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[TomCat]

[Jippo]

[Grim Joker]

[Zarggg]

[TomCat]

Just checking, but have the Marble Hornets creators confirmed that the Operator is the figure in MH to whom we refer as "Slenderman"? For some reason, I remember reading somewhere (maybe on a wiki) that we cannot yet assume that "Slenderman" in MH is the Operator which is mentioned in totheark's videos. I know it seems obvious that Slendy is the Operator, but I just want to know if anyone remembers whether or not this distinction has been confirmed by Troy and Joseph?

[Salty]

When they did their Q&A where people emailed them questions, they replaced all instances of "Slenderman" in the questions with "[The Operator]" and then referred to him as such in their answers. Pretty sure they did this late last summer, so it's fairly recent that people are calling him that.

[TomCat]

[Megamannt125]

[Salty]

[distilled]

I also quite like "The Operator" as a name for Slenderman. However, here is a list of names which, I have to admit, grate upon me:

HIM
The Tall Man
The Big Cheese
The Angel of Death
El Slendo
Mr Wiggins


I will allow "Musical Occurances" name of Locust.

[SlendoMusic]

He will always be the Slender Man to me. But The Operator is a badass name and I have no problems with it being his canon persona.

[The World Ends With You]

Well, I haven't been involved with MH for quite some time. A lot has happened. I just got caught up with all the recent videos and all I have to say is...WOW.

Still can't get over J just bitch slapping Masky. Much win. I'll have to try and get caught up with reading the various threads and theories on here before I can start to theorize again. Should be fun.

[awakeasaurusrex]

This is a topic which I've been thinking about recently but which probably doesn't deserve its own thread... how do people think Season 2 has been handling the whole interactivity thing? Or, rather, MH's pointed lack of interactivity?

I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing that MH isn't really interactive at all - the Hornets want to make an episodic story rather than a full-blown ARG, that's cool with me. But I think making a decision one way or another as to whether you're going to tell a story or run an ARG carries with it a certain responsibility to manage people's expectations accordingly. It would be frustrating for something to appear interactive but actually not be, just as it would be irritating if something terrible happened in an ARG because the creators expected its audience to intervene at some point but hadn't made the situation look interactive enough to prompt the audience to do so.

By and large, I think MH has been better at expectations management in season 2. One thing which irked me about season 1 was that all of the codes in TTA's videos were actually, when you think about it, kind of pointless - when did a message decoded from one of TTA's videos ever prompt Jay to change his mind about something or take a particular course of action? They served no purpose except to throw out pointlessly oblique hints to the audience, and in general if a character in a story is doing something which makes no sense except as a means of slipping information to the audience that's a sign that your story is kind of badly structured.

We haven't had anything like that this season, with one really kind of major exception. That's the code to the safe, which I think a very large number of people here thought was a puzzle which we would collectively have to help Jay solve, but in fact was an insoluble riddle which Jay more or less stumbled into the solution to without any input from us. To be honest, I was pretty disappointed by that aspect of Entry 33, because it meant that a plot element which seemed to suggest "this is something you guys can interact with" was actually never interactive at all.

Obviously it can be kind of hard to predict how the audience will take a particular aspect of a story (and goodness knows we're prone to zoom off down some weird tangents here), but I think it should have been easy to predict that people, on seeing a missing code, would think "puzzle".

Yes, perhaps we should have known from last season that MH wouldn't be very interactive. Except... the existence of the safe was revealed right towards the start of this season, and a new season is inherently an opportunity for the creators to shake up their approach and change the way they do things. I think we can be forgiven for jumping to the conclusion that season 2 might have been a bit more interactive than season 1; I just wish the creators would be a mite more careful about not giving the impression that there's a shiny button for us to push when in fact the button isn't actually wired up to anything.

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