Well there's a few things this theory runs up against - for one, the doors first go to different places when Jay ISN'T "sleepwalking" (at Brian's house.) ((There's also not much evidence that he was actually sleepwalking. He doesn't remember. That doesn't necessarily imply sleepwalking.)) This implies to me that it's not the filming which causes the door changes. The simplest explanation for this is that the Operator is causing it. Masky is apparently human, we're not sure if we've ever seen totheark but he is probably human, and the Operator is clearly NOT human.
I have a friend who put forward a theory that the Operator has control over the "moment of uncertainty" that occurs when a door is opened - essentially that he can substitute destinations for doors. This would explain "Return" and the crazy antics in Brian's house that cause Jay to end up in the SlenderBasement.
But what if? I mean think of it. The whole thing is time dilated and upside down, so there's nothing actually saying that totheark at Brian's house wasn't some temporally fucked up Jay warding Jay away from the house? The whole thing is about trying to put together what happened, but it's also about trying to figure out which pieces of film fall into which time sequence. What if the big "woah" that they're going for, horror wise, is that it's always been an assumption that the footage we've been seeing during the Jay portion of the investigation wasn't actually filmed by Jay? That would explain the camera strapped to his chest. The perspective of the footage (ala entry 29) now creates a point of view in which we can possibly attach a cameraman to certain footage. There's lots that Jay doesn't remember.
If Jay doesn't remember six months or anything about his encounters with totheark, then how can we prove that he himself is not totheark?
The only reason I'm digging this theory is because if I hadn't thought of it and that's exactly what they ended up doing in MarbleHornets, I'd shit myself when I found out that Jay
IS totheark. If I were writing this I'd may totheark actually turn out to be Jay. "
Waaat? Oh yes, viewers, this rabbit hole done go down deep"I dunno, but there's something awfully "negative side of the film" about totheark's "design" as a character that makes me feel healthy about this theory. Tim and Jay have/had similar haircuts but the Tim character has been pretty much left by the wayside. I can't wait to see the next bit of film with totheark involved, because I'm totally going to be looking to see if there's any evidence that supports this half-cocked theory of mine.
