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Ascalondion
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Sha Noran wrote:
All you guys saying that just because they've shown forward time travel doesn't mean backwards is possible sound pretty ridiculous in my opinion, no offense. We're talking about a show with a 8 foot+ faceless teleporting suit wearing monster who can abducted people into a pocket dimension that has a PRECEDENT of manipulating time itself and yet you argue with complete sincerity that just because they haven't shown backwards time travel, its not possible. Sorry, but that makes you sound pretty dumb haha, if you wanna argue the merits of a theory you should come up with some counter evidence, not just toss out a "meh I don't like that idea, so its probably wrong". Fuckin unfiction logic is baffling... I mean no offense, but damn.


Yeah, you're right in some points. However, I and others did come up more than once with counter evidence, but have seen only little reaction to that. But that's not the main point.

The main point, at least for me, against the future Jay thing is indeed not in-universe, but rather a meta argument about the unfolding of the story. In-universe I don't think that there is a strict impossibility about backwards time travel. I'm mean, you're right, it's about a sometimes 8 feet high faceless teleporting thing that affects cameras and is somehow tied to crazy people with masks stalking other crazy people. With teleporting, different dimensions and all that stuff. So yes, time travel is possible backwards.

However, from a more meta point of view, about how the things have happened and what kind of rules have been established, there is no reason to assume that. Good narration does have a necessity towards the end, a necessity of what has transpired so far and what kind if rules have been established. (Of course there is always the possibility to deliberately violate that rule) Even the most shocking plot twists are set up and hinted towards, so that when you re-watch or re-read it, you think "oh yeah, so obvious already". It's a bad move, called deus ex machina, to just introduce something completely new to the story just to resolve an issue. For example if you were to introduce mind controlling aliens to resolve the story of series spanning over 80 entires, that up until that point was a historically correct depiction in victorian england, it would be a bad move.

So in the case of Marble Hornets, although it is about a big faceless...thing that has magical powers, there have been not hints or discussions on the topic of time travel. The topics and themes of Marble Hornets revolve around Memory, Trust, Perception, Reality, Sanity, the human condition and so forth. The few instances of "time stealing" we see are not in there as a plot for themselves, they are there to advance another topic, to show something else. That reality is fragile, or something like that, and that TO is gorram scary. Time traveling is not a topic or theme of Marble Hornets yet. And to introduce that now, as the MAIN theme to understand the whole series, after more than 3 years, does not seem to be a good idea.

That is, at least for me, why I don't think the future Jay thing bears much merit. That being said, it is totally possible though, and I am really impressed how much reason and coherence you people get out of that theory. That is really good work. However, as for the above mentioned reason, I think you could in theory also do that for the assumption that the youtuber "TTADecoded" actually IS the operator, who has been caught by a nasty timeworm or some kind of thing and therefore stoped to upload. I also see no evidence against that theory. Because of this sort of rationale I dislike the future Jay theory.

/edit for linguistic reasons. I'm not a native speaker, so please point it out the me if I am unclear and/or make same grave errors.

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Sha Noran wrote:
Wow. You just claimed it was illogical and unprecedented for backwards time travel to happen and therefore unlikely, then immediately suggested that The Operator teleported Jay to a hospital to get help? ROFL you gotta be fucking kidding me bro.

All you guys saying that just because they've shown forward time travel doesn't mean backwards is possible sound pretty ridiculous in my opinion, no offense. We're talking about a show with a 8 foot+ faceless teleporting suit wearing monster who can abducted people into a pocket dimension that has a PRECEDENT of manipulating time itself and yet you argue with complete sincerity that just because they haven't shown backwards time travel, its not possible. Sorry, but that makes you sound pretty dumb haha, if you wanna argue the merits of a theory you should come up with some counter evidence, not just toss out a "meh I don't like that idea, so its probably wrong". Fuckin unfiction logic is baffling... I mean no offense, but damn.

Teleportation and apparent forward time travel are qualitatively different from backwards time travel. The first two are "magical" ways of doing something that happens naturally anyway. Obviously we can move from place to place, and we normally travel forward in time at a rate of 60 minutes per hour. You can even created the impression of forward time travel by shutting down someone's consciousness (and in this case cameras) for a while. (General anesthetic is like that.) People DO experience "missing time"; the Operator just has a way of making that happen on purpose. But going backwards is NOT something that happens. We neither do it naturally by any means, nor can we even create the illusion of it without sets and acting.

Without going back through all the posts where someone might have contradicting this, I can think of no previous instances in this series where someone clearly traveled back through time. All of our knowledge of past events is because of found footage, not because of a character going back and experiencing them first-hand.

