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CraicIsMighty
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Oh yeah I forgot about noentry. I'd really like an explanation for that too. Also, I'd kind of like to know who burned down Jay's apartment, and why.

Also, this opinion will probably be less popular, but I'd kind of like at least an implied explanation for why the Operator is doing what he's doing. I don't need a super detailed explanation (I don't even know how they'd do that) but I'd sort of like a few hints that you can at least draw a few theories from.

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McGregor
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What I want to know mostly is what happened to all the crew members/Jessica, who TTA/Hoody is, and what the ark is.

Also seeing a continuation of entry #12 would be pretty badass.

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MC_Loki
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If I were to nitpick, one of the few gripes I have is how the Amy subplot has been pretty much abandoned. Yes, she was a disposable character, but the incident in her house was a major springboard going into season 2 and it helped give the narrative focus throughout, but now her disappearance/abduction/murder/whatever just seems like it got brushed under the rug and forgotten. I've no doubt this plot point will get handled in the future, but watching everything back to back does cause a bit of a disconnect.

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1. Skully is irrelevant as of now. Possibly a red herring.

2. BONE was a coincidence. Almost certainly a red herring.

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Magyk
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Thought of something:

I want to see teleportation explained. And Alex's creepy ghost story he told in the woods that one time.

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TheOperator
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I mostly trust Marble Hornets to do a good job. There are only a few gripes that I'd like to see taken care of in the future:

1. At least semi-logical IG reasons for entry delays.
2. A female character who isn't completely useless.
3. Please nothing as stupid as the ending of Entry #66 ever again.

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JustJim
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I'm going to take a chunk from my own post regarding Entry 66. It's a nice summary of my general issues with this season. And it has nothing to do with release dates.

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it feels like they fall back on their own tropes to the point of self-parody. And not the good tropes, generally. I knew watching the video that Hoody would evade them and Tim would be mad. When Jay went to look in the room, I knew it would be a tape. It's just exasperating sometimes to see such a phenomenal series take such trudging steps forward, especially in the last half of the last season. I feel like every video from now on should have some sort o big revelation, and not these half-measures. Maybe I typically expect too much for a single video, but this series' quality is what gave me high expectations. Especially with long videos. Part of why MH was so great originally was the bite-sized nature of the videos. But videos now are almost always 10 minutes or longer and seldom as densely packed with scares or plot progression as the early videos were. This video could have easily been cut down to under half its size and been potentially more effective.


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Lithp
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CraicIsMighty wrote:
Oh yeah I forgot about noentry. I'd really like an explanation for that too. Also, I'd kind of like to know who burned down Jay's apartment, and why.

Also, this opinion will probably be less popular, but I'd kind of like at least an implied explanation for why the Operator is doing what he's doing. I don't need a super detailed explanation (I don't even know how they'd do that) but I'd sort of like a few hints that you can at least draw a few theories from.


I am in favor of this. Otherwise, you might as well just give Hoody or Alex all of the freaky magic powers.

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MonoBast
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I want Jessica to be ok, I don't like not knowing where she's been for so long.


I think what intrigued people about past entries was the mystery of the events happening to Alex, and the steps that Jay took to find him. Now, it's just alot of Jay and Tim faffing about. I like Tim, don't get me wrong, but I feel like Alex and Jessica were better "sidekicks" if you will.

Also, people seem to applaud their exposition, but we all know that exposition is incredibly boring for storytelling. Jay finding out about Tim's past in the maintenance tunnel was exhilarating. Entries like #66, not so much. I'm ok with entries where alot doesn't happen, but now it feels like I'm watching MarbleHornets: The Timothy Story. Even totheark has to remind Jay that Jess and Alex are still in the picture. Please guys bring us back to the main story!

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MonoBast wrote:
Even totheark has to remind Jay that Jess and Alex are still in the picture. Please guys bring us back to the main story!


This so much. As intriguing as Tim's story is, its not helping the story move forward as well as it should.

I do think though that they are getting some of the lesser plot lines done before they go into the bigger stuff. Tim's back story was one of those less important but still vital things to the story. I suspect that Jessica's involvement in the story will be wrapped up soon since she wasn't all that important beyond a plot device to move Jay forward at points.

Then they'll get to the stuff we really want to know. I can't wait until we get to that point and I think this new, mysterious tape will give us a sweet-ass teaser as to what to expect.

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MonoBast
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Even so, Jessica has still been experiencing blackouts and the same things that Jay has, there is so much potential info that she could have such as her backstory as to how this started happening to her and anything she can add to the investigation. How she got pulled into this could be a big piece of the puzzle. Maybe she stumbled upon what happened to Amy, or something to do with Alex, which could explain why he's been purposely misleading her. Idk, I think Jessica can answer alot more mysteries

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KTsteve
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Me168 wrote:
but It would be like if PewDiePie just stopped, with no warning or explenation, and comes back 2 or 3 months later like nothing happened.


so people would get there hopes up that it finally went away, only to have their dreams crushed with more stupid videos on their facebook wall?

Oh right on topic... I'm actually pretty happy with marble hornets as a whole. Quicker entries would be nice, but that doesn't really count. I would just like a few giant questions to be answered. Just tell us what happened to all of the characters (which oog they said they'd do) and make it so some of the totheark puzzles actually mean something in the end. However, leave questions about the operator himself open ended.

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CraicIsMighty
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TheOperator wrote:
I mostly trust Marble Hornets to do a good job. There are only a few gripes that I'd like to see taken care of in the future:

1. At least semi-logical IG reasons for entry delays.
2. A female character who isn't completely useless.
3. Please nothing as stupid as the ending of Entry #66 ever again.



Yeah, that's probably my biggest gripe with Marble Hornets. Out of the three female characters, two of them only appear once, and Jessica (as of right now) seems to be little more than a naive, wide eyed damsel. Amy is just your typical "girlfriend who got kidnapped" character, and as it stands now Sarah just seems to be a name on a list of victims. That's why I was really hoping that Hoodie would be a girl. Unfortunately, right now the little evidence we have seems to point towards Brian. Which really sucks. All three of them could have been great characters. Jessica has the potential for an interesting back story with her growing up in Rosswood Town like Tim. Sarah and Amy could both have potential revenge motivation against Alex. Unfortunately, there seems to be some unspoken rule that 90% of all Slender series have to be total sausage fests. Rolling Eyes

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CraicIsMighty wrote:
Unfortunately, there seems to be some unspoken rule that 90% of all Slender series have to be total sausage fests. Rolling Eyes


Well, yeah. He's the Slender Man, not the Slender Womyn. (I had to use the politically correct spelling of "woman," since the original word contains the sexist noun "man.")

Also...



YouTube: Link


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Lithp
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Unless Jessica's return really is being foreshadowed, I find it very unlikely that they will tackle the female character gripe.

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