the video starts after the end of Jim Thorpe, with Vince coughing himself into consciousness, and calling for Jeff. Jeff gets to Vince, asking whether Evan came back, and that the "thing" is gone.
They do not know where Evan is, Jeff helps a blood soaked Vince to his feet, and they go to try and find him.
They find Evan round the front of the house, bloodied around his arms and neck, looking disorientated.
Evan is in shock and there are visable bite wounds and scratches on his arms. he states that Jessie is dead, the rake tore her apart.
Vince heads into the house when Evan shouts after him, stopping him. Vince states he cant just leave her like that, but Evan doesnt want him going in there. Maybe Evan did kill her, and he doesnt want anyone to see the truth of it.
Evan clearly doesnt want her body on film, and he urges the crew to leave. Evan is clearly very upset here, for obvious reasons, and i can understand why he wouldnt want Vince walking in there with the camera running.
The video cuts to the group on the road, Jeff is driving. Him and Vince are glad that Evan is "out" meaning asleep.
the pair reflect on how upset Evan seemed, and for obvious reasons. Vince speculates what the rake could have done to Jessie.
Jeff confirms that he lead the rake away from the house using the horn, and that "the other thing" meaning slenderman, stopped the rake, saving the crew. this highlights the fact that slenderman has a stake in the boys, and does not want them dead. Jeff states he heard the siren and then the rake was gone, seeming that slenderman teleported him away.
The pair then discuss how Evan will not want the videos to be uploaded, and that Vince wants to upload them.
the video then ends with the unspoken decision to upload both parts.
this is mainly just a confirmation video, showing that Jessie is definitely dead, and that Vince is not.
any further ideas i have will be listed below:
Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Friday, 20 January 2012
EMH: Jim Thorpe
The video starts with the crew driving along, stating that they have been on the road for 3 days.
Evan fills us in on where they are going. They are heading for JessE's house up in “Jim Thorpe Land”, and they are about an hour and forty five minutes away at this point (I think).
The video pans to shoot out the left of the car, with visual distortion kicking in when we see a house, though no significance is placed on this yet.
Evan then gets a call from JessE (who I think may be killed off in this one. I am writing this on my first viewing, as I do with all new entries, so this is just my little guess right here).
JessE seems to be panicked, and Evan tries to calm her and get some answers.
More visual distortion as the car turns left, and Evan tells JessE to call the police and stay exactly where she is. Is it possible that the rake has found her?
The video cuts a little, and the crew are still trying to find the house. Evan's phone seems to die, and he simply says “drive faster”.
The video cuts to the crew arriving at the house, no audio for the first few seconds. Evan points towards the open door and rushes out of the car, Jeff and Vince following.
Vince takes the camera from Jeff, and we see Evan heading into the open house, presumably with a knife, though we don't see it.
Again, this is my first time watching this, so I am just recording guesses, but the crew have not followed Evan into the house, meaning that he is alone in there and it is entirely possible that he is killing JessE or worse.
Vince and Jeff are very slowly and cautiously heading towards the house when a loud thump or bang is heard. It could either be a gunshot, muffled from inside the house, or someone or something being hit or falling within the house. The pair rush to find out.
They head towards the lower door, seeing JessE thud against the window, Vince asks whether they have a knife. They don't. The video distorts at Jeff.
The pair are rushing around the house, trying to find something, anything. They find Evan, peering out from a high window. He sees them and moves away, seeming to be unaffected by what has happened. Lets be honest, it is pretty obvious at this point that Evan has done something to JessE here, most likely killed her.
Vince zooms out from the window, and we see what Evan was looking at.
Heavy visual distortion as we see the fucking rake on the ground. I think maybe this time Evan finally managed to get to him, and take him down, possibly throwing him from the window.
The rake struggles to move and breath, Vince pans back to Jeff for reassurance. Jeff cannot deliver, he runs off. Vince pans back to the rake, who sturggles to move towards him, and takes him down.
We see a POV shot of the rake attacking Vince, though we do not see his face, then an air horn is sounded, seeming to call the rake off of its prey. Something does not want Vince dead, and something, or someone has stopped the attack. I reckon it is Evan/HABIT.
There is one final shot of the rake running from Vince through heavy distortion.
This video is not an easy one to decode. Firstly, the rake could be the one sent to JessE's house, and the one who is attacking. He could have been sent by either slendy or HABIT. It is clear that JessE was the only target in this attack, and the others were off limits. Evan did not have a knife, or else the rake would be dead, though it seems Evan either chased him out of the window, pushed him, or found him from the window, and was simply watching.
Jeff pussying out was no surprise, though the partial attack from the rake onto Vince was, and it is now very obvious that the mining town four are not the targets of the rake attacks, and they are not the targets of whoever (HABIT) controls him.
