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[Megarain]

[dfw]

[Cactus Wren]

Two observations:

1. BranRainey and Aylana are right. There is something phenomenally creepy about unadorned raw footage of two men walking along a woodland trail -- I kept expecting them to come across something horrifying, or Alex to suddenly turn around and reveal that his face was gone.

2. "The nineteenth century"? Thank you, Alex, that's helpful as hell: WHEN in the nineteenth century? Some of us would like a chance to check your extremely dubious historical allegations, you know, or at least have a remote idea what period you're talking about. And "brought them out here to try them before God" sounds more seventeenth- or early eighteenth-century than nineteenth. History is not a monolithic slab of The Olden Days, you know. You're probably one of those people who thinks of the Napoleonic Wars as "Victorian", aren't you?

(Cactus Wren begins pounding her head against the wall, wishing she could do the same with Kralie's)

[J.Fawkes]

I think therre is some excellent foreshadowing going on. I don't really expect to see dismembered bodies in trees, but this does fit very nicely in the Slender Man Mythos.

I noticed there was some visual tear near the beginning, and some very slight audio distortion throughout, but no sighting of Slendy. I could be wrong and totally have missed him though.

I have a bad feeling about this.

[redherring]

[Geneaux486]

I'm curious, I've seen it mentioned several times here that they are touching on the actual Slender Man mythology in this video, and the whole "child went missing, this is what happened to him" thing I know is part of that. I'm curious as to whether or not the whole "bringing bad guys to the forest, stringing them up and burning the trees" thing is based on any aspect of the mythology.

[kiwistar]

Jay's acting skills have improved immensely.

Alex's... seem to have got worse

General feeling after this episode? Meh. How cliche to run out of tape at the end like that. Just a ploy to keep us coming back.

And has anyone ever actually asked themselves the question, how will/can/ever this end? This story seems to be dragging into infinity... I'm getting a bad taste in my mouth and I don't know why

[IThinkImMe]

Well on the bright side, this entry certainly made EVERYONE think. The Operator has been following Alex at least as far back as his childhood. Perhaps Alex has something it wants. Perhaps Alex is the key to the Operator becoming something else. Or maybe it's trying to get Alex to do something for it. We know SM can manipulate objects in the real world, i.e. the swing and Jay's bedroom door. Whatever its' reasons, it likes to be sinister and foreboding.
Ever since I started watching MH, I've noticed strange things happening. In fact as I was typing this I got a phone call on my house phone. The number calling was MY number.(And the name was some weird v0405125etc) And the on the other end was a computer that said, "We'd like to tell you about your account. Your account is fine." CLICK and the other day I posted about someone spray painting my wall with a peace sign (to which I was rudely mocked), it did happen, however. All these things ARE mere coincidence I know. My psyche is running anything I find strange through its MH filter first.
But I digress. This entry could have happened at ANY time, however I have a strong feeling it happened before season 2 started with Jay waking up in a hotel room.
One other thing is Alex obviously knows exactly where he is leading Jay. If Jay can find the next tape that would easily explain it. BUT what if there isn't a next tape that happens when he switches them out right there. What if something happened and he managed to get away with the camera and tapes and started a new one much later?

[morscata12]

[Jsor]

Could this have occurred during Jay's CURRENT blackout?

[BranRainey]

I can't buy it not being from the seven months for lots of reasons:

1. I can't imagine why either J or Alex would want to film an entire tape of walking through a forest silently if it's pre-Operator. If they were just getting stock footage, they wouldn't have shown themselves in the frame so much and certainly wouldn't have held the camera upside down.
   
2. Alex doesn't seem to like J. Entry #20 and maybe some other parts I'm forgetting clearly show that they were good friends.
   
3. J is plenty nervous, for his character. He's a bit of a dumbass and would definitely say something like "spooky ghost stories" even after season 1.
   
4. It's filmed in 720p. If J/Alex had an HD camcorder in 2006, they would be a) rich, and b) not using a 480p camcorder to film the in-story Marble Hornets. (A minor point, sure, but they did go out of their way to upload enttry #37 in a lower resolution.) (Also note that J has never scaled a small image up to do fake HD. When he shows the image of the package in Entry #36 and when he shows enttry #37 in this video, the original resolution is always maintained.)

[Kilo]

[emevas]

I think it seems very pre, but the entry makes me doubt a little cause the jay says 'i don't know when in the seven months this falls' or something like that.

but if alex has been stalked since childhood, its not unlikely he'd be interested in his stalker and went seeking him. Maybe he founf him and that's how it all got started.

[Jsor]

I think we're focusing a little too much on the "spooky ghost stories" line. I'm pretty sure it was just Jay eyerolling and telling Alex to get to the point, I don't think it signifies any lack of Operator knowledge. It's more like "look, you dragged me out into the middle of nowhere for a reason, and I know it wasn't to tell me some pointless story that may be vaguely related to our situation, get to the point."

[MagicNein]