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[The7kproductions]

Well I for one never found the slender man scary ... like when I knew him for the creepy pastas alone I just thought that he was incredibly over rated due to the game 'Slender' or something. Even when I began to watch Marble Hornets I didn't find hi too spooky.What I get from him is much different ... he isn't an element of fear,rather he is an element of intensity.Like I get the feeling of immense power seeping from his very existence.I mean you get to close to him and his power just causes you to cough and spasm uncontrollably, electronics mess up in his presence, not even your own mind is safe from his awesome power ... and all of this is from it standing in inaction, just imagine what it could do if it actually wanted too.

I do not think that having bits of order within it's actions would take away from it's intimidation.

[Clairabel]

[lonsumtravlr]

[Lithp]

[MHLatecomer]

There are three things that I tend to really dislike in a slenderseries.

The number one offender for me is the trademark slender sickness cough. I don't know why, but for me, whenever I hear it it almost always sounds fake and contrived. There's never any wheezing afterwards, no really deep coughing, just your ordinary random fake coughing.

Number two on my list is overused distortion. When used sparingly and in moderation, distortion is a great way to build dramatic tension. One of my favorite aspects of season 1 of Marble Hornets was the telltale visual tearing signaling the possible appearance of the Operator. Even heavy distortion can have its place (for example right at the moment of a close encounter with slenderman) but heavy distortion should be used extremely rarely. It's one of the big guns in your dramatic arsenal and it loses the sense of disarray if you use it more than once every 15 episodes or so.

Kind of related to distortion is the whole lost memory trope. I get it, and I think that just like with distortion, it has a real place because it introduces a deep sense of unfamiliarity and fear of the unknown. But if you have your characters lose their memories often, or do things and not remember them often, then it just becomes part of the audience's expectations, which defeats the whole point of having it, as the whole idea is to try to break expectations and do unfamiliar things. Do it just a few times and it keeps its sting. Overuse it and it just becoumes "Meh."

[KTsteve]

[Lithp]

With all of the hullabaloo, I'm debating taking a look at it. But holy shit, do I hate the concept of genderswapping.