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[thisistheend]

I trust Alex.

Honestly, due to Jay being an unreliable narrator, I trust no one.

[Janthran]

[SilentMedusa]

I do. Mainly because my poor brain can barely keep up with the kudzu plot as it is, without adding another vine to the tangle.

However, I do think Tim could be hiding something. What that is, I don't know. Maybe it was, in fact, TIM who killed Brian (in his first instance of Masking-out) and not Alex (which he would clearly be ashamed of). Maybe he lied about not remembering his childhood hallucinations. Maybe he knows exactly why The Operator was after him, and then went after everybody else.

I have the feeling we're due for another 'revelation' about Tim, and I think I know what it'll be: he wasn't stalked by TO as a child; he didn't have any contact with It until he got involved with Alex's apparently cursed film project. He spent his childhood in a mental hospital because he had a very serious psychiatric disorder that required in-patient care. And his Masked persona wasn't created by TO in order to gain a 'proxy'; it was the natural result of an already damaged mind being confronted with something terrifying and impossible, but undeniably THERE.

Why do I suspect the above? Two reasons. 1) The whole "it started with Tim, it'll end with him/ full circle" thing just seems like too neat an ending. and 2) it would be nice to have one 'big reveal' about Tim that we didn't see coming from a mile away. Plus, my was he isn't the bad guy .

[CenturyChild]

[SilentMedusa]

True. Also, I think I read somewhere that some anti-convulsants (that someone with epilepsy would be taking) are also used for psychiatric purposes - which would explain why the drugs Tim is taking also suppress his Masked persona.

On a different note, maybe it started with Alex AND Tim. In Entry #70 I think it was, Alex is telling Amy about how someone told him about a possible filming location, and what a funny coincidence it was because he "grew up in that same area". Presumably he meant the burnt-out hospital, which meant Tim was the one who told him about it. Think about that. Tim and Alex came from the same area, and now they're both have Operator trouble. I smell a showdown coming.

ETA: okay, you can ignore that last paragraph. I just went back and watched the Entry, and I heard it wrong. What Alex actually said was that someone he got "to play one of the smaller parts" (presumably Tim) came from the same place where Amy was going to school. Although, this maybe creates another mystery. Alex says to Tim in passing that Amy's going to school in the place he (Tim) grew up. Years later TO attacks and Amy goes missing. Maybe the reason Alex was after Tim the next time we saw him was because he thought Tim had done something to to Amy, or knew where she was. Assuming Alex ever was looking for her and it wasn't all a ploy of some kind.

[abcetc]

I trust him at the moment, though the fact that he used to be Masky obviously raises a pervasive concern that he could go into remission and become dangerous once again.

[Lheai]

[McGregor]

[Craig Digsby]

[Osttle]

Kinda. I mean, Tim is hiding something but what if he doesn't know? Like Masky knows something but Tim doesn't. Its hard to believe that within those amazing sideburns lies Masky, the Anti-Proxy.

[CenturyChild]

[TomCat]

[SilentMedusa]

It pains me to say this, because I'm an unapologetic Tim fangirl, but in light of Entry #74, I have to revise my opinion.

I still don't think he's a villain per se, but there's definitely something going on with him. And I don't think we're going to like it when we find out what it is.

[Sha Noran]

I trust Tim.

He has the most experience with the pills and seems to be the most willful character at this point. Something bad is on that tape and it will shed light on Tim that Tim doesn't want shown, but I think he hid it from regret and guilt, not as a trophy.

[CenturyChild]