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[Ristar]

About the plot on the series...

[Lithp]

I didn't expect those things to go anywhere. Generally, when one arc ends, a new arc begins.

[Ristar]

[Lithp]

The Hotel Arc ended when Jessica went missing. I did not expect them to find her immediately, as her going missing was the consequence of the Hotel Arc.

The Alex's Birthday Thing Arc concluded with Hoody fleeing Alex, saying that he won't find him, & Alex pursuing. I was not expecting to see an aftermath to that.

I would say that we are now in a Who Is Hoody or What Does Alex Want Arc, & so we should be seeing a resolution to one of those soonish.

[Magyk]

[Ristar]

[rand__althor]

I think the major thing with Marble Hornets is how they did season one. For season one they just came up with a bunch of ideas, things that sounded neat, and did them as Entries, with no thought for a longer story, for a cohesive story, because they weren't planning on anything beyond the Alex Kralie tapes.

It was when season one ended, and during that hiatus, that Joseph and Troy realized that what they had started was becoming popular, and that they should continue the story. This required them to look over all that stuff they had done in season one and try to make it tie into a cohesive stories. Dealing with season one stuff is proving a major problem for them with resolving the story now in season three.

TL;DR: Season one was not written and filmed with a long-term story in mind. Now that they are working on a story, that's getting in the way.

[paladin181]

I do agree though about a lot of build-up and no payoff. In the simplest of terms, we're getting a lot of false-climaxes where they build to a specific happening, then skip over it a bit or change it. The last big payoff was 60, when we got the Operator chase. Which in and of itself was a build up to the somewhat disappointing 60.5 where we get mostly redacted medical records that tell us nearly nothing new. I think that the problem here is that Troy, Joseph and Tim are able to whip people into a frenzy, and when everything comes to a head, they have difficulty delivering on a decent homerun hit. The series as a whole isn't bad, but they should pace it a little better with a reason to fall off into these lulls rather than "build build build lull lull lull build" It's pretty much like the sneeze that never comes.

I've likened it to techno music, and how they build up, and sometimes fall off that build up. It's pretty cool. But occasionally, you have to go all out and let the build up come to its natural conclusion.

[Lithp]

Oh, I agree that they often fail to deliver on buildup. But things like Jessica going missing, that IS a climax.

An example of a failed buildup is the Hoody Hut. Nothing really came out of that. This is where I'd expect someone to go, "NU-UH TIM + JAY TEAMED UP!" Thing is, you can do that without introducing us to a new location that the protagonists are going to proceed to ignore until it's too late, & making it blatantly obvious that ToTheArk isn't an active threat, thus removing one of the few sources of tension.

To let you in on a secret, Trosephim are, in fact, amateurs. They have talent, but this is the first major piece of writing they've done that I'm aware of, & they've said it's their first horror series. Even if they were professional, professional writers often flop. So I'm not sure where people get this idea that we should never ever question them, & if we just wait it out, everything will turn out perfectly in the end.

I am cautiously optimistic that Marble Hornets will have a good ending. But, to face the facts, it might not.

[Marble Hornets]

[Ztakk]

What movie are you referring to? Are you referring to the Marble Hornets series as a movie? Or the actual movie movie that's in the works. If it's the second thing then nothings really been said HOW involved Trosephim are going to be in it's production. For all we know it could be a box office hit.

[Foood]

From an optimist's point of view, I feel that with all the building up - but not completion - of these various arcs, they're essentially building all the pillars of a bridge without yet building the bridge itself (i.e., the horizontal part that you actually walk on), which will be saved for last.

For example, these are all "pillars":

- Tim and his history at the hospital
- The importance of the tunnel
- What happened to Jessica
- How Amy ties into all of this
- The Hoody hut and TTA's supposed ability to "hypnotize" Jay/cause him to sleepwalk.
- etc.

We know some stuff about all of these things, but not exactly what or why. And I honestly believe that most of the answers to these things directly relate to one another, thus forming sort-of a bridge and it'll all make sense. imo, the three have done a good job and reviving a lot of old plot points this season. Some of them may seem "dropped" because they haven't been acknowledged in the last few entries, but honestly, if they've been mentioned this season than it's a good bet they plan on answering it. This is the final season so they have an end game in mind.

[Sha Noran]

[wassupbro]

Think about the latest entry....

All it did was open up more questions. Seriously. That is all it did.

[Beidah]