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[Ztakk]

Beidah, you still have to remember it brought to mind the question of WHY did Alex attack Jay? Why did Jay forget this? What happened after the attack? Etc, etc etc.

[Beidah]

[Lithp]

No it isn't. Jay has to somehow get out of wherever Alex left him, with the tapes & his car, & back to his home, in such a way that he not only doesn't remember the attack, but doesn't even notice anything odd.

Very simple things would give away that there is something wrong with his memory. That it took him several more hours than usual to get home. A massive headache. Grass stains on his sweatshirt. Bruises.

If you don't think that this entry has raised a lot of questions, then you just aren't asking yourself the right ones.

[Beidah]

This is not the first time Jay has had problems with his memory. It's probably a side-effect of being around the Operator, hence Alex filming himself near constantly.

[AdamRPendleton]

I agree with ristar completely. I love Marble Hornets and they are doing a great job with it, however, I do feel after two and a half seasons I know close to the same amount of facts as the first entry. I feel like this with all the Slenderman youtube series (EMH, Tribetwelve, dark harvest) but Marble Hornets seems to be the worst with this. We do get some answers such as Jessica is involved somehow, Masky is Tim, why the hole caused a disturbance on the video, but for the most part we walk away with more questions than anything. I wonder if it has anything to do with these types of forums and comment pages, though. There have been a few times where an entry comes out that to me gives a definite answer (such as the tta video that hoody climbs through Tim's window and takes his pills seemed to be the creators way of showing us that hoody is tta) but all of us fans start discussing every potential possibilty that we are left wondering again. I also wonder if the creators of Marble Hornets read these forums as much as we do and start changing their direction of the series based off things we say and that's why it starts feeling muddled. It could perhaps be to feel more immersive. If the story got to straight forward then it wouldn't feel like real life. IDK. . .

[Sha Noran]

[Lithp]

That strikes me as an incredibly one-sided criticism. If their pacing was perfect, no one would be complaining about it. The fact that people are starting to get frustrated is itself a sign that there haven't been enough reveals. It's not as though everyone is just going to suddenly drop the series in a day if it starts getting slow. Most people, after sitting through 60-70 odd installments, are going to keep going at least a little longer with the hope that their time investment pays off.

Also, I have no idea why people keep making this false dichotomy that they can either answer hardly anything, or answer everything in one video. Believe it or not, there IS a middle ground between those 2 extremes.

It's certainly not the case that there is NEVER a major reveal, but the last one was either at the end of Season 2 or the start of Season 3. Everything since has all either been an expansion on what we already knew--Tim has had problems for years, well guess what, we know that The Operator has been active for years from Alex's birthday video--or an answer to a question that, while significant, is not immediately pressing--like the Slenderhole.