The Flash Drive

I've always thought the people who record these things do such so that it can watch, like the cameras are its eyes. «/idle posturing»

Makes me wonder where this is going next.

I think it was inevitable that the doctor turn out to be fictional. What sort of doctor would ever let this sort of thing continue without contacting the patient??? And it's been nice to see michael again. Also I though the stylization of this video, though similar to the EMH hidden videos, worked really well and made it slightly more interesting to watch. I wish we could see this clock though. Actually seeing it would be so legit.

I guess that's true about the doctor. I didn't think of that, I guess I just put it under "It's a youtube series," in my brain and didn't even consider what the doctor was thinking about this.

The style might've been in the same vein as EMH's hidden videos, but he was able to see it, so it's more just down to a "filming technique." Having something mess up on a memory card is something i've seen other series do as well. I don't think anyone should be afraid to do stuff like that, or really anything, just because someone else has done it before. But then again, I'm rather easy to please with Slendy blogs

they suggested Slenderman was the vengeful spirit of an amputee clock. That spoiled it for me.

Dude, I think that's just alliteration. I mean, there might have been a clock there, but it's probably just something creepy to have in the story. I don't think he has anything to do with the clock other than it was probably something that somehow led them to Slender man, or Slender man to them. I mean that's just a cool story thing. It's like, there's this creepy clock, no explanation, and yet he took something from it. Considering how most of these series go, I'm surprised you draw the line here.

"I stole the hands from a creepy old clock and now Slenderman is after me." is a really dumb story, even dumber than "we were pretending Slenderman was haunting our fitness videos and now he's after us."
It's been suggesting, from the beginning of the series that Slenderman was either the clock or some sort of spirit or living incarnation of the clock.
And really that's just, well, silly.

Although they aren't 100% serious, both MLA and EMH are both amazingly creative, and keep me coming back for more. Yeah, the origin stories of slenderman stalking someone are always kind of... iffy. But since it's still such an un-concrete as to how people start getting stalked by this entity, the individual writer has to have at least a small amount of creative control. I'm glad they aren't "perfect" in terms of "I just so happen to live in the woods or walk through the woods all the time and now this thing is after me" because that would be so... average. I don't mean to shoot your opinion down at all, I just fucking love these guys.

But yeah I mean they mention the clock and all but I never got that it was something Slendy was protecting or a part of. I always thought that it was just something...maybe part of his world or something, and taking the clock just drew it's attention. It's like with EMH, it wasn't that Slendy was haunting their vids, but that they were shooting footage as if he was. So, it caught the real Slendy's attention in a like "Oh no you didn't!" manner. However, there's also other reasons given the iteration theory with EMH, but yeah...that'd be better discussed on the EMH thread.