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[Jordan]

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[JAL13]

[Jordan]

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[Lithp]

I've been suspecting for a long time now that there wouldn't be many answers. Can you blame the trio? Most of the audience is shouting at them that they shouldn't answer anything because it would somehow "ruin it."

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I do have a couple, yes (not counting the two biggies: WHAT HAPPENED AFTER THE END OF ENTRY #12? and WHO WAS FILM[ING JAY DURING THE EVENTS OF ENTRY #13]?.

1. Did someone plant the camera in Alex and Amy's closet so that Amy would find it? I can't believe that Alex would be that careless if he'd made the connection between The Operator and filming. He seemed genuinely surprised when Amy confronted him with the video camera.

2. Did that video of TO's attack on Amy and Alex really take place on 4/4/2010? The timestamp can be changed, and if Alex had become aware of Jay's activity and was filming again, if only for a time, he could have changed it to make himself look like more of a victim. (Plus he already lied about needing to find Amy.)

3. Who was it who seemingly held Alex in a trance in Entry 22? I doubt it's TO (because the shadow that passed through Alex's head had a hand). My guess is Hoody. It could explain how the tape containing Seth's disappearance was left (my guess is by TTA/Hoody) in the Red Tower for Jay to find. Maybe Brian's disappearance didn't take, and when Hoody returned, Alex was told to get out of College Town and transfer, and maybe Hoody held on to the evidence as a kind of blackmail?

4. Did Seth find out about something in the tapes and at first try to alert Alex but later become seen either as a bit of a threat or as a primary source of TO contamination? (If so, maybe the roots of TTA actually emerged when Seth discovered something and started his own investigation, and maybe when Brian wasn't transported to Oppy Town but became Hoody, he discovered what had been going on? As Tim said in Entry #15, Seth and Brian had been good friends. So maybe Seth was the mystery cameraman in "Exit"?)

5. What's the IG origin of the Operator Symbol? Actually, that's poorly phrased, so let me rephrase. Did Alex somehow stumble upon some broader tradition related to TO, and maybe some of the Operator Symbols that were found (the one by the fountain thing) were actually from someone else long ago?

6. Even granting that somehow because of exposure to and contamination by TO the emotions of all those involved are able to be projected onto and recorded on video--and also granting that Alex had some apparent control over the teleporting, etc., because of his intimacy with TO--where did that one brief scene of Tim slumped beneath what appeared to be the stairs of his attic and someone coming down toward him with a flashlight in Entry #83 come from?

I don't care about all of the mysteries because I like the almost noirish effect on the series. I also don't think it's a terrible leap to have to make to declare Hoody some sort of fucked up, determined neo-ninja who has editing skills. Think Ghost Dog without the martial arts shit and with a film school education. But these six have been bugging me.

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I like to believe Alex himself put the camera in there for her to find and video tape her own TO encounter so he could play victim to Jay to get him to lure out Tim and Brian.

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[TheJoker]

What was the Ark? What was Tim's "secret" to which TTA referred? And, most importantly, WHAT HAPPENED TO ROCKY THE DOG?!?!?

also who was phone

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[ReverendJ]

I don't think it was TTA because they didn't seem to have much luck finding Alex till he contacted Jay...at least Tim didn't. Maybe Hoody was not seen till later because he was hanging around Alex the whole time.

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