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[Starkley]

When Tim yelled "No!" in Entry #19 (Jay tried to remove his mask), it came through pretty clearly. Just a point to be made.

[Cactus Wren]

I don't know if anyone's mentioned this, but the WATCHING photograph reveals that Jay and Tim's argument in #59 apparently took place in the location of the "DO YOU REMEMBER ME" image from "Reminder".

[Flyleaf(IntoTheMist)Wolfi]

[pravado]

I can't wait for the totheark encounter

Jay: what happened that caused you to follow me around everywhere? you spend entire days watching me, don't you have anything better to do? and you tease me constantly without providing help, but you obviously need me for something otherwise you wouldn't spend all this time on watching me. WHAT IS YOUR DEAL


totheark: *takes off mask to reveal ellis*

totheark: i remember the first day i met you jay. i was just minding my own business listening to classical music when YOU came bothering me. i quickly left, creeped out, and ran into some tall guy as i headed back to my car. i made it home alive but he keeps bothering me. so i google'd "tall man black suit" and what do i find? your series. so i figure out that some guy named tim has this channel called to theark where he follows you. i wanted to be tim for a day. i followed him around and hacked his youtube account. i've been mimicking his videos for months, jay. he watched you because he was a freak, i watch you because i need you

*tim busts in*
tim: so THIS is the guy! i've been obsessed with you because I thought you were the one that hacked my account, jay. back in the earlier entries i just tried to creep you out because i am sick in the head

*ellis and tim start making out, their sideburns intertwining. jays eyes roll back into his head as he subtly moans*





(no seriously though, the interaction will be cool. the amount of following totheark does is inhuman, dedicating all of his free time to folowing jay)

[elkapo]

[KTsteve]

[twistedpuppet]

[jackofnotrades]

So checking the 1/10 date...it almost lines up with the night that jay smacked tim with a flashlight...except that the wiki lists that entry as being 1/12...meaningful at all?

[Blank_Zero]

Why hasn't Jay cut open the doll yet?

[Dragonhaven]

[CraicIsMighty]

[baseballfuries08]

Please peole, don't talk like you loved S2 trough it. I may have not been here during that time, but I was a constant lurker, and there were always a group of people (and not only pravado) calling the most recent entry "just filler".
Now everyone loves S2.
Is that being hipocryte? No, it's just because you don't have to wait anymore. When S3 is finished, you'll all say it had a great pacing too.

EDIT: Also, one month gap between entries. And delays. Yeah, that meant 20 minutes entries and stuff, but that doesn't mean those were not "filler" entries (using the termn the way this people does, I don't think there are "filler" entires...)

[Starkley]

Well that only makes sense. Very different thing to watch the episodes straight through than to be waiting for the next entry.

When people talk about pacing, there's two kinds.

1. The cinematic kind that comes just from the way things move from buildup to climax to resolution as you watch the episodes straight through. That's the one that has mostly to do with the quality of Marble Hornets as an Indie film. (I say it's a good one, especially because we're actually seeing some moral conflicts and character development - something Season 3 EXCLUSIVELY brings to the table. The other seasons were purely plot/mystery driven, really.)

2. The presentation type that comes from the way the series as an ARG is updated. To be a good ARG (even though MH is very uninteractive for an ARG) you need to have consistency, you need to keep things interesting, and you need to leave things for the fanbase to do. If you make people wait two weeks for an entry that doesn't bring much new to the table or create any real puzzles (where Totheark comes in), then that's bad pacing.

MH has good pacing as a film. There's usually something going on in each new Entry, and considering Entry #60.5 comes right after a VERY close encounter with The Operator, it makes artistic sense for it to be a quiet and uneventful episode.

As an ARG though, the pacing, including the reveals of new information and twists, is lacking.

That's probably why people tend to like the seasons better after they're over.

We'll remember Marble Hornets as a great experience in indie horror, not as a great ARG. But that's fine. The story will last. It's very good horror in comparison to even professional films.

EDIT: I think Alex needs to hurry up and appear though. We know that he's alive (or we can assume as much from "Decay"), so it's kind of twiddling our thumbs waiting for him to come out and start psycho-tripping again on the cast. I tweeted Jay about the medical papers and looking for Janet; nothing doing yet, so I guess that's not the direction we're going.

[Xman]

I don't understand what hoody is trying to tell Jay. Okay, we get it, Tim has medical problems. We get that you're always watching. I don't understand how "he lies" makes any sense. He lies about what? You'd think there would actually be something in the folder that proves that he lies.

Also, don't know if this was said, but I feel like it was:

I'm calling there being a flash drive or some kind of note inside the Slendy Doll.

[device]

How Tim is lying...

In entry 59, he says, "It's all Alex's fault. Him, and…whatever it is that follows him around. Somehow, they're responsible for me being this way..."

Which appears to be a LIE. Because the medical records prove he was having problems will into his childhood. Also, it's being hinted in the series that he does remember more than he reveals.

He's in major denial, and could very likely be the first to be haunted the the tall thin one.