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[Armandvlad]

Maybe is to late to give a new idea/theory, but in my opinion, the last video is an event between Le premier cours and Breaking the Lease

[Cyan507]

[lonsumtravlr]

[Cyan507]

[Lithp]

[awakeasaurusrex]

It's just been going on for so, so long, and spent so long in this holding pattern. It doesn't feel like there's even very much story left to tell, which makes it more confusing - if anything, it feels like they could wrap this up with 2-5 substantial videos if they wanted to.

If they said "OK, no more crossovers - as fun as they were, we need to put the needs of our own series ahead of all the crossover stuff, and right now what our series desperately needs is for us to focus our time and attention on it to give it a bit of momentum and give it the final act it deserves", that would perk up my interest.

But not very much. The thing is, I think the point when they could have usefully said that and then knuckled down and worked through the last significant bits of the EMH story already went by months ago, if not years ago. Assuming they're still making good faith attempts to keep the series going, the most optimistic explanation for the horribly slow pacing of late seems to be scheduling issues, where the practicalities of getting together and filming stuff just aren't coming together; that's only going to increase as they get older and have more adult/post-college responsibilities.

Moreover, when I said "most optimistic" up there, I meant it. There are some alternate explanations aside from "their schedules just won't let them shoot the material they want to shoot" for why the series seems to be in a rut; the problem is that more or less all the alternate explanations I can think of have even worse implications for EMH than "they just don't have time to do it". For instance:

- Maybe they've convinced themselves that they can't move EMH's plot on substantially until they've completed some crossover or other which is taking a while to sort out. I consider this bad for two reasons: the simple reason is "crossovers, ugh ", the more complex one is that, if the crew really are waiting on some crossover to go ahead before progressing their series, that means they've got to a place where they are prioritising crossovers over the needs of EMH as a series. That doesn't make me feel good about the quality of upcoming EMH: if you don't even have enough enthusiasm for your story enough to make it your creative priority, why should your audience care.

- Maybe they have some sort of horrible collective writers' block - there's not been progress because they've written themselves into a corner and they can't agree on what should happen next. Again, if the series has come to a halt because of this sort of "creative difference", that doesn't bode well for its future.

[SilentMedusa]

Hey guys, I'm going to bring up something very, very old, that I just got a new idea about.

You remember the video "Alex" (the one where Evan pulls Jeff's head out of his ass for him and clue him in to the fact that his brother was being mauled in his sleep)? Remember how, at the end they found Vinny's phone in Alex's closet?

At the time, they played that off as saying that since they all spent so much time in each others houses, he could've lost his phone at any time. Perfectly reasonable, but it always bothered me because 1)why would it be in a closet, of all places, and 2) why Alex's closet? they didn't seem to spend that much time around Alex, and definitely not in his bedroom.

Now, remember the video (the name of which I've forgotten) where Vinny gives the revelation that they "aren't real"? That's the part everyone pays the most attention to, but he also said something else. He said that the event of "The Property" made him realize that their houses (his, and Evan's and Jeff's) were never separate places; they were always mashed together like that. They just couldn't see it before. It seems to me that whatever was keeping them from seeing it has broken down (or been taken down). this was demonstrated by Evan not being able to recall which house was his, and which was Vinny's.

What I'm saying is, if they've actually planned this thing out and aren't just making it up as they go along, maybe finding his phone in such an odd place was meant to be a subtle clue. Or, like an Easter egg we'd notice later, after watching the series again.

Or maybe I'm over-thinking this. I do that a lot .

And speaking of foreshadowing things and possibly over-thinking, in the video where they visit Alex and find out that Jeff has gone AWOL, his alarm clock/radio plays a song that people have said was from the video game "Alan Wake". If you have even my cursory familiarity with the plot of Alan Wake, you can see why I think that might be significant. Or just have too much time on my hands .

[Ouroborus]

You. I like you.

[drseussicide]

I've actually been waiting forever for that to become important again. (but holy shit I haven't thought about that in wayyy too long)

[Master of Octopi]

[Beidah]

[TheOperator]

Honestly any criticism I could give to the new video's already been said. The thing is, I'm not sure I'd have had the energy to criticise it anyway. The feeling that the creators just don't care any more is stronger than ever, with such a bland, predictable video. If they were trying to troll us with that cliffhanger ending, I'm surprised they thought it'd work on anybody. It was so obvious that the ending was going to be a bland cliffhanger and that although one could hope a follow-up would come within a few days, there'd be another wait.

On a positive note, "littering is for cunts" is an amazing quote. And maybe a jab from HABIT towards Evan?

On the note of acting, I agree Jeff is the weakest and often seems like he just doesn't have much energy. However, I think his acting in was great. Yeah, it was mostly just him sitting there looking hopeless but by god was he good at looking hopeless.

[Cyan507]

[lonsumtravlr]

[knifebladepresents]

Also, recalling "Next"--remember the bald guy at the top of the stairs. THAT REALLY WAS ALEX. If you search around Jeffrey Koval's blog, you'll notice that Alex has gotten a haircut because he joined the military. So yeah...that says a...thing...or another thing...somehow...TAKE THAT HAH