It is possible that the rake fled from the house to escape an angered Evan, possibly sensing the HABIT within him. The horn, which was sounded during the video, not added in post, was either the work of Jeff (unlikely) Evan (possible) or HABIT (quite likely).
In any case, the work of the rake has not been confirmed, we do not know anything about what Evan did inside the house, or where/how JessE is, and the status of Vince, though fairly secure as being safe, is still not rock solid. Either way, the group has delivered well with this entry, actually developing an older plot point, rather than introducing fresh ones.
Any further or future observations will be made below:
ok, this one came to be a little after writing this. something that i should have picked up on. what did Alex give Jeff for christmas in the last video? i'll give you a clue, its the same thing that called off the rake.
yep, thinking back on it, Jeff must have been the one to call the rake off, using the only thing he had to hand. i am still not ruling out any of the other ideas i wrote down, just in case, but this latest one here, seems the most likely. there is also speculation (already) that Vince is dead, though i do not believe he is. the crew would not have uploaded it otherwise, and Vince does film the rake leaving. if he is dead, then this is a very brave move for the cast.
ok, this one came to be a little after writing this. something that i should have picked up on. what did Alex give Jeff for christmas in the last video? i'll give you a clue, its the same thing that called off the rake.
yep, thinking back on it, Jeff must have been the one to call the rake off, using the only thing he had to hand. i am still not ruling out any of the other ideas i wrote down, just in case, but this latest one here, seems the most likely. there is also speculation (already) that Vince is dead, though i do not believe he is. the crew would not have uploaded it otherwise, and Vince does film the rake leaving. if he is dead, then this is a very brave move for the cast.
Saturday, 7 January 2012
Risky Business
So, up until now my blog has only consisted of EMH themed posts, though i do watch some 30 series online, i still haven't found the time to write about any others.
But one series that i have been watching has caught my eye, 5zer02, one that i am sure most people are aware of, at least within our own little ARG community.
A great series, most of the time, though i do believe that they are playing an equally dangerous game, though not quite the same as the EMH crew.
While EMH dabbles with their upload schedule to lure in and keep viewers, and 5zer02 (among many others) have been doing the same, 5zer02 have been using another tactic. being one of the heavy hitters among the series, they have the right to change the parameters of the mythos and have it taken as fact by their viewers.
But they have made a mistake, and not just one.
Firstly they went too far outside of the original slenderman mythos guide, wherein the slenderman is solitary, silent and impossible to evade. he comes for a single person, or a small group of people, no more than about 3-4 at a time, and he takes them silently. every hard core fan of the mythos, such as myself, knows this to be fact, from the very first posts from Victor Surge. so when we view the behemoth of a video that was "October" we see many faults.
the video draws in the views with its long run time, and the promise of important events. Xxak (i think thats how you spell it, im too lazy to check) returns, revived of whatever he had that was keeping him away, and seemingly unaware of what has happened to himself. while half the group reacts positively, the other half is sceptical.
after a minor confrontation, there is an odd scene where they are driving along a riverside road, overlooking the city.
they pull over for some reason, and the camera as an eplillectic fit as the pair wrestle the floor. then for some reason, the slenderman takes a city. he takes a city. a whole city.
slenderman, or what looks to be him, stands on the left, the size of a skyscraper, and montrously huge tentacles rise up and take the city, while we are left wondering what the fuck just happened. this is a major breach of the mythos guides, and while it is bold of someone of my own small standing to make such a claim, i feel that it is true. i have enjoyed this series, but the latest offerings have been under par, and sadly most series are suffering this lag in the uploads.
so after 5zer02 jumped the shark, or slendied the city, as it should shall fourth be known, they went on hiatus, which is always fun to watch [insert sarcastic tone here]
so after time to recharge, refresh and come back anew, we get a very short video of whats-his-name telling us that they are pretty much done making videos, and that he has had trouble with the police and that some weird shit is going down, and that they are done with the slenderman thing.
i am still not sure whether this is in-game, OOG, a paradigm shift or what, but it is damn confusing.
on the one hand, we have the possibility that the real life creators of the series are ending it here, for OOG reasons beyond our need to know. on the other hand, we have the possibility that they are shifting the entire story arc of the series from a simple vlog-gone-wrong to a we-were-acting-all-along-and-now-slenderman-is-here-for-real blog or a WWAAAANSIHFR, which isnt any easier to say or type.
both TJA and EMH have done this, and they were successful because they admitted to this in their early videos. but doing this on the 42nd video, after setting up almost too many plot points that have yet to be explained, this is simply sloppy.
either this was planned, albeit poorly, and this is part of what the group want to do, or they have tired of their original series, and are now taking a break while leaving room to continue in a new direction, should they choose.
as with my EMH rant, im not going to lose sleep over this, and im not just writing this for effect, barely anyone actually reads this blog anyway. but its something for me to do. im not trying to attack or slander the creators, merely trying to analyse the oddly scheduled uploads that seem hurried and half hearted. i wont stop watching the series, but im sure they will stop making it, a hard thing for anyone to do.
