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[conundrum768]

I notice that precious little has been said about the scene involving the spider. I was most taken by this short (no more than a few second long) portion of the video. It instantly reminded me of the Edgar Allen Poe story The Sphinx.

The natural backdrop that the spider dangles, up and down, in front of parallels the short story nicely. And, upon further examination there are more connections between the story and the current state of the MH universe. In The Sphinx the main character had fled his home as an epidemic of disease kills his friends one by one. He rapidly becomes obsessed with omens of ill fate and eventually begins to see a monster. It is only upon confiding in an "old friend" that he is able to see that the monster is a mere insect and not the horror that he once thought.



Any of that sound familiar?

[punxtr]

If the plot continues to develop that way, you deserve a big cookie.

[Jamocha101]

Operator is an insect.

You heard it here first.

Seriously though, nice find.

[Ithilwen22]

So Slender Man is nothing more than a spider crawling across the camera. No wait that would be Tribe Twelve with all the tentacles. But seriously, I had completely forgotten about that story. (Which, by the way, COMPLETELY FREAKED ME OUT.)

So does this imply Slendy isn't all that threatening after all, or...what?

Now I'm confused.

[pravado]

Like I've said in a topic recently, he doesn't strike me as menacing or harmful.

The only time we've seen him cause someone harm is jay in entry 52. In entry 14, alex had blood on his head when he got up to shut the door, so who knows if the operator even caused it.


And even then, jay is the one that attacked him, he could have just been defending himself. He doesn't kill people either, we've seen countless times he could have but let people go.

Although revealing that he is harmless would be them shooting themselves in the foot, it would make for an abysmal ending to the series

[Foood]

I think it could be a very cool ending to the series if done right. Basically, they'd be saying that it's not the Operator that's the problem, but the fear of it. If Jay is able to overcome this fear, then he'll turn out okay, unlike Alex who has become... dangerous, to say the least.

I just hope that more than Jay's psyche is at stake. Otherwise yes, that would be a crappy ending.

[slendydreaming]

I just wonder how many people are actually a part of TTA. In 58 Hoody leads Jay to the tunnel but as others have said Tim appears to take no notice of the guy until Jay attempts to go into the tunnel, then he freaks out and says they need to get out of there before they get caught. Then there's the person seen in the reflection of the shop window a few entries back, and someone was filming Jay at the time as Remember showed. I'm honestly thinking after repeated viewings that Tim doesn't remember, or if he does it's more of a subconscious thing.

conundrum, I like your theory about the spider but something happened to Alex when he approached the Operator in 45, and the fact that he just stands there while Alex does evil things. One thing I wondered, it seems like distortion seems to happen around the characters when they're upset or angry(like Jessica in the hotel), what if the Operator enhances negative feelings?

[Zarggg]

The general assumption that there are two: Tim/Masky and Hoody. However, there has been no concrete evidence given. It could still be someone entirely different. Seth and Brian are other candidates.

[Jamocha101]

[DaveK]

Yes, it's also possible the way the Operator harms people is by turning them against each other, fueling their paranoia.

[Zarggg]

Paranoia and psychological terror are worlds more scary than threat of physical harm, if done properly.

The original scary factor of the Operator was that no one really knew what' was going on. He's just there (and maddeningly so) and then "weird shit" starts happening.

There's no explanation. There's no reason. There's just paranoia and fear.

[Blinus]

I think the creepiest unknown about The Operator (And Slendy in general in other series) is that we don't (or maybe can't) know how his mind works. Is he a non-sentient force of nature, like a machine (not literally) doing what he does because that's what he does, or does he actually THINK? Does he make decisions and decide which actions to take? Is he even completely in control of what affect he has on people?

Another thing to wonder... does even he himself know what he is? Would you know where you came from if it hadn't been explained to you, or figured it out on your own? If there's nobody who can figure him out, what if there's no way for him to know his own origins?

[TheKraken]

[slendydreaming]

I'm thinking of writing my own Slendy series and one thing I've noticed in several of the vlogs is that he seems to appear when people are experiencing negative emotions, which makes me wonder, does he bring out the worst in people? Look at Alex, a seemingly nice, normal guy who for some still unknown reason starts yelling at people who are helping him with his movie, leading to him sacrificing his friends to the Operator, smashing Tim's leg with a rock, killing some unknown guy, and pulling a gun on two people. Maybe that's at least partly what's so scary, this unknown creature is stalking you and you find yourself getting angrier or more fearful and no way to stop it?

[Flyleaf(IntoTheMist)Wolfi]