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[toclafane212]

What actually is the ark.

[Cyberpineapple]

I'd never thought of the ark as a way to stop TO but I guess that would explain TTA's interest in it. I think it might have been said the ark definitely isn't Alex but maybe the fact that an ark is a container means that the ark is a "vessel" for TO to posess, kinda like a "perma-proxy". So that makes me open to the possibility that Alex could be the ark.

[TheJoker]

My only issue with the Ark being a tape is that then the only reason TTA would be so interested would be if it contains some information he doesn't have already, and unless it's a way to defeat TO and Alex (and I feel like it would just be weird if that kind of info was on a tape), I can't think what he'd be looking for. He seems to know more of what's going on than anyone except maybe Alex (and that's a big maybe), so what information could he possibly be so obsessed with that he doesn't already have?

I don't know, I guess it's possible, but I feel like something just seems wrong about the idea that the Ark just contains some critical info. I think it would probably most likely be:

1. A location (such as the weird cement world we saw in 65)
2. A person (probably Jay or Jessica based on the interest TTA and TO seem to have in both)

Of course, there are tons and tons of other possibilities given how little information we have to go off of, and it's even possible that the Ark doesn't actually exist (though TTA still believes it does).

[Ztakk]

I've always thought the ark was something that granted resistance or immunity to The Operator, that would be used in order to defeat it.

Thought just occurred to me while posting this though, maybe the ark is a container to seal away The Operator?

[Lithp]

My problem with a lot of the Ark theories is that they are so much more "out there" than Marble Hornets has ever been.

"Way to defeat The Operator?" "Way to seal it away?" "Way to grant immunity from it?"

These kind of sound like anime plots.

[George G]

A serious, answerable question I don't know the answer to: when was the last time any character in MH mentioned the ark in any way at all?

I ask this, because I have a feeling that the ark is never going to be mentioned or ever become relevant. I fear that the ark is not even a MacGuffin at this point, but a completely abandoned plot element, a dead end. (In other news, Santa Claus is not real, your parents never loved you and GRRM is not going to live long enough to finish the ASoIaF series, but that's neither here nor there.)

[McGregor]

As far as I can remember, the last person to mention it was TTA in one of the season two entries. I think it was in "decay". I don't think anyone besides TTA has ever mentioned the ark.

I feel the same way as you somewhat but at the same time I feel like if it was an abandoned plot element that they wouldn't have brought it back up so late in season 2.

Its another one of those little annoyances that jay never brings it up in conversation. Same as how they never refer to the operator.

[George G]

The ark is mentioned in Decay, you are correct. I forgot about that.

Well, that raises my optimism a little bit. Not too much, since that was a year ago, but still.

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[Djeezna]

It's the box that Alex kept with him in entry #71

[TheJoker]

[Lithp]

If the Ark was really nothing but some weird metaphor, they really should have clarified that by now. So many writers have made the "well we'll just let them play this up like some kind of big mystery" & are then surprised when people are disappointed when it never turns up in any meaningful way that I'm surprised this mistake is even still made.