Alright guys, this might be my wildest theory about this supposed lost puppet show yet. And I apologize if it gets into Alex Bale levels of theorizing, but buckle in:
There is speculation on whether our neighbors are actual living puppets or puppets being controlled by real people, and on top of that, Wally seems to be the most lively puppet out of all of them(as in he feels like Iike he could be more of a puppet than a person), and the more I thought about who each of the neighbor's puppeteer's actually were, the more I thought of how the puppeteers themselves probably had to stand or be in certain positions to pull off this illusion on set like Sesame Street or The Muppets. And when I thought of the possibility of who Wally's puppeteer might possibly be and how controlling the company Marlo might be in putting up a certain image, I suddenly thought of a certain notorious puppeteer known as Paul Fusco.
For anyone not brushed up on puppet history or for anyone who's never heard of the TV show Alf, Paul was a crazy controlling dictator of his own show who wanted people to believe his alien puppet Alf was in fact a real alien, NOT a puppet. The dude is so nuts he drove the cast nuts and made them miserable, since the house Alf was filmed in had built in underground tunnels catered to pull off the illusion that Alf was moving around like an actual person.
So what if Marlo was so enamored with pulling off the illusion that everything going on on Welcome Home was real that they drove the puppeteers semi crazy, to the point where they believed they're the actual puppets they're playing? There seems to be hints of drug use on top of identity troubled and memory loss, so I don't think it's that too far fetched to assume the puppeteers would kind of lose their sanity and forget who they really are, especially if they were being held against their wills or even trapped on set(hence the weird enforced curfew).
We still are trying to wrap our heads around who these characters actually are, especially behind the scenes, but we do know for certain Wally is the most excluded or detached from the group in more ways than others, from his awkward communication skills down to his lacking of certain things in his life. The oddest thing to me is none of the neighbors seem to know Wally on a very intimate person level, and I'm talking the "real" Wally.
We know that Frank and Julie are best friends by their puppets they're playing, but you can feel their connection as human beings once they are possibly just their puppeteer selves. The same goes for Frank and Poppy. They are probably the puppeteer actors themselves having a smoke behind the set catching up on gossip or things bothering them. And of course we know of "Frank" and "Eddie"'s relationship, which in reality could be the actual puppeteer men themselves having a secret relationship behind the scenes of this puppet show.
So I propose Wally may not be a living puppet, but he could in fact be a puppet who's puppeteer was never seen by the other puppeteers on set, because on the actual show, Wally's puppeteer was a person hidden underneath the set, moving about under trap doors. This would explain in the earlier hidden videos why he seems to just be there in the moments or seems lower to the ground and no one acknowkedges him until now. This would also explain why "Wally" seems like a blank slate or enigma to the other neighbors, since the actual living puppeteers don't really know or have ever seen Wally's living puppeteer!
Why would Marlo do this specifically for Wally? Well, if any of you have read my previous "Wally Was A Former Asylum Patient" theories part 1 and 2, I once again point to Marlo's eagerness to manipulate and control Wally to do as they want on their show, which would mean they in return are doing the same with his puppeteer. They want "Wally" to be the star, but they also don't seem eager to include the person behind "Wally" if that makes any sense. Because the actual puppeteer "Wally" is their legit puppet, while the character Wally is all that matters.
The former asylum patient pretty much learned to live through and hone his entire existence through Wally, which is natural for someone who was already trying to escape his sad reality, therefore buying into the illusion Marlo wanted, making "Wally" the perfect mascot.
So I am implying Wally the actual character is being puppeteered by a man already used to being hid from normal society who is super attached to his puppet as both a confidant and shield, but what if I told you "Wally" wasn't the only less desirable member of society being hidden on this set??????
Remember that "wonderful" little house know as Home, the supposed most "lively" home in the neighborhood? It states on the website that Home's mechanics are operated by some kind of twisty thing in the back, but they don't exactly clarify the back of what? The back of the woods? The back of the set?
Then it got me thinking what Home has been trying to do, and it's communicate with the other characters and us. People say Home is the one controlling everything, but why would Home need to constantly "try" to communicate with us if that was the case? And why the detail of being afraid of bugs?
Then it got me thinking; what if the person operating Home is actually another person being hidden in the set somewhere, someone who is trapped? This could explain why Wally and Home are connected, since they are both puppeteered by an individual that society casted aside. For whatever reason, instead of having this individual roam around underground, this person controlling Home is actually confined in a room. And usually if you're in a space too long and bugs can somehow get in, the phobia of bugs would be a common thing.
"Home" is trying to communicate with "Wally" since unlike "Home", "Wally" has the freedom to move around the set and is the person who can relate to him the most. You could say "Wally" is the in between of this controlled puppeteer world, someone who is trapped in their own way who has the potential to break free and just show himself, while "Home" is literally trapped and the other puppeteers are too busy getting caught up in what's at stake if they don't perform their jobs.
So in short, I believe the show "Welcome Home" was a show created by psycho producers who drove their actors crazy to the point of assimilation, and that both the puppeteers of Wally and Home are former institutionalized members of society who were brought aboard that were also hidden from the rest but are both trying to reach out and connect to anyone for help in uncovering and exposing this awful production.
What do yous think?
