, stalked by the Operator and a psychopath, and he has no way of getting home? It must suck to be Tim!

My current theory: Tim wakes up, stumbles around a bit, hides in the annex to escape from Alex. He knows Alex is going to bring Seth to the basement, so he follows them down, and just before the Operator grabs Seth Tim tackles Seth and rescues him. He sticks around for a bit, because he knows Brian will be there too. He follows Alex and Brian to the annex, but this time the Operator causes a coughing fit and by the time Brian needs to be rescued Tim is in the corner coughing up a lung. Or who know, maybe seeing the Operator is enough motivation to get Tim to tackle Brian and move him out of the way? Then in Entry #18 Timasky does the same trick to save Jay. By the time Entry #35 happens Timasky has ruined every one of Alex's attempts to sacrifice people. No wonder they hate each other.

One final thought. Does the Operator cause coughing as a way to find people? A coughing person's much easier to find in the dark.

[azureillusions]

[morscata12]

This was a good character-focused entry. Like others have said, Tim really sold the terror of his situation.

I believe there is a potential Program/Advocate binary message showing up in the end distortion on this entry. There are three sets of four white bars, which flash white and transparent. They are moving way too fast for me to catch them all in order, but here's one of them (assuming white=0 and transparent=1):

[rand__althor]

[Susil]

Hm, well I'm staying out of the "quality of entry" debate. On to speculation!!

So, what we know for sure about this place: There's a several-storey building, with a single-storey annexe nearby. Tim wakes up in the taller building in the same place where Alex hit him, and stumbles around in the dark. Eventually he ends up in the annexe - whether seeking shelter or somehow drawn in, I can't tell. All pretty straightforward, nothing we couldn't work out anyway.

I'm confused by to things:

1. What has Alex been doing? Its totally dark, so has to be hours later. Has Alex just been wandering round the area with a pipe for five hours like a videogame monster?

2. Tim's camera. At some point after #51, he escapes from this place. He definitely leaves with the tape, let's assume the camera as well. I had a quick look at entry #51 when Brian finds him, you can't see the camera as far as I can tell, though it could be bundled up in the blanket/jacket - maybe Tim knows (even in his concussed/slendywiped state) that he needs to hang on to this evidence. So, if the first time that tape has surfaced is four-five years later, what the hell was the point of it all? Tim obviously believed at the time that getting this on tape was crucial - has he not done anything?

Hum. As I typed that an idea formed. Maybe 'Masky' is kind of a guilt thing. If Tim had taken the tape proving Alex's violent actions to the police, perhaps Alex would have been stopped much sooner.

[morscata12]

[Lyni]

[Ryudragon]

This entry reminded me a lot of Amnesia personally. I truly think they got inspiration from it since Tim was doing Let's Play of that game.

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[morscata12]

[C.K.DexterHaven]

I always had this theory that maybe Alex had been handing people over to The Operator as sacrifices or something, but was tired of killing and hurting people, so he gave Jay the tapes and hoped The Operator would do it himself. Entry #26 was The Operator reminding him of their deal, so Alex sent Jay the tape and made himself appear as a victim.

OOG

[ToTheArcanine]

>Tim coughs
>UnFiction swoons

And you know what? Tim totally deserves it.

[Ithilwen22]

Okay, just went back and watched the whole thing again, and wanted to add some further speculation. First off, when Tim is just chilling in the forest for a bit, two things struck me. One, those lights definitely didn't look like fireflies. It looked like a flashlight very close to him, and perhaps Tim got up and went to the annex shortly afterward because he thought it might be one of his friends come back to look for him. Heck, as someone else pointed out, he may not have even known it was Alex who whacked him on the head and thought "Hey Alex has found me yay!" (Which lasts for two seconds until he sees Alex with the Not-Stick.) Also, that scene of him just sitting there looks oddly familiar, like it was in a TTA video or something. I'll have to go back and check when I have time.

Second, I'm more and more convinced that the Basement O' Doom is now (IG) supposed to be the hospital basement. It was mentioned earlier that Alex didn't have a camera. In Entry 22, Alex doesn't have a camera then either; it's Seth who has it. So this may be shortly after he disposed of Seth. He sees Tim has noped away with the evidence and goes to look for him.

(Note: I know several of these points were mentioned before-I'm just trying to play connect the dots.)

As for the more recent speculation, since I'm backtracking a bit, the idea that Alex has been EVIIIIIIL the whole time just makes a lot of Season 1 even more sinister and does make me wonder if Marble Hornets the student film was really a ruse. Ah, the endless speculation....

[FossilizedSauce]

Reception on this video seems pretty mixed, and people are coming at it from a lot of different viewpoints. I've seen some posters going, "But what about Sarah? Did Alex plant Jay a trap at all?" as if the damn series just ended with this video.

I thought it was great, the night time trek through abandoned buildings and woods was crazily tense. While I *do* disagree with the fact that three entries (55, 56, and 57) were needed to show us how Tim ended up where he was in 51, the suspense made it worthwhile enough for me.

People complaining about no real developments have some points that I agree with, but all in all, we were just given an entry that oozes a Season 1 vibe - we haven't gotten one of those for a LONG time.

As for questions - something does seem fishy. I wasn't sure if Alex was actively hunting Tim, or just scouting the annex out. Regardless, why the hell would Tim go over to that annex himself when he didn't want to go there before and a mad man just knocked him out in the adjacent building? I would run as far away from that area as possible.

Jay wonders whether or not Tim had his own reasons as well... it's possible that this entry will turn out to be anything *but* filler if there's a twist in the tale.

And now that the next entry will likely have Tim and Jay going to this place in the present... ANYTHING could happen. We could see Hoodie, Alex, Oppy... the possibilities are mouth-watering!