If y'all remember, when you play as Nightingale, he speaks so softly and is begging for help! But, the Bookers said he was "yelling all kind of crazy stuff"
I wonder if Nightingale, as a Taken, is mostly just frightened and helpless in his mind while the Dark Presence controls his body

I like to think that why nightingale sees the cultist wierd way is because he is turning in to a taken and when he becomes fully taken they dont see in bright lights.

I'm surprised nobody caught on to this, but I think Night Springs will be about Tim Breaker and Mr. Door. Breaker was humming the Night Springs theme song throughout the game. There was also the commercial with Door.

The Lakehouse is obviously FBC centric.

Nothing has confused me more than Tom - the idea he is to Alan as Door is to Hatch is great.

I think Alice is leaving the manuscripts, or possibly the one sending them to Rose disguising her notes to her as if she's Alan.

Fun Fact: The name for Alex Casey isn't a coincidence. In Max Payne 1 there's a fictional beer company called "Casey" on a poster that says "Real Men drink Casey"

Ironically in the Hotel Building level, which might be the Overview.

About Saga's powers: I don't think they come from Door. I am very sure he's her father, but the Anderson Brothers say those powers are in their family.
On Zane and Wake: The clicker is actually the light switch of Zane's lamp!

Another idea: What if Alan is actually Zane. Imagine Zane as the original writer who went into the lake trying to write himself out of the dark place. He reinstalls himself as Alan Wake, starting fresh. Having two versions of himself running around, both artists, both altering reality. I can't put the pieces together right now, but even Ahti referring to Alan as Tom is a very clear indicator that that's his actual identity. Ahti is Ahti.

My thoughts about the Dark Presence: I don't think it's an autonomic being. I think it's a collective entity made from the art brought into the Dark Place, by those trapped there. Like, maybe the Dark Place is not a dark place at all naturally, but throw a few writers and poets in there who's art is centered on dark stuff, and the the place reacts to art with reality altering qualities, you ultimately get a Dark Place and a Dark Presence. Now... Maybe a lighter artist can use the place for something else. Maybe someone like Alice? ...

Man, this was fun to listen to. It would be amazing if you could get Sam Lake on.

If Zane could get out of the Dark Place for a while to meet Linda Wake and become Alan's father, that could explain the "Errand Boy" short story Alan wrote?

I like to think the light affected Nightingale, and that’s what distorted them to him.

Zane could be Alan's father. The clicker is said to have belonged to Alan's father, Cynthia said it was cut from Zane's angel lamp

I feel like Scratch/dark presence just takes over Alan when he loses all hope, which happens on a loop, he goes through a story, realises Alice is dead, loses all hope, the dark presence basically eats the contents of his mind, he wakes up empty - with amnesia, slowly remembers his past as it goes on and then basically the same events happen again with slight spiral variations. So there isn't much worth thinking about beyond that when it comes to scratch, he is all the worst parts of Alan - like everyone when they're taken.

I like this idea that Zane and Alan Wake may be echoes of the same pandimensional entity interacting through the multiverse in the same way but Hatch and Door and Jack and Tim are echoes. It would help explain why people keep calling Alan "Tom" and why Alan's experience with the Dark Presence is mirrored so strongly by Tom's experience. I don't think the age difference between the two characters is a problem with this theory, because there's no reason why two alternative versions of person from different times can't meet at notionally the same time through the Dark Place, which could be a kind of nexus. And even if it isn't, the memory of Zane is in the Dark Place which can bring stories to life. It could just the Dark Place having Zane on file.

SO thankful for you guys!! I’m glad there are people out there that are this invested in the intricacies of Alan Wake and Remedy.

Tim Breaker's not the only person who dreams of Courtney Hope. That's for sure!

14:43 agree 100% I think Hotel's Zane is a one Scratched.

About who leaves the manuscripts for Saga to find, in my opinion, was Scratch. If we notice in one of the hints in loading screen, it says that we can follow the dark shadows to find a manuscript, and all manuscripts in the game have a sort of a darness around them.

I think Mr Scratch used Alan to write his version of Return, and the Dark Presence used the Takens that emerged from the lake to send the manuscripsts to the real world. Aside of that, they use the Cult of the Three for this, because they kill and remove the hearts of the takens, and we see that Nightingale has a manuscript inside of his body. So, i think the Dark Presence uses the "ritual" of the Cult on purpose to spread the manuscripts across Bright Falls. And when people started reading, reality started to change.

So, the thread that keeps coming up in this game are loops and spirals. Could this somehow describe the connection between Wake and Zane? Not to say they are the same person (maybe they are in a sense) but that they are somehow part of one loop/spiral. Zane being at the inception at this spiral that began in 1970 and Wake is the continuation of the failed attempts of Zane. The diver and filmmaker could be different "loops" of his spiral, similar to Alan's novel in the 1st game and the script of the Night Springs in American Nightmare. And the cutscene in the hotel with two of them could be some sort of communication between the loops of the spiral. Sorry for a bit of a ramble, but that's what I think.

58:15 About Saga calling Logan. Phone did ring. There was no "Not in service" or "No signal".

I honestly think, in a more metaphorical sense, buy possibly literally as well, Alan and Tom are the same person. If we take in control lore, and almost think of it in terms of Gods, Jesse was chosen by Polaris, The Board chooses multiple people as they see fit, these beings want "champions" to uphold their wills. The theory that Tom is Alan's father can work, but I think its more like Scratch/The dark presence wanted to create it's next champion. Buuuttt as was reiterated many times, they can't create, they can only modify a story. So what if Scratch took Tom's old work, changed some names, dates? Just a thought.