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Also a meta-reason: To have backwards time travel happen now when we've never seen it before just to solve this plot point would be the sort of deus ex machina that ruins a story, and Trosephim are better writers than that.


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Master of Octopi wrote:
Man, I'm thinking about it more now, and I'm kind of freaking out over Hoody's plan-- assuming, of course, that it was indeed his plan. If he intended for Jay to be taken, why?


I'm beating a dead horse here, but if Hoody is future Jay. Jay would need to go into Oppyland in order to a) close all timey-wimey pardoxical whatnot b) actually BECOME hoody
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We all knew Tim was going to take over the show.
I guess this was easiest way to make that happen.

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Hi I'm new, lurked a long timey wimeyy wimey though.

Here are some of my thoughts i wanted to share:

On the "knowing jay's" passwords argument:
Some people were arguing that TTA's ability to hack jay's accounts supports the hoodie=future jay hypothesis, while others reasoned the other way around.
What i think about this is: Why do we assume that jay changed his passwords at all? Of course he is freaked out when someone hacks his account, but on the other hand has TTA helped him in various ways or at least provided some sort of information. TTA is for jay clearly important so for me it is not unreasonable for jay to think:
"Well this guy is mysterious and creepy but he knows something, so it could be handy to have a direct communication channel with him", so he does not change the password.
The same applies reasoning applies to Tim.

Now on the subject of timey wimeyy wimeytravel in general and specifically futurejay:
(i know there has been said very much about this now, but i think im offering a new perspective here)

My greatest problem with the timey wimeyy wimey travel hypothesis is that it does not provide reasonable motives for futurejay to do all the hoodiestuff.

I'm not buying the closing the loop story because i don't understand at all why futurejay would be interested in closing the loop.

(From a physical perspective of course it wouldnt be necessary for futurejay to have motives as his actions would be determined because a timey wimeyy wimeyloop must be stable. But this is simply not a good story.)

So if futurejay is not interested in closing the loop the only other possibility is, that he wants to change the past.

Warning: it gets philosophical here

I don't see why changing the past is something one wants to achieve. Ontological it is doubtful if changing the past really pretends the changed parts from ever happening/existing and even if you could make something truly unhappened, you would still remember those events, so you wont be able to truly free yourself from the thought that something should be different.

(on a sidenote: physically changing the past is only possible if you want to postulate that the timey wimeyy wimeytraveler travels to an other dimension, too, which is clearly not the case in MH)


So this were the two remarks i wanted to make, now, what i think happened in entry #80:
I don't think that hoodie wanted jay to get shot. Mostly because of Quadrant wich i interpret as hoodie saying "i made myself the third liar by leading jay to the college implying i had captured Alex."
This means Alex must have somehow managed to escape. I can only speculate on how this happened but the most probable scenario for me is, that hoodie calculated a shorter timey wimeyy wimey for tim and jay to show up. Because he had to wait longer than expected he ran out of pills which explains hers/his condition in entry #79. Thus weakened Alex managed to break free maybe with Slendy's help.


edit: some spelling stuff (not native speaker)

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Actually Jay mentioned having changed his password post-totheark Twitpics on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/marblehornets/status/7281352411971584

He also mentions doing it post-enttry #37 at the end of Entry #38.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMcgL3hgMYM
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You know, it's a good thing I found Unfiction through TV Tropes, otherwise I'd see the phrase "timey wimey" keep popping up and have no idea what the hell it meant Laughing .

So... I guess I'm the only one that doesn't think Tim had some kind of "plan" involving Hoody that went awry? And I'm also the only one that doesn't think Hoody wanted Jay to get shot or taken? And while I'm at it, I don't think Hoody let Alex go, either. I think Alex got loose on his own.

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Around the time of the Tweetpocalypse surrounding entry 37, didn't Jay mention that his Youtube password was on an old email account that he didn't know how to access? If this is the case, then maybe that's how totheark did it. He's had the email account this whole time. Jay could have made a new Youtube channel, but he decided to just stick with the old one.

As for hacking all of Jay's passwords, Hoody could be using some supernatural ability to do that. Maybe he has some sort of precognition? He was able to track Jay down to the random parking lot in Entry 39, pick up the camera in Entry 41 and casually get it to Jay's car despite the Operator being around, be in the tunnel in Entry 76 (and possibly more than that) and live, and has caused distortion. Being a good hacker would be the least impressive of Hoody's skills, is what I'm saying.

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I'm starting to think the whole "Hoody = Future Jay" stuff is a running joke of some kind.

And when I saw Tweetpocalypse, my first thought was Nutella. Razz
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SilentMedusa wrote:
You know, it's a good thing I found Unfiction through TV Tropes, otherwise I'd see the phrase "timey wimey" keep popping up and have no idea what the hell it meant Laughing .

