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[saksxalmo]

I APOLOGIZE IN ADVANCE FOR THE LENGTH OF THIS POST

[Xman]

It's because the Operator itself is vague and mysterious, so they are trying to maintain those feelings with the viewers. If they kept talking about him and called him the Operator loosely and all that, it would appear as if they aren't really scared of him, plus it could definitely come off as cheesy (sorry, but in my opinion, Tribe Twelve suffers from this).

[Starkley]

[saksxalmo]

[Lithp]

There just isn't much to say about it that isn't either obvious or weird.

"Alex is being followed by a monster that has no face."

Obvious.

"Tim, have you seen a monster that has no face recently?"

Weird.

The only time it was really strange was when Jay & Alex didn't talk about it much, but as time went on, we began to see that wasn't the Happy Power Team-Up it first appeared to be.

[Starkley]

[saksxalmo]

Note: This is going to be very long and rambly because it's late at night (oh wait.... early morning) and I'm tired and too lazy to edit. So excuse me.

[Starkley]

That's a lot, so I'm just going to pinpoint one thing (I did read it all, and I think we're at the point where neither of us is gonna get anywhere arguing further):

[ToxicityLevel]

Oh criminey. And here I was thinking I'd never have to log in again and could just stalk and lurk here until the final season ran out...

Anyhow, I think it IS sort of odd that no real history or research on this entity that is the cause of all of this nonsense has ever been revealed. We get a vague-ass campfiresque ghost story about people being stretched by trees that is, in my opinion very randomly placed in the series. It's just like Alex drops it in there and then it's never touched or mentioned again. After that, nada. No one does any googling, library research -- nothing that would or could develop our understanding of the REAL villain of this story. In my opinion, I feel like TO is very underdeveloped which at THIS stage in the story is kind of boring and less and less scary as we roll on. At one point, Jay was fumbling through Alex's things and found a funky wicca-y looking book -- WHERE DID THAT GO? So many little loose ends (like that goddamned bullet) that I feel like will never be tied up, because they were tossed in because it seemed like "a good idea at the time" or "kinda cool" at the time -- take your pick. And that makes me sad, because if they COULD tie them all up, I think that would make this series the best ever. That's right. I said it -- EVER.

But as far as the ability to SEE The Operator goes -- did it ever occur to you that perhaps the longer this goes on -- the stronger a being like this can get? So many people are "gone" -- what has happened to them? If TO feeds on them or dissapears them somehow -- well maybe that's how he feeds. Once he ate off of some of the MH crew, he was strong enough to employ minions -- like Masky/Tim and/or Alex -- and now he's appearing more and more and wiping more memories (and that probably costs him energy or something to do it every time) -- so I'd imagine he has to eat and stock up to be able to do it again. Maybe that's why sometimes you CAN see him and other times you can't. Why sometimes you remember seeing him and other times you don't -- it all depends on his level of power and how much he's had to eat.

But I still say that if Tim can google the series -- Jay can google the Operator. Why hasn't he done some due dilligence?

Mkay, back to my hidey hole now.

[saksxalmo]

[Starkley]

[Magyk]

The problem is not that they fail to talk about the Operator, but that they don't discuss him at all.

The characters have no problem saying "What WAS that thing?" but they never actually elaborate or give any theories on what it actually is.

Seriously, they could throw in an entry where they discuss "Maybe its from outer-space," etc.

[Starkley]

[The Reverend]

Don't forget that Jay actually addressed The Operator before he collided with him in #51. It's all distorted but I can distinctly make out him telling Oppy to "leave us alone!"