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[GhosteM]

Something thats been playing in my mind a little bit lately.. what if Alex actually sold out all of his friends to Slendy in order to get away from him or something like that? Jay doesn't remember.. Maybe Tim does and that's why he's trying to get back at him? Or maybe Tim is being controlled.

Maybe I'm just crazy!

[anerisinaction]

[Sy Ableman]

[ToTheAlex]

[HunterEris]

[Corvus42]

1) I don't yet think Alex is a bad guy, but he's certainly being cagey about things, and seems to know quite a bit.

2) The tree is fucking creepy.

[AlxSalomon]

I have the theory that Alex is special! for some reason he became either inmune to the Slendersickness or found a cure for it. Furthermore i think that even though Jay's intentions are good he's just a puppet to Slendy, kinda like Tim, and his purpose is to lead Slendy to Alex, mostly unwillingly.

does that make sense? i could go on but that's the main point!

[Boreamor]

Alex must know some way of avoiding the Operator, or beating him, why else wasn't he scared when The Operator came for him at Amy's house?

[OmegaX]

[TheAtroxious]

I'm a bit late to this discussion, but I might as well add my to cents:

First off, I like the exposition. Personally, I found this Entry to be the creepiest since Entry 22. I loved how they gave some hints about what was going on, even without stating it explicitly.

That said, my interpretation was that Slendy was in the woods long before they sacrificed people. I was imagining him to be the god whom the townsfolk offered the criminals. And I imagined the idea of the people being stretched out to be sort of crucifix-like. Tie the people to the tree, and let them hang in a way that could possibly dislocate their limbs.

Then again, rewatching it, the obvious answer does seem to be that the trees somehow stretched some criminal into Slenderman, and he's the vengeful spirit. How, then, he wears a very un-1800's business suit, what made the trees grow before he became Slendy, and of course, the logistics of how a person could be turned into a tentacle-limbed creature by being stretched in the trees doesn't quite fit.

Either way, the description of the forest reminded me for some reason of the forest in Princess Mononoke. I liked.

[AlxSalomon]

[onetruepurple]

My personal favorite is this one:

[grieck]

25 pages. A bit much to read, hopefully my observation is new then.
When he mentioned them burning the trees it tugged at my memory. Made me recall the painting of a burned forest from Entry, 18 or so? Perhaps early twenties? When they're sitting around Alex's House and draw all this attention to that damned painting and I think perhaps had some distortion with it, hard to remember (I'm going through Season 1 again before buying the dvd, as i'm getting roomate to watch it). I don't know the significance, but I wouldn't be surprised if it were connected.

As for the exposition, it connects enough to the original stories, leaves enough mystery, and comes off as a fairly new idea (something the Slenderstories have been needing) to win me over. Although I agree that there probs won't be much more expostion on Slendy. Ever.

[OmegaX]

[shadowstalker]

Perhaps slendy was the one doing the stretching? I find it hard to believe that trees would grow quick enough to stretch the criminals. Maybe slendy killed the criminals.

Alternate theory: Slendy was lonely, and wanted someone who just looked like him, so he stretched them out. Slendy just wants a friend, but he keeps killing everyone.

Can someone with artistic ability get the forever alone face on a slendy body?