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[Uboa]

i read a review on TT, MH and EMH and it pretty much summed up why I love MH over the others: think MH as the pioneer of slendervlogs, EMH as the one who takes the idea and makes it their own and TT as the one who takes the idea and somewhat not so subtly copies off the pioneer, though post-karl, he's gotten better. not good if you ask me but better.

ionno, EMH is hard for me to get into (i skipped a lot of videos simply because they seemed like filler you could've just said in a tweet, though their slends is lovely and it's not a bad series at all) and TT, they're too straightforward about slendy sightings. yes, slentacles made me shat a house, but the acting is average and i know MH 's 1st season wasn't so great either but MH has a GREAT buildup before BAM MINDFREAK. come on, the end of the hotel arc was more than gorgeous.

tl;dr, my vote goes for MH. <3

edit: btw first on sixth page hurrdeehurr. /hipster

[Antifringe]

I HAVE OPINIONS LOOK OUT HERE THEY COME

TribeTwelve: I can't get into this. I have two major compliants:

1) The structure is lifted straight from Marble Hornets, to the point where it's practically a MH fan re-make. The narrator has a friend who vanished. The missing friend left behind footage from an incomplete film project. Studying the footage reveals the presence of an unearthly stalker. The narrator attracts the attention of a human-seeming stalker who communicates entirely through cryptic videos.

I mean come on.

I hear a lot about the 'post-Karl' TT, but I'm just not feeling it. I think that's largely because of

2) The acting. Acting has been a problem for all of the Slendblogs. These people are film hobbyists and horror fans, not professional actors. God bless them, they do their best , but it is a problem. Marble Hornets deals with the problem by almost never having the narrator speak. The few conversations that get included are usually about very prosaic things that don't really require acting chops to pull off convincingly. They deal with the melodrama by either keeping it off-camera or keeping it super-short.

TT doesn't take any of these measures, and it really hurts my enjoyment. He writes himself into a lot of very dramatic, highly charged situations but doesn't have the acting experience to make it work. I had to watch the Thanksgiving episode through the corner of my eye, not because I was scared, but because I felt embarrassed.

Everyman Hybrid: I loved this thing when it first came out, but now I'm a bit indifferent. It had a terrific premise. Instead of being a horror story masquerading as a real blog, it was a real blog pretending to pretend to be a horror story. That's kind of ingenious. And then they take it to the next level by having the pranksters encounter the 'real' Slenderman. Now it's a horror story pretending to be a real blog that is pretending to pretend to be a horror story.

And then they succumbed to authorial excess. They're being stalked by the Slenderman. Some person/ghost/whatever named HABIT shows up and hides boxes everywhere. The protagonists are actually reincarnations of dead children or something. There is some crazy girl that they need to rescue. There is some other, non-crazy girl that they also have to rescue. There another monster called the Rake and it lives in one of the dude's closets. They travel through time. Etc.

To the writers' credit, they're not just making it up as they go along. Most of these elements were carefully foreshadowed well in advance. But planned or not, it still makes the story a jumbled mess and it dilutes everything so much that it's hard to care about any one issue anymore.

EmH also has the acting problem. I think the cast actually has a lot of natural charisma, and they come across as really likable people when they're just chatting and not trying to act. But they keep writing themselves into these really intense situations and they just don't have the experience to portray the drama in a believable way.

[Timur]

yeah, I think its just the situations that really make it difficult for a novice actor to act convincingly. Chatting, conversations, and less intense stuff can usually be done well, but in the end, its difficult to truly be able to imitate that sort of fear and confusion in a convincing manner. This is of no fault to the authors, but it is a problem nonetheless (hell, even MH feels a little off when Jay starts talking to everyone; the most convincing scenes of acting in MH are usually those where people are acting normal)

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[bobthecrusher]

I just can't get into EMH. It takes so long to get anywhere, I get bored during the videos, I get discracted, IDK, just never really got into it. MH I started from the beginning and it worked. I watched them from start to present and never got tired of it.

TT...just....just no, man, seriously. No.

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[Antifringe]

[Night Prowler]

Tribe Twelve, I think way to many people here are seeing MH through Rose tinted glasses, which isn't surprising. Ever since Milo left the scene Adam's acting has been far better, he shows a wide range of emotion with his character, far wider than anyone has shown in MH. I like the Noah character more, he does stuff that I can imagine myself doing, when faced with Flight or Fight I've found that I fight like Noah, also I swear like a trooper when enraged/scared.

Also the story is better, Adam gives a lot more clues as to why his character is being stalked by the Slenders through his editing which gives the ARG-ers something to actually do even if it is grabbing the quick screen shots and changing the contrast. He explained what Slenderman is with his Karl video which MH didn't do until the recent Entry and even now people are still debating if Alex's stories are real and what the Operator actually is.

Also yeah his visual effects far outweigh MH, I have no immersion to The Operator when he is on the screen, it's just way to obvious that it is fake, sometimes I wonder if it has been knited together.

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[Night Prowler]

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[Hex2]

Well, to be honest, I think I prefer, but only by a smidggen. TribeTwelve does a better job of unfolding it's mysteries and teasing the audience with clues and subsquent revelations. Marble Hornets, by contrast, does drag on a bit and although incredibly spooky and unnerving, it doesn't really give enough clues to the situation or the predicitment which, at least, grates me. We've had missing memories, Jay waking up in a different location, but not really enough to go on to how this events may occured. By contrast, Tribe Twelve had the mysterious messages leaving the viewer to ponder on what was happening to Noah and their involvement with him, Noah attempting to confront the threat, Noah with the knife, the letter concerning Milo, 'm not saying Marble Hornets is bad, I like the ambiguity of it all, but I would like to see some sort of resolution or greater hint to why everything is happening. (Entry #50 can't come soon enough!)