If Jason can teleport anywhere he wants on the map and certain actions instantly notify him to your location, isn't the best way to survive to simply stand still and run out the clock?
It's easier for Jason to find you the longer you stand still. Besides, you can be killed for being inactive.
I'm pretty sure that standing still while a Killer is on the loose is something most people in horror movies and in real life, definitely WOULDN'T do. Sure, it might end up in your death but still there's a 50/50 percent chance you either might get killed or survive.
WHY does it require high intellect just to fill up a car with gas?!
Presumably it's about being able to do it carefully. Not sure.
They also changed that skill name to Repair.
Seems a little odd that Tommy Jarvis would hear the call to face his nigh-immortal nemesis and bring only one shell in his shotgun for a confrontation, doesn't it?
He probably didn't have time to grab more. He gets the radio message and rushes out to save the day.
Or maybe he isn't sure if it's actually Jason until he sees him. After all, it wouldn't be the first time he's encountered a Jason impersonator.
He's hand loading those shells since he can't legally buy more. He's under observation by the police and suspected in various Jason "copycats" over the years. The fact he managed to get his hands on a gun at all is quite impressive.
If these are supposed to be counselors avoiding Jason....where are the campers the counselors are supposed to look after?
Presumably the counselors arrived early to help set up and reopen the camp. The campers would be scheduled to arrive later (except that they won't because it will be canceled after everyone learns what happened to the counselors.)
Okay, that makes sense.
I can't speak for the other films, but the very first film takes place two weeks before the campers are scheduled to arrive. The counselors have just arrived and are renovating the camp in preparation.
Why does Tommy Jarvis hear Pamela Voorhees' voice in his head?
It probably has to do with his family history with the Voorhees family. As Tommy is connected to Jason, his father was connected to Pamela and therefore to him. In a sense, that would make Tommy's father the Big Good. The other explanation is that Tommy is just as insane as Jason which is also true given where he ends up in the canon.
Why does Roy Burns hear Pamela Voorhees' voice in his head? Unlike Tommy Jarvis, Roy Burns has NO family history with the Voorhees family NOR any supernatural connection with the Voorhees family.
Presumably in this game, the Wild Mass Guessing theory that he's actually possessed by Jason's spirit is true. Given we know Jason is later capable of Grand Theft Me then this isn't entirely far fetched.
Why does Freddy Krueger target Tommy Jarvis when Tommy is in the asylum?
Maybe he just saw him as a potential victim? He did end up in Springwood, Ohio. This might also explain how Freddy managed to find out about who Jason was, because he probably saw what Jarvis' fears were.
Freddy's easily bored.
Why aren't the cops that are called by the counselors questioning Tommy Jarvis' presence during the incident?
Presuming some sort of Broad Strokes canon, the police know about Jason enough to know Tommy is a nut obsessed with him. They just believe there's a string of Copycat Killer types.
Why doesn't Deborah hear the footsteps when Buggsy gets off his wheelchair and starts standing up, even though she's sitting right behind him?
Why are all the cars missing batteries and have empty tanks?
As another troper suggested in the YMMV page under Alternate Character Interpretation, it's possible that Jason himself removed them so that he can mess with the counselors. After all, wouldn't it be more soul-crushing to finally get all the parts necessary to repair a car and then still get killed by Jason?
Alternatively they aren't the cars the counselors used to get to Camp Crystal Lake. They're just some beaters that were abandoned on the property over the years which the counselors were in the process of removing before the camp opened.
So the descriptions in the Virtual Cabin aren't allowed to mention Freddy Krueger, his cameo at the end of Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday, nor Freddy vs. Jason, but they were able to mention Fangoria Magazine, the Wallstreet Journal, and The Arsenio Hall Show, among others? I'm no legal expert, but I'm pretty sure that Fair Use allows one to mention that another work exists if it's in a nonfictional context, or at the very least there should at least be some consistency.
If Jason is a Child by Rape and Elias isn't really his father, that would mean that he and his half-sister Diana were never really related.
Huh. That's actually a good point.
Here's a thought. After listening to the Pamela tapes, it seems a bit odd that no one put two and two together and deduced that Pamela was the one who killed Barry and Claudette in the prologue of the first movie. Her interactions with the police in the tapes clearly show how unhinged and hateful she had become towards the councilors, and made several implied threats to them. So, when she killed Barry and Claudette, you would think that the police would root her out as a prime suspect at least. Especially since the murders only took place a year after Jason drowned. No one had a more obvious motivation to kill them than she did.
Seeing that some of the times we hear the tapes, Pamela is recording them while the officers are outside of the room and unaware she's recording them until they come back in (one of them asking the other if he left the tape recorder on). There's a good chance that they don't realize that Pamela has gone insane and that they have evidence of her murders before she commits them. This could simply be the police being lazy (as it's also shown in the Jarvis Tapes how they just chalk up every set of murders as being done by a series random nut cases who decides to dress up as Jason Voorhees, and them blame Tommy for causing them because he can't shut up about Jason and his crimes, all out of convenience instead of actually looking into it).
Putting aside his complete Jerkass tendencies, Detective Rico makes an excellent point. The whole Jason Voorhees legend doesn't make any sense. Jason evidently drowned as a kid, yet pops up alive and well and a grown man. So, how is Jason even alive? Could Rico and Dr. Marino be right? Was the killer in parts II through IV just some mystery John Doe?
The Doylist explanation is the only one acceptable in this case. In short, obviously, yes that's Jason.