So... I guess I'm the only one that doesn't think Tim had some kind of "plan" involving Hoody that went awry? And I'm also the only one that doesn't think Hoody wanted Jay to get shot or taken? And while I'm at it, I don't think Hoody let Alex go, either. I think Alex got loose on his own.


You're not the only one who thinks Tim wasn't working with Hoody.

But I'm not sure if Hoody's plan happened, seems likely though. His proddings and messages are usually pretty mortal, final, and apocalyptic, which would line up with some kind of fight with Alex. Are we certain all the notes have been the same (Hoody's) handwriting? If Hoody didn't plan for that, I'm very curious what he wanted to happen.

It seems like Hoody's trying to get The Operator to DO something (threatening Alex and causing TO to appear, prodding Jay into situations that likely lead to Operator sightings, etc). I hope we find out what that is. Tim probably has a good idea, maybe he'll tell us.

Does Tim have control of the @marblehornets twitter account yet/still? Entry 80 hasn't been tweeted, just the TTA code.

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really?

People are constantly arguing about future jay and what not, I hope you do know there is a complete thread dedicated to Hoody. We don't care if you know "for sure" that it is future Jay just go argue in that thread. Your making the page number of this thread go up a lot and just keep disapointing. For those of you actually posting theories keep it up my dudes.

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Alternate Theory

I have an alternate theory to the one that I proposed earlier. I discovered this one on tumblr (credit to Hazardwithin). What really stood out to me is that the original version of this theory was proposed before Entry #80 or the cracking of the code in Quadrant, and yet it predicted those two videos to a notable degree.
(EDIT: In fact, now that I think of it, this theory is the only place I have seen that predicted Jay's death.)

I'd like to note that most of this theory is still HazardWithin's original, but I'm updating it to include the latest two videos. I'll also be including some ideas of my own.
I'd further like to note that I will be incorporating ideas mentioned by other various Unfiction users. Unfortunately, I will not be citing where I first came across the various ideas, since I don't have the willpower to search through two complete threads for one or two small posts.

Wall of text incoming.

I'm going to assume that Hoody and TTA are the same person.
I'm also going to assume that you read HazardWithin's post. If you haven't, I would suggest doing so now. (Link can be found in this post's first paragraph.)

I'll start off with a brief summary: Hoody orchestrated these events. He took Alex and destroyed Jay's trust in Tim (Entry #75). He removed the one thing that was keeping Jay involved, the quest for Jessica (Entry #76). Hoody told both Jay and Tim where to find Alex (Entry #75), but set things up in such a way that they would go to the college separately. Jay attacked Tim (as Hoody probably knew he would). Tim went to the college, leaving Jay alone in the house (Entry #77) -- which is exactly what Hoody wanted.

Why did Hoody want this? Well, that delves into Hoody's motives. So far, he seems to have been trying to distance Jay from those involved -- Tim and Alex. (You can even include Hoody himself among these two, if you wish. It could be said that Hoody hides his face to prevent Jay from bonding with him, to keep Hoody inhuman.) He repeatedly calls Tim a liar (refer to Season 3 TTA videos), and has shown to Jay that Alex is inhuman and dangerous (especially with Entry #76). What if Hoody's main goal is to distance Jay from everybody else involved? What if Hoody is trying to free Jay from the whole situation? What if Hoody sees Jay as the one person who can escape?

After all, we all know that Jay won't abandon his "quest" while he has connections to anyone involved. The whole Jessica situation proved this. But now, Jay no longer has any reason to remain involved in the whole situation -- Alex is a murderer, Tim is a liar and a traitor (who abandoned Jay without a camera), Jessica is dead. Hoody has made sure that Jay understands these things. Hoody has made sure that Jay understands that there is nothing keeping Jay still involved.

So what if the situation at the end of Entry #77 was Hoody's main goal? What if Hoody wanted Jay to be alone, isolated from outside influence, in a safe place, so that Jay could make a decision for himself? What if the "Last Chance" on the mirror didn't mean "Last chance to end things," but rather, "Last chance to walk away"? What if Hoody wanted (and expected) Jay to just leave forever?

And then Hoody sees Jay in Entry #79 and knows what Jay's decision was. That is why Hoody attacked Jay when Jay tried to help him (Entry #79) -- Hoody was frustrated, and he was trying to chase Jay away.

But Jay wouldn't leave. And then the events of Entry #80 happened, and Jay died. That is where the messages of "Who am I -- Am I the third" and "I can not help" come in.
Similar to my last post, "Who am I -- am I the third?" may be a continuation of what he said in Conversion. Hoody is asking himself, "Am I the third liar? Am I the third liar, because I implied that Alex was tied up? Am I the third liar because I led Jay into this mess in the first place? Am I the third liar because I'm the reason that Jay is dead?"
And then the "I can not help" refers to Hoody's failure, how he failed to get Jay out, how he failed to convince Jay to leave. Hoody's second failure at saving someone -- first Jessica (Entry #76), now Jay (Entry #80).

