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[notjay]

season 2...

[TheBigFinish]

Re: season 2...

[Owlish]

Marble Hornets Critical Analysis--A Total Nerdout (OOG)

[ThinSuit]

I'm 12 and what is this

[Yuki]

Re: Marble Hornets Critical Analysis--A Total Nerdout (OOG)

[Geneaux486]

I'm starting to think that maybe Alex is taking Tim's place as Operator's proxy. Perhaps what happened to Alex at the end of entry 43 happened to Tim during that summer of 2006, when he first began to show symptoms. Maybe when Alex broke his leg and pulled him out of commision, slenderpants saw it as a failure and severed ties with him, replacing him with the hooded fellow who was also later dropped by slenderphant for some other reason (hell, maybe he was *only* recruited to do the things we saw him do, and slendernom intended for his service to be short lived), explaining both his alligence with Tim and his absence from anything before his first on screen appearance.

[Randoman96]

WHY DOES EVERYONE MAKE GENERAL ASSUMPTIONS THAT THERE ARE PROXIES AT ALL

THERE IS LITTLE TO NO EVIDENCE SUPPORTING THIS

AT ALL

EVER

OF ALL TIME

[punxtr]

Jeez, stop yelling! I'm sure Alex is the only candidate for being a proxy lately. I mean, if he is killing people for the Operator--he's a proxy. If he killed that man of his own volition, then no one fits the bill.

I'm not sure TTA is a proxy yet, although TTA did know when Jay would wake up after his huge memory loss.

[Randoman96]

[punxtr]

Alex really might be one though, although I still hope he just went crazy.

[Geneaux486]

You may think "proxy" is a copout, but given the appearance of human beings who we know were once normal that suddenly stalk people and attack them for no reason, it's highly likely in this story. Totheark's videos usually convey a train of thought that you wouldn't commonly find coming from a sane person, and their behavior isn't any less strange when you see them in person. Something is influencing them, ain't too many ways around that. There's plenty of reason to suspect there are human proxies for the Operator in this story, and I honestly don't see why that would be a copout anyway. The alternative to proxies would be the Slenderpants interacting directly with people, and that would demystify it too much, as its lack of communication is part of what makes it so frightening, that you don't know what it's capable of or why it's there.

[Randoman96]

I was under the impression that Slender Man (and by association, The Operator) caused people to slowly go insane, which fits TTA. Alex is in the stages of doing that. How is screaming at a stranger, followed by choking them to death and smashing their face in with a rock for good measure being a proxy?

And how is wearing a mask for no apparent reason, and TACKLing FUCKING EVERYTHING being a proxy?

I get that the concept behind proxies is that they're doing things Slender Man/The Operator can't, but that ruins so much about Slender Man. You don't know how it can do these things,because it just stands around being creepy, but it does.

[Geneaux486]

Their actions are in line with those of a proxy if those are the types of things operator wants to see done. Assault, intimidation, leading our protagonist to discover things he might not otherwise find, and murder may very well be means to the Operator's end.

[punxtr]

I agree. If it were not for totheark, this series would have finished first season.

[Geneaux486]

Yeah, like you though I ain't sure whether or not I think totheark is a proxy or something else. These days I'm more inclined to believe that the channel and the person or people behind it were doing Operator's bidding at first, but not anymore.