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[Craig Digsby]

[The Slender Man]

I loved this. I'm just disappointed they didn't explain what the ark is and are never going to explain how they did the operator.

[The Totem]

[Cyan507]

[Austin N2]

[Lithp]

[Marble Hornets]

[Xman]

I personally think it's stupid that they aren't revealing how they did the Operator. Their reason being it will take away the "spookiness", as if there is any spookiness left after things like slender man morphsuits, everyone going nuts over Slender: The Eight Pages, and just the general memeification of him. Slender man was only truly terrifying in season 1.

They might as well just tell us how they did it. It won't ruin a damn thing.

Edit: And why are they worried about their explanation being "boring" if they tell us? No one is expecting a huge revelation. People just want to know if it's a mannequin, or a man on stilts, etc. They're overthinking it way too much.

[JustJim]

Really bummed no one asked them why The Slender Man became basically a cameo player in Season 2 and 3, or why he stopped moving around in later seasons.

As far as plot explanations, I wasn't really expecting much but it was interesting to hear about Skully's plans and Brian pretty much just being broken mentally, though still having the sense to go to a public place and edit and upload videos while playing it cool. I suppose I didn't care a great much about plot and was more into the horror aspect and the characters, so I'm not too miffed about unanswered questions or plot holes. The plot was compelling at best and serviceable at worst. I'll take it.

I'm supremely curious about their new series. It's gonna be fucking weird to see the guys playing different characters with different personalities.

[Cyan507]

[Lithp]

[elford]

Has anyone tried cracking the Null code again, since Troy said it was solvable? I can't imagine any great revelations coming from it, but it would be nice if someone finally got an answer for it.

[420Goku]

[DHawk314]

Okay, I've gotten tired of talking about this again, so here's what I really think. I've been with the series since season 2 barely began. Back then, we really didn't know what was going on. There was hardly a structured plot. We know a shit ton more about pretty much everything since then, so I think the idea that "almost nothing was answered" it completely absurd. The stuff that wasn't answered I don't think needed to be. If you honestly thought "How did totheark find Jay's channel" was gonna be answered then you were deluding yourself. And I told people towards the end that they weren't going to go too in depth about Hoody's motives. They went way in depth about how the Operator had changed Tim and Alex, and Hoody's symptoms are really just an amalgamation of their's.

He's clearly a guy being stalked by the Operator trying to kill Alex. If you watched the series with any amount of detail that was clear as day. Him being Brian, who Alex led to the Operator in an attempt to kill him, makes perfect sense, and I literally told people they were probably just going to reveal it was Brian and not go too much further. And I was right.

So what does me being right about that signify? To me, it signifies that what unFiction always wanted from Marble Hornets was never anything Marble Hornets actually was. I always liked Marble Hornets. I thought Marble Hornets was really scary. I thought the characters of Alex, Jay, and Tim were fascinating and I think the way their arcs converged was excellent. And once again, the idea that by the end of Season 3 we didn't no more than we did before Season 3 is just ridiculous, and it really forgets how little we knew about anything back then. So many gaps have been filled in.

And a lot of the questions were answered implicitly. You have to be paying attention. But that also falls under the category of me knowing what the nature of the series actually was from the start; I knew it was going to be this way. Here's the thing: I loved it. I loved it when I first watched it and I knew it was going to be that way, and I always thought that the way it was was actually really cool. It's obviously not for everyone, and that was always obvious, no matter which way you actually thought it was going to go.

People have been listing off unanswered questions since Season 2 and I've been telling people their lists had things that either didn't need to be answered in this kind of series, or were already answered and they didn't catch it. But forget about all of that bullshit. Because I don't care if you didn't like it. If you didn't like it, I totally respect that opinion. Seriously, if you didn't like Marble Hornets, that doesn't make me lose any respect for you.

Here's my actual problem, here's what I actually think: Everyone who didn't like the series is really condescending about it and I'm really fucking sick of it. Everyone who didn't like it acts like their opinion is objectively correct. If you read my above paragraphs and thought "Wow his opinion about the nature of the series was kind of condescending," understand, that's how people who didn't like it have been coming off every since it ended, except to the like tenth power.

I did not "like the series because my standards were lower." If one more person tells me I liked it because I have lower standards then I'm going to pee on everything that person likes. The plot structure was unconventional, answering questions implicitly, keeping things mysterious while still advancing the plot and basically answering the big things. By Season 2, it sort of became a character driven plot, bringing characters like Tim or Alex, and even occasionally Brian to the forefront to implicitly show what was going on with them, while still having a sense that some mysterious malevolent phenomenon was in the background.

I didn't like the series in spite of the weird plot because my standards were lower, I liked the series because of the weird plot structure, and that's what I've liked about it since I first marathoned the first season 3 years ago. I've marathoned the whole thing twice since it ended, once by myself, and once with friends, and both times I thought it was scary, and both times I thought it was interesting, and both times I thought the character arcs were excellent. It ended exactly in the manner I thought it would, because that was the manner I always thought it should.

And let me reiterate: I have no disrespect for people who didn't like the series, or the ending, or anything else about it, at all. The point I've been trying to make up until now is that it wasn't disappointing to you because Troy, Joseph, and Tim made mistakes, it was disappointing because they weren't ever trying to do what you thought they were trying to do with the series, and personally, I think what they did with it was fucking great.

But that's not the point I'm trying to make now. Now, my only point is this: you know that respect I show you despite your disagreement with me about the series? I really want you all to show me and everyone else who liked it at least one tenth of that respect for our opinions, and not just treat them like their objectively falser than your's, and like we have lower standards, and like we just don't understand how stories are "supposed to be," because I am literally just so fucking tired of having conversations like that here.

[Lithp]