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[Lithp]

Did You Enjoy Hoody's Unmasking?

[wassupbro]

As much as I didn't like it, Tim said he wouldn't have known what he would have done if he knew is was Brian. Therefore things wouldn't be how they are right now if they did a (in my opinion) better job with the unmasking.

Still, the whole entry to me actually felt really sad. The sad atmosphere of Alex not getting much participation for his movie, the sad confession of Tim saying that Brian was really his only friend, and just overall leading up to Tim
finding out what has become of his friend, let alone himself. Can he really be mad at Alex? We don't know whos at fault here. Its just tragic.

[SilentMedusa]

I felt this was a rather bad unmasking. For me, it wasn't so much the method as the timing. If they had done this towards the beginning of season three, or even the middle, I would've been fine with it. But after so much time, and so much ridiculous teasing (even before the stunt they pulled in #83 ) it didn't feel like enough of a payoff for sitting through all that. I literally said "that's it?" at the end of #84, and I seriously doubt that's the effect they were going for.

[Geneaux486]

Would have liked to have seen a proper unmasking in Entry 83. They could have done that without affecting the emotion in entry 84 one way or the other.

[TheManPF]

I've always wanted Trosephim not to make a Hoody reveal, but rather just make it extremely obvious to the point where everyone realizes that Hoody is Brian without Tim or any other person pointing it out

In other words, I liked the revelation, I think just having Hoody's mask pulled off and showing his face would be too predictable. That said, I wasn't satisfied with Tim pointing out the fact that Brian was wearing the same hoody, I'd rather have them make the audience pay a little more attention

[Master of Octopi]

I personally thought it was perfect, but I feel like I should codify my thoughts. I think that the actual content of the video was outstanding. I got a better feel for Brian's character in that entry than I did in the entire series so far; most of the time we've seen Brian without his hoody, he's been acting, but this time we saw him as himself. Watching his relationship with Tim and Alex was great. It was interesting as heck to see him as this naturally extroverted guy, which is a really sharp contrast from Alex and Tim, who seem awkward.

I think a traditional unmasking could have been really good too, depending on how they handled it.

The outro text I would've done differently, and I feel like a lot of people agree. I consider the tape contents to be the unmasking, and Tim's comments to be separate, mainly because I would've come to the exact same conclusion without them, except for Tim's challenge to Alex.

I dunno, maybe I'm easy to please.

[Gold Knight]

I'm neutral. On one hand, I really liked 84 and the way it showed the early relationships among the characters and the origins of the film project. On the other hand, I'm really unsatisfied that we never got a present day unmasking, and for the most part I really disliked 83. I wanted to see Brian in the present and find out what his actual plan was. I think the whole thing would have worked better if it was like Masky, where we got hints about the jacket and later got an unmasking.

[Lithp]

There wasn't one single thing that I liked about this entry, but I think that MAYBE some intrigue COULD be salvaged later on. So far, I haven't been able to give enough shits to decide whether that counts as "Terrible" or "Mostly Bad."

[The Condor]

Is "unmasking" the appropriate term?

[TheOperator]

Terrible "unmasking." The most interesting potential aspect to Brian being Hoody was how Tim would react. His reaction consisted of outro text where he pretty much instantly accepts it as a tragedy, rather than at all questioning why Brian did the things he did. Yeah, it's pretty obvious that he just became that way after being attacked by TO and needing to pull all this totheark stuff to get revenge on Alex, but for Tim, there should have been more emotion. Also by that logic he should instantly forgive Alex as well.

Also Brian being Hoody was the most clear side effect to them not ending the series after S2 as planned. I wouldn't have had any problem with how obvious it was if he had been unmasked so soon. I'm honestly surprised they thought nobody would get really fatigued with the mystery of Hoody if they dragged it out for years longer, when their big reveal was just going to be that it was the only possible male candidate with more than 2 seconds of facetime. They even go so far as teasing the identity by keeping Hoody's face just out of frame in not one, not two but three entries. One of the advantages to them releasing the series like this is they get to see the audience's reaction the whole way through. They honestly didn't realise everyone knew it was Brian? I considered other possibilities because I thought surely they wouldn't drag the mystery out this long if it was someone so obvious.

There is an advantage to the way they revealed Hoody, since it's not a present day reveal, we can only imagine what Brian now looks like and what he would say, if he can even talk. That's sort of the fear of the unknown. Although even then, imagining that soon gets less creepy since Brian is just... not creepy at all. Still, I kinda like what I think they were going for there, at least.

[420Goku]

I liked entry 84 for what it was, and I like the idea of hoody never having a direct reveal. They just mangled the delivery and effectiveness of it.

It would've been way better if Tim didn't mention to us that Brian was wearing the hoody. It would've been way cooler if that was just something we all could notice on our own and piece together. Having them add that text in just feels like them holding our hand when they really didn't have to. It makes it feel so cheap.

And having this right after entry 83. That was such an action packed entry, so emotionally intense. That was probably exactly when a lot of people wanted a hoody unmasking. But they just tease us. And then the next entry is 84, all calm and completely lacking in tension. That's what I call anticlimactic.

What were they even thinking putting in those tease unmaskings in 83? Honestly... does anyone think that was a good idea? It was a great entry besides that too. They could've so easily left that out.

Just... I don't know. They've made some good decisions with this series but season 3 has had a lot of bad ones.

[Xman]

If that was the actual reveal, then I just vote neutral.

It wasn't too bad, but it also wasn't too good either. Still not really sure how I feel exactly. I mean, I'm definitely disappointed somewhat, considering I was expecting someone to rip of his mask in a dramatic sequence, but maybe there's more to this that will soon be revealed.

[lonsumtravlr]

TheOperator--Hoody could talk: he muttered "Oh, shit!" when he was rummaging Tim's house for pills and saw Alex opening the attic.

[Lithp]

[Zarggg]

Personally, I would have preferred a more obvious visual reveal like the one for Masky.