Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5948816-20140502204011

so, after watching the end of Gideon Rises about 50 times, there were a few observations I made. Some of what I'm about to say is a bit of a syllogism so each observation by itself doesn't really constitute a theory.

anyway

1. Stan does not know how to activate the machine under his house without the instructions in the book.

2. He seemed somewhat surprised that the machine actually worked.

Theory: Before Stan owned the house, the author(keeping it anonymous) was the owner of the house. He built the machine in the basement and wrote information on what it is and what it does in Journal 1, along with other notes. At some point, he began to be fearful about what he knew or entities wishing to get his information(most likely the first). He kept journal one in his house, did something with journal 2, and hid journal 3 on his property. Begining to lose his sanitiy and becoming stricken with paranoia and possible schitzophrenia, he abandoned the house and sliced off his extra finger(evidence from seperate theory). Stan, not wanting to spend the extra money, decided to aquire the deed to the property, possibly contacting the author to have it authorized (no pun intended).

Being somewhat curious about the universe, young stan set up a radio transmitter (see image from The Time Traveller's Pig) and possibly other set ups in his house. Eventually he began noticing odd things in his house and discovered the journal and the door to the basement. For a while he became obsessed with solving this enigma, but became discouraged when leads continued to dead-end. He ended up abandoning his search and creating a fraudulous tourist trap instead since he was running low on money.... 