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[SignerJ]

[aidansean]

[TheMoldyPudding]

In Regards to the timeline, it's obvious that this happens a few days after Entry #55. But there might be an entry between them. Some people have suggested Entry #4. This makes sense. Because Alex, Tim and Brian planned to go see the hospital the coming weekend but didn't. When they finally get around to going, weeks later, Alex says that, "something came up."
The thing that stopped their location scouting was Alex investigating the Operator's shenanigans.
So I think that, in sense of the timeline, it's:
Entry #55 (then possibly Entry #2) then Entry #4 and then Entry#70.

[Serum]

[conundrum768]

[Geneaux486]

[Little_Socrates]

So, like, the clear motivational line is now open, right? Alex goes through the fall into madness/evil/whatever to protect Amy after he provokes outright battle between himself and TO.

Obviously room to subvert or ham that up, and room for it to be something else, but it's what Shakespeare would've done in his post-Hamlet plays.

[Ithilwen22]

Welp, that at least gives Alex a good motive to move to Rosswood, Home of Sacrificed Friends. His chirpy blonde girlfriend was there. However, the connection does weird me out a bit. Coincidence may be a thing in real life, but I don't believe in coincidence in fiction.

That distortion was odd. It sounded almost like some sort of...I dunno...thrash metal song. Maybe the camera picked up the Operator's iPod.

Speaking of which, for a moment I thought the Operator teleported away in time for Alex to run into a tree. Haha! That prankster and his wacky eldritch hijinks.

...perhaps this is Alex's official "start of darkness", where TO starts getting control over his mind...

[theonewhoquestions]

You know, it sounds to me more malicious and as though he's saying "You won't talk!" or "He won't talk!" because I can't find any trace of 'what'. It could have been interferenced out I guess, but it still doesn't line up as 'do you want' to me. Also, it kinda sounds... like it isn't Alex's voice. It may have been the interference again, but that's where I'm getting the malice.

[VoltageJoe]

Several people have been mentioning that

[Lithp]

I'm not sure how much I hold with the mind control theory. It seems sort of tacky. I doubt the trances last very long, or that The Operator has them do anything major in them. So what are they for? Who knows. Maybe it wants them to find something for it. Maybe it's just psychological warfare.

Also, I think that coincidences are very important in fiction. They provide the raw material for the plot to work with. Good characterization is a lot less about controlling everything from the outset, & a lot more about making due with what you've got.

[Dreveth]

[theonewhoquestions]

[Geneaux486]

[VoltageJoe]