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[Lithp]

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[Marble Hornets]

Saying "relax, it's just a show" is the wrong attitude to have, mainly because you're saying we should hold it to a lower standard, or not judge it as hard, simply because it's free content made by people new to film making. They're creating a piece of content, and we're judging it based on what we're shown. Marble Hornets has shown it's capable of producing amazingly good entries. Nobody's expecting every entry to be incredible, but the fact that they have made incredible entries before shows that they are capable, and as a result, we can hold them to that standard for every upcoming entry.

If your favorite band released a CD for free tomorrow and it sucked, you would still criticize it. You wouldn't be as mad because you didn't pay for it, but that doesn't erase the thing that you criticized it for. This holds true for all forms of art.

Nobody has shown a sense of entitlement from what I've seen, and that's the only case where you could say "relax"

[TheJoker]

[Ztakk]

[Marble Hornets]

[Parietal Lobectomy]

I'm interested by the discussion about the series and its eventual outcome, and in particular the {Edited, because I'm doofus } increasingly polarised [s and not z as I'm from the UK] debate around the perceived quality of the third season.

This is unusual for me, as I'm usually late to episodic fiction (Tv shows, comic books and the like) and tend to marathon it after the fact; I nearly did the same with Marble Hornets, but got caught up round about Entry #57.

It seems to me this sort of discussion happens with every series as it's ongoing- some people like the direction an arc is taking, others hate seeing Daredevil in a blue costume...3 episodes later it's back to the status quo and, again, opinions will vary...with many people's opinion changing. I've seen it in the letters pages of comic books, blogs about The Wire, etc., etc.

Once the arc /series is wrapped up, opinions will vary and many people will have an opinion which differs considerably from their views on the series whilst ongoing. And they'll express this view.

All of this is normal. And Marble Hornets will conclude, and it'll be...something. I'll have my opinion, and I'll read others' opinions and that'll be that. I'm interested to see what others think, and they might change my opinion on some minor points, but they won't affect my enjoyment or otherwise of the series. I might be irked by the way some choose to frame their opinion, but it won't draw me into an argument (or it shouldn't).

I'm all for being passionate, but I can't understand the reaction to other people's opinions, no matter how disagreeably they're expressed.

Or am I missing the point?

[Ztakk]

[PhilStein]

[Lithp]

[ReverendJ]

[Grumplestiltskin]

[PhilStein]

[TheJoker]

[Parietal Lobectomy]