To incorporate into this version of the theory the messages in Quadrant, what if Hoody was interrupted by the events of Entry #80. (Yes, I realize that this is a stretch.)
What if Hoody had created Quadrant and meant to upload it as a warning for Jay, as one last way to convince Jay to leave and escape from the whole situation? That would explain the messages that play over the video.
But then Jay sees Tim leaving Benedict Hall, and goes in and gets killed. So, rather than create a new video, Hoody just adds on a couple more seconds at the end (after the face). That's why Quadrant changes from video to text on a background -- it was added at the last minute, to show his regret for what he did. And the music playing is another way to show his regret -- it is slow and sad music, to convey how he feels.

TL;DR: Hoody was trying to help Jay escape from the whole fiasco that followed the Marble Hornets filming, but failed because Jay didn't want to.


Sorry if I botched the theory -- I did the best that I could at the moment. After all, it isn't my theory. I'd suggest reading HazardWithin's original post to get the basic idea.
I also apologize for not providing as many citations as I did with my first theory.

I hope that this gives all of the proponents for "good Hoody" a bit more ammunition.


Spoiler (Rollover to View):
To be honest, I'm starting to doubt the validity of this theory. While it holds true for the last couple of events, it fails to account for the earlier TTA videos, especially those in Season 1. It is also a bit unnecessarily complicated in regards to Quadrant, but the same might be said of my previous theory.
Nevertheless, it is very well possible that all of these "issues" can be ironed out with a bit more thought.


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Reminder...

Never doubt Hoody. If there is one constant in this series, its that Hoody knows the most out of everyone, and he is always 3 steps ahead. Everything went according to plan. Jay was just sitting there for who knows how long between entries, and hoody was still in the area. He had his eye on everything that happened, and could have stopped it if he chose to.

My advice is never doubt hoody...but you can question his motive...that's a whole other story

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Miller wrote:
People are constantly arguing about future jay and what not, I hope you do know there is a complete thread dedicated to Hoody. We don't care if you know "for sure" that it is future Jay just go argue in that thread. Your making the page number of this thread go up a lot and just keep disapointing. For those of you actually posting theories keep it up my dudes.


^
I whole heartedly agree. We have gone way off topic on this thread, we should keep robo-Jay theories to a minimum here and focus more on discussing Entry 80. While you can word it to make it fit in this entry I think that proposing a theory that radical/new should have it's own thread where you can post your points/ideas to prove or disprove it . But in terms of posts im a newbie so who cares about my thoughts eh?

On that note, I personally believe that was Brian as hoody in this entry. Mainly because of how Tim acted when he was talking to him, the way he says "your not getting away again" makes me think it's still the same person as hoody has always been (no change in leadership.) As i've said before (with pretty good evidence, but most from what i've seen people agree on this) is that TTA=hoody. Given the fact that Tim was part of TTA for a time and him being very close and longtime friends with Brian, it has to be him as hoody here. They both have a vendetta against Alex which would make sense as to why Brian/formerly Tim would be TTA. But I think that maybe hoody manipulated Tim to the point where maybe he couldnt control his actions. But i'll post what I think about this else where.

Just out of curiousity, between the events of 79 & 80 does anyone have an idea on where hoody was in between seeing/attacking Jay in that corridor, to seeing Tim after
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Jay got abducted?
was he hiding some where close? Did he do something else in the meantime? Im probably thinking into this a bit too much but im just wondering if maybe someone has some input on this.

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This probably won't even be read, but for what it's worth, I'll post my theory on what is happening so far:

(1) Hoody is now working with Alex. In the past, he wasn't, but his understanding of the situation probably changed at some point.

(2) Alex and Hoody's goal is to make the Operator go away.

(3) The only way to make the Operator go away is for Alex to kill certain people and sacrifice them to him. This is what happened with most of the original cast of MH (Alex was lying in 22), to Jessica, and now, apparently, to Jay. It is quite obvious that Alex has been methodically killing people.

(4) The reason that Alex and Hoody fought in the past was probably due to some misunderstanding. Hoody was working against the Operator, and thought that Alex was helping him, when really, Alex has been working for the Operator to appease him and make him go away. When Hoody realized this, he switched sides and made it his goal to coax Jay into seeking out Alex so he could be killed by him.

I have no reason for or against believing who Hoody is, including Brian or TTA. This is my sense of what's happening so far.

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