i once toyed with writing and making a series, but as i have explained in my videos, i am simply too ill-equipped to actually do it. i spent one bored night writing an indepth plot and working everything out. i thought that i managed to work in some decent themes and recurring elements, as well as a good deal of mystery, but when it came to ending the series, i was completely lost. there was no decent place to end it, and i couldnt think of a single way to do it tastefully and effectively. so with these series, like everymanHYBRID, that have spanned across years, the pressure is only growing for an ending that the fans will not want to see done wrong, if at all. i am still very disillusioned when i think of EMH ending, or any series to be honest. i am still holding out hope on the TJA sequel, which may have fully started, im not sure i havent checked in a while.
but anyway, thats my 2 pennies (British).
cheers, Jack
But one series that i have been watching has caught my eye, 5zer02, one that i am sure most people are aware of, at least within our own little ARG community.
A great series, most of the time, though i do believe that they are playing an equally dangerous game, though not quite the same as the EMH crew.
While EMH dabbles with their upload schedule to lure in and keep viewers, and 5zer02 (among many others) have been doing the same, 5zer02 have been using another tactic. being one of the heavy hitters among the series, they have the right to change the parameters of the mythos and have it taken as fact by their viewers.
But they have made a mistake, and not just one.
Firstly they went too far outside of the original slenderman mythos guide, wherein the slenderman is solitary, silent and impossible to evade. he comes for a single person, or a small group of people, no more than about 3-4 at a time, and he takes them silently. every hard core fan of the mythos, such as myself, knows this to be fact, from the very first posts from Victor Surge. so when we view the behemoth of a video that was "October" we see many faults.
the video draws in the views with its long run time, and the promise of important events. Xxak (i think thats how you spell it, im too lazy to check) returns, revived of whatever he had that was keeping him away, and seemingly unaware of what has happened to himself. while half the group reacts positively, the other half is sceptical.
after a minor confrontation, there is an odd scene where they are driving along a riverside road, overlooking the city.
they pull over for some reason, and the camera as an eplillectic fit as the pair wrestle the floor. then for some reason, the slenderman takes a city. he takes a city. a whole city.
slenderman, or what looks to be him, stands on the left, the size of a skyscraper, and montrously huge tentacles rise up and take the city, while we are left wondering what the fuck just happened. this is a major breach of the mythos guides, and while it is bold of someone of my own small standing to make such a claim, i feel that it is true. i have enjoyed this series, but the latest offerings have been under par, and sadly most series are suffering this lag in the uploads.
so after 5zer02 jumped the shark, or slendied the city, as it should shall fourth be known, they went on hiatus, which is always fun to watch [insert sarcastic tone here]
so after time to recharge, refresh and come back anew, we get a very short video of whats-his-name telling us that they are pretty much done making videos, and that he has had trouble with the police and that some weird shit is going down, and that they are done with the slenderman thing.
i am still not sure whether this is in-game, OOG, a paradigm shift or what, but it is damn confusing.
on the one hand, we have the possibility that the real life creators of the series are ending it here, for OOG reasons beyond our need to know. on the other hand, we have the possibility that they are shifting the entire story arc of the series from a simple vlog-gone-wrong to a we-were-acting-all-along-and-now-slenderman-is-here-for-real blog or a WWAAAANSIHFR, which isnt any easier to say or type.
both TJA and EMH have done this, and they were successful because they admitted to this in their early videos. but doing this on the 42nd video, after setting up almost too many plot points that have yet to be explained, this is simply sloppy.
either this was planned, albeit poorly, and this is part of what the group want to do, or they have tired of their original series, and are now taking a break while leaving room to continue in a new direction, should they choose.
as with my EMH rant, im not going to lose sleep over this, and im not just writing this for effect, barely anyone actually reads this blog anyway. but its something for me to do. im not trying to attack or slander the creators, merely trying to analyse the oddly scheduled uploads that seem hurried and half hearted. i wont stop watching the series, but im sure they will stop making it, a hard thing for anyone to do.
i once toyed with writing and making a series, but as i have explained in my videos, i am simply too ill-equipped to actually do it. i spent one bored night writing an indepth plot and working everything out. i thought that i managed to work in some decent themes and recurring elements, as well as a good deal of mystery, but when it came to ending the series, i was completely lost. there was no decent place to end it, and i couldnt think of a single way to do it tastefully and effectively. so with these series, like everymanHYBRID, that have spanned across years, the pressure is only growing for an ending that the fans will not want to see done wrong, if at all. i am still very disillusioned when i think of EMH ending, or any series to be honest. i am still holding out hope on the TJA sequel, which may have fully started, im not sure i havent checked in a while.
but anyway, thats my 2 pennies (British).
cheers, Jack
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