I agree with everything about Marble Hornets. The second season has failed horribly, and describing it as full of starts and stops on the action is painfully accurate. One of the biggest faults I find is that they've made the storytelling linear. A linear course of events makes the gaps between updates less credible, especially with entries 35 and 36, and the whole run of 39 to 42. Yes, there is more than one camera in play that Jay very likely can forget about, or even not think to check the other footage as much, but there's only so many times you can play the "oh hey the tape is damaged and acting weird and after trying for about two weeks I found more footage!" card
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I do want to be fair to Marble Hornets; EMH obviously has a larger writing team, I've no doubt they have experience with the ARG aspect and the story telling format before. Because they did label the Slenderman as meta from the beginning, they have a great deal of freedom to play around with the knowledge in ways that other series don't. I really, really want MH to shake up it's current structure. They've just seemed to have forgotten what worked in the first season
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The only blog I followed (semi-followed, really) was Just Another Fool back when Marble Hornets was still new and Unfiction grouped all the Slenderman stuff together as "side stories" of Marble Hornets. It had the advantage of being started up very soon after Marble Hornets, so Victor Surge's original tellings about Slenderman were still fresh in everyone's minds and the distortion wasn't as big a deal as it became later, which freed JAFOOL to do it's completely own thing. Joshua used a lot of Norse mythology in it, especially the concept of Yggdrasil, and even though Logan ended up going pretty proxy-ish in the end it was concurrent with Marble Hornets before it ended
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What I'd really want to see (I say, having no time to do it myself) is people experiment more with the format. What can you do on the internet? How can you change this up?
I really like so many elements of EMH because they work everything together really well and exploit the internet connection a lot. They get people actively involved in helping them and so have an in character reason to keep them updated. People also seem to forget that the character in question has to have a motivation behind slapping it up on the internet. Marble Hornets originally was just a documentation work, but the way the story runs now, it's a little confusing as to why Jay doesn't try to use the internet more to his advantage. Certain creepypastas work because they exploit the internet angle. It's not necessarily a lack of an imagination as people being limited by ideas of traditional fiction.
I agree. In the first season, Jay starting to post current-day videos of himself could be, and was, explained by a growing addiction to and dependency on documenting everything, which highlighted how incredibly isolated he was becoming, being desperate enough to share his life with strangers on the internet when all kinds of horrifying freaky shit is happening to him. Now it's just... what? Something freaky happened around Jessica in the hotel? You've found all these tapes that now include footage of a murder and you're not going to the police about it but instead posting it on the internet?
It's like you said, limitation due to ideas of traditional fiction. I know what you mean about lack of time, though, I'm trying to build up the beginnings of a series on Tumblr and it's proving really difficult for so many reasons gah. e_e
Oh seriously YES. I would really appreciate advice/soundboarding/second opinions because so few people I know IRL are into Slender stuff. My AIM sn is tehsongsong! I can't sign on now (long day of class, up early tomorrow), but I'll be around tomorrow or whatever time would work for you!
Cool! Mine has changed to songofsobriety (i... i don't know why i picked this >_>), and since my time is always wonky due to China, I'll see you when I see you?
Oh haha I think I already had that sn... I guess I forgot it was you? (I'm so terrible with using AIM it's ridiculous) But yeah, whenever we're both on works!
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I really like so many elements of EMH because they work everything together really well and exploit the internet connection a lot. They get people actively involved in helping them and so have an in character reason to keep them updated. People also seem to forget that the character in question has to have a motivation behind slapping it up on the internet. Marble Hornets originally was just a documentation work, but the way the story runs now, it's a little confusing as to why Jay doesn't try to use the internet more to his advantage. Certain creepypastas work because they exploit the internet angle. It's not necessarily a lack of an imagination as people being limited by ideas of traditional fiction.
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It's like you said, limitation due to ideas of traditional fiction. I know what you mean about lack of time, though, I'm trying to build up the beginnings of a series on Tumblr and it's proving really difficult for so many reasons gah. e_e
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