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Lithp
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wassupbro wrote:
I fear I am not going to be satisfied with the ending as we really havn't gained any ground on learning about what the Operator is/wants. I mean, thats what this whole series is about, right?

But at the same time, their execution of how to explain this would have to be extremely difficult to do let alone find a way to do it. still, theyve had years to come up with some ideas.


Aaaand now I've been brought back down from my high, but yeah, this states the problem with Marble Hornets so well. What have we actually learned, as far as the "Big Questions" go? As we get to the end, it seems like more & more people are becoming anxious, because it is difficult to see how this could be resolved, & if it can, it'll probably require a big infodump.

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Teedub
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Lithp wrote:
wassupbro wrote:
I fear I am not going to be satisfied with the ending as we really havn't gained any ground on learning about what the Operator is/wants. I mean, thats what this whole series is about, right?

But at the same time, their execution of how to explain this would have to be extremely difficult to do let alone find a way to do it. still, theyve had years to come up with some ideas.


Aaaand now I've been brought back down from my high, but yeah, this states the problem with Marble Hornets so well. What have we actually learned, as far as the "Big Questions" go? As we get to the end, it seems like more & more people are becoming anxious, because it is difficult to see how this could be resolved, & if it can, it'll probably require a big infodump.


Well, to be honest, I don't want to know the answers about what lies behind the Operator. I mean, not knowing is what makes the Operator so mysterious and creepy. The top few things that I would like answered is what the Ark is, what happened to other MH crew memebers, and what that dark world is in Entry 65 and 83. That would be great.

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BlankSlate
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 		I'm not really concerned about the end, I trust Trosephim to do it justice as I've thoroughly enjoyed every entry so far. I'm just hoping for something unexpected and crazy. With how it's been building up I don't think that's too far fetched.

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Teedub
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 		I don't think they would end it with some crazy shocking twist or anything. If I am recalling correctly, Troy once tweeted that he appreciated Breaking Bad's ending because it didn't conclude with some crazy plot twist that changed everything. I think they are more against a twist-ending.

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gennerx
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Teedub wrote:
I don't think they would end it with some crazy shocking twist or anything. If I am recalling correctly, Troy once tweeted that he appreciated Breaking Bad's ending because it didn't conclude with some crazy plot twist that changed everything. I think they are more against a twist-ending.


Yeah they've made it clear twists won't happen with the hoody reveal if nothing else.

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Teedub
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gennerx wrote:
Teedub wrote:
I don't think they would end it with some crazy shocking twist or anything. If I am recalling correctly, Troy once tweeted that he appreciated Breaking Bad's ending because it didn't conclude with some crazy plot twist that changed everything. I think they are more against a twist-ending.


Yeah they've made it clear twists won't happen with the hoody reveal if nothing else.


Yeah. I think they have something against ENDGAME twists. I've seen their share of twists before in Marble Hornets, though. Examples:

Alex being made out to be an innocent bystander in Season 1.
His true side is revealed in Season 2.

and

At first, Jay was going to tell Tim about his investigation in early Season 3, but then things got out of hand when Tim looked up MarbleHornets online and saw for himself what is going on.

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lonsumtravlr
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Teedub wrote:
Yeah. I think they have something against ENDGAME twists.


Maybe because they can be cheaper than a deus ex machina? The audience needs to be given enough information to set one up, and a poorly conceived or executed one will not make sense.

Personally, I prefer that if they were stuck they went with a variant of the Michael O'Donoghue easy exit: "Suddenly, Alex, Tim, The Operator, Rosswood Park, and the old hospital were flattened by a truck. The End."

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TheJoker
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 		The entirety of Rosswood flattened by a truck?

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Teedub
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TheJoker wrote:
The entirety of Rosswood flattened by a truck?


Yeah, it turns out they have all been living in a micro-world this entire time that is within our world. A truck in our world accidentally smashes the fun sized Marble Hornets world and then - poof - gone.

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lonsumtravlr
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Teedub wrote:
TheJoker wrote:
The entirety of Rosswood flattened by a truck?


Yeah, it turns out they have all been living in a micro-world this entire time that is within our world. A truck in our world accidentally smashes the fun sized Marble Hornets world and then - poof - gone.


It's a big truck, man... They've got eighteen wheels!

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SilentMedusa
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 		I really just want to know how The Operator is connected to Tim.

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TheJoker
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 		Maybe we're all looking at this wrong, though. Maybe the series was never really about TO. I would prefer an ending that answers questions about TO at least a little, but I would accept one that doesn't (which is looking pretty likely at this point) provided it resolved things in some way which could successfully convince me that those questions weren't relevant. Not sure how to explain what I mean by that, but yeah.

Also, I would be totally okay with the truck ending if they had convincing effects for the truck. I wouldn't care about all the mysteries if they could make a realistic entry full of destruction at the hands of a megatruck.

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BlankSlate
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Teedub wrote:
I don't think they would end it with some crazy shocking twist or anything. If I am recalling correctly, Troy once tweeted that he appreciated Breaking Bad's ending because it didn't conclude with some crazy plot twist that changed everything. I think they are more against a twist-ending.


I didn't necessarily mean a twist ending, but more like something pretty epic considering how much tension they build in the series.

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Cyan507
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TheJoker wrote:
Maybe we're all looking at this wrong, though. Maybe the series was never really about TO. I would prefer an ending that answers questions about TO at least a little, but I would accept one that doesn't (which is looking pretty likely at this point) provided it resolved things in some way which could successfully convince me that those questions weren't relevant. Not sure how to explain what I mean by that, but yeah.

Also, I would be totally okay with the truck ending if they had convincing effects for the truck. I wouldn't care about all the mysteries if they could make a realistic entry full of destruction at the hands of a megatruck.


I think the first season was majorly based on TO but it's far from it now. It's now about the people and the players in this. TO's gradually appearing less and less and only really shows up when someone either dies or is close to dying.

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wassupbro
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Cyan507 wrote:

I think the first season was majorly based on TO but it's far from it now. It's now about the people and the players in this. TO's gradually appearing less and less and only really shows up when someone either dies or is close to dying.


Well, thats part of the "ground" we have gained since the beginning.

I have thought about this many times. Why does it show up when it does?

We see it taking people away and into weird dimension areas, thats for sure. But we have also seen it show up in other moments of the seires.

Some examples: Entry 52, why did it just decide to go into the Hotel and wreck Jay and Jessica's shit?

The entry where Tim and Jay go to Alex's old house, why would it just decide to show up?

There are some moments in Rosswood, but that might be explained by the idea that the Operator makes his home there or something.

And then we look at why it takes the people it wants. First we have Jay and Jessica in Entry 52, then we also have the (dead) bodies of Bruce, Hoodie, and Jay. Also we have it taking Jessica and THEN we see Alex supposedly getting rid of her.

So in conclusion, the way I see it, the more we learn about Alex, the more we learn about the Operator.

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