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Re: Alex protecting Amy

[Ristar]

Is it anything in the video that is worth to analize? Since we completely lost track pages ago, i asume that we all said what needed to be said

[Magyk]

Pravado is sarcastic and possibly antagonistic at times, but he has been far less inflammatory to others than they have been to him in this thread. I agree with the point that if I can show up and say "I liked this entry" and nothing else, pravado should not get jumped for saying "I hated this entry."

This is sadly just the all-too-familiar story of people on unfiction White Knighting for Troy & Co. It happens like once a week. Newsflash: It is okay to say you do not like something, or do not agree with something they did. You do not have to kiss their ass all the time.

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[Sha Noran]

I feel it may be worth pointing out that while obviously OOG the content of an entry is exactly what the creators wanna feed us, IG this is theoretically only what Jay was able to get off the tape (or so he says, which you believe or not depending on whether you trust Jay). It could be that the tape was burned because of footage that WASN'T recovered; possibly a spacetime warping adventure ala Tim's in #65 (I think that's the one) after touching TO? Or any number of things more dramatic than a white lie to a booty call that lives in a different city and a typical TO sighting which he routinely did not burn as evidenced by S1 basically.

[Ristar]

[Sha Noran]

Ristar, I'll grant you that. Though its possible that J is an unreliable narrator, I don't buy it. Aside from that just being really weak, it would be an easy cop out for every plot hole for who I consider to be more competant storytellers than that.

That however does not comment on the fact that the tape may have been burned for footage that was not recovered. What we see is an interesting insight into Alex's early TO issues and of course an Amy reveal, but my point is, just because we are interested with the info that we got doesn't make it the reason the tapes were burned. Perhaps upcoming entries will address that more bluntly.

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[paladin181]

[CraicIsMighty]

You know, the parallels they're drawing between Jay and Alex may not necessarily be implying that Jay will become evil. It could just be showing that Alex was once good like Jay is.

Alex lying about being at home seems weird to me. If he didn't want Amy to know he was going to the park for some reason he could have just said he was driving home. Why was he so intent on keeping Amy from realizing he was driving? It seems like just saying he was on his way home would have been a convincing enough lie...

[Camero]

Was I the only one who thought that, when it became clear Alex was lying about where he was, that he was driving up to Amy's to kill her? Even though that makes no sense?

[CraicIsMighty]

There are two reasons I can think of that Alex would burn tapes related to Amy.

1. He didn't want anyone to realize that he had gone to live with her.

2. Since TO seems so connected to cameras, perhaps he thought burning any footage of Amy, even her voice, would protect her from TO.

If either of these reasons are the case, then Alex's actions could actually start to make a little more sense. For example, why did Alex get rid of Tim, Seth, Brian, etc? The popular theory was that he was sacrificing them to TO for some reason. But perhaps the real reason was that after he realized the true nature of TO he wanted to get away from everything related to TO and go be with Amy. In order to do that he decided to bump off everyone he knew who had been involved with TO and who might follow Alex and start it all up again. Basically he got rid of them all to ensure his own and Amy's happiness. Why he gave Jay the tapes doesn't really fit in, but I suppose he could have been hoping TO might stalk Jay instead?

[paladin181]

[CraicIsMighty]

But if he was trying to keep Amy from becoming suspicious, I'd think it would be more convincing to just say that he was driving home, since Amy told him she could hear his car. Lying about being at home already probably just made her suspicious. If he had just told her that he was on his way home he could have kept his true intentions hidden while avoiding arousing her suspicions.

On an unrelated note, I don't see how Seth helping Alex go over the footage means that Seth was the editor. That seems like a pretty big assumption there. Even Seth's supposed position as camera man seems a little sketchy to me considering that half the time someone else is working the camera. In entry 7 it was Alex, in entry 12 it was some unidentified girl, in entry 54 it was Tim, in entry 17 it was just set up on a tripod, and in entry 20 it could have been anyone. Entry 9 is the only entry I can think of where we know for a fact that Seth was working the camera. It kind of just seems to me like Alex just used anyone who was available and there was no single person who was the designated camera man. Also, since Jay is the only one we know for a fact was also majoring in film and has editing skills, it seems more likely to me that Jay edited videos, if Alex himself didn't.

On another unrelated note, I don't really think Jay is going to become evil. First because i think it would be kind of lame if Trosephim used the same plot twist twice. Two, there's still two really major differences between Jay and Alex.

1. Jay's willingness to put himself in danger to help others and find the truth. Jay really has no reason to continue this investigation and is only doing it for Jessica's sake at this point. Alex on the other hand seems to have run away at the first opportunity and doesn't even seem to care about finding Amy anymore.

2. Their relationship with the operator. TO actively stalked Alex and showed up at his house and the MH set multiple times. With Jay on the other hand, TO only seems to go after him when Jay is doing something that endangers Alex or when Jay is getting close to something important. Other than that TO seems to pretty much leave Jay alone.

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