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[Kashiratama]

[TheOperator]

Had enough of seeing characters filming themselves sleeping.

[Peppercorn]

[knifebladepresents]

I've had an idea, but what happens if someone does something like "Carrie" or "Chronicle"? How about instead of the main character being the victim, he's like an anti-hero? You can slowly see a person numbering off the people he hates one by one, and while the audience tries to convince him otherwise. It could also be an intriguing ARG experience--trying to stop someone from going Akira on everyone.

Just a thought.

[Kashiratama]

[Kashiratama]

Sorry for the double post, but I just wanted to say that I'd like to see different/older interpretations of our tall pale and faceless friend. And I don't mean that he just acts differently. I mean physically.

I mean, remember JustAnotherFool with the Spider-Armed Slender Man?
You know, THIS?

I mean think of the possibilities! He could shift his tentacles into branches to disguise himself better, or trap people in them. And if he could shift them into spider-leg-like appendages, it'd give the arachnophobics(like me) a reason to be even more terrified of him. And it doesn't have to be just those, either, he could play with your fears, like if you had a fear of knives or sharp objects, SHING, he has blades coming out of his back. Well, the blades thing seems a bit extreme, but you know what I mean.

[knifebladepresents]

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[knifeman]

I'm sick of Slenderman not being SCARY in some Mythos.

ARGs like TT (has actually evil intentions, tentacles are done well), ICANSEETHEGIANT (Mysterious, can change height and size), and AntediluvianOne (really good CG, dimensions of his body are good enough to make him look terrifying) make him actually scary.

While, MarbleHornets is literally just a kind of tall guy in a suit for a while (they've improved on him a bit, I guess). Another example of a bad slenderman is in WalkingWithGiants. Apart from the ATROCIOUS acting, the slenderman has a fucking face in one scene. I don't find the MLAnderson0 slenderman to be particularly scary, although you don't really see him too often. And as fucking awesome as the series is, KeratinGarden's isn't anything special either. (KeratinGarden totally makes up for it in so many other ways though, it does not matter.)

[knifebladepresents]

[Ithilwen22]

[knifeman]

[Peppercorn]

Personally, I think having the Slender Man "just standing there" is scary when the right context is attached. The reason Marble Hornets creeps so many people out is that, although the Operator doesn't physically do anything, we see how paranoid he makes people and it really shows how scary it would be to be stalked by something so horribly familiar and yet so horribly alien. He's scary because he's unpredictable, and the idea of what he could do becomes scarier than actually finding out.

But then there are series that don't give him enough presence in the plot to be threatening, throwing him in haphazardly into random scenes. I honestly think people forget why this and other common tropes of the mythos were used to begin with- which is that they're supposed to be used with purpose.

[The7kproductions]

While I think that it can be important to make SM your own thing (like how most of the attributes ascribed to SM now'a days were spawned from The Operator which at the time was very different than most other interpretations of SM at the time) I don't necessarily think that being true to the mythos (or even adding to)should be looked down upon.One thing that always bugged me is when fucking dumb asses complain about "OOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHH THEY USED THE OPERATOREEEE SYMBOUL WHAT UNCREATIVE HACKS THEY SHULD BE BURNEED ON CROSSSSS" for one the operator symbol has become the universal symbol of the Slenderman I heard about that symbol WAAAYYYYYYYYY before I even started to watch any Slender series (by like almost a year and a half) and thought it as just that , a sybol that represents Teh Slendz ... also urging some one to make a new symbol for something for it is like telling a write that he should start using HIS OWN letters instead of the alphabet that every one else uses and understands because he him self didn't invent them.

sorry for going off on that tangent there I just think that argument is tooo stupid for me even to correctly articulate how fucking retarded it is.

*ahem* any way a point I'd like to make is that it's not so important that the ideas that you use are original it's more or less the WAY that you use them these devices are tools calling some one out for using an all ready used plot device is incredibly stupid.Wanna use a proxy ... OKAY just give him/her a unique spin, (dose not always have to be something readily apparent).




Okay now here is a list of things I would actually like:

*I would like a series that plays with your prior knowledge of the SM.
Like maybe your physical villian wasn't actually a proxy maybe he was just a douche this whole time, or maybe it wasn't the slender man who kidnapped that ... kid maybe it was that stupid douche who I previously stated.


*I would also like a series that used different types of cameras for each character so you can figure out who each person is with out them making
telling you like-Go pro chest came = John - shitty phone camera = Phil - even shittier phone camera = lil' timmy - digital camera with good image quality but terrible frame rate = evil mc. eats babies - Film camera = that one rich guy that every one hates


*A story that waits a while before showing its cards ... more specifically just teh slendz ... you can show that something is off at first but wait atleatst 3 to 5 episodes before revealing that it was a paranormal thing this entire time.


*and finally we come to my greatest idea ever ... Slender Man ... IN SPACE ... this needs to happen.

[AssassinB]

I'm getting REALLY fucking tired of CGI. It doesn't look real, it's really cheesy and it looks ripped from a video game. If you watch the most recent